An Act To Require the Department of Education To Provide an Accounting of School Subsidy Based on Individual Members in a Regional School Unit or Alternative Organizational Structure
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 0160
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
Sponsors: SCHATZ, AYOTTE, CLEARY, EATON, GIFFORD, JOHNSON, JOY
Amends: 20-A MRSA §15689-B

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Legislative Document 
No. 160 
H.P.139 
House of Representatives, January 20,2009 
An Act To Require the Department of Education To Provide an 
Accounting of School Subsidy Based on Individual Members in a 
Regional School Unit or Alternative Organizational Structure 
Reference to the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs suggested and ordered 
printed. 
Presented by Representative SCHATZ of Blue Hill. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Cosponsored by Representatives: AYOTTE of Caswell, CLEARY of Houlton, EATON of 
Sullivan, GIFFORD of Lincoln, JOHNSON of Greenville, JOY of Crystal. 
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §15689-B, sub-§2, ~A, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 2, Pt. D, 
§61 and affected by §§72 and 74 and c. 12, Pt. WW, §18, is amended to read: 
A. The commissioner shall annually, prior to February 1 st, notity each school board 
of the estimated amount to be allocated to the school administrative unit. 
Notwithstanding any other law and beginning in fiscal year 2009-10, the notification 
of allocation provided to the governing bodies of regional school units and alternative 
organizational structures must be made as follows. 
(1) 
For each regional school unit that is comprised of more than one 
municipality, the commissioner shall notify the governing body of the 
computation and the estimated amount to be allocated to the regional school unit 
and to each municipality within the regional school unit. 
(2) For each alternative organizational structure that is serving as the school 
administrative unit for the purposes of this chapter for its member entities, the 
commissioner shall notify the governing body of the alternative organizational 
structure of the computation and the estimated amount to be allocated to the 
alternative organizational structure and to each member entity within the 
alternative organizational structure. 
SUMMARY 
Current law requires the Commissioner of Education to notity school boards of the 
amount of school subsidy to be allocated to school administrative units. This bill requires 
the Commissioner of Education to also provide the governing bodies of regional school 
units and alternative organizational structures with the computation and the amount of the 
allocation of school subsidy that the commissioner has estimated for the regional school 
units and each member municipality in the regional school unit or for the alternative 
organizational structure and each member entity in the alternative organizational 
structure. 
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