123rd MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 933		LR 1190(01)
	An Act To Authorize the Certification of Workplace Safety Programs Offered by Workers' Compensation Insurers
	Fiscal Note for Original Bill
	Sponsor: Rep. Watson of Bath
	Committee: Labor
	Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Fiscal Note
			2007-08	2008-09	Projections 2009-10	Projections 2010-11
Appropriations/Allocations
	Other Special Revenue Funds		($565,000)	($650,000)	($650,000)	($650,000)
Revenue
	Other Special Revenue Funds		($625,000)	($650,000)	($650,000)	($650,000)
	The Safety Education and Training program within the Department of Labor will require Other Special Revenue Funds deallocations of $625,000 in fiscal year 2007-08 and $650,000 in fiscal year 2008-09 associated with eliminating 8 positions and related all other due to the anticipated reduction in revenue from assessments resulting from the exemption of insurers that are certified as meeting or exceeding the standards for approval of workplace health and safety consultations from the annual assessment.
	The Bureau of Insurance in the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation will require a one-time Other Special Revenue Funds allocation of $60,000 in 2007-08 for the costs of contracting with a third-party consultant to provide professional expertise in the development of standards for approval of workplace health and safety consultations provided to employers by insurance carriers and to develop the process by which the insurers will be certified as meeting these standards.  These additional costs can be funded within existing resources of the bureau.