130th MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 1245		LR 1239(03)
	An Act To Ensure the Provision of Appropriate Personal Protective Equipment to Firefighters
	Fiscal Note for Bill as Engrossed with: C "A" (H-610)
	Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Fiscal Note
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded
State Mandates
	Required Activity				Unit Affected	Local Cost
	Requires fire departments to provide protective equipment that fits properly and meets or exceeds certain standards. Proper fit is determined by selecting the best fitting protective equipment after reviewing design options specific to the firefighter’s sex and options for sizing and tailoring the protective equipment.				Municipality	Moderate statewide
	The required local activities in this bill may represent a state mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine. If the bill does require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue, the state mandate provisions of the Constitution of Maine require either: (1) General Fund appropriations be provided to fund at least 90% of any additional necessitated local costs of the mandate; or (2) a Mandate Preamble be added to the bill and two-thirds of the members of each House vote to exempt the mandate from the funding requirement. If the bill does represent a state mandate and neither one of these actions occurs, the local units of government will not be required to implement the mandated activities.
Fiscal Detail and Notes
	Any additional costs to the Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Standards, to make required notifications can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources.