121st Maine Legislature
		Office of Fiscal and Program Review
		LD 1533
		An Act To Create the Maine National Guard Education Assistance Program
		LR 1890(01)
		Fiscal Note for Original Bill
		Sponsor:  Rep. Clark of Millinocket
		Committee: Legal and Veterans Affairs
		Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Fiscal Note
Undetermined current biennium cost increase - General Fund
Undetermined current biennium cost increase - Other Special Revenue Funds
Undetermined current biennium cost increase - Federal Expenditure Funds
Fiscal Detail and Notes
	Authorizing through "notwithstanding" language, the use of any General Fund monies, several Other Special Revenue Funds accounts, as well as certain federal funds, to pay tuition costs incurred by the Maine National Guard Education Assistance Program will have an undetermined effect on these various funding sources.  The amounts that may be used to cover the costs of the program will depend on competing priorities for the various funding sources and can not be determined at this time.  No General Fund appropriations have been included as part of this bill.  When this program was established on a pilot basis (Resolves 1999, c. 121), a one-time General Fund appropriation of $300,000 was made in fiscal year 2000-01.