128th MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 1204		LR 685(03)
	An Act Regarding Absentee Voting by Residents of Nursing Homes and Other Residential Care Facilities
	Fiscal Note for Bill as Engrossed with: C "A" (H-494)
	Committee: Veterans and Legal Affairs
Fiscal Note
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded
State Mandates
	Required Activity				Unit Affected	Local Cost
	Requires clerks to provide to each licensed facility a notice of the date and time when absentee voting will be conducted.				Municipality	Insignificant statewide
	The required local activities in this bill may represent a state mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine. If the bill does require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue, the state mandate provisions of the Constitution of Maine require either: (1) General Fund appropriations be provided to fund at least 90% of any additional necessitated local costs of the mandate; or (2) a Mandate Preamble be added to the bill and two-thirds of the members of each House vote to exempt the mandate from the funding requirement. If the bill does represent a state mandate and neither one of these actions occurs, the local units of government will not be required to implement the mandated activities.