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Federal Expenditures Fund Total $0 $60,000

PART BBBB

Sec. BBBB-1. 5 MRSA §22023, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 439, Pt. T, §5, is amended to read:

1. Application. A person may To apply for compensation by submitting a completed claim form, a former student of the Maine School for the Deaf or the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf must submit to the program a written statement of intent to seek compensation. An estate is not eligible to submit a statement of intent under this subsection.

Sec. BBBB-2. 5 MRSA §22027, as amended by PL 2001, c. 667, Pt. C, §5, is further amended to read:

§22027. Payment

The program shall pay compensation within 30 days of the final compensation decision and receipt of a release from the claimant as provided in section 22026, subsection 2, or as soon thereafter as possible.

If a claimant dies before compensation is paid, the compensation is payable to the estate of the claimant.

Sec. BBBB-3. Transfers from unappropriated surplus at close of fiscal year 2004-05. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, at the close of fiscal year 2004-05, the State Controller shall transfer an amount up to $315,000 available from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund to the Executive Branch - Departments and Agencies Statewide account within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services after all required deductions of appropriations, budgeted financial commitments and adjustments considered necessary by the State Controller have been made and as the next priority after the transfers required pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, sections 1507, 1511, 1513 and 1517.

Sec. BBBB-4. Transfers. Transfers made in accordance with section 3 must be expended for the purpose listed in this section in the following amount:

1. An amount equal to $315,000 to the Maine Microenterprise Initiative Fund in the Department of Economic and Community