An Act To Recognize Gold Star Parents and Family Members
Maine Legislature, Session 123, LD 0062
Committee: Legal and Veterans Affairs
Sponsors: MAKAS, BOWMAN, CLARK, FISHER, LORING, THERIAULT, TIBBETTS, TUTTLE, WHEELER, TURNER
Amends: 37-B MRSA §3

Legislative Document 
No. 62 
H.P.60 
House of Representatives, January 9, 2007 
An Act To Recognize Gold Star Parents and Family Members 
Reference to the Committee on Legal and Veterans Affairs suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative MAKAS of Lewiston. 
Cosponsored by Senator BOWMAN of York and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: CLARK of Millinocket, FISHER of Brewer, LORING of the Penobscot 
Nation, THERIAULT of Madawaska, TIBBETTS of Columbia, TUTTLE of Sanford, 
WHEELER of Kittery, Senator: TURNER of Cumberland. 
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 37-B MRSA §3, sub-§l, ~, as amended by PL 2003, c. 590, §l, is 
further amended to read: 
D. 
Have the following powers and duties. 
(1) The Adjutant General shall administer the department subordinate only to the 
Governor. 
(2) The Adjutant General shall establish methods of administration consistent 
with the law necessary for the efficient operation of the department. 
(3) The Adjutant General may prepare a budget for the department. 
(4) The Adjutant General may transfer personnel from one bureau to another 
within the department. 
(5) 
The Adjutant General shall supervise the preparation of all state 
informational reports required by the federal military establishment. 
(6) The Adjutant General shall keep an accurate account of expenses incurred 
and, in accordance with Title 5, sections 43 to 46, make a full report to the 
Governor as to the condition of the military forces, and as to all business 
transactions of the Military Bureau, including detailed statements of expenditures 
for military purposes. 
(7) The Adjutant General is responsible for the custody, care and repair of all 
military property belonging to or issued to the State for the military forces and 
shall dispose of military property belonging to the State that is unserviceable. 
The Adjutant General shall account for and deposit the proceeds from that 
disposal with the Treasurer of State who shall credit them to the Construction and 
Capital Repair Account of the Military Bureau. 
(8) The Adjutant General may sell for cash to officers of the state military forces, 
for their official use, and to organizations of the state military forces, any military 
or naval property that is the property of the State. The Adjutant General shall, 
with an annual report, render to the Governor an accurate account of the sales and 
deposit the proceeds of the sales with the Treasurer of State who shall credit them 
to the General Fund. 
(9) The Adjutant General shall represent the state military forces for the purpose 
of establishing the relationship between the federal military establishment and the 
various State state military staff departments. 
(10) The Adjutant General shall accept, receive and administer federal funds for 
and on behalf of the State that are available for military purposes or that would 
further the intent and specific purposes of this chapter and chapter 3. 
(11) The Adjutant General shall acquire, construct, operate and maintain military 
facilities necessary to comply with this Title and Title 32 of the United States 
Code and shall operate and maintain facilities now within or hereafter coming 
within the jurisdiction of the Military Bureau. 
(12) The Adjutant General may adopt rules pertaining to compliance with state 
and federal contracting requirements, subject to the Maine Administrative 
Proeedure Aet, Title 5, chapter 375. Those rules must provide for approval of 
contracts by the appropriate state agency. 
(13) The Adjutant General shall allocate and supervise any funds made available 
by the Legislature to the Civil Air Patrol. 
(14) The Adjutant General shall report at the beginning of each biennium to the 
joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over veterans' 
affairs on any recommended changes or modifications to the laws governing 
veterans' affairs, particularly as those changes or modifications relate to changes 
in federal veterans' laws. 
(15) The Adjutant General may receive personal property from the United States 
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Department of Defense that the Secretary of Defense has determined is suitable 
for use by agencies in law enforcement activities, including counter-drug 
activities, and in excess of the needs of the Department of Defense pursuant to 10 
United States Code, Section 2576a, and transfer ownership of that personal 
property 
to 
state, 
county 
and 
municipal 
law 
enforcement agencies 
notwithstanding any other provision of law. The Adjutant General may receive 
excess personal property from the United States Department of Defense for use 
by the department, notwithstanding any other provision of law. 
(16) The Adjutant General may establish a science, mathematics and technology 
education improvement program for schoolchildren known as the ST ARBASE 
Program. 
The Adjutant General may accept financial assistance and in-kind 
assistance, advances, grants, gifts, contributions and other forms of financial 
assistance from the Federal Government or other public body or from other 
sources, public or private, to implement the STARBASE Program. The Adjutant 
General may employ a director and other employees, permanent or temporary, to 
operate the STARBASE Program. 
(17) 
The Adjutant General shall establish a system to express formally 
condolence and appreciation to the closest surviving family members or "gold 
star" parents of those armed services members who are killed in action or die as a 
consequence of wounds received in battle since September II, 2001 if one of 
those persons lives in this State. 
SUMMARY 
This bill directs the Adjutant General to establish an award to give to "gold star" 
parents and close family members of armed services members who are killed in action or 
die as a consequence of wounds received in battle if one of the "gold star" parents or 
close family members lives in this State.