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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Reform Compensation for Corrections Officers, Corrections Captains, Correctional Lieutenants and Corrections Unit Managers in Maine’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the emergency clause and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. Adjustment of salary schedules for corrections officers. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, effective for the first pay period commencing on or after July 1, 2020, the salary schedules for corrections officers must be adjusted upward to provide increases in wages that will fully utilize over the fiscal year the appropriation provided by this Act for that purpose. For purposes of this section, "corrections officer" means an employee of the State whose place of employment is a state correctional facility and who is responsible for the care, custody or direct supervision of a person confined in a state correctional facility or committed to the Long Creek Youth Development Center pursuant to an order of a court or as a result of an arrest or detention. For purposes of this section, "state correctional facility" has the same meaning as "correctional facility" as defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 34-A, section 1001, subsection 6 and includes the Long Creek Youth Development Center.
Sec. 2. Adjustment of salary schedules for corrections captains, correctional lieutenants and corrections unit managers. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, effective for the first pay period commencing on or after July 1, 2020, the salary schedules for corrections captains, correctional lieutenants and corrections unit managers must be adjusted upward to provide increases in wages that will fully utilize over the fiscal year the appropriation provided by this Act for that purpose. For purposes of this section, "corrections captain," "correctional lieutenant" and "corrections unit manager" are each defined to mean an employee of the State whose place of employment is a state correctional facility, who supervises corrections officers and who is responsible for the care, custody or direct supervision of a person confined in a state correctional facility or committed to the Long Creek Youth Development Center pursuant to an order of a court or as a result of an arrest or detention. For purposes of this section, "state correctional facility" has the same meaning as "correctional facility" as defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 34-A, section 1001, subsection 6 and includes the Long Creek Youth Development Center.
Sec. 3. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.
 
CORRECTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF
 
Administration - Corrections 0141
 
Initiative: Provides pay increases for correctional officers and positions at the Long Creek Youth Development Center responsible for the care, custody or direct supervision of a person confined at the facility.

GENERAL FUND	2019-20	2020-21	
Personal Services	$0	$6,759	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$6,759	

Administration - Corrections 0141
 
Initiative: Provides pay increases for corrections captains, correctional lieutenants, corrections unit managers and positions at the Long Creek Youth Development Center that supervise those responsible for the care, custody or direct supervision of a person confined at the facility.

GENERAL FUND	2019-20	2020-21	
Personal Services	$0	$9,597	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$9,597	

Bolduc Correctional Facility Z155
 
Initiative: Provides pay increases for corrections captains, correctional lieutenants, corrections unit managers and positions at the Long Creek Youth Development Center that supervise those responsible for the care, custody or direct supervision of a person confined at the facility.

GENERAL FUND	2019-20	2020-21	
Personal Services	$0	$136,038	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$136,038	

Bolduc Correctional Facility Z155
 
Initiative: Provides pay increases for correctional officers and positions at the Long Creek Youth Development Center responsible for the care, custody or direct supervision of a person confined at the facility.

GENERAL FUND	2019-20	2020-21	
Personal Services	$0	$1,405,857	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$1,405,857	

Correctional Center 0162
 
Initiative: Provides pay increases for corrections captains, correctional lieutenants, corrections unit managers and positions at the Long Creek Youth Development Center that supervise those responsible for the care, custody or direct supervision of a person confined at the facility.

GENERAL FUND	2019-20	2020-21	
Personal Services	$0	$129,845	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$129,845	

Correctional Center 0162
 
Initiative: Provides pay increases for correctional officers and positions at the Long Creek Youth Development Center responsible for the care, custody or direct supervision of a person confined at the facility.

GENERAL FUND	2019-20	2020-21	
Personal Services	$0	$1,128,741	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$1,128,741	

Long Creek Youth Development Center 0163
 
Initiative: Provides pay increases for corrections captains, correctional lieutenants, corrections unit managers and positions at the Long Creek Youth Development Center that supervise those responsible for the care, custody or direct supervision of a person confined at the facility.

GENERAL FUND	2019-20	2020-21	
Personal Services	$0	$67,404	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$67,404	

Long Creek Youth Development Center 0163
 
Initiative: Provides pay increases for correctional officers and positions at the Long Creek Youth Development Center responsible for the care, custody or direct supervision of a person confined at the facility.

GENERAL FUND	2019-20	2020-21	
Personal Services	$0	$560,991	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$560,991	

Mountain View Correctional Facility 0857
 
Initiative: Provides pay increases for corrections captains, correctional lieutenants, corrections unit managers and positions at the Long Creek Youth Development Center that supervise those responsible for the care, custody or direct supervision of a person confined at the facility.

GENERAL FUND	2019-20	2020-21	
Personal Services	$0	$86,126	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$86,126	

Mountain View Correctional Facility 0857
 
Initiative: Provides pay increases for correctional officers and positions at the Long Creek Youth Development Center responsible for the care, custody or direct supervision of a person confined at the facility.

GENERAL FUND	2019-20	2020-21	
Personal Services	$0	$554,232	
			
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$554,232	

CORRECTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF			
DEPARTMENT TOTALS	2019-20	2020-21	
			
GENERAL FUND	$0	$4,085,590	
			
DEPARTMENT TOTAL - ALL FUNDS	$0	$4,085,590	
 
Sec. 4. Retroactivity. This Act applies retroactively to the first pay period commencing on or after July 1, 2020.’
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment is the majority report of the committee. This amendment provides funding for wage increases for corrections officers and funding for comparable wage increases for corrections captains, correctional lieutenants and corrections unit managers commencing with the first pay period that begins on or after July 1, 2020.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
(See attached)