Sec. UUU-2. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.

FINANCE AUTHORITY OF MAINE

Student Financial Assistance Programs 0653

Initiative: Deappropriates funds for fiscal year 2004-05 only from the Maine State Grant Program for expenditures that will be paid from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, TANF, Prevention Services within the TANF Block Grant to provide job preparation funds to TANF - Parents as Scholars participants.

General Fund 2003-04 2004-05

All Other $0 ($183,250)

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General Fund Total $0 ($183,250)

PART VVV

Sec. VVV-1. Report on state prison and probationer populations. The Department of Corrections shall report monthly to the joint standing committees of the Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs and criminal justice matters on the status of the overall state prisoner and probationer populations and the staffing necessary to provide adequate supervision. The report must track the effects of the Commission to Improve the Sentencing, Supervision, Management and Incarceration of Prisoners and of any legislative changes enacted by the 121st Legislature and must specifically include:

1. Admissions to state prison facilities and facility populations;

2. Supervised community confinement requests and releases and reasons for any difference between the 2;

3. Probation caseload reductions; and

4. Length of sentences and types of offenses.