Resolve, Directing the Bureau of General Services To Sell Certain Property To Assist Homeless Veterans by Establishing a Homeless Veterans Shelter
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 1606
Committee Amendment CA_A_H678 (House)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "Pr " to H.P. 1178, L.D. 1606, "Resolve, Directing 
the Bureau of General Services To Sell Certain Property To Assist Homeless Veterans by 
Establishing a Homeless Veterans Shelter" 
Amend the resolve by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'Resolve, To Assist Veterans by Authorizing the Bureau of General Services To Sell 
Certain Property To Be Used for Transitional Housing for Veterans' 
Amend the resolve in section 1 in subsection 1 in the last line (page 1, line 7 in L.D.) 
by inserting after "supplies" the following: 
',except that the properties at 6 and 10 
Arsenal Heights Drive described in section 2 may be sold only if the Commissioner of 
Health and Human Services has certified to the Commissioner of Administrative and 
Financial Services that the Department of Health and Human Services has no continued 
use for the properties for forensic psychiatric patients' 
Amend the resolve in section 2 in the 2nd paragraph in the 3rd line (page 1, line 23 
in L.D.) by striking out the following: "7 and 11" and inserting the following: '11 and 17' 
Amend the resolve in section 3 in the 7th line (page 1, line 37 in L.D.) by striking out 
the following: "homeless" and inserting the following: 'transitional housing for' 
Amend the resolve by striking out all of section 5 (page 2, lines 5 to 8 in L.D.) and 
inserting the following: 
'Sec. 5. Use as transitional housing for veterans once conveyed. Resolved: 
That the buyer of the state property described in section 2, if it fails to use the property as 
transitional housing for veterans as required by section 3, must convey ownership of the 
property to the State; and be it further' 
Amend the resolve in section 7 in the first line (page 2, line 13 in L.D.) by striking 
out the following: "3" and inserting the following: '5' 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" R" to H.P. 1178, L.D. 1606 
SUMMARY 
This amendment specifies that the property to be sold is for transitional housing for 
veterans, and not a homeless veterans shelter. It also specifies that the properties at 6 and 
Arsenal Heights Drive may be sold only if the Commissioner of Health and Human 
Services has certified to the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services that 
the Department of Health and Human Services has no need for the properties for forensic 
psychiatric patients. The amendment corrects the address of one of the buildings from 7 
to 17 Independence Drive. It also increases the time before the resolve is repealed from 3 
to 5 years. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 02/28114 frac.. 
LD 1606 
LR 2377(02) 
Resolve, Directing the Bureau of General Services To Sell Certain Property To Assist Homeless 
Veterans by Establishing a Homeless Veterans Shelter 
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Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment ''If CH,. b 
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Committee: State and Local Government 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Potential current biennium revenue increase - Other Special Revenue Funds 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Proceeds from the potential sale of the Augusta property will be credited to the Department of Administrative and 
Financial Services, Bureau of General Services - Capital Construction and Improvement Reserve Fund Other Special 
Revenue Funds program. 
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