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LR 3140
Item 1

 
Council

 
Sec. 6. 20-A MRSA §15908, sub-§5 is enacted to read:

 
5.__Emergency generators.__The state board may approve only
those proposed school construction projects that have been
designed to include backup energy generators or that are wired
for portable energy generators, thus enabling those schools to be
used as public shelters.

 
Sec. 7. 22 MRSA §10-A is enacted to read:

 
§10-A.__Coordination and reporting on expenditure of funds

 
pertaining to homeland security and bioterrorism

 
prevention

 
The Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and
Prevention shall coordinate in a mutually agreed upon manner with
the Director of the Maine Emergency Management Agency within the
Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management on the
planning and expenditure of all federal funds received by the
Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention for homeland
security emergency preparedness purposes or for the prevention of
bioterrorism and provide a report annually, beginning December
15, 2006, to the Homeland Security Advisory Council established
in Title 37-B, section 709.__The advisor for the Homeland
Security Advisory Council shall report by January 15th of each
year, beginning in 2007, on the expenditure of such funds to the
joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction
over health and human services matters and the joint standing
committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal
justice and public safety matters.__The report must include, but
is not limited to, the amount of funds expended in the prior
year, the purpose of those expenditures, the effect of those
expenditures on homeland security and bioterrorism prevention and
the plans for coordination with the Maine Emergency Management
Agency for the expenditure of the funds received or anticipated
for such purposes in the 2 years following submission of the
report.

 
Sec. 8. 37-B MRSA §704, as amended by PL 2003, c. 510, Pt. A, §33,
is further amended to read:

 
§704. Director; duties

 
The Maine Emergency Management Agency, as previously
established and in this chapter called the "agency," shall be is
under the supervision of the Director of the Maine Emergency
Management Agency, who in this chapter shall be is called the
"director." The director must be qualified by education,


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