An Act To Adjust the Assessment for Correctional Services from Sagadahoc County
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 0748
Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Sponsors: WATSON, GOODALL, BERRY, KENT, PERCY
Amends: 30-A MRSA §701

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124th MAINE L'EGISLATURE 
Legislative Document 
No. 748 
H.P.507 
House of Representatives, Febmary 26, 2009 
An Act To Adjust the Assessment for Correctional Services from 
Sagadahoc County 
(EMERGENCY) 
Reference to the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety suggested and ordered 
printed. 
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Presented by Representative WATSON of Bath. 
Cosponsored by Senator GOODALL of Sagadahoc and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: BERRY of Bowdoinham, KENT of Woolwich, PERCY of Phippsburg. 
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. Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legislature do not 
become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and 
Whereas, this legislation needs to be implemented before the end of the legislative 
session to allow alternative sentencing to continue in Sagadahoc County; and 
Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within 
the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as 
immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, 
therefore, 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §701, sub-§2-A, as amended by PL 2009, c. 1, Pt. Q, §1, is 
further amended to read: 
2-A. Tax assessment for'correctional services. The counties shall annualIy collect 
no more and no less than $62,152,801 $62,683,578 from municipalities for the provision 
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of correctional services, excluding debt service, in accordance with this subsection. 
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The assessment to muni<;ipalities within each county may not be greater or less than the 
fiscal year 2007-08 county assessment for correctional-related expenditures, which is: 
A. A sum of $4,287,340 in Androscoggin County; 
B. A sum of $2,316,666 in Aroostook'County; 
C. A sum of$11,575,602 in Cumberland County; 
D. A sum of$I,621,201 in Frariklin County; 
E. A sum of$I,670,136 in Hancock County; 
F. A sum of$5,588,343 in Kennebec County; 
G. A sum of$3,188,700 in Knox County; 
H. A sum of$3,018,361 in Lincoln County;, 
I. A sum of $1,228,757 in Oxford County; 
J. A sum of$5,919,118 in Penobscot County; 
K. A sum of $878,940 in Piscataquis County; 
L. A sum of $2,295,819 $2,526,623 in Sagadahoc County; 
. M. A sum of $5,363,665 in Somerset County; 
N. A sum of $2,832,353 in Waldo County; 
O. A sum of $2,000,525 in Washington County; and 
P. A sum of $8,667,248 in York County. 
Notwithstanding this subsection, the county assessment for correctional services-related 
expenditures in Somerset County must be set at the fiscal year 2009-10 level when the 
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new Somerset County Jail is open and operating at a level sufficient to sustain the 
average daily number ofi)1ll1ates from Somerset County. 
For the purposes of this subsection; "correctional services" includes the management 
services, personal 
services, 
contractual services, commodity purchases, capital 
expenditures and all other costs, or pOliions thereof, necessary to maintain and operate 
correctional services. 
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Emergency clause. 
In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this 
legislation takes effect when approved. 
SUMMARY 
This bill changes the correctional-related expenditures for Sagadahoc County from 
$2,295,849, as enacted in Public Law 2007, chapter 653, to $2,526,623. The county 
became aware after the county made its correctional-related expenditures report that 
alternative sentencing programs could. be included, and Sagadahoc County's report 
omitted those costs. Without' alternative sentencing programs, the number of prisoners 
will increase and that would become the financial burden of the statewide consolidated. 
jail system. By raising the figure of the funds that the county is authorized· to collect, 
Sagadahoc County can keep its alternative sentencing programs.