An Act To Ensure Equitable Payment for E-9-I-l Services
Maine Legislature, Session 123, LD 2279
Committee Amendment CA_A_S580 (Senate)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" A" to S.P. 905, b:~ 2279, Bill, "An Act To 
Ensure Equitable Payment for E-9-I-l Services" 
Amend the bill by inserting after the title and before the emergency preamble the 
following: 
'Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government 
to expand or modifY activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local 
revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to 
the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the members elected to 
each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure.' 
Amend the bill by striking out all of section 1 and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 25 MRS A §1535 is enacted to read: 
§1535. Fees for public safety answering point services and dispatch services 
The Public Utilities Commission may, on its own motion or at the request of the 
department or a political subdivision of the State, establish in an adjudicatory proceeding 
the fees that must be paid by political subdivisions for public safety answering point 
services and dispatch services provided by the department to those political subdivisions, 
including services provided pursuant to section 2923-A. 
In the proceeding, the 
commission shall establish the revenue requirement for the department's relevant dispatch 
and public safety answering point services and a fee design for the recovery of the 
department's revenue requirement to ensure the fees reasonably reflect services provided. 
In any proceeding held under this section, the department and all political subdivisions 
that are to be provided public safety answering point services and dispatch services shall 
provide to the commission all information the commission determines necessary in order 
to establish the fees.' 
Amend the bill by inserting after section 2 the following: 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" A" to S.P. 905, L.D. 2279 
'Sec. 3. Initial setting of fees. The Public Utilities Commission shall undertake 
an adjudicatory proceeding pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 25, section 1535 
to initially establish the fees that must be paid by political subdivisions of the State for 
public safety answering point services and dispatch services provided by the Department 
of Public Safety.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment removes that portion of the bill that directs the Maine 
Communications System Policy Board within the Department of Public Safety to set by 
rule the fees the department charges municipalities for public safety answering point 
services provided by the department. Instead, the amendment directs the Public Utilities 
Commission to establish these fees in an adjudicatory proceeding. 
The amendment also adds a mandate preamble to the bill. 
FISCAL ~OTE HF(11 IHf'IJ 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 04/05/08 frac 
State Mandates 
LD 2279 
LR 3585(02) 
An Act To Ensure Equitable Payment for E-9-1-1 Services 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment "A " 
Committee: Utilities and Energy 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
State Mandate - Exempted 
Required Activity 
Unit Affected 
Requiring municipalities that do not have a public safety answering point to contract 
Municipality 
with an entity for such services is a state mandate pursuant to the Constitution of 
Maine. Pursuant to the Mandate Preamble, the two thirds vote of all members 
elected to each House exempts the State from the constitutional requirement to fund 
90% of the additional local costs. 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Costs 
Significant 
The additional costs to undertake adjudicatory proceedings to establish and review fees for public safety answering 
point and dispatch services can be absorbed by the Public Utilities Commission utilizing existing budgeted resources. 
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