CHAPTER 40

H.P. 799 - L.D. 1043

An Act to Increase Access to Higher Education

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. Appropriation. The following funds are appropriated from the General Fund to carry out the purposes of this Act.

2001-02

EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF

Maine Scholarship Endowment

All Other $1,500,000

Provides funds as a grant to the Senator George J. Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute to benefit Maine residents attending institutions of higher education.

Sec. 2. Transfer of funds. Notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 33, section 1964, the administrator of the Abandoned Property Fund shall retain $1,500,000 within the fund at the end of fiscal year 2000-01. On October 1, 2001, the administrator shall transfer $1,500,000 to the General Fund.

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