An Act To Require Interscholastic Athletic Organizatioils To Comply with Freedom of Access Laws
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 1306
Committee Amendment CA_A_H470 (House)
Amends: 1 MRSA §402

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" A " to H.P. 909, L.D. 1306, Bill, "An Act To 
Require Interscholastic Athletic Organizatioils To Comply with Freedom of Access 
Laws" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'An Act To Requit'e Interscholastic Athletic Organizations To Comply with the 
Public Proceedings Provisions of the F"eedom of Access Laws for Certain Meetings' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the 
summary and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 1 MRSA §402, sub-§2, ~, as amended by PL 1995, c. 608, §2, is further 
amended to read: ' 
E. ,The board of directors of a nonprofit, nonstock private corporation that provides 
statewide noncommercial public broadcasting services and any of its committees and 
subcommittees; atl€l 
Sec. 2. 1 MRSA §402, sub-§2, ~, as enacted by PL 1995, c. 608, §3, is 
amended to read: 
F. 
Any advisory organization, including any authority, board, commISSIon, 
committee, council, task force 01; similar organization of an advisory nature, 
established, authorized or organized by law or resolve or by Executive Order issued 
by the Governor and not otherwise covered by this subsection, unless the law, resolve 
or Executive Order establishing, authorizing or organizing the advisory organization 
specifically exempts the organization from the application of this subchapter.,.; and 
Sec. 3. 1 MRSA §402, sub-§2, ~G is enacted to read: 
G. The committee meetings, subcommittee meetings and full membership meetings 
of any association that: 
(1) Promotes, organizes or regulates statewide interscholastic activities in public 
schools or in both public and private schools; and 
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(2) Receives its funding from the public and private school members, either 
through membership dues or fees collected from those schools based on the 
number ofpaliicipants of those schools in interscholastic activities. 
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This paragraph applies to only those meetings pertaining to interscholastic sports and· 
does not apply to any meeting or any pOliion of any meeting the subject of which is 
limited to personnel issues, allegations of interscholastic athletic rule violations by 
member schools, administrators, coaches or student athletes or the eligibility of an 
individual student athlete or coach. 
Sec. 4. IMRSA §402, sub-§4 is enacted to read: 
4. 
Public records of interscholastic athletic organizatiOlis. 
Any records or 
minutes of meetings under subsection 2, paragraph G are public records.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment replaces the bill. It adds to the definition of "public proceedings" 
under the freedom of access laws the meetings of interscholastic organizations when the 
meetings peliain to interscholastic sports. Meetings limited to eligibility rule violations 
and personnel issues are not included as public proceedings. 
This amendment also 
provides that records and minutes of the meetings are public records. 
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