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Amend the bill by striking out all of section 3 (page 1, lines 14 to 18 in L.D.) and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 3.  12 MRSA §1804, sub-§7  is enacted to read:
 
7.  Restriction on use of foreign labor.    Ensure that, in any contract for the harvesting of timber, the entity with whom the department contracts does not participate in a federal program that customarily provides temporary foreign labor to fulfill that contract.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment strikes that part of the bill that prohibits the Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands from permitting timber on land to be harvested using persons employed under the federal H2 bonded labor program. Instead, this amendment prohibits the Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands from contracting with an entity for harvesting timber if the entity participates in a federal program that customarily provides temporary foreign labor to fulfill that contract.