Approved: 03/19/24
LD 1823 LR 2106(02)
FY 2023-24 FY 2024-25
Projections
FY 2025-26
Projections
FY 2026-27
Net Cost (Savings)
General Fund $0 $72,387 $88,188 $83,678
Appropriations/Allocations
General Fund $0 $72,387 $88,188 $83,678
Other Special Revenue Funds $0 $72,387 $88,188 $91,096
Correctional and Judicial Impact Statements
State Mandates
Unit Affected Local Cost
Municipality Insignificant
statewide
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded
131st MAINE LEGISLATURE
An Act to Respect and Protect the Right to Food
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment " "
Committee: Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Fiscal Note
This bill may increase the number of civil suits filed in the court system. The additional workload associated with the
minimal number of new cases filed in the court system does not require additional funding at this time.
The collection of additional filing fees will increase General Fund revenue by minor amounts.
Required Activity
Requires municipalities to review ordinances for compliance with the Maine
Vegetable Garden Protection Act.
The required local activities in this bill may represent a state mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine. If the bill
does require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures
from local revenue, the state mandate provisions of the Constitution of Maine require either: (1) General Fund
appropriations be provided to fund at least 90% of any additional necessitated local costs of the mandate; or (2) a
Mandate Preamble be added to the bill and two-thirds of the members of each House vote to exempt the mandate from
the funding requirement. If the bill does represent a state mandate and neither one of these actions occurs, the local
units of government will not be required to implement the mandated activities.
LR2106(02) - Fiscal Note - Page 1 of 2 Fiscal Detail and Notes
The bill allows the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to lease land in parks, historic sites,
nonreserved public land and public reserved land for certain uses. Some potential leases will involve certain
constitutional requirements for real estate held by the state. These leases will require legislative approval and will
result in additional Other Special Revenue Funds revenue to the department.
This bill includes ongoing General Fund appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Inspection program of $72,387 in fiscal year 2024-25 to reimburse
the Office of the Attorney General for one 0.5 Assistant Attorney General position effective September 1, 2024 to
evaluate municipal ordinances, advise the program and address increased enforcement and litigation from the
provisions of the bill. The bill includes corresponding Other Special Revenue Funds allocations to the Office of the
Attorney General for the position.
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