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Financial Services shall offer for use prior to July 1, 2007 | | special voluntary employee incentive programs for state employees, | | including a 50% workweek option, flexible position staffing and | | time off without pay. Employee participation in a voluntary | | employee incentive program is subject to the approval of the | | employee's appointing authority. |
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| | | Sec. V-2. Continuation of health insurance. Notwithstanding the Maine | | Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 285, subsection 7 and section | | 903, the State shall continue to pay health and dental insurance | | benefits for state employees who apply prior to July 1, 2007 to | | participate in a voluntary employee incentive program based upon | | the scheduled workweek in effect prior to the employee's | | participation in the voluntary employee incentive program. |
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| | | Sec. V-3. Continuation of group life insurance. Notwithstanding the Maine | | Revised Statutes, Title 5, sections 903 and 18056 and the rules | | of the Maine State Retirement System, the life, accidental death | | and dismemberment, supplemental and dependent insurance amounts | | for a state employee who applies prior to July 1, 2007 to | | participate in a voluntary employee incentive program are based | | upon the scheduled hours of the employee prior to the employee's | | participation in the voluntary employee incentive program. |
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| | | Sec. V-4. General Fund savings. Notwithstanding the Maine Revised | | Statutes, Title 5, section 1585, the State Budget Officer shall | | transfer the General Fund savings resulting from the voluntary | | employee incentive programs to the General Fund Compensation and | | Benefit Plan account in the Department of Administrative and | | Financial Services. The State Budget Officer shall submit to the | | joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction | | over appropriations and financial affairs a report of the | | transferred amounts no later than January 15, 2007. |
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| | | Sec. V-5. Lapsed balances. Notwithstanding any other provision of | | law, $350,000 in fiscal year 2005-06 and $350,000 in fiscal year | | 2006-07 of savings identified from the voluntary employee | | incentive programs in this Part lapse to the General Fund. |
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| | | Sec. W-1. Cost reduction savings; Department of Environmental Protection. The | | Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection shall | | review the current organizational structure and functions of the | | department to determine cost reductions and shall calculate the | | amount of savings in section 2 that applies against each General | | Fund and Other Special Revenue |
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