An Act To Update the Laws Affecting the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 1592
Committee Amendment CA_A_H721 (House)
Amends: 22 MRSA §263

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A " to H.P. 1130, L.D. 1592, Bill, "An Act To 
Update the Laws Affecting the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention" 
Amend the bill by inserting after the title and before the enacting clause the 
following: 
'Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government 
to expand or modiry activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local 
revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expend itures. 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 sections I to 6 and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §263 is enacted to read: 
§263. Fees for services provided to municipalities 
The department shall adopt rules to charge fees for services provided to 
municipalities by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention pertaining to 
health data and vital statistics, including but not limited to fees for services, paper and 
supplies. The department shall review fees charged under this section every 3 years 
beginning in 2013. Rules adopted pursuant to this section are major substantive rules as 
defined by Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.' 
Amend the bill in section 12 in subsection 3 by striking out all of paragraph B (page 
5, line 14 in L.D.) and inserting the following: 
'B. Burial permit, $5 Permit for the disposition of human remains, $20, except that 
no fee is owed if the disposition of human remains is paid for through the municipal 
general assistance program under chapter 1161; and' 
Amend the bi II by striking out all of sections 13 to IS and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 13. 30-A MRS A §2652, as amended by PL 2005, c. 86, § 1; c. 112, § § 1 and 
2; and c. 683, Pt. C, §8, is further amended by adding at the end a new paragraph to read: 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 'A " 
to H.P. 1130, L.D. 1592 
The Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control 
and Prevention shall review the fees charged by the clerk under this section every 3 years 
beginning in 2013.' 
Amend the bill by inserting after section 20 the following: 
'Sec. 21. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF (FORMERLY DHS) 
Division of Data, Research and Vital Statistics Z037 
Initiative: Allocates funds from increased fee revenue for program operating expenses. 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
All Other 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL 
Health - Bureau of 0143 
2009-10 
$0 
$0 
2010-11 
$442,665 
$442,665 
Initiative: Allocates funds from increased fee revenue for program operating expenses. 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
All Other 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL 
Plumbing - Control Over 0205 
2009-10 
$0 
$0 
2010-11 
$321,488 
$321,488 
Initiative: Allocates funds from increased fee revenue for program operating expenses. 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
All Other 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, 
DEPARTMENT OF (FORMERLY DHS) 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
DEPARTMENTTOTAL-ALLFUNDS 
2009-10 
$0 
$0 
2009-10 
$0 
$0 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
2010-11 
$429,820 
$429,820 
2010-11 
$1,193,973 
$1,193,973 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A " 
to l-I.P, 1130, LD. 1592 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment is the majority report of the committee. The amendment adds a 
mandate preamble. It removes the provisions of the bill related to rabies control and 
provisions of the bill that would require municipalities to remit to the Department of 
Health and Human Services a portion of the increased fees that towns would charge for 
vital records. It reduces the increased fee for burial permits from $40 to $20, changes the 
term "burial" to "disposition of human remains" and exempts dispositions of human 
remains paid for by municipal general assistance from the fee. 
The amendment 
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authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services to charge municipalities fees 
for services and paper related to vital records, the fees to be established through major 
substantive rulemaking and to be reviewed every 3 years. It requires the department to 
review every 3 years the fees charged by municipalities for vital records. It also adds an 
appropriations and allocations section. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 03111/10 frac 
LD 1592 
LR 2318(02) 
An Act To Update the Laws Affecting the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention 
Fiscal Note for Bm as Amended by Committee Amendment A" 
Appropriations/Allocations 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Revenue 
. Other Special Revenue Funds 
State Mandates 
Committee: Health and Human Services 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
State Mandate - Exempted 
2009-10 
2010-11 
$0 
$1,193,973 
$0 
$1,193,973 
P."ojections 
P."ojections 
2011-12 
2012-13 
$1,193,973 
$1,193,973 
$1,193,973 
$5,062,373 
Required Activity 
Unit Affected 
Local Cost 
The adminish"ative duties surrounding increasing a number of existing fees collected 
Municipality 
Insignificant 
and implementing and remitting payment of a new fee(s) to the state for services 
statewide 
pertaining to health data and vital statistics. 
The required local activities in this bill may represent a state mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine. With the 
inclusion of tile Mandate Preamble, a two-thirds vote ofthe members of each body of the Legislature exempts the state 
from the requirement that it fund 90% ofthe cost of the mandate. 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Provides increased allocations for 2010-11 of $442,665 to the Division of Data, Research and Vital Statistics, 
$321,488 to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Inspection program and $429,820 to the 
Subsurface Wastewater program in the Department of Health and Human Services. These increased allocations are 
funded by increased dedicated revenue from fee increases included in the bill. The increased funding is to be used to 
meet existing program operating expenses. The increased allocation and revenue for the Division of Data, Research 
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and Vital Statistics reflects amounts it is assumed will be generated by the fee charged to municipalities for services'" 
provided pertaining to health data and vital statistics. 
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