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Amend the bill by inserting after the title and before the enacting clause the following:
‘ Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the members elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure.
Amend the bill in section 3 in §671-A in subsection 2 in the 8th line (page 2, line 8 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "3 business days to provide the" and inserting the following: '5 business days to provide the municipal clerk, deputy clerk,'
Amend the bill in section 3 in §671-A in subsection 5 in paragraph B in the 3rd line (page 2, line 35 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "3rd" and inserting the following: '5th'
Amend the bill in section 3 in §671-A in subsection 5 in paragraph C in the 2nd line (page 3, line 2 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "3" and inserting the following: '5'
Amend the bill in section 3 in §671-A in subsection 6 in the first line (page 3, line 7 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "3" and inserting the following: '5'
Amend the bill by adding after section 4 the following:
‘Sec. 5. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.
 
SECRETARY OF STATE, DEPARTMENT OF
 
Administration - Motor Vehicles 0077
 
Initiative: Provides funding to produce state identification cards for voters who do not have another valid photographic identification and to modify the state identification card application to add an attestation statement.

GENERAL FUND	2015-16	2016-17	
All Other	$321,635	$31,045	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$321,635	$31,045	

Bureau of Administrative Services and Corporations 0692
 
Initiative: Provides funding for printing provisional ballot envelopes and ballot affidavits.

GENERAL FUND	2015-16	2016-17	
All Other	$40,600	$40,600	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$40,600	$40,600	

SECRETARY OF STATE, DEPARTMENT OF			
DEPARTMENT TOTALS	2015-16	2016-17	
			
GENERAL FUND	$362,235	$71,645	
			
DEPARTMENT TOTAL - ALL FUNDS	$362,235	$71,645	
 
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SUMMARY
This amendment, which is the minority report of the committee, increases from 3 to 5 the number of days a voter who voted by provisional ballot has to provide an election clerk with a valid form of photo identification. It clarifies that the photo identification may also be provided to a municipal clerk or a deputy municipal clerk. Finally, the amendment adds a mandate preamble and an appropriations and allocations section to the bill.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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