§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. 11. 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, training or experience in managing emergencies or in the emergency management profession and is appointed by the Governor upon recommendation of the commissioner, subject to review by the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over the Department of Public Safety and the Legislature.__The director serves at the pleasure of the Governor.

The director may employ technical, clerical, stenographic, administrative and operative assistants and other personnel, subject to the Civil Service Law, and make expenditures, with