Amend the bill by inserting after the enacting clause and before section 1 the following:

Amend the bill by striking out all of sections 30, 34, 35, 36, 39, 41, 46, 56, 57, 58, 60 and 61.

Amend the bill by inserting after section 64 the following:

Amend the bill in the emergency clause in the 2nd line (page 19, line 26 in L.D.) by inserting after the following: "when approved" the following: ', except as otherwise indicated'

Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.

summary

This amendment designates the contents of the bill as Part A. Sections of the bill containing errors or conflicts that have been resolved by the enactment of other public laws or that are otherwise not needed are deleted from the bill. Sections of the bill containing errors or conflicts that this amendment further amends are moved to the new Part B.

The amendment adds Part B, which makes technical corrections, and Part C, which makes corrections that are or could be interpreted as being substantive.

Part B of the amendment does the following.

Section 1 corrects a clerical error in the law governing the use of income from the rental of facilities in Limestone.

Sections 2 and 3 correct grammatical errors in the reporting requirements concerning agricultural fairs that receive slot machine revenue.

Section 4 revises section 34 of the bill, concerning the powers and duties of the Maine State Housing Authority, to remove paragraph O, which is amended in another bill that includes the same corrections.

Sections 5 and 6 repeal and replace 2 exceptions from the prohibition on sharing tax information to resolve conflicts created by Public Law 2015, chapter 490 and Public Law 2015, chapter 494. Section 5 repeals and replaces the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 36, section 191, subsection 2, paragraph ZZ, which addresses information concerning Pine Tree Development Zones. Section 6 repeals and replaces Title 36, section 191, subsection 2, paragraph AAA, which addresses sharing of information with the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability to facilitate the review of tax expenditures. Section 6 also acknowledges that Public Law 2017, chapter 211 enacts a new subsection 2, paragraph CCC, so there is no longer a need for "and" at the end of paragraph AAA.

Sections 7 and 8 change the term "husband and wife" to "spouses" in the tax laws governing property tax exemptions for veterans and the real estate transfer tax.

Section 9 amends an amending clause in a public law chapter by adding a reference to a public law chapter that was erroneously omitted and that amended the composition of the Board of Trustees of the University of Maine System.

Section 10 amends a clerical error in the name of the Greater Augusta Utility District in the original private and special law.

Part C of the amendment does the following.

Section 1 corrects a drafting error made in Public Law 2017, chapter 143, and section 4 provides that the changes are effective 90 days after the Legislature adjourns, which is the effective date of Public Law 2017, c. 143.

Section 2 corrects a drafting error in Public Law 2017, chapter 179 concerning contracts involving the Maine Community College System. This section corrects the provision to provide that a contract that contains one or more of the listed prohibited provisions is not void, as the language in chapter 179 states, but that the provisions are void; the rest of the contract is not affected. Section 4 provides that the changes are effective 90 days after the Legislature adjourns, which is the effective date of Public Law 2017, chapter 179.

Section 3 amends a statute governing home heating oil delivery drivers to correct a cross-reference to a provision that would otherwise prohibit home heating oil delivery drivers from bleeding a residential home heating oil burner because they lack a license from the Maine Fuel Board. Section 39 of the bill incorrectly addressed this issue.