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First Special Session - 123rd Legislature - Text: MS-Word, RTF or PDF LR 528
Item 4
Bill Tracking Chamber Status

Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and before the summary and inserting the following:

Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §283, sub-§2,  as enacted by PL 2003, c. 711, Pt. B, §12, is amended to read:

2.    For the purposes of this section, possession of 10 2 or more copies of any of the materials as described in subsection 1 same book, magazine, newspaper, print, negative, slide, motion picture, videotape, computer data file or other mechanically, electronically or chemically reproduced visual image or material gives rise to a permissible inference under the Maine Rules of Evidence, Rule 303 that the person possesses those items with intent to disseminate.

Sec. 2. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.

CORRECTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF

Correctional Impact Reserve N033

Initiative: Provides funds for the estimated incarceration costs to the state correctional institutions.

GENERAL FUND 2007-08 2008-09
All Other
$0 $37,945
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GENERAL FUND TOTAL $0 $37,945

CORRECTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 2007-08 2008-09
GENERAL FUND
$0 $37,945
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DEPARTMENT TOTAL - ALL FUNDS $0 $37,945

JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT

Courts - Supreme, Superior, District and Administrative 0063

Initiative: Provides funds for additional indigent defense costs.

GENERAL FUND 2007-08 2008-09
All Other
$0 $5,000
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GENERAL FUND TOTAL $0 $5,000

JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
DEPARTMENT TOTALS 2007-08 2008-09
GENERAL FUND
$0 $5,000
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DEPARTMENT TOTAL - ALL FUNDS $0 $5,000

SECTION TOTALS 2007-08 2008-09
GENERAL FUND
$0 $42,945
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SECTION TOTAL - ALL FUNDS $0 $42,945

summary

This amendment replaces the bill. The amendment removes the emergency clause and preamble and specifies that, for purposes of dissemination of sexually explicit materials, possession of 2 or more copies of the same book, magazine, newspaper, print, negative, slide, motion picture, videotape, computer data file or other mechanically, electronically or chemically reproduced visual image or material gives rise to a permissible inference under the Maine Rules of Evidence, Rule 303 that the person who possesses those items has the intent to disseminate them. It also adds an appropriations and allocations section.

FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
(See attached)


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