An Act Regarding Snowmobile Registration Fees
Maine Legislature, Session 129, LD 1252
Committee Amendment CA_A_H274 (House)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 913, L.D. 1252, Bill, "An Act 
Regarding Snowmobile Registration Fees" 
Amend the bill by inserting after section 4 the following: 
'Sec. 5. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY, DEPARTMENT OF 
Off-Road Recreational Vehicles Program Z224 
Initiative: Provides allocations to make grants-in-aid to political subdivisions, educational 
institutions, regional planning agencies, snowmobile groups and others for the 
construction and maintenance of snowmobile trails and for research, development and 
planning of snowmobile trails. 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
All Other 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL 
AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND 
FORESTRY, DEPARTMENT OF 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL-ALL FUNDS 
2019-20 
$528,000 
$528,000 
2019-20 
$528,000 
$528,000 
INLAND FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE, DEPARTMENT OF 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
2020-21 
$528,000 
$528,000 
2020-21 
$528,000 
-
$528,000 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 913, L.D. 1252 
Enforcement Operations - Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 0537 
Initiative: Provides allocations for costs related to enforcement of snowmobile laws, 
safety or other education programs related to the operation of snowmobiles and the 
purchase of equipment or machinery as necessary for effective snowmobile safety and 
enforcement activities. 
II 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
All Other 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL 
INLAND FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE, 
DEPARTMENT OF 
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
DEPARTMENT TOTAL-ALL FUNDS 
SECTION TOTALS 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
SECTION TOTAL - ALL FUNDS 
2019-20 
$264,000 
$264,000 
2019-20 
$264,000 
$264,000 
2019-20 
$792,000 
$792,000 
2020-21 
$264,000 
$264,000 
2020-21 
$264,000 
- $264,000 
2020-21 
$792,000 
$792,000 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment adds an appropriations and allocations section to the bill. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 05/02/19 feac:.. 
LD 1252 
LR 1788(02) 
An Act Regarding Snowmobile Registration Fees 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment :>4' { H-2 7 ~ 
Committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife 
Appropriations/Allocations 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Revenue 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
FY2019-20 
FY2020-21 
$792,000 
$792,000 
$792,000 
$792,000 
Projections 
FY 2021-22 
$792,000 
$792,000 
Projections 
FY2022-23 
$792,000 
$792,000 
This bill requires an additional annual snowmobile registration fee of $30 if the registrant cannot show proof of 
membership in a snowmobile club in the state. For a resident family residing in the same household in the state, the 
$30 additional registration fee is for up to 4 snowmobile registrations unless each family member can show proof of 
membership in a snowmobile club in the state. The bill directs that $20 of each additional fee collected be deposited 
into the Snowmobile Trail Fund (STF) within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (ACF), and 
$10 be deposited into the Snowmobile Enforcement Fund (SEF) within the Depatiment of Inland Fisheries and 
Wildlife (IFW). 
The IFW has indicated that it lacks a universal method of determining snowmobile club membership for snowmobile 
registrations and can only estimate the number of registrants that would choose to pay the additional registration fee 
instead of joining a snowmobile club. Using an average of 80,000 registrations per fiscal year and the assumption 
that 1/3 of those registrants would choose to pay the additional fee rather than join a snowmobile club, the fee would 
generate an estimated $792,000 annually staiiing in fiscal year 2019-20. Of this revenue, $528,000 would accrue to 
the STF within the ACF and $264,000 would accrue to the SEF within the IFW. The bill includes additional 
allocations of $528,000 to the ACF starting in fiscal year 2019-20 and $264,000 to the IFW staiiing in fiscal year 
2019-20 to allow for the expenditure of the additional revenue collected. 
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