An Act To Create a Permanent Wabanaki Law Enforcement Seat on the Board of Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy
Maine Legislature, Session 129, LD 0735
Committee Amendment CA_A_H111 (House)
Amends: 25 MRSA §2802

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A "to H.P. 540, L.D. 735, Bill, "An Act To Create 
a Permanent Wabanaki Law Enforcement Seat on the Board of Trustees of the Maine 
Criminal Justice Academy" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'An Act To Create a Seat for a Representative of the Wabanaki Tribal Governments 
on the Board of Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the 
following: 
'Sec. 1. 25 MRSA §2802, as amended by PL 2013, c. 147, §7, is further amended 
to read: 
§2802. Board of trustees 
There is created a board of trustees for the academy consisting of -1-+ 18 members as 
follows: the Commissioner of Public Safety, ex officio, the Attorney General, ex officio, 
the Game Warden Colonel in the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, ex officio, 
the Commissioner of Corrections, ex officio, .ma the Chief of the State Police, ex officio, 
and the following to be appointed by the Governor: a county sheriff, a chief of a 
municipal police department, 2 officers of municipal police departments who are not 
police chiefs, an educator who is not and has never been a sworn member of a law 
enforcement agency, a criminal prosecutor from one of the offices of the District 
Attorney, a representative of a federal law enforcement agency, 3 citizens each of whom 
is not and has never been a sworn member of a law enforcement agency, a municipal 
official who is not and has never been a sworn member of a law enforcement agency .ma~ 
one nonsupervisory corrections officer representing a state or county correctional facility 
and one person knowledgeable about public safety who has been recommended to the 
Governor by the Wabanaki tribal governments of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs, the 
Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Motahkmikuk, the 
Passamaquoddy Tribe at Sipayik and the Penobscot Nation. The member appointed by 
the Governor based on the recommendation of the Wabanaki tribal governments must be 
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recommended by the tribal governments by a process determined by those governments 
that provides for the board membership to rotate among the tribal governments. 
A designee of an ex officio member is a member of the board only during the term of 
office of the ex officio member who designated the designee. All of the other members of 
the board serve for a term of 3 years, except that the member appointed by the Governor 
based on the recommendation of the Wabanaki tribal governments serves for a term of 2 
years. A trustee holds office for the term for which the trustee is appointed or until the 
trustee's successor had has been appointed and qualified. Members of the board are 
entitled to compensation in accordance with Title 5, chapter 379. Any vacancy on the 
board of trustees must be filled in the same manner as the original appointment, but for 
the unexpired term.' 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment changes the title and provides a seat on the Board of Trustees of the 
Maine Criminal Justice Academy for a person appointed by the Governor who is 
knowledgeable about public safety and who has been recommended to the Governor by 
the Wabanaki tribal governments of the Aroostook Band of Micmacs, the Houlton Band 
of Maliseet Indians, the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Motahkmikuk, the Passamaquoddy 
Tribe at Sipayik and the Penobscot Nation. The term of this member of the board of 
trustees is 2 years. 
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