An Act To Require That All Public School Employees Be Paid a Livable Wage Rate
Maine Legislature, Session 122, LD 0493
Committee Amendment CA_A_H187 (House)
Amends: 20-A MRSA §15671

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "I}" to H.P. 368, L.D. 493, Bill, "An 
Act To Require That All Public School Employees Be Paid a Livable 
Wage Rate" 
Amend the bill by inserting after section 1 the following: 
'Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §15671, sub-§8 is enacted to read: 
8. 
Full state funding for livable vage rate. 
In addition 
to the state contribution to the cost of the components of 
essential programs and services required under this chapter, the 
State shall provide full funding for the additional expenditures 
necessary to augment the pay of school employees pursuant to the 
requirement that school employees be paid a livable wage under 
section 1001, subsection 19.' 
Further amend the bill by inserting after section 3 the 
following: 
, Sec. 
4. 
Appropriations 
and 
allocations. 
appropriations and allocations are made. 
EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
General Purpose Aid for Local Schools 0308 
The 
following 
Initiative: 
Provides funds for the additional costs of raising 
school employees' rates of pay to the livable wage rate effective 
October 1, 2005. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
Page l-LR1266(2) 
2005-06 
$8,927,170 
$8,927,170 
2006-07 
$12,105,243 
$12,105,243' 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A-" to H.P. 368, L.D. 493 
Further amend the 
nonconsecutive 
Part 
consecutively. 
bill by relettering 
letter 
or 
section 
SUMMARY 
or renumbering any 
number 
to 
read 
This 
amendment, 
which 
committee, requires the State 
of raising school employees' 
rate required by the bill. 
is 
the 
minority 
report 
of 
the 
to fully fund the additional costs 
rates of pay to the livable wage 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 04/10105 ~ac::.. 
LD493 
LR 1266(02) 
An Act To Require That All Public School Employees Be Paid a Livable Wage Rate 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment ,A i, 
Committee: Labor 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
\ppropriations/ Allocations 
General Fund 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
2005-06 
2006-07 
$8,927,170 
$12,105,243 
$8,927,170 
$12,105,243 
Projections 
2007-08 
$12,335,242 
$12,335,242 
Projections 
2008-09 
$12,594,283 
$12,594,283 
This bill includes General Fund appropriations of$8,927,170 in fiscal year 2005-06 and $12,105,243 in fiscal year to 
the Department of Education for the costs associated with the State fully funding the additional costs of raising school 
employees' rates of pay to the liveable wage beginning in fiscal year 2005-06. Because projections for the Consumer 
Price Index - All Urban Consumers all items index for the Northeast Region is not available, this fiscal estimate 
utilized growth projections ofthe CPI-U for the United States. 
Because no information was available from the Department of Education to calculate the fiscal impact of this 
legislation, the Office of Fiscal and Program Review relied on estimates provided by the Maine Education Association 
(MEA) to determine the fiscal year 2005-06 cost. MEA utilized a database of public school employees employed 
during the 2004-2005 school year, that it had received from the Department of Education for use in a different study, 
that contained information on 39,035 school employees in Maine including annual earnings, number of hours worked 
per day and number of days worked per year. MEA identified approximately 6,161 school personnel whose hourly 
rate (calculated by dividing annual earnings by annual hours worked) was determined to be below the liveable wage 
rate of $11.41 per hour for the 2004-2005 school year. For each of those 6,161 employees, MEA calculated the 
difference between the actual wage rate paid the the employee and the liveable wage rate and then multiplied the 
difference by the number of annual hours worked by that employee. 
From this analysis, the total cost of this measure was determined to be $11,646,667 had this legislation been in effect 
for the 2004-2005 school year. Since this legislation is not an emergency, the effective date is assumed to be October 
1,2005. 
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