An Act Relating to Exemption from Immunization for Schoolchildren ~
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 0672
Committee Amendment CA_A_H400 (House)

LD672 
LR 1665(02) 
An Act Relating to Exemption from Immunization for Schoolchildren 
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Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment ~, C H -lJCO) 
Committee~ Education and Cultural Affairs 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
Appropriations/Allocations 
General Fund 
State Mandates 
Required Activity 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
State Mandate - Funded 
FY 2013-14 
FY 2014-15 
$3,332 
$768 
$3,332 
$768 
Requires school health advisors to provide infonnation about the benefits and risks 
of immunization, consisting of Vaccine Infonnation Statements prepared by the 
United States Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease 
Control and Prevention, to parents of a child excepted from the immunization 
requirements under Title 20-A, §6355 and to sign a statement that the infonnation 
has been provided. 
Projections 
FY 2015-16 
$768 
$768 
Projections 
FY 2016-17 
$768 
$768 
Unit Affected 
Local Cost 
School 
Insignificant 
statewide 
The required local activities in this bill represent a State mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine. General 
Fund appropriations are provided to fund 90% of the additional costs. 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
This bill establishes the Vaccine Infonnation for Parents account within the Department of Education and provides a 
one-time General Fund appropriation of$3,332 in fiscal year 2013-14 and ongoing General Fund appropriations of 
$768 per year beginning in fiscal year 2014-15 to the account for the purpose of paying 90% of the total cost to local 
school administrative units to assemble and send the required infonnation that school health advisors must send to 
parents. This fiscal note is based on the following assumptions: 
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Assumptions 
Number of vaccine information statements (VIS) on US DHHS CDC website 
Number of VIS relevant to this bill 
Pages per VIS 
Pages to be printed and sent per student 
Pages for signed statement to be placed in childs records 
Cost of 1 piece of 8 112 x 11 copier paper 
Cost per packet 
(15 pages @ $0 .005 per page) 
Estimated number of exempted students to be sent packets 1 st year 
Estimated number of exempted students to be sent packets annually after 1 st year 
Estimated staff time to prepare information packet 1 st year 
Estimated staff time to prepare information packet annually after 1 st year 
Estimated hourly rate 
# of School Administrative Units 
Summary for All Schools 
Cost of information packets to send to parents 1 st year 
Cost to assemble information packets 1 st year 
Total cost to send information packets to parents 1st year 
General Fund appropriation needed to fund 90% lst year 
Cost of information packet to send to parents annually after 1 st year 
Cost to assemble information packets annually after 1 st year 
Total cost to send information packets to parents annually after 1st year 
General Fund appropriation needed to fund 90% annually after lst year 
c:A (H-L/COj 
100% 
90% 
100% 
90% 
$ 
$ 
$ 
$ 
$ 
$ 
$ 
$ 
$ 
$ 
0.005 
0.075 
5,628 
hour 
hour 
$20 
422.10 
3,280.00 
3,702.10 
3,331.89 
32.48 
820.00 
852.48 
767.2 
Additional costs to the Department of Education to establish procedures to reimburse local school administrative units 
can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources. 
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