An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Gambling and Criminal History Record Checks
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 1681
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
Sponsors: BEAULIEU
Amends: 8 MRSA §1036, 20-A MRSA §6103, 25 MRSA §1541

Legislative Document 
No. 1681 
H.P. 1204 
House of Representatives, December 30, 2013 
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Gambling and Criminal 
History Record Checks 
Submitted by the Department of Public Safety pursuant to Joint Rule 204. 
Reference to the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs suggested and ordered 
printed. 
MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative BEAULIEU of Auburn. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  8 MRSA §1036, sub-§2, ¶A, as amended by PL 2009, c. 622, §2, is 
further amended to read: 
A.  Three percent of the net slot machine income must be deposited for administrative 
expenses of the board, 1.5% to the General Fund for administrative expenses of the 
board in accordance with rules adopted by the board and 1.5% to the Gambling 
Control Board administrative expenses Other Special Revenue Funds account, which 
is a nonlapsing dedicated account, except that of the amount calculated pursuant to 
this paragraph, the following amounts must be transferred annually to the Gambling 
Addiction Prevention and Treatment Fund established by Title 5, section 20006-B: 
(1)  For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011, $50,000; 
(2)  For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2012, $50,000; and 
(3)  For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013 and for each fiscal year thereafter, 
$100,000; 
Sec. 2.  8 MRSA §1036, sub-§2-A, ¶E, as enacted by IB 2009, c. 2, §45, is 
amended to read: 
E.  Three percent of the net slot machine income must be deposited for administrative 
expenses of the board, including gambling addiction counseling services, in 
accordance with rules adopted by the board, 1.5% to the General Fund for 
administrative expenses of the board, including gambling addiction counseling 
services, in accordance with rules adopted by the board and 1.5% to the Gambling 
Control Board administrative expenses Other Special Revenue Funds account, which 
is a nonlapsing dedicated account; 
Sec. 3.  8 MRSA §1036, sub-§2-B, ¶B, as amended by PL 2011, c. 417, §9, is 
further amended to read: 
B.  Three percent of the net table game income must be deposited for administrative 
expenses of the board, 2% to the General Fund and 1% to the Gambling Control 
Board administrative expenses Other Special Revenue Funds account, which is a 
nonlapsing dedicated account; 
Sec. 4.  8 MRSA §1036, sub-§2-C, ¶B, as enacted by PL 2011, c. 417, §10, is 
amended to read: 
B.  Three percent of the net table game income must be deposited for administrative 
expenses of the board, 2% to the General Fund and 1% to the Gambling Control 
Board administrative expenses Other Special Revenue Funds account, which is a 
nonlapsing dedicated account; 
Sec. 5.  8 MRSA §1036, sub-§6 is enacted to read: 
6.  Fund balance transfer.  Monthly after the books have closed on the previous 
month's expenditures all funds in the Gambling Control Board administrative expenses 
Other Special Revenue Funds account in excess of 10% of the authorized allocation must 
be transferred to the General Fund. 
Sec. 6.  20-A MRSA §6103, sub-§10, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 457, Pt. CC, §4, 
is amended to read: 
10.  Dedicated fund.  The Criminal History Record Check Fund is created as a Fees 
collected pursuant to subsection 3-A must be deposited in a dedicated fund within the 
Department of Education for the deposit of any fees collected pursuant to subsection 3-A. 
The purpose of the fund is Public Safety to reimburse pay the Department of Public 
Safety, State Bureau of Identification for the cost of conducting the fingerprinting and 
needed state and national criminal history record checks pursuant to this section. The 
fund may not lapse, but must be carried forward to carry out the purposes of this chapter. 
Sec. 7.  25 MRSA §1541, sub-§6, as amended by PL 2013, c. 267, Pt. B, §22, is 
further amended to read: 
6.  Establishment of fees.  The State Bureau of Identification may charge a fee to 
individuals, nongovernmental organizations, governmental organizations that are engaged 
in licensing and governmental organizations that are not a governmental entity of the 
State, a county of the State or a municipality of the State for each criminal history record 
check requested for noncriminal justice purposes pursuant to Title 16, chapter 7.  The 
requestor shall provide a name and date of birth for each record being requested.  A 
request made pursuant to 5 United States Code, Section 9101 must be accompanied by 
fingerprints.  A governmental organization that is engaged in licensing may charge an 
applicant for the cost of the criminal history record check.  The commissioner shall 
establish a schedule of fees that covers the cost of providing these services. One dollar of 
each fee generated under this subsection must be deposited to the Other Special Revenue 
Funds account within the Bureau of State Police to offset the cost of maintenance and 
replacement of both hardware and software associated with the criminal history record 
check system. The remaining revenues generated from these fees must be credited to the 
General Fund. 
For fingerprint-supported criminal history record checks, unless otherwise specified in 
law, the full fee charged must be deposited in a dedicated revenue account for the purpose 
of paying costs of the Department of Public Safety. 
SUMMARY 
This bill specifies in statute the portions of net slot machine and table game income 
collected by a casino operator or slot machine operator for administrative expenses of the 
Department of Public Safety, Gambling Control Board that must be deposited in the 
General Fund and the Gambling Control Board administrative expenses Other Special 
Revenue Funds account. 
The bill moves a dedicated fund in the Department of Education regarding criminal 
history record checks to the Department of Public Safety.  It also provides that, with 
respect to fingerprint-supported criminal history record checks, unless otherwise specified 
in law, the full fee charged must be deposited in a dedicated revenue account for the 
purpose of paying the costs of the Department of Public Safety.