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LR 2172
Item 1

 
1. It requires the State Controller to transfer up to
$8,122,000 available from the unappropriated surplus of the
General Fund to the Baxter Compensation Authority account.

 
2. It specifies that the transfer made to the Baxter
Compensation Authority must be expended for claims of former
students of the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf and the Maine
School for the Deaf.

 
3. It specifies that the transfer made to the Baxter
Compensation Authority is considered an adjustment to
appropriations in fiscal year 2005-06 and authorizes the
allotment of the funds by financial order.

 
PART E

 
Part E lapses $315,000 of the unencumbered balance forward in
fiscal year 2003-04 in the Maine Microenterprise Initiative Fund
account in the Department of Economic and Community Development
to the General Fund in fiscal year 2004-05.

 
PART F

 
Part F requires the State Controller to transfer $2,258,474
from the General Purpose Aid for Local Schools account to the
unappropriated surplus of the General Fund on or before June 30,
2005.

 
PART G

 
Part G does the following.

 
1. It authorizes the State Controller to advance $108,000
from the General Fund unappropriated surplus to the Maine
National Guard Education Assistance Pilot Program, Other Special
Revenue Funds account within the Department of Defense, Veterans
and Emergency Management to provide cash necessary for current
expenditures of the tuition assistance program, and specifies
that the funds must be returned to the General Fund
unappropriated surplus on or before June 30, 2006.

 
2. It authorizes the Department of Administrative and
Financial Services to acquire up to 10 buildings, appurtenant
real estate and other interests in real property at the Loring
Air Force Base in Limestone from the Loring Development Authority
and identifies responsibility for oversight and management of the
facilities.

 
3. It authorizes the Department of Defense, Veterans and
Emergency Management to expend $337,949 of the unencumbered


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