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E. Increased funding of cost-effective correctional service | | delivery through the directing of other state revenues to fund | | the incentive program. |
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| | | The cost of the study may not exceed $300,000. |
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| | | 4. Report. The advisory committee shall submit interim | | reports and proposed recommendations to the Intergovernmental | | Advisory Group, established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title | | 30-A, section 2181, for its review. The Intergovernmental | | Advisory Group shall coordinate the solicitation of public | | comment. The Department of Corrections shall deliver its final | | report with recommendations and proposed implementing legislation | | to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public | | Safety and to the Joint Standing Committee on State and Local | | Government no later than January 1, 2006. |
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| | | 5. Corrections Incentive Fund recommendation. The | | Commissioner of Corrections shall submit proposed legislation | | establishing a Corrections Incentive Fund to the Joint Standing | | Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety and the Joint | | Standing Committee on State and Local Government no later than | | February 1, 2006. The purpose of the proposed Corrections | | Incentive Fund is to achieve significant and sustainable savings | | in the cost of delivering correctional services by funding | | proposals that are consistent with the final study | | recommendations. The proposed legislation must also include a | | provision for evaluating the effectiveness of the incentive fund | | and a requirement to sunset the fund unless there is sufficient | | evidence presented by the Department of Corrections to continue | | the fund. |
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| | | Sec. K-1. 27 MRSA §89, as amended by PL 1991, c. 780, Pt. M, §3, is | | repealed. |
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| | | Sec. K-2. 27 MRSA §89-A is enacted to read: |
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| | | §89-A. Museum sales program and publishing endowment |
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| | | 1.__Revolving fund.__There is established within the Maine | | State Museum a revolving fund for the use of the museum to cover | | the operation of the museum sales program.__The Museum Director | | is authorized to purchase, establish the price of, sell and | | restock through the museum sales program publications, | | reproductions, handcrafts, prints and paintings, gifts and | | decorative items, paper products, education materials, hobbyist |
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