An Act to Require School Administrative Units To Report Their Costs for Legal, Consulting and Other Professional Services to the Department of Education LR2714(02)
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1861
Committee Amendment CA_A_S477 (Senate)
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
Amends: 20-A MRSA §6151

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ·A" to S.P. 707, L.D. 1861, Bill, "An 
Act To Require School Administrative Units To Report Their Costs 
for Legal, 
Consulting and Other Professional Services to the 
Department of Education" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting 
clause and before the summary and inserting in its place the 
following: 
. Sec. I. 20-A MRSA §6151, sub-§I, as amended by PL 1983, c. 
859, Pt. A, §§21 and 25, is further amended to read: 
1. 
Duty of superintendent. 
The superintendent under oath 
shall, on or before the date established by the commissioner, 
make an annual report to the commissioner. 
The report saa±± must 
contain a full and complete return of all educational statistics 
required to be reported for the year ending June 30th. 
Beginning 
in fiscal year 2005-06, the report filed by the superintendent 
under this section must be filed in the format and within the 
time periods specified by the commissioner. 
Sec. 2. Superintendents' annual reports; implementation of Maine 
Education Data Management System. 
Notwithstanding 
any 
other 
provision of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A and beginning 
with 
fiscal 
year 
2005-06, 
the 
annual 
report 
filed 
by 
superintendents 
as 
required 
by 
Title 
20-A, 
section 
6151, 
subsection 1 must be filed in the format and within the time 
periods specified by the Commissioner of Education in order to 
implement the Maine Education Data Management System developed by 
the department for fiscal year 2005-06. 
It is the intent of the 
Legislature that the annual report filed by superintendents under 
Title 20-A, section 6151, subsection 1 also include a detailed 
report of all school administrative unit expenses 
for legal, 
consulting and other professional services in the format required 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
,-,-, 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ·A .. to S.P. 707, L.D. 1861 
by the Commissioner of Education and as defined in the most 
recent editions of Department of Education Handbook II-R and 
Education Form-Management-45 
(EF-M-45) that are available from 
the Department of Education on July 1, 2005. 
Sec.3. Effective date. This Act takes effect July 1, 2005.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment is the minority report of the Joint Standing 
Committee 
on 
Education 
and 
Cultural 
Affairs. 
The 
amendment 
strikes and replaces the bill with an amendment that clarifies 
that, 
beginning in fiscal 
year 
2005-06, 
the 
annual 
reports 
submitted 
by 
school 
superintendents 
to 
the 
Commissioner 
of 
Education must be filed in the format and within the time periods 
specified by the commissioner. 
The amendment further provides 
that the annual report filed by superintendents must include a 
detailed report of all school administrative unit expenses for 
legal, consulting and other professional services in the format 
required by the Commissioner of Education to implement the Maine 
Education Data Management System in fiscal year 2005-06. 
The 
amendment also adds an effective date of July 1, 2005. 
FISCAL :-;OTE RE{Jll H.ElJ 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Approved: 03126/04 ;::t:?ae. 
12lst Maine Legislature 
Office of Fiscal and Program Review 
LD 1861 
An Act to Require School Administrative Units To Report Their Costs 
for Legal, Consulting and Other Professional Services to the Department 
of Education 
LR2714(02) 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment fA 
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
No fiscal impact 
Because school administrative units are already required to change the way annual reports are fonnatted by fiscal year 
2005-06 in order to be able to submit them through the new Maine Education Data Management System, there will be 
no additional costs to the local school units to provide the required detail of expenses for legal services, conSUlting and 
other professional services. Since school administrative units are required by statute to file reports in the format and 
the time periods specified by the Commissioner of Education, there is no mandate. 
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