CHAPTER 305

H.P. 887 - L.D. 1290

An Act To Improve Funding for Telecommunications Relay

Services

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §7104, sub-§5, as enacted by PL 2003, c. 553, Pt. A, §4, is amended to read:

5. Funds for Communication Equipment Fund. The commission shall annually transfer $85,000 from a state universal service fund established pursuant to this section to the Communications Equipment Fund established under Title 26, section 1419-A. In addition to its authority under subsection 3, the commission may require contributions to the state universal service fund in an amount sufficient to collect the $85,000.

If the Department of Labor, Bureau of Rehabilitation Services does not receive from federal or other sources funds in addition to the $85,000 sufficient to carry out the purposes of Title 26, section 1419-A, the commission, at the request of the Department of Labor, Bureau of Rehabilitation Services, may transfer from the state universal service fund to the Communications Equipment Fund an additional amounts as long as: $37,500.

A. The total transfer in any year does not exceed $122,500; and