An Act To Provide Revenue to Veterans' Organizations and the Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery System Care Fund from Table Game Revenue
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 0169
Committee Amendment CA_A_S57 (Senate)
Amends: 37-B MRSA §514

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" A " to S.P. 58, L.D. 169, Bill, "An Act To Provide 
Revenue to Veterans' Organizations and the Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery System 
Care Fund from Table Game Revenue" 
Amend the bill in the emergency preamble in the 3rd Whereas paragraph in the 2nd 
line (page 1, line 6 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "Grant" 
Amend the bill in section 1 in paragraph D in the next to the last line (page 1, line 18 
in L.D.) by striking out the following: "Grant" 
Amend the bill in section 2 in subsection 1 in 4th line from the end (page 1, line 30 in 
L.D.) by striking out the following: "Grant" 
Amend the bill by striking out all of sections 3 and 4 and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 3. 37-B MRSA §514 is enacted to read: 
§514. Coordinated Veterans Assistance Fund; establishment; report 
The Coordinated Veterans Assistance Fund, referred to in this section as "the fund, " 
is established to provide financial assistance to veterans' service organizations. 
Beginning July 1, 2013 the director shall make distributions from the fund as follows: 
1. 
Transportation for medical needs of veterans. 
Fifteen thousand dollars 
annually to a veterans' service organization that has maintained for the previous 5 years 
consecutively as of January 1, 2013 a program of providing transportation to veterans 
receiving medical services at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Togus or outreach 
centers of the veterans hospital; 
2. Veteran service officers at veterans hospital. Sixty-four thousand five hundred 
dollars annually to each veterans' service organization that has funded and maintained a 
veteran service officer at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Togus for at least one 
year as of January 1, 2013; and 
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3. 
Other veterans programs. 
The remainder of the funds, distributed by the 
director after payment of any fees applied by the State for administration of the fund, as 
follows: 
A. Sixty-eight percent to the Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery System Care Fund 
established by section 512, subsection 1; 
B. 
Twenty percent to organizations that coordinate an annual event to benefit 
homeless veterans by providing warm clothing and personal items; and 
C. Twelve percent to purchase flags for graves at veterans' cemeteries. 
Beginning in 2014, the director shall submit a report annually by February 15th 
regarding the distribution of these funds, including information from organizations that 
received the funds, to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction 
over veterans affairs. 
Sec. 4. 
Honorable service commemoration in fiscal year 2014-15. 
Notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 37 -B, section 514, the Director of the 
Bureau of Maine Veterans' Services within the Department of Defense, Veterans and 
Emergency Management shall make a one-time distribution of $15,000 to the fund 
established by Title 37-B, section 511. 
Sec. 5. Gambling Control Board to transfer funds. Within 30 days after the 
effective date of this Act, all funds received as of June 30, 2013 by the Gambling Control 
Board within the Department of Public Safety for distribution to charitable nonprofit 
organizations pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 8, section 1036, subsection 
2-C, paragraph D must be transferred to the Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery System 
Care Fund established in Title 37-B, section 512. 
Sec. 6. Appropriations and allocations. 
The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
DEFENSE, VETERANS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT 
OF 
Veterans Services 0110 
Initiative: Establishes the Coordinated Veterans Assistance Fund with 2% of the net table 
game income from the casino in Bangor. 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE 
FUNDS 
All Other 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE 
FUNDS TOTAL 
2012-13 
$186,707 
$186,707 
2013-14 
$152,360 
$152,360 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
2014-15 
$148,448 
$148,448 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" A" to S.P. 58, L.D. 169 
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DEFENSE, VETERANS AND 
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EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, 
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DEPARTMENT OF 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
2012-13 
2013-14 
2014-15 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE 
$186,707 
$152,360 
$148,448 
FUNDS 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL-ALL 
$186,707 
$152,360 
$148,448 
FUNDS 
PUBLIC SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF 
Gambling Control Board Z002 
Initiative: Reduces funding from eliminating the 2% of net table game income from the 
casino in Bangor previously distributed to charitable nonprofit organizations that were 
eligible to conduct beano games and games of chance. 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE 
2012-13 
2013-14 
2014-15 
FUNDS 
All Other 
($186,707) 
($152,360) 
($148,448) 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE 
($186,707) 
($152,360) 
($148,448) 
FUNDS TOTAL 
PUBLIC SAFETY, DEPARTMENT 
OF 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
2012-13 
2013-14 
2014-15 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE 
($186,707) 
($152,360) 
($148,448) 
FUNDS 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL-ALL 
($186,707) 
($152,360) 
($148,448) 
FUNDS 
SECTION TOTALS 
2012-13 
2013-14 
2014-15 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE 
$0 
$0 
$0 
FUNDS 
SECTION TOTAL - ALL FUNDS 
$0 
$0 
$0 
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SUMMARY 
Current law requires 2% of the net table game income generated at a casino in 
Bangor to be held by the Department of Public Safety, Gambling Control Board for 
distribution to charitable nonprofit organizations eligible to conduct beano games and 
games of chance. This amendment provides that distribution of the table game income 
will go to the Coordinated Veterans Assistance Fund, which is established to assist 
veterans' service organizations with transportation of veterans to medical appointments 
and outreach to homeless veterans and to provide funding for veteran service officers at 
the Veterans Administration Hospital at Togus, for flags for veterans graves and for the 
Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery System Care Fund. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 04/26113 
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LD 169 
LR 48(02) 
An Act To Provide Revenue to Veterans' Organizations and the Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery 
System Care Fund from Table Game Revenue 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment it"GS-lj 1-) 
Committee: Veterans and Legal Affairs 
Appropriations/Allocations 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Revenue 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
FY 2012-13 
FY 2013-14 
FY 2014-15 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
$0 
Projections 
FY 2015-16 
$0 
$0 
Projections 
FY 2016-17 
$0 
$0 
This legislation proposes to change the net table game distribution at the Hollywood Casino without affecting the 
overall tax structure. It eliminates the 2% currently held for distribution to charitable nonprofit corporations eligible 
to conduct beano or games of chance and instead distributes that 2% to the Coordinated Veterans Assistance Grant 
Fund within the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management. It also specifies certain distributions 
to be made annually from this Fund. 
The bill includes an Other Special Revenue Funds deallocation to the Department of Public Safety of$186,707 in 
fiscal year 2012-13 and $152,360 in fiscal year 2013-14 with a corresponding Other Special Revenue Funds allocation 
to the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management. Other Special Revenue Funds revenue would 
also be reduced and increased by the same amounts. 
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