An Act To Find Cost Savings and Efficiencies in the Fingerprinting System for Criminal History Background Checks
Maine Legislature, Session 125, LD 0296
Committee Amendment CA_B_H529 (House)
Amends: 20-A MRSA §6103

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ,B" to H.P. 240, L.D. 296, Bill, "An Act To Find 
Cost Savings and Efficiencies in the Fingerprinting System for Criminal History 
Background Checks" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'An Act To Allow Sheriffs To Take Fingerprints of Teachers or Educational 
Personnel for Criminal History Background Checks' 
Amend the bill by striking out all of section I (page 1, lines 2 to 13 in L.D.) and 
inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §6103, sub-§6, as amended by PL 2005, c. 457, Pt. CC, §3, 
is further amended to read: 
6. Fingerprinting. The applicant shall submit to having fingerprints taken. The 
Maine State Police shall, or the sheriff of the county in which the applicant resides may, 
if the sheriff has the technology and equipment to do so, upon payment by the applicant 
or any other entity required by law of the expenses specified in subsection 3-A, shall take 
or cause to be taken the applicant's fingerprints and shall forward the fingerprints to the 
State Bureau of Identification so that the bureau can conduct state and national criminal 
history record checks. Except for the portion of the payment, if any, that constitutes the 
processing fee charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, all money received by the 
Maine State Police or the sheriffs for purposes of this section must be paid over to the 
Treasurer of State for deposit in accordance with Title 20 A, section 6103, subsection 10.' 
Amend the bill in section 2 in subsection lOin the 6th and 7th lines (page 1, lines 21 
and 22 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "and chiefs of police in each of the cities 
and towns" 
Amend the bill by striking out all of sections 3 to 5 (page 1, lines 25 to 34 in L.D.) 
Amend the bill in section 6 by striking out all of paragraph F (page 1, lines 37 and 38 
and page 2, lines 1 and 2 in L.D.) and inserting the following: 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ,,8" to H.P. 240, L.D. 296 
'F. 
The Maine State Police shall and the sheriff may take or cause to be taken the 
fingerprints of the person named in subsection 1, paragraph G, at the request of that 
person and upon payment of the expenses specified under Title 20-A, section 6103, 
subsection 3-A.' 
Amend the bill by striking out all of section 7 (page 2, lines 3 to 7 in L.D.) 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment is the minority report and allows the fingerprints of a teacher or an 
educational personnel applicant pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, 
section 6103 to be taken by a sheriff if the sheriff has the technology and equipment to do 
so. The amendment specifies that the sheriffs be reimbursed from the Criminal History 
Record Check Fund for the expenses they incur in fingerprinting a teacher or educational 
personnel applicant. 
fISC AL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See Attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 06/03/11 
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LD296 
LR 760(03) 
An Act To Find Cost Savings and Efficiencies in the Fingerprinting System for Criminal History 
Background Checks 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment 'B' 
Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Potential current biennium cost increase - Other Special Revenue Funds 
Allowing the fingerprints of a teacher or an educational personnel applicant to be taken by a sheriff under certain 
conditions may result in increased costs to the Criminal History Record Check Fund within the Department of 
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Education. The amount can not be determined.at this time and will depend on whether the amount charged by sheriffs 
significantly exceeds the current fee assessed to applicants pursuant to Title 20-A, §6103, sub-§3-A. The ability of the 
fund to absorb the increased costs without an increase in applicant fees can not be determined at this time. 
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