An Act Referendum Language
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 0069
Committee Amendment CA_A_H115 (House)

AMENDMENT " /I. to H. P • 
Intent of School Budget 
77, L.D. 69, Bill, "An Act 
Referendum Language" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting 
clause and before the summary and inserting in its place the 
following: 
· Sec. 1. 20·A MRSA §IS614, sub·§I, 1JA, as enacted by PL 1983, 
c. 859, Pt. G, §§2 and 4, is amended to read: 
A. 
An article in substantially the following form saall 
ID.J.llit 
be 
used 
when 
a 
school 
administrative 
unit 
is 
considering the appropriation of the foundation allocation. 
(1) 
"Article 
To 
see 
what 
sum 
the 
municipality/district 
will 
appropriate 
from 
the 
foundation allocation for school purposes 
(Recommend 
$ 
) 
and 
to 
see 
what 
sum 
the 
municipality/district will raise as the local share of 
the 
foundation 
allocation 
(Recommend 
$ 
) . 
Explanation: 
The 
local 
share 
of 
the 
foundation 
allocation is the amount of money determined by state 
law 
to 
be 
the 
m1n1mum 
amount 
that 
a 
municipality/district must raise in order to receive 
the full amount of state dollars." 
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Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §lS614, sub-§2, ,A, as enacted by PL 1983, 
c. 859, Pt. G, §§2 and 4, is amended to read: 
A. 
An article in substantially the following form shall 
~ 
be 
used 
when 
a 
school 
administrative 
unit 
is 
considering the appropriation for debt service allocation. 
(1) 
"Article 
To 
see 
what 
sum 
the 
municipality/district will raise as the local share of 
debt service (Recommend $ 
). 
Explanation: 
Debt 
service is the amount of money needed to repay the 
municipality/district's 
long-term 
debt 
for 
construction. 
In this municipality/district, the total 
debt owed is ($ 
). 
The local share of that debt is 
($ 
) and the state-reimbursed share of that debt is 
($ 
)." 
Sec. 3. 20-A MRSA §lS614, sub-§3, as amended by PL 1999, c. 
710, §12, is further amended to read: 
3. 
Additional local appropriation. 
unit may raise and expend funds for 
addition to the funds under subsections 
substantially the following form must 
administrative 
unit 
is 
considering 
additional local funds: 
A school administrative 
educational purposes in 
and 2. 
An article in 
be used when a 
school 
the 
appropriation 
of 
"Article 
To see what sum the municipality/district 
will raise and to appropriate the sum of (Recommend $ 
) 
in additional local funds for school purposes under the 
Maine 
Revised 
Statutes, 
Title 
20-A, 
section 
15614. 
Explanation: 
The additional local funds are those locally 
raised funds over and above the total of local amounts 
raised that are described in the foundation and debt service 
budget 
articles 
that 
will 
help 
achieve 
the 
municipality/district's budget for educational programs." , 
SUMMARY 
This 
technical 
foundation 
amendment 
strikes 
and 
replaces 
corrections 
to 
the 
explanations 
allocation 
article 
and 
the 
the bill to 
provided 
for 
additional 
make 
the 
local 
appropriation article. 
The amendment 
the bill that add language to the 
referenda articles to explain to the 
terms 
"foundation allocation," "debt 
contains the provisions of 
required format of school 
voters the meaning of the 
service" and "additional 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ,,/I to H.P. 77, L.D. 69 
local funds." 
The 
amendment also replaces the term "school 
district" with the term "municipality/district" to correspond to 
the existing statutory provisions of the Maine Revised Statutes, 
Title 20-A, section 15614. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
State Mandate 
Approved: 02/20103 ~ae 
Office of Fiscal and Program Review 
LD69 
An Act to Clarify the Intent of School Budget Referendum Language 
LR 1527(02) 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment 
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Unit Affected 
Costs 
Description 
Municipality 
Insignificant Requires municipalities to add language to the 
required format of school referenda. 
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