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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘Resolve, Directing the Maine Labor Relations Board To Convene a Task Force To Examine Compensation for the Panel of Mediators’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1 Compensation for the Panel of Mediators. Resolved: That the Maine Labor Relations Board shall convene a task force, inviting the participation of representatives of the public sector labor-management community and including members of the Panel of Mediators, to study the question of mediator compensation and its impact on the recruitment and retention of able labor mediators and the public sector collective bargaining process as a whole, and report to the Joint Standing Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development by January 15, 2014 with recommendations and draft implementing legislation that would provide reasonable compensation for the members of the Panel of Mediators; and be it further
Sec. 2 Authority to report out legislation. Resolved: That the Joint Standing Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development may report out a bill to the Second Regular Session of the 126th Legislature related to the task force's recommendations submitted pursuant to section 1.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment replaces the bill with a resolve and directs the Maine Labor Relations Board to convene a task force to examine compensation for the Panel of Mediators and to report to the Joint Standing Committee on Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development by January 15, 2014 with recommendations and draft implementing legislation. The committee has authority to report out a bill related to these recommendations in the Second Regular Session of the 126th Legislature.
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