121st Maine Legislature
		Office of Fiscal and Program Review
		LD 1513
		An Act to Update the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management Laws
		LR 1889(02)
		Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment " "
		Committee: Legal and Veterans Affairs
		Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Fiscal Note
Undetermined current biennium cost increase - Federal Expenditures Fund
Undetermined current biennium cost increase - Other Special Revenue Funds
Current biennium revenue increase - Other Special Revenue Funds
					Projections	Projections
			2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Revenue
	Other Special Revenue Funds		$400,000	$0	$0	$0
Fiscal Detail and Notes
	Permitting a Maine National Guard member on active status for more than 15 days to obtain service credit in the Maine State Retirement System will increase the normal cost component of the employer retirement rate associated with the payroll of those employees that join the system.  The additional cost to the Military Training and Operations program within the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management can not be determined at this time and will depend on the number of eligible Maine National Guard members who choose to join the Maine State Retirement System.
	Allowing the sale of the Saco Armory will generate an estimated $400,000 in Other Special Revenue Funds revenue which will be collected by the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management in fiscal year 2003-04.
	Any additional cost to the University of Maine associated with the Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Environmental and Watershed Research serving on the River Flow Advisory Commission can be absorbed utilizing existing budgeted resources.