PART P

Sec. P-1. 15 MRSA §1074, sub-§1-A is enacted to read:

1-A.__Miscellaneous costs.__The Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court is authorized to use General Fund appropriations to cover miscellaneous costs associated with the operation of the account of deposited cash bail.

Sec. P-2. Use of funds. Notwithstanding any provision of law, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court is authorized to use $23,000 of General Fund appropriations in fiscal year 2003-04 to cover a shortage in the Judicial Department bail account.

PART Q

Sec. Q-1. 26 MRSA §51, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1991, c. 93, §2, is further amended to read:

2. Duties. The commission shall conduct studies and hold public meetings as necessary to develop findings and recommendations respecting each of the following issues:

A. Evaluation of the effectiveness of current worker safety efforts, practices and programs in the State and the attitudes of employers and workers toward safety;

B. Identification of the best-practice safety programs in the State and elsewhere, whose widespread adoption would reduce the incidence, severity and cost of workplace accidents and illnesses;

C. Identification of emerging occupational safety and health issues that will be of importance in the future and assessment of their policy implications; and

D. Determination of existing statistical information on accidents and illnesses and reliability and adequacy to monitor trends and to support effective safety rehabilitation and compensation programs.