Sec. 1. 7 MRSA §1091, as amended by PL 1987, c. 384, §1, is further amended to read:

§1091. Dues and fair share fees

For purposes of this section, "fair share fee" means the fee deducted by a dealer or processor from a nonmember producer.__ The fair share fee must be used to defray the costs incurred by a recognized collective bargaining unit in fulfilling its duty to represent producers in their relations with the dealer or processor.__The fair share fee may not exceed the standard initiation fee, membership dues and general assessments of the collective bargaining unit.

If a member of an association as defined in Title 13, section 1774, subsection 3 makes a written assignment of dues to that association, those dues shall must be paid out of funds due or to become due to that member for any farm product produced or to be produced by that member, or for any services performed or to be performed by that member in the production of farm products. Any person who accepts or receives the product or services from the member is bound by that assignment after receiving written notice from the association or from the member, and that person shall withhold the assigned dues from amounts payable by him that person to the member thereafter during the period of the assessment.

Nonmember producers who supply farm products to dealers or processors who are subject to collective bargaining must be assessed an association fair share fee of 75% of the amount charged to members as dues.__This assessment must be collected in the same manner as member dues.

Sec. 2. 7 MRSA §1092, as amended by PL 1987, c. 384, §2, is further amended to read:

§1092. Assignment

No provision which that is inserted in any contract or other instrument that is prepared by a dealer or processor which that makes an assignment of the dues or fair share fees described in section 1091 ineffective is valid.

An assignment of dues or fair share fees may not exceed 1% of the total value of the product or services delivered by the member to the dealer or processor.