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Amend the amendment by striking out all of sections 1 and 2 and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. Allocation to fund county and regional jails. One-time funding provided pursuant to section 3 to the Department of Corrections, County Jails Operation Fund for county and regional jails to offset unusually high costs incurred in fiscal year 2017-18 or incurring in fiscal year 2018-19 must be allocated as specified in this section.
1. Of the $3,000,000 appropriation, $2,712,008 must be allocated to the following jails in the following amounts:
A. Androscoggin County Jail, $354,895;
B. Aroostook County Jail, $67,427;
C. Cumberland County Jail, $300,954;
D. Franklin County Jail, $121,358;
E. Hancock County Jail, $92,083;
F. Oxford County Jail, $691,718;
G. Penobscot County Jail, $468,864;
H. Piscataquis County Jail, $225,626;
I. Somerset County Jail, $194,754; and
J. Two Bridges Regional Jail, $194,329.
2. The Department of Corrections shall use the remaining $287,992 to reimburse county and regional jails for unexpected situations, as documented by the jails to the Department of Corrections, that cause expenditures in fiscal year 2018-19 that are not anticipated by the jails and that are in excess of the budgets of the jails and the amounts listed in paragraph A.
Funds provided under this section that are not expended by the county or regional jail during fiscal year 2018-19 lapse to the Department of Corrections, County Jails Operation Fund for use in a future year.
Sec. 2. Transfers from available fiscal year 2018-19 Department of Professional and Financial Regulation Other Special Revenue Funds balances to General Fund. At the close of fiscal year 2018-19, the State Controller shall transfer $3,000,000 from available balances in Other Special Revenue Funds accounts within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation to the General Fund unappropriated surplus. On or before June 30, 2019, the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation shall determine from which accounts the funds will be transferred so that the sum equals $3,000,000 and notify the State Controller and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs of the amounts to be transferred from each account.
Sec. 3. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.
 
CORRECTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF
 
County Jails Operation Fund Z227
 
Initiative: Appropriates additional funds on an ongoing basis for the County Jails Operation Fund program of which $1,700,000 must be spent on community corrections as required pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 34-A, section 1210-D, subsection 1.

GENERAL FUND	2017-18	2018-19	
All Other	$0	$3,000,000	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$3,000,000	

County Jails Operation Fund Z227
 
Initiative: Provides one-time funding for county and regional jails with unusually high costs incurred during fiscal year 2017-18, such costs having been incurred to meet State of Maine jail standards and operational guidelines for the incarceration of inmates awaiting adjudication or serving sentences and for such unanticipated expenditures in fiscal year 2018-19. This appropriation is to be allocated to county and regional jails as provided in section 1.

GENERAL FUND	2017-18	2018-19	
All Other	$0	$3,000,000	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$3,000,000	

County Jails Operation Fund Z227
 
Initiative: Appropriates funds for the Kennebec County Criminogenic Addiction Recovery Academy (CARA) program.

GENERAL FUND	2017-18	2018-19	
All Other	$0	$120,000	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$120,000	

CORRECTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF			
DEPARTMENT TOTALS	2017-18	2018-19	
			
GENERAL FUND	$0	$6,120,000	
			
DEPARTMENT TOTAL - ALL FUNDS	$0	$6,120,000	
 
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SUMMARY
This amendment strikes the committee amendment, except for the substitute title, and instead provides:
1. Ongoing funding to the Department of Corrections, County Jails Operation Fund program of $3,000,000, of which $1,700,000 must be spent on community corrections as specified in statute;
2. Funding for the Kennebec County Criminogenic Addiction Recovery Academy program; and
3. One-time funding of $3,000,000 to the Department of Corrections, County Jails Operation Fund program to reimburse county and regional jails in specified amounts for unusually high costs incurred by those jails during fiscal year 2017-18 and to provide a source of funds for such costs incurred in fiscal year 2018-19 that are in excess of the amounts budgeted.
It also requires the State Controller to transfer $3,000,000 from available balances in Department of Professional and Financial Regulation accounts, as determined by the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation, to the General Fund.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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