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Resolve, To Appoint Members to and Establish Terms for the Workers' Compensation Board
Sec. 1 Workers' Compensation Board. Resolved: That, notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 39-A, section 151 and Public Law 2003, chapter 608, section 14, the membership and terms of the Workers' Compensation Board are governed by this section.
1. Recommendations; nomination. No later than July 20, 2008, the employer and labor organizations designated in Title 39-A, section 151, subsection 1 shall each submit to the Governor a list of no fewer than 12 names of proposed board members to the Workers' Compensation Board. From the lists submitted pursuant to this subsection, the Governor shall, by February 1, 2009, nominate 3 management representatives and 3 labor representatives to serve on the Workers' Compensation Board.
2. Resignation of incumbent board members. In order to ensure an orderly transition, the members of the Workers' Compensation Board representing management and labor that are serving on the effective date of this resolve shall resign their positions on the board effective no later March 1, 2009.
3. Eligibility of incumbents for appointment. Members of the Workers' Compensation Board representing management and labor serving on the effective date of this resolve are eligible for appointment under this section in accordance with this subsection.
A. A board member may not be appointed for a term under this resolve that, if completed, would result in that board member's serving more than 8 consecutive years on the Workers' Compensation Board, except that in the interest of ensuring continuity on the board, 2 board members, one of whom represents management and one of whom represents labor, who have served on the board since 2002 and who are serving on the effective date of this resolve may be appointed to fill 2-year terms.
4. Terms. Of the 6 board members appointed pursuant to this resolve, the Governor shall designate one labor appointment and one management appointment for a 2-year term, one labor appointment and one management appointment for a 3-year term and one labor appointment and one management appointment for a 4-year term.
 
SUMMARY
This resolve:
1. Requires the employer and labor organizations designated in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 39-A, section 151, subsection 1 to each submit to the Governor, no later than July 20, 2008, a list of no fewer than 12 names of proposed board members to the Workers' Compensation Board;
2. Requires the Governor to nominate, by February 1, 2009, 3 management representatives and 3 labor representatives to serve on the Workers' Compensation Board;
3. Requires incumbent members of the Workers' Compensation Board representing management and labor to resign their positions on the board effective no later March 1, 2009;
4. Establishes the conditions under which incumbent members of the board may be appointed under this resolve; and
5. Establishes the terms of the members appointed to the Workers' Compensation Board pursuant to this resolve.