An Act to Promote
Maine Legislature, Session 132, LD 1823
Committee Amendment CA_A_S327 (Senate)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT " ^ " to S.P. 710, L,D. 1823, "An Act to Promote
Transparency in the Criminal Justice System by Requiring the Posting of Criminal Case
Decisions"
Amend the bill by inserting after the title and before the enacting clause the following:
'Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government
to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local
revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to
the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21,2/3 of all of the members elected to each
House have determined it necessary to enact this measure."
Amend the bill in section 1 in c, 313 in §2401 in the first indented paragraph in the last
6 lines (page 1, lines 8 to 13 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "A clerk of the District
Court or a clerk of the Superior Court shall post to that clerk's DubUclv accessible website
the final decision of a criminal case decided within thatorosecutodal district within 60 days
of the case's final disposition. A clerk of the Unified Criminal Docket, as defined in section
1003. subsection 11. shall post to the clerk's uubliclv accessible website the final decision
of a cruninal case decided within the State within 60 days of the case's final disDOsition"
and inserting the following: 'A district attorney shall post to the publicly accessible website
of the county the dish-ict attorney represents the final decision of a criminal case decided
within that district attorney's orosecutorial district within 60 days of thecase's final
disposition'
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section
number to read consecutively.
SUMMARY
This amendment strikes the requirement that a clerk of the District Court, Superior
Court and Unified Criminal Docket post to a publicly accessible website the final
disposition of a criminal case within 60 days of the case's final disposition and replaces it
with a requirement that a district attorney post the same information to the publicly
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
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accessible website of the county the district attorney represents within 60 days of the case's
final disposition. It also adds a mandate preamble,
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Approved; 06/03/25
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LD 1823 LR 1968(02)
An Act to Promote Transparency in the Criminal Justice System by Requiring the Posting of Criminal
Case Decisions
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment "/t"/"^'
Committee: Judiciary
Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Fiscal Note
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded
State Mandates
Required Activity Unit Affected Local Cost
Requires District Attorneys to post on a publicly accessible website the final County Insigniftcant
decision of a criminal case decided within the district, statewide
The required local activities in this bill may represent a state mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine. If the bill
does require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures
from local revenue, the state mandate provisions of the Constitution of Maine require either: (1) Geueral Fund
appropriations be provided to fund at least 90% of any additional necessitated local costs of the mandate; or (2) a
Mandate Preamble be added to the bill and two-thirds of the members of each House vote to exempt the mandate from
the funding requirement. If the bill does represent a state mandate and neither one of these actions occurs, the local
units of government will not be required to implement the mandated activities,
Fiscal Detail and Notes
Any additional costs to the Office of the Attorney General from the provisions of this bill are expected to be minor
and can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources.
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