An Act To Permit a School Administrative Unit Discretion Concerning Participation of Students from Charter Schools in School Extracurricular and Interscholastic Activities
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 0906
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
Sponsors: MOONEN, MILLETT, DAUGHTRY
Amends: 20-A MRSA §2415

Legislative Document 
No. 906 
H.P. 630 
House of Representatives, March 7, 2013 
An Act To Permit a School Administrative Unit Discretion 
Concerning Participation of Students from Charter Schools in 
School Extracurricular and Interscholastic Activities 
Reference to the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs suggested and ordered 
printed. 
MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative MOONEN of Portland. 
Cosponsored by Senator MILLETT of Cumberland and 
Representative: DAUGHTRY of Brunswick. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  20-A MRSA §2415, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2011, c. 414, §5, is 
amended to read: 
2.  Access to extracurricular and interscholastic activities.  A public charter 
school is eligible for state-sponsored or school administrative unit-sponsored 
interscholastic leagues, competitions, awards, scholarships and recognition programs for 
students, educators, administrators and schools to the same extent as are noncharter 
public schools. A If a public charter school applies for and receives written approval from 
the superintendent of the school administrative unit or the superintendent's designee, who 
may withhold such approval, the public charter school is eligible for school 
administrative unit-sponsored interscholastic leagues, competitions, awards, scholarships 
and recognition programs for students, educators, administrators and schools to the same 
extent as are noncharter public schools.  If a public charter school student applies for and 
receives written approval from the superintendent of the school administrative unit of the 
noncharter public school or the superintendent's designee, who may withhold such 
approval, the public charter school student is eligible to participate in extracurricular 
activities not offered by the student's public charter school at the noncharter public school 
within the attendance boundaries of which the student's custodial parent or legal guardian 
resides or the noncharter public school from which the student withdrew for the purpose 
of attending a public charter school.  A If a public charter school student is allowed to 
participate in the noncharter public school's extracurricular activities, the public charter 
school student is eligible for extracurricular activities at a the noncharter public school 
subject to eligibility standards applied to full-time students of the noncharter public 
school. A school administrative unit or noncharter public school may not impose 
additional requirements on a public charter school student to participate in extracurricular 
activities that are not imposed on full-time students of the noncharter public school.  
Public charter school students shall must pay the same fees as other students to participate 
in extracurricular or cocurricular activities.  For each public charter school student who 
participates in an extracurricular or cocurricular activity at a noncharter public school, the 
public charter school must pay a reasonable share of the noncharter public school's costs 
for the activity, as determined through negotiations between the schools involved. 
SUMMARY 
This bill allows a public charter school, at the discretion of the superintendent of the 
school administrative unit, to participate in school administrative unit-sponsored 
interscholastic and other activities and, at the discretion of the superintendent, a student 
of the public charter school to participate in a school's extracurricular activities.