(3) The Maine Turnpike Authority;

(4) Any board of directors functioning as a regional intermediate education unit pursuant to Title 20-A, section 7730;

(5) Any county or subdivision of a county;

(6) The Maine State Retirement System; or

(7) The Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf;

Sec. 16. 26 MRSA §1419-A, sub-§4, as amended by PL 2003, c. 553, Pt. A, §3, is further amended to read:

4. Specialized customer communications equipment needs in public school system. The Department of Education, in consultation with the Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf and advocacy groups for deaf and hard-of-hearing persons and for the information technology interests of consumers, shall conduct an annual survey of all public schools in the State for the purpose of assessing the need for specialized customer communications equipment in the school system and report its findings to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over labor matters. The report must include: the number of deaf and hard-of-hearing students and their needs for specialized customer communications equipment; the availability of specialized customer communications equipment; the number of requests for specialized customer communications equipment; and the status of training for teachers and other school personnel in the use of specialized customer communications equipment.

Sec. 17. 35-A MRSA §8704, sub-§1, ķE, as amended by PL 2001, c. 377, §3, is further amended to read:

E. Eight members appointed by the Governor as follows:

(1) One member from the Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf;

(2) One member from a statewide association for the deaf;

(3) One member from a center on deafness;