Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §864, sub-§4, as amended by PL 1991, c. 533, §7 and affected by §10, is further amended to read:

4. Approval of budget. After the public hearings are completed, the advisory budget committee shall adopt a final budget and submit its recommendations that budget to the county commissioners for approval not later than the end of the county's fiscal year, subject to the conditions and restrictions imposed in subsection 2. The county commissioners may not revise the budget adopted by the advisory budget committee except by unanimous vote of the county commissioners.__If the adopted budget is changed by the county commissioners, the advisory budget committee may reject that change by a 2/3 vote of its membership.__Those actions are final and are not subject to further action by either the county commissioners or the advisory budget committee.

Sec. 2. 30-A MRSA §864, sub-§4-A, as enacted by PL 1991, c. 533, §8 and affected by §10, is repealed.

SUMMARY

This bill repeals the requirement that the budget for Kennebec County be submitted to the Legislature for approval. Instead, this bill requires that the Kennebec County Advisory Budget Committee submit a final budget to the county commissioners who may change the budget only by the unanimous vote of the county commissioners. The changes made by the county commissioners may be overridden by a 2/3 vote of the advisory budget committee.