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| 1. Expenditure and appropriation requirements. On or before | September 1st of the even-numbered years, all departments and other | agencies of the State Government and corporations and associations | receiving or desiring to receive state funds under the provisions | of law shall prepare, in the manner prescribed by and on blanks | furnished them by the State Budget Officer, and submit to the | officer estimates of their expenditure and appropriation | requirements for each fiscal year of the ensuing biennium | contrasted with the corresponding figures of the last completed | fiscal year and the estimated figures for the current fiscal year. | The total General Fund appropriation requests submitted by each | department and agency for each fiscal year may not exceed the | General Fund appropriation of the previous fiscal year multiplied | by one plus the average real personal income growth rate.__For | purposes of this subsection, "average real personal income growth | rate" means the average for the prior 10 calendar years, ending | with the most recent calendar year for which data is available, of | the percent change in personal income in this State for a calendar | year, as estimated by the United States Department of Commerce, | Bureau of Economic Analysis, less the percent change in the | Consumer Price Index for that calendar year.__For purposes of this | subsection, "Consumer Price Index" has the same meaning as in Title | 36, section 5402, subsection 1. The expenditure estimates shall be | classified to set forth the data by funds, organization units, | character and objects of expenditure. The organization units may be | subclassified by functions and activities, or in any other manner, | at the discretion of the State Budget Officer. |
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| | Sec. X-10. 5 MRSA §13063-C, sub-§4, ¶B, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 680, | §1, is amended to read: |
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| B. Notwithstanding section 1585, any balance remaining in | the program after July 31, 2007 must be transferred to the | Maine Rainy Day Budget Stabilization Fund as established in | section 1513. |
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| | Sec. X-11. 10 MRSA §1023-L, sub-§2, ¶D, as amended by PL 2001, c. 356, | §6, is further amended to read: |
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| D. Money transferred from the available balance in the | Underground Oil Storage Replacement Fund, pursuant to Public | Law 1999, chapter 505, Part A, section 15; and |
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| | Sec. X-12. 10 MRSA §1023-L, sub-§2, ¶E, as corrected by RR 1999, c. 1, | §12, is repealed. |
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| | Sec. X-13. 25 MRSA §1612, sub-§7, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 439, Pt. | CCCCC, §4, is amended to read: |
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