An Act To Establish a 2-week Quiet Period for School Teams
Maine Legislature, Session 125, LD 1273
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
Sponsors: SAVIELLO, MASON

Legislative Document 
No. 1273 
S.P. 394 
In Senate, March 23, 2011 
An Act To Establish a 2-week Quiet Period for School Teams 
Reference to the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs suggested and ordered 
printed. 
JOSEPH G. CARLETON, JR. 
Secretary of the Senate 
Presented by Senator SAVIELLO of Franklin. 
Cosponsored by Senator: MASON of Androscoggin. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  20-A MRSA c. 223, sub-c. 7-D is enacted to read: 
SUBCHAPTER 7-D 
INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES 
§6641.  Quiet period for coaching and fund-raising 
1.  Definitions.  As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, 
the following terms have the following meanings. 
A.  "Fund-raising" means a solicitation to the public for funds to support the activities 
of an interscholastic team.  "Fund-raising" does not include the charging of an 
admission fee to an event, such as a contest or competition, featuring an 
interscholastic team. 
B.  "Interscholastic team" means a team that is organized by and affiliated with a high 
school in this State for the purpose of competition with other high schools in this 
State. 
C.  "Quiet period" means the 2-week period immediately prior to the beginning of 
that season during which that interscholastic team traditionally engages in 
competition. 
D.  "School-affiliated organization" means an organization, including, but not limited 
to, an athletic booster club or other support group that is aligned with an 
interscholastic team. 
E.  "Statewide interscholastic association" means an association that oversees 
interscholastic activities in public or private schools in this State that receives its 
funding from those public or private schools, either through membership dues or fees 
collected from those schools or from the participation of those schools in 
interscholastic activities. 
2.  Limit on contact by coaches.  During the quiet period, a coach or advisor for an 
interscholastic team is prohibited from coaching or giving instruction about a sport or 
activity to members of the coach's or advisor's interscholastic team, either individually or 
collectively. 
3.  Limit on fundraising.  An interscholastic team and a school-affiliated 
organization of that interscholastic team are prohibited from engaging in fund-raising 
activities during the quiet period. 
4.  Participation in statewide interscholastic association limited.  A school 
administrative unit may not belong to a statewide interscholastic association that imposes 
more restrictive limits on contact by coaches or advisors or fund-raising by an 
interscholastic team or school-affiliated organization than those imposed by this section. 
SUMMARY 
This bill prohibits the coach or other advisor of a school athletic team or other school-
organized and affiliated team from having any contact with members of the team during 
the 2-week period immediately prior to the beginning of that team's traditional 
competitive season.  This bill prohibits the team or a school-affiliated booster club or 
support group aligned with that team from engaging in fund-raising during that same 
2-week period.  This bill also prohibits a school administrative unit from being a member 
of any statewide interscholastic association that places more restrictive limits on contact 
by coaches or fund-raising.