An Act To Provide Additional Unemployment Benefits and Make Statutory Revisions in Accordance with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 1454
Senate Amendment SA_A_S63 (Senate)

SENATE AMENDMENT" A" to S.P. 541, L.D. 1454, Bill, "An Act To Provide 
Additional Unemployment Benefits and Make Statutory Revisions in Accordance with 
the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" 
Amend the bill by inserting after section 6 the following: 
'Sec. 7. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
ADMINISTRATIVE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF 
Emergency Unemployment Benefit Reimbursement Fund N070 
Initiative: 
Provides funds to suppOJ1 the costs of reimbursing certain direct 
reimbursement employers for extended benefits paid as a result of temporarily adding an 
alternative methodology for determining when extended unemployment benefits are paid. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
2009-10 
$600,000 
$600,000 
2010-11 
$0 
$0 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
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SENATE AMENDMENT" A " 
to S.P. 541, L.D. 1454 
SUMMARY 
This amendment adds an appropriations and allocations section to the bill. 
COUNTY: Cumberland 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
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LD 1454 
LR 1958(02) 
An Act To Provide Additional Unemployment Benefits and Make Statutory Revisions in Accordance 
with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 
Fiscal Note for Senate Amendment ,A " 
Sponsor: Sen. Diamond of Cumberland 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Projections 
Projections 
2008-09 
2009-10 
2010-11 
2011-12 
2012-13 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
$0 
$600,000 
$0 
$0 
$0 
Appropriationsl Allocations 
General Fund 
$0 
$600,000 
$0 
$0 
$0 
Revenue 
Employment Security Trust Fund 
$4,745,505 
$57,954,495 
$0 
$0 
$0 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
This bill includes a one-time General Fund appropriation of$600,000 in fiscal year 2009-10 to the Emergency 
Unemployment Benefit Reimbursement Fund within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, 
established in this legislation, to reimburse eligible direct reimbursement employers for the cost of extended benefits 
paid as a result of temporarily adding an alternative methodology for determining when extended unemployment 
benefits are paid. Additional General Fund appropri~tions may be required if the amount in the fund is not sufficient 
to reimburse eligible employers for the total cost of providing the extended benefits under this Act. 
Temporarily adding an alternative methodology for determining when extended benefits are paid will increase 
unemployment compensation costs to the State and local units of government, with some exceptions, as direct 
reimbursement employers. The Department of Labor estimates the total cost to range between $600,000 and 
$1,145,886 with approximately $111,183 of that cost occuring in fiscal year 2008-09 and the balance occuring in 
fiscal year 2009-10. Of the total fiscal year 2008-09 cost, the State portion is estimated to be $54,507 and the local 
units of government portion is anticipated to be $56,676. It is expected that, given the timing of this legislation and 
the pl;ocess in which direct reimbursement employers are billed by the Department of Labor, these costs will be 
reimbursed in fiscal year 2009-10. 
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This legislation increases the amount offUllds available to be received by the employment Security Trust Fund from 
the Federal Govel11ment by $4,745,505 in fiscal year 2008-09 and $57,954,495 in fiscal year 2009-10. Of that 
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amount, $4,745,505 and $29,754,495 is available in fiscal years 2008-09 and 2009-10, respectively, as a result of" 
temporarily triggering the "on" indicator to determine when extended unemployment benefits are paid. This change 
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will allow 100% of the cost of all extended benefits in the unemployment compensation program to be paid, excluding 
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direct reimbursement employers already helped above, by the Federal Government as part of the American Recovery 
and Reinvestment Act of2009 (ARRA). This alternative methodology will apply retroactively to February 17,2009 
and will continue through the week ending December 12,2009 or 3 weeks prior to the last week in which this 
provision is authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, whichever is latest. 
In addition, amending certain provisions of the Maine Revised Statutes that govern unemployment benefit 
disqualification exceptions in order to meet the unemployment insurance modernization provision requirements under 
the ARRA will result in Maine qualifying for approximately $28.2 million of Reed Act Distribution funds. These 
funds can be used to improve trust fund solvency, pay unemployment benefits or for administration of Maine's 
Unemployment Insurance Program. 
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