An Act To Establish a Fund for the Operations and Outreach Activities of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Animal and Plant Disease and Insect Control Laboratory
Maine Legislature, Session 127, LD 1099
Committee Amendment CA_B_H659 (House)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT :B" to H.P. 759, L.D. 1099, Bill, "An Act To 
Establish a Fund for the Operations and Outreach Activities of the University of Maine 
Cooperative Extension Animal and Plant Disease and Insect Control Laboratory" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the 
summary and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 7 MRSA c. 417 is enacted to read: 
CHAPTER417 
ANIMAL AND PLANT DISEASE AND TICKS AND OTHER INSECTS 
MANAGEMENT FUND 
§2431. Fund established 
The Animal and Plant Disease and Ticks and Other Insects Management Fund, 
referred to in this chapter as "the fund," is established. The fund is administered by the 
University of Maine Cooperative Extension and consists of funds received from any 
appropriation or allocation from the Legislature and funds transferred pursuant to this 
section. 
The fund, to be accounted within the University of Maine Cooperative 
Extension, must be held separate and apart from all other money, funds and accounts. 
Eligible investment earnings credited to the assets of the fund become part of the assets of 
the fund, and the fund is a nonlapsing fund. The fund may not be used to pay for 
administrative costs incurred by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. 
Beginning in fiscal year 2017-18, notwithstanding any other provision of law, on October 
1st of each year, or the first business day thereafter, the State Controller shall transfer at 
least $400,000 from available balances in Other Special Revenue Funds accounts within 
the department or other sources available to the department to the fund. On or before 
February 1, 2017 and on or before February lst of each year thereafter, the commissioner 
shall determine from which accounts or sources the funds must be transferred in October 
of that year so that the sum equals at least $400,000 and notify the State Controller, the 
joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over pest management 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMEN~" to H.P. 759, L.D. 1099 
matters and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over 
appropriations and financial affairs of the amounts to be transferred from each account or 
source. After receiving notification from the commissioner, the joint standing committee 
of the Legislature having jurisdiction over pest management matters may report out a bill 
related to the transfer. 
§2432. Expenditures from fund 
Funds in the fund must be distributed to the University of Maine Cooperative 
Extension and used for the following pur_poses: 
1. 
Pest management education. 
Outreach and education initiatives on pest 
management and pesticide safety, including community pest management and medical 
and veterinary pest management, focusing on health-related issues caused by ticks and 
mosquitoes, and pesticide application and use, focusing on pollinator health and safety; 
and 
2. Laboratory operations. Testing ticks provided by the public for pathogenic 
organisms, and general laboratory operations involving pesticide management and 
management of host ecology and ticks and other insects, including invasive insects as 
determined by the department. 
Sec. 2. Transfer; unexpended funds; Board of Pesticides Control account. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Agriculture, Conservation 
and Forestry shall transfer $400,000 from the Board of Pesticides Control, Other Special 
Revenue Funds account to the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Animal and 
Plant Disease and Ticks and Other Insects Management Fund, Other Special Revenue 
Funds account on September 30, 2016. 
Sec. 3. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM, BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE 
Animal and Plant Disease and Ticks and Other Insects Management Fund N226 
Initiative: Allocates funds for pest management and pesticide safety outreach and 
education and for testing of ticks provided by the public and certain other laboratory 
operations at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension's animal and plant disease 
and insect control laboratory. 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
All Other 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL 
2015-16 
$0 
$0 
2016-17 
$400,000 
$400,000 
SUMMARY 
This amendment renames the Animal and Plant Disease and Insect Control Fund in 
the bill the Animal and Plant Disease and Ticks and Other Insects Management Fund and 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENTi" to H.P. 759, L.D. 1099 
changes the permitted uses of the fund. It also changes the funding source of the fund 
from a 20¢ fee on every sale of a container of consumer packaged pesticides to an annual 
allocation from the Legislature of at least $400,000. 
In fiscal year 2016-17, this 
allocation will come from the Other Special Revenue Funds account within the 
Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Board of Pesticides Control. 
Beginning in 2017, the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry is 
required to determine by February 1st of each year from which accounts or sources the 
funds must be transferred so that the sum equals at least $400,000, and must notify the 
State Controller, the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over 
pest management matters and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having 
jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs. The transfer of funds must take 
place on October 1st of each year or the first business day thereafter. It further provides 
that, after receiving notification, the joint standing committee of the Legislature having 
jurisdiction over pest management matters may report out a bill related to the transfer. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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Revised: 04/05/16 ..tva~ 
LD 1099 
LR 1303(13) 
An Act To Establish a Fund for the Operations and Outreach Activities of the University of Maine 
Cooperative Extension Animal and Plant Disease and Insect Control Laboratory 
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Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment 1fj Lf-J-65)} 
Committee: Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry 
Appropriations/ Allocations 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Transfers 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
FY 2015-16 
FY 2016-17 
$0 
$400,000 
$0 
$0 
Projections 
FY 2017-18 
$400,000 
$0 
Projections 
FY 2018-19 
$400,000 
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This bill includes ongoing Other Special Revenue Funds (OSRF) allocations of $400,000 per year beginning in fiscal 
year 2016-17 to the newly created Animal and Plant Disease and Ticks and Other Insects Management Fund at the 
University of Maine Cooperative Extension for pest management and pesticide safety outreach and education and for 
testing of ticks provided by the public and certain other laboratory operations at the University of Maine Cooperative 
Extension's animal and plant disease and insect control laboratory. 
The bill requires the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (ACF) to transfer $400,000 from the 
Board of Pesticides Control Fund (Pesticides Fund) in fiscal year 2016-17 to the Animal and Plant Disease and Ticks 
and Other Insects Management Fund at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. The Pesticides Fund has 
sufficient resources to make this one-time transfer. This bill also requires ACF to transfer $400,000 annually 
beginning in fiscal year 2017-18 to this new account from available balances in various OSRF accounts within ACF 
or other sources available to ACF. ACF is expected to have sufficient resources in all of its OSRF accounts to make 
these yearly transfers in the foreseeable future. However, ACF has indicated that it will only make these transfers 
from the Pesticides Fund, but the Pesticides Fund does not have sufficient resources to make these annual transfers in 
perpetuity. The language in the bill gives ACF the authority to determine which account balances to draw from, but 
does not anticipate that ACF will only draw from the Pesticides Fund. 
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