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Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and before the summary and inserting the following:
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Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §283, sub-§2,  as enacted by PL 2003, c. 711, Pt. B, §12, is amended to read:
 
2.    For the purposes of this section, possession of 102 or more copies of any of the materials as described in subsection 1same book, magazine, newspaper, print, negative, slide, motion picture, videotape, computer data file or other mechanically, electronically or chemically reproduced visual image or material gives rise to a permissible inference under the Maine Rules of Evidence, Rule 303 that the person possesses those items with intent to disseminate.
Sec. 2. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.
 
CORRECTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF
 
Correctional Impact Reserve N033
 
Initiative: Provides funds for the estimated incarceration costs to the state correctional institutions.

GENERAL FUND	2007-08	2008-09	
All Other	$0	$37,945	
 	  	  	
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$37,945	

CORRECTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF	 	 	
DEPARTMENT TOTALS	2007-08	2008-09	
 	 	 	
GENERAL FUND	$0	$37,945	
 	  	  	
DEPARTMENT TOTAL - ALL FUNDS	$0	$37,945	

JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT
 
Courts - Supreme, Superior, District and Administrative 0063
 
Initiative: Provides funds for additional indigent defense costs.

GENERAL FUND	2007-08	2008-09	
All Other	$0	$5,000	
 	  	  	
GENERAL FUND TOTAL	$0	$5,000	

JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT	 	 	
DEPARTMENT TOTALS	2007-08	2008-09	
 	 	 	
GENERAL FUND	$0	$5,000	
 	  	  	
DEPARTMENT TOTAL - ALL FUNDS	$0	$5,000	

SECTION TOTALS	2007-08	2008-09	
 	 	 	
GENERAL FUND	$0	$42,945	
 	  	  	
SECTION TOTAL - ALL FUNDS	$0	$42,945	
 
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SUMMARY
This amendment replaces the bill. The amendment removes the emergency clause and preamble and specifies that, for purposes of dissemination of sexually explicit materials, possession of 2 or more copies of the same book, magazine, newspaper, print, negative, slide, motion picture, videotape, computer data file or other mechanically, electronically or chemically reproduced visual image or material gives rise to a permissible inference under the Maine Rules of Evidence, Rule 303 that the person who possesses those items has the intent to disseminate them. It also adds an appropriations and allocations section.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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