An Act To Clarify the Specific Purposes of Recently Enacted Legislation Authorizing the Issuance of a General Fund Bond
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 1865
Committee: Appropriations and Financial Affairs
Sponsors: DILL

Legislative Document 
No. 1865 
H.P. 1360 
House of Representatives, May 1, 2014 
An Act To Clarify the Specific Purposes of Recently Enacted 
Legislation Authorizing the Issuance of a General Fund Bond 
(AFTER DEADLINE) 
Approved for introduction by a majority of the Legislative Council pursuant to Joint Rule 
205. 
Reference to the Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs suggested and ordered 
printed. 
MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative DILL of Old Town. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  PL 2013, c. 572, §5 is amended to read: 
Sec. 5.  Disbursement of bond proceeds from General Fund bond issue.  
The proceeds of the sale of the bonds authorized under this Act must be expended as 
designated in the following schedule under the direction and supervision of the agencies 
and entities set forth in this section. 
Provides funds to assist support Maine agriculture and to protect Maine farms, 
facilitate economic growth in natural resources-based industries and monitor human 
health threats related to ticks, mosquitoes and bedbugs through the creation of an 
animal and plant disease and insect control facility laboratory administered by the 
University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service. 
Sec. 2.  PL 2013, c. 572, §9 is amended to read: 
Sec. 9.  Referendum for ratification; submission at election; form of 
question; effective date.  This Act must be submitted to the legal voters of the State at 
a statewide election held in the month of November following passage of this Act.  The 
municipal officers of this State shall notify the inhabitants of their respective cities, towns 
and plantations to meet, in the manner prescribed by law for holding a statewide election, 
to vote on the acceptance or rejection of this Act by voting on the following question: 
"Do you favor an $8,000,000 bond issue to provide funds to assist 
support Maine agriculture and to protect Maine farms, facilitate 
economic growth in natural resources-based industries and monitor 
human health threats related to ticks, mosquitoes and bedbugs through 
the creation of an animal and plant disease and insect control facility  
laboratory administered by the University of Maine Cooperative 
Extension Service?" 
The legal voters of each city, town and plantation shall vote by ballot on this question 
and designate their choice by a cross or check mark placed within a corresponding square 
below the word "Yes" or "No."  The ballots must be received, sorted, counted and 
declared in open ward, town and plantation meetings and returns made to the Secretary of 
State in the same manner as votes for members of the Legislature.  The Governor shall 
review the returns.  If a majority of the legal votes are cast in favor of this Act, the 
Governor shall proclaim the result without delay and this Act becomes effective 30 days 
after the date of the proclamation. 
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM 
University of Maine Cooperative 
Extension Service 
Total 
$8,000,000
The Secretary of State shall prepare and furnish to each city, town and plantation all 
ballots, returns and copies of this Act necessary to carry out the purposes of this 
referendum. 
SUMMARY 
This bill clarifies the specific purposes of recently enacted legislation authorizing the 
issuance of a General Fund bond to create an animal and plant disease control facility 
administered by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Service.