131st MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 1874		LR 2319(01)
	An Act to Support Maine Loggers' and Truckers' Right to Work in Maine by Improving Labor Standards
	Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement for Original Bill
	Sponsor: Pres. Jackson of Aroostook
	Committee: Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
	Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement
Potential future biennium revenue decrease - Other Special Revenue Funds
Fiscal Detail and Notes
	This bill provides that the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (ACF) may obtain certification from a forest certification program for state land only if the program requires labor standards for logging and trucking contractors. The ACF has indicated that all current forest certifications are from programs that include labor standards. However, since the bill doesn't define a specific set of labor standards, the ACF has indicated that, should the criteria used by the forest certification programs be found to be inadequate, the resulting loss of certification would impair the ACF's ability to sell timber harvested from public lands it oversees, resulting in substantial revenue losses.