1. Classified and unclassified employees assigned to the Maine Military Authority must be transferred to the Executive Department.

2. All contracts, agreements and compacts to which the Maine Military Authority is a party and that are in effect on the effective date of this Act remain in effect until they expire or are altered by the parties involved in the contracts, agreements or compacts.

3. Commencing with the 2006-2007 fiscal biennium, the Maine Military Authority shall submit a line category budget to the Governor to be included in the unified biennial budget for all state agencies that is submitted to the Legislature as a part of the normal budgetary process.

4. Notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 1585 or any other provision of law, the Maine Military Authority may establish a head count of personnel and, upon the recommendation of the State Budget Officer and approval of the Governor, allot expenditures by financial order based on estimated revenue in order to implement the provisions of this Act. Furthermore, all accrued expenditures, assets, liabilities, balances of appropriations, allocations, transfers, revenues or other available funds in accounts or subdivisions of accounts of the authority remain in those accounts. By January 30, 2005, the Governor shall submit to the Legislature a revised and unified budgetary request by line category detailing the anticipated revenues and expenditures for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2004.

5. The Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Human Resources shall review the personnel policies and practices of the Maine Military Authority for consistency with the Civil Service Law. When the bureau has determined that the policies and practices of the authority are in compliance with the Civil Service Law, it shall authorize administration of civil service and classification functions at the authority to the extent the authority's actions are consistent with applicable law and with any existing collective bargaining agreement or practice.

The existing job titles in use at the authority must be established within the state classification file, with distinguishing class codes to be used solely by the authority. New positions must be established through a process and specifications must be written in a format mutually agreed upon