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 Amendment CA_B_H838 (House)
Amends: 20-A MRSA §2415

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "],, to H.P. 630, L.D. 906, Bill, "An Act To Permit 
a School Administrative Unit Discretion Concerning Participation of Students from 
Charter Schools in School Extracurricular and Interscholastic Activities" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and before the summary and 
inserting the following: 
'Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government 
to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local 
revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to 
the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the members elected to 
each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure. 
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 "mit sponsored statewide 
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 a 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 
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resides or the noncharter public school from which the student withdrew for the purpose 
of attending a public charter school. A The superintendent of the school administrative 
unit or the superintendent's designee may withhold approval only if the public charter 
school the student attends provides the same extracurricular or interscholastic activity or 
if the noncharter public school does not have the capacity to provide the public charter 
school student with the opportunity to participate in the extracurricular or interscholastic 
activity. If approval is withheld, the superintendent of the school administrative unit or 
the superintendent's designee shall provide a written explanation to the public charter 
school student or the student's parent or guardian stating the reason or reasons for the 
decision to withhold approval. If a public charter school student is allowed to participate 
in the non charter 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 detennined through negotiations between the schools involved.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment provides that the superintendent of a school administrative unit may 
deny the request of a public charter school student to participate in an extracurricular or 
interscholastic activity only if the public charter school the student attends already 
provides that same activity or if the noncharter public school does not have the capacity 
to provide the student with the opportunity to participate in the activity. If approval for 
participation is withheld by the superintendent of the school administrative unit, the 
superintendent must provide a written explanation to the student or the student's parent or 
guardian stating the reason or reasons for the decision. 
The amendment also adds a mandate preamble. 
iSCAL ::\'OTE HEQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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Approved: 04114/14 
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LD906 
LR 1651(06) 
An Act To Permit a School Administrative Unit Discretion Concerning Participation of Students from 
Charter Schools in School Extracurricular and Interscholastic Activities 
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Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment 'fj'C/f- ~31S' 
Committee: Appropriations and Financial Affairs 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
State Mandate - Exempted 
State Mandates 
Required Activity 
Unit Affected 
Requires superintendents to provide a written explanation as to why a request from a 
School 
student that attends a public charter school to participate in a local school 
administrative unit's extracurricular or interscholastic activity was denied. 
Local Cost 
Insignificant 
statewide 
Pursuant to the Mandate Preamble, the two-thirds vote of all members elected to each House exempts the State from 
the constitutional requirement to fund 90% of the additional costs. 
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