An Act Requiring the Department of Corrections To Fully Fund County Jails for Individuals Sentenced to County Jails for More Than 6 Months and Individuals Held for Probation or Parole Violations
Maine Legislature, Session 129, LD 0925
Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Sponsors: STANLEY
Amends: 30-A MRSA §701

Legislative Document
No. 925
H.P. 680
House of Representatives, February 21, 2019
An Act Requiring the Department of Corrections To Fully Fund 
County Jails for Individuals Sentenced to County Jails for More 
Than 6 Months and Individuals Held for Probation or Parole 
Violations
Reference to the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety suggested and ordered 
printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative STANLEY of Medway.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  30-A MRSA §701, sub-§2-C, as repealed and replaced by PL 2017, c. 
475, Pt. A, §50, is amended to read:
2-C.  Tax assessment for correctional services beginning July 1, 2015.  Beginning 
July 1, 2015, the counties shall annually collect no less than $62,172,371 from 
municipalities for the provision of correctional services in accordance with this 
subsection.  The counties may collect an amount that is more than the base assessment 
limit established in this subsection, except that the additional amount each year may not 
exceed the base assessment limit as adjusted by the growth limitation factor established in 
section 706-A, subsection 3 or 4%, whichever is less.  If a county collects in a year an 
amount that is more than the base assessment limit established for that county pursuant to 
this subsection, the base assessment limit in the succeeding year is the amount collected 
in the prior year.  For the purposes of this subsection, "correctional services" includes 
management services, personal services, contractual services, commodity purchases, 
capital expenditures and all other costs, or portions thereof, necessary to maintain and 
operate correctional services.  "Correctional services" does not include county jail debt 
unless there is a surplus in the account that pays for correctional services at the end of the 
state fiscal year. "Correctional services" also does not include services required to confine 
a person incarcerated for more than 6 months or for a probation or parole violation, the 
cost of which must be paid by the Department of Corrections.
The assessment to municipalities within each county may not be less than the base 
assessment limit, which is:
A.  A sum of $4,287,340 in Androscoggin County;
B.  A sum of $2,316,666 in Aroostook County;
C.  A sum of $11,575,602 in Cumberland County;
D.  A sum of $1,621,201 in Franklin County;
E.  A sum of $1,670,136 in Hancock County;
F.  A sum of $5,588,343 in Kennebec County;
G.  A sum of $3,188,700 in Knox County;
H.  A sum of $2,657,105 in Lincoln County;
I.  A sum of $1,228,757 in Oxford County;
J.  A sum of $5,919,118 in Penobscot County;
K.  A sum of $878,940 in Piscataquis County;
L.  A sum of $2,657,105 in Sagadahoc County;
M.  A sum of $5,363,665 in Somerset County;
N.  A sum of $2,832,353 in Waldo County;
O.  A sum of $2,000,525 in Washington County; and
P.  A sum of $8,386,815 in York County.
SUMMARY
This bill requires the Department of Corrections to reimburse a county for the costs 
of confining a person who is serving a sentence of more than 6 months or for a probation 
or parole violation.