An Act To Waive Certain Penalties Imposed against School Administrative Units if the State Has Not Fulfilled Its Goal of Paying 55% of Costs
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 1735
Committee Amendment CA_A_H691 (House)
Amends: 20-A MRSA §15690

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" A" to H.P. 1233, L.D. 1735, Bill, "An Act To 
Waive Certain Penalties Imposed against School Administrative Units if the State Has 
Not Fulfilled Its Goal of Paying 55% of Costs" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the 
emergency clause and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §15690, sub-§l, ~ 
is enacted to read: 
D. Beginning in fiscal year 2011-12, in any fiscal year in which the sum of the 
State's contribution toward the cost of the components of essential programs and 
services, exclusive of federal funds that are provided and accounted for in the cost of 
the components of essential programs and services, plus any federal stimulus funds' 
applied to the State's contribution, falls below the State's target of55% of the cost of 
the components of essential programs and services, the commissioner shall calculate 
the percentage of the State's 55% share that is funded by state appropriations and 
federal stimulus fu'nds, and, notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph, a 
school administrative unit that raises at least that same percentage of its required local 
contribution to the total cost of funding public education from kindergalien to grade 
12, including state-funded debt service, as the State's contribution, plus federal 
stimulus funds toward its 55% share of the cost of the components of essential 
programs and services may not have the amount of its state subsidy limited or 
reduced under paragraph C. 
This paragraph is repealed June 30, 2014. 
Sec. 2. Waiver; required local contribution. For fiscal year 2010-11 general 
purpose aid for local school funding, for those school administrative units that do not 
raise the required local contribution pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, 
section 15690, there is no propOliional reduction to the state share pursuant to Title 20-A, 
section 15690" subsection I, paragraph C.' 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT"~" to H.P. 1233, L.D. 1735 
SUMMARY 
This amendment provides that, beginning in fiscal year 2011-12, if the State is able to 
fund only a percentage of its 55% share of the cost of the components of essential 
programs and services, then local school administrative units that raise at least that same 
percentage of their required local contribution may not be penalized by further reductions 
in state subsidy. The amendment adds that this prbvision is repealed on June 30, 2014. 
The amendment also extends a waiver from the requirement that school 
administrative units must raise the additional mill rate expectation or face a reduction in 
the state contribution that was enacted in Public Law 2009, chapter 213, Pal1 C, section 
to include fiscal year 2010-11. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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Approved: 03/01110 Mac:.. 
LD 1735 
LR 2353(02) 
An Act To Waive Certain Penalties Imposed against School Administrative Units if the State Has Not 
Fulfilled Its Goal of Paying 55 % of Costs 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment '1~" 
Committee: Education-and Cultural Affairs 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
No state fiscal impact 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
This legislation will not affect the total cost ofK-12 public education or the State's share of that cost. However, this 
bill may change, the distribution of state subsidy to local school administrative units in fiscal year 2010-11 through 
fiscal year 2013-14 with some school administrative units receiving more state subsidy than would have been received 
had this provision not been in place and some school administrative units receiving less. The impact to individual 
school administrative units can not be determined at this time. 
LR2353(02) - Fiscal Note - Page I of')