STATE OF MAINE
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In House__________
ORDERED, the Senate concurring, that the Joint Rules be amended by amending Joint
Rule 312 to read:
Rule 312. Fiscal Notes.
Every bill or resolve that affects state revenues, appropriations or allocations or that
requires a local unit of government to expand or modify that unit's activities so as to necessitate
additional expenditures from local revenues and that has a committee recommendation other
than "Leave to Withdraw," "Ought Not to Pass" or "Referral to Another Committee" must
include a fiscal note prepared by the Office of Fiscal and Program Review. For a bill or resolve
not yet reported out and upon request of a majority of the committee, the Office of Fiscal and
Program Review shall, after notice by the committee to the sponsor of the bill or resolve, meet
with the committee at a work session to present its analysis and provide copies of the written
public materials relied upon by the office to prepare that fiscal note. The fiscal note must be
complete, available to the public and attached to any bill before the committee votes on it and
the bill is reported out of committee. The fiscal note must accompany the committee report
before it is reported out of committee. Any amendment introduced that would affect the fiscal
impact of the original bill must also include a fiscal note. The Office of Fiscal and Program
Review has the sole responsibility for preparing all fiscal notes.
SPONSORED BY: ___________________________________
(Representative ANDREWS, J.)
TOWN: South Paris
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