SP0648
LD 1655
Session - 126th Maine Legislature
C "A", Filing Number S-395, Sponsored by
LR 2545
Item 2
Bill Tracking, Additional Documents Chamber Status

Amend the bill by striking out all of section 2 (page 3, lines 16 to 28 in L.D.) and inserting the following:

Sec. 2. 37-B MRSA §154,  as amended by PL 2003, c. 488, §2 and affected by §5, is further amended to read:

§ 154. Capital Repair, Maintenance, Construction and Acquisition Account

Except as provided in section 353, the Capital Repair , Maintenance, Construction and Acquisition Account is established in the Military Bureau as a nonlapsing fund to assist in defraying the capital repair , maintenance and construction of state-owned properties of the Military Bureau , as well as purchasing land for training sites. The bureau may not spend $300,000 $500,000 or more for any single capital repair , maintenance or construction project or land acquisition unless that expenditure is approved in advance by the Legislature. Not later than January 1st of each odd-numbered year, the bureau shall submit a list to the Legislature that identifies the location, nature and cost of each planned capital repair , maintenance and construction project and land acquisition costing less than $300,000 $500,000.’

summary

This amendment reduces the amount expended from the Capital Repair, Maintenance, Construction and Acquisition Account for a capital repair, maintenance and construction project or land acquisition that would require approval by the Legislature from $1,000,000, as the bill proposes, to $500,000. It also requires that any construction, maintenance or capital repair projects and any land acquisitions costing less than $500,000 be included in the biennial report required by current law.

FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
(See attached)


Top of Page