STATE OF MAINE

123rd LEGISLATURE

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LEGISLATIVE NOTICES

 

JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS

 

      Sen. Margaret Rotundo, Senate Chair

      Rep. Jeremy Fischer, House Chair

 

      Public Hearing Schedule for the 2008-2009 Biennial Budget for the period:  February 26 to March 2, 2007, Room 228, State House

 

            The Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs and the identified policy committees of the Legislature will be holding public hearings in Room 228 of the State House on the Governor’s budget bill for the 2008-2009 biennium LD No. 499 "An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations for the Expenditures of State Government, General Fund and Other Funds, and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2008 and June 30, 2009”.  The proposed budget initiatives may be viewed on the Bureau of Budget’s website at:

 

http://www.maine.gov/budget/budget_information.htm

 

The audio portions of public hearings and work sessions held in Room 228 of the State House may be monitored over the Internet by addressing:

 

http://janus.state.me.us/legis/audio/approps_cmte.html

 

The committee will hear testimony regarding all portions of the bill except Part B (self-funded position reclassifications and range changes).  Agencies are to address all initiatives regardless of fund type (Note: this is a change from past years when agencies only addressed initiatives funded by the General Fund and Fund for a Healthy Maine).

 

(To be held in conjunction with the Joint Standing Committee on State and Local Government):

 

Monday

9:00 a.m.

Audit, Department of

2/26/07

 

·         Audit – Departmental Bureau

 

 

·         Audit – Unorganized Territory

 

 

 

 

 

Municipal Bond Bank, Maine

 

 

·         Maine Municipal Bond Bank – Maine Rural Water Association

 

 

 

 

 

Secretary of State, Department of

 

 

·         Administration - Archives

 

 

·         Administration – Motor Vehicles

 

 

·         Administrative Services and Corporations, Bureau of

 

 

·         Municipal Excise Tax Reimbursement Fund

 

 

 

 

 

Treasurer of the State, Office of

 

 

·         Administration - Treasury

 

 

·         Debt Service - Treasury

 

 

·         Passamaquoddy Sales Tax Fund

 

 

·         State – Municipal Revenue Sharing

 

 

 

 

 

Executive Department

 

 

·         Administration – Executive – Governor’s Office

 

 

·         Blain House

 

 

·         Planning Office

(To be held in conjunction with the Joint Standing Committee on State and Local Government):

 

Monday

1:00 p.m.

Department of Administrative and Financial Services

2/26/07

 

·         Administration – Human Resources

 

 

·         Budget – Bureau of the

 

 

·         Buildings & Grounds Operations

 

 

·         Bureau of General Services – Capital Construction and Improvement Reserve Fund

 

 

·         Capital Construction/Repairs/Improvements - Admin

 

 

·         Central Fleet Management

 

 

·         Central Services - Purchases

 

 

·         Debt Service – Government Facilities Authority

 

 

·         Departments and Agencies - Statewide

 

 

·         Employee Relations – Office of

 

 

·         Financial and Personnel Services – Division of

 

 

·         Fund for Efficient Delivery of Local and Regional Services - Administration

 

 

·         Information Services

 

 

·         Office of the Commissioner – Administrative & Financial Services

 

 

·         Public Improvements – Planning/Construction - Admin

 

 

·         Purchases – Division of

 

 

·         Risk Management - Claims

 

 

·         Solid Waste Management Fund

 

 

·         State Controller – Office of the

 

 

·         Statewide Radio Network System

 

 

·         Unorganized Territory Education and Services Fund - Finance

 

 

·         Workers’ Compensation Management Fund Program

 

 

·         Language (Part “G” – requires the State Budget Officer to calculate and distribute costs savings in the cost of health insurance)

 

 

·         Language (Part “M” – voluntary employee incentive programs)

 

 

·         Language (Part “N” – authorizes transfer of Personal Services balances to be used for collective bargaining)

 

 

·         Language (Part “Q” – authorizes the Maine Governmental Facilities Authority to issue securities for capital repairs and improvements and to carry-forward unobligated funds)

 

 

·         Language (Part “R” – establishes rates and terms for certain  financing agreements)

 

 

·         Language (Part “HH” – removal of a statutory position)

 

(To be held in conjunction with the Joint Standing Committee on Business, Research and Economic Development):

 

Tuesday

1:00 p.m.

Professional and Financial Regulation, Department of

2/27/07

 

·      Administrative Services – Professional and Financial Regulation

 

 

·      Dental Examiners – Board of

 

 

·      Engineers – Board of Registration for Professional

 

 

·      Licensing and Enforcement

 

 

·      Licensure in Medicine – Board of

 

 

·      Manufactured Housing Board

 

 

·      Nursing – Board of

 

 

·      Optometry – Board of

 

 

·      Osteopathic Licensure – Board of

 

 

 

 

 

Finance Authority of Maine

 

 

·         Business Development Finance

 

 

·         FHM – Dental Education

 

 

·         FHM – Health Education Centers

 

 

·         FHM – Quality Child Care

 

 

·         Natural Resources and Marketing

 

 (To be held in conjunction with the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs):

 

Wednesday

2/28/07

9:00 a.m. and

1:00 pm.

Maine Education Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Governor Baxter School for the Deaf        (ASL Interpreters will be available)

 

 

·         Governor Baxter School for the Deaf

 

 

 

 

 

Education, Department of

 

 

·         General Purpose Aid for Local Schools (GPA)

 

 

·         Jobs for Maine’s Graduates

 

 

·         Magnet Schools

 

 

·         Language (Part “C” – identifies the total cost of funding public education and authorizes GPA funding for Jobs for Maine Graduates, Magnet Schools and Governor Baxter School for the Deaf)

 

 

·         Language (Part “D” –  authorizes GPA funding for certain support activities)

 

 

·         Language (Part “E” –  repeals the establishment of the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Educational Services)

 

 

·         Language (Part “F” –  changes the student-to-teacher ratio for middle and high schools)

 

 

·         Language (Part “JJ” –  authorizes certain costs to be included in the Essential Programs and Services formula)

 

 

·         Language (Part “KK” –  authorizes lease-purchase financing arrangement to support the Maine Learning Technology Initiative)

 

(To be held in conjunction with the Joint Standing Committee on Labor):

 

Thursday

1:00 p.m.

Retirement System, (Board of Trustees of the) Maine State

3/1/07

 

·         Retirement System – Retirement Allowance Fund

 

 

 

 

 

Labor, Department of

 

 

·         Administration – Bureau of Labor Standards

 

 

·         Administration - Labor

 

 

·         Blind and Visually Impaired – Division for the

 

 

·         Employment Security Services

 

 

·         Employment Services Activity

 

 

·         Governor’s Training Initiative Program

 

 

·         Labor Relations Board

 

 

·         Maine Centers for Women, Work and Community

 

 

·         Migrant and Immigrant Services

 

 

·         Occupational Safety Loan Program

 

 

·         Regulation and Enforcement

 

 

·         Rehabilitation Services                  (ASL interpreters will be available)

 

 

·         Rehabilitation Services – Home Based Care

 

 

·         Safety Education and Training Programs

 

 

 

 

 

Workers’ Compensation Board

 

 

·         Administration – Workers’ Compensation Board

 

 

·         Employment Rehabilitation Program

 

 

·         Workers’ Compensation Board

 

 

·         Language (Part “LL” – establishes the maximum assessment level)

 

(To be held in conjunction with the Joint Standing Committees on Insurance and Financial Services:

 

Friday

9:00 a.m.

Administrative and Financial Services, Department of

3/2/07

 

·         Accident – Sickness – Health Insurance

 

 

·         Trade Adjustment Assistance Health Insurance

 

 

 

 

 

Dirigo Health Fund

 

 

 

 

 

Professional and Financial Regulation, Department of

 

 

·         Financial Institutions – Bureau of

 

 

·         Insurance – Bureau of

 

 

·      Office of Consumer Credit Regulation

 

 

·      Office of Securities

 

11:00 a.m.

·         Language (Part “H” – directing the development of a plan to merge DPFR with the Department of Economic and Community Development) Hear jointly with BRED

 

(To be held in conjunction with the Joint Standing Committee on Business, Research and Economic Development):

 

Friday

11:00 a.m.

Economic and Community Development, Department of

3/2/07

(see above)

·         Language (Part “H” – directing the development of a plan to merge DECD with the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation) Hear jointly with IFS

 

1:00 p.m.

·            Administration – Economic and Community Development

 

 

·            Applied Technology Development Center System

 

 

·            Business Development

 

 

·            Community Development Block Grant Program

 

 

·            Economic Conversion Division

 

 

·            International Commerce

 

 

·            International Northeast Biotechnology Corridor

 

 

·            Maine Economic Growth Council

 

 

·            Maine Small Business Commission

 

 

·            Maine State Film Commission

 

 

·            Office of Innovation

 

 

·            Office of Tourism

 

 

·            Language (Part “K” – changes the name of the EPSCoR steering committee)

 

 

·            Language (Part “L” – changes the name of the Maine Small Business Commission – DECD)

 

 

 

 

 

Downeast Institute for Applied Marine Research and Education

 

 

 

 

 

Foundation for Blood Research

 

 

·         Scienceworks for ME

 

 

 

 

 

Housing Authority, Maine State

 

 

·         Housing Authority - State

 

 

·         Low-Income Home Energy Assistance - MSHA

 

 

·         Shelter Operating Subsidy

 

 

 

 

 

Centers for Innovation

 

 

CONTACT PERSON:                                         Diane Pruett

                                                                                5 State House Station

                                                                                Augusta, Maine  04333-0005

                                                                                287-1316  or  287- 1635