Sec. 69. PL 1999, c. 512, Pt. B, §6 is enacted to read:

*Sec. B-6.__Future effective date.__Except for section 5 of this Part, this Part takes effect February 1, 2000.

Sec. 70. Retroactivity. Those sections of this Act that amend Public Law 1999, chapter 512 apply retroactively to January 1, 1999.

Sec. 71. PL 1999, c. 522, §2 is enacted to read:

*Sec. 2.__Effective date; contingency not effective.__Notwithstanding Public Law 1999, chapter 401, Part QQ, section 5, this Act takes effect September 18, 1999.

Sec. 72. Retroactivity. That section of this Act that enacts Public Law 1999, chapter 522, section 2 applies retroactively to September 18, 1999.

Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this Act takes effect when approved.

SUMMARY

Section 1 changes a reference to the Maine Court Facilities Authority to the Maine Governmental Facilities Authority. The name of the authority was changed by Public Law 1997, chapter 523.

Section 2 corrects a clerical error.

Section 3 changes a reference to the Maine Court Facilities Authority to the Maine Governmental Facilities Authority. The name of the authority was changed by Public Law 1997, chapter 523.

Section 4 corrects a technical error in subsection numbering.

Section 5 corrects an error that was made when Part L of L.D. 2243 from the First Regular Session of the 119th Legislature was incorporated into the budget bill, Public Law 1999, chapter 401. In Part L of L.D. 2243, a 2-step process was contemplated to require the Maine Science and Technology Foundation to submit a plan for the comprehensive evaluation of state investments in research and development and then one year later and every 5 years thereafter to submit the actual evaluation. The language was then incorporated into the budget bill, Public Law 1999, chapter 401, Part BBB, but a clerical error was made in the