132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 549		LR 53(03)
	An Act to Establish a Statewide Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kit Tracking System and Update Certain Requirements Regarding Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kits
	Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment " "
	Committee: Judiciary
	Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Fiscal Note
State Mandate - Exempted
			FY 2025-26	FY 2026-27	Projections  FY 2027-28	Projections  FY 2028-29
Net Cost (Savings)
	General Fund		$372,384	$414,156	$452,698	$495,230
	Highway Fund		$200,514	$223,007	$243,760	$266,662
Appropriations/Allocations
	General Fund		$372,384	$414,156	$452,698	$495,230
	Highway Fund		$200,514	$223,007	$243,760	$266,662
State Mandates
	Required Activity				Unit Affected	Local Cost
	Requires law enforcement agencies to provide the Department of Public Safety tracking information for each municipality/county where a forensic examination kit was entered into the system and complete an inventory of all kits in its possession.				Municipality County	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
	The bill includes General Fund appropriations to the Department of Public Safety of $372,384  in fiscal year 2025-26 and $414,156 in fiscal year 2026-27 and Highway Fund allocations of $200,514 in fiscal year 2025-26 and $223,007 in fiscal year 2026-27 for one Forensic Chemist II position, one Forensic Chemist I position, two DNA Forensic Analyst positions, one-time costs for a mobile Crime Lab office and related costs to establish, operate and maintain a sexual assault forensic examination kit tracking system, perform an inventory of all kits and develop an annual report on the tracking system.