5. It authorizes payment to be made to those employees in the executive branch, departments of constitutional officers and the Department of Audit who were denied merit increases in fiscal year 2003-04.

6. It authorizes payment to be made to those institutional services employees who would have been eligible to receive a step increase from Step 6 to Step 7 during the period July 1, 2003 to June 30, 2004.

7. It provides for the calculation and transfer of statewide savings in the General Fund in the cost of health insurance for fiscal year 2004-05 that are identified in Part A, section 1.

8. It authorizes the allotment of funds in the Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and the Alcoholic Beverage Freight accounts in the Department of Administrative and Financial Services to be made by financial order during fiscal year 2004-05 upon the request of the State Budget Officer and approval of the Governor.

9. It authorizes the Department of Administrative and Financial Services to manage the State Retiree Health Insurance Fund on a cost-reimbursement basis of funding and accounting beginning June 30, 2005 and to calculate and return the amount of the excess equity to each participating fund and ancillary group contributing to the Retiree Health Insurance Fund, after retaining a reasonable amount of working capital.

10. It authorizes the State Controller to recover, through the state cost allocation program, $915,640 associated with prior years' payments by the General Fund to the Maine State Retirement System.

11. It authorizes the State Controller to recover, through the state cost allocation program, $28,000 in fiscal year 2003-04 and $142,000 in fiscal year 2004-05 associated with home land security grant programs awarded to the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Managment.

12. It authorizes the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of General Services to use funds no longer required for the Thomaston State Prison demolition project