An Act To Establish the Total Cost of Education and the State and Local Contributions to Education for Fiscal Year 2018-19 and To Provide That Employees of School Management and Leadership Centers Are Eligible To Pa1ticipate in the Maine Public Employees Retil'ement System
Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 1869
Committee Amendment CA_B-HA_A_H805 (House)
Amends: 20-A MRSA §15671-A

HOUSE AMENDMENT "A" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "B" to S.P. 712, 
L.D. 1869, Bill, "An Act To Establish the Total Cost of Education and the State and 
Local Contributions to Education for Fiscal Year 2018-19 and To Provide That 
Employees of School Management and Leadership Centers Are Eligible To Pa1ticipate in 
the Maine Public Employees Retil'ement System" 
Amend the amendment by striking out everything after the first occu1Tence of 
"Amend the bill" and inserting the following: 
'by striking out eve1ything after the enacting clause and before the summary and insetting 
the following: 
'Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §15671-A, sub-§2, ~, as amended by PL 2017, c, 284, Pt. 
C, §23, is further amended to read: 
B. For property tax years beginning on or after April 1, 2005, the commissioner shall 
calculate the full-value education mill rate that is required to raise the statewide total 
local share. The full-value education mill rate is calculated for each fiscal year by 
dividing the applicable statewide total local share by the applicable statewide 
valuation, The full-value education mill rate must decline over the period from fiscal 
year 2005-06 to fiscal year 2008-09 and may not exceed 9.0 mills in fiscal year 2005-
and may not exceed 8.0 mills in fiscal year 2008-09. The full-value education mill 
rate must be applied according to section 15688, subsection 3-A, paragraph A to 
determine a municipality's local cost share expectation. Full-value education mill 
rates must be derived according to the following schedule. 
(1) For the 2005 prope1ty tax year, the full-value education mill rate is the 
amount necessa1y to result in a 47.4% statewide total local share in fiscal year 
2005-06. 
(2) For the 2006 prope1ty tax year, the full-value education mill rate is the 
amount necessary to result in a 46.14% statewide total local share in fiscal year 
2006-07. 
(3) For the 2007 prope1ty tax year, the full-value education mill rate is the 
amount necessaiy to result in a 46.49% statewide total local share in fiscal year 
2007-08. 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
cf: 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 'A "to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "B" to S.P. 712, L.D. 1869 
( 4) For the 2008 property tax year, the full-value education mill rate is the 
amount necessa1y to result in a 4 7.48% statewide total local share in fiscal year 
2008-09. 
( 4-A) For the 2009 property tax year, the full-value education mill rate is the 
amount necessa1y to result in a 51.07% statewide total local share in fiscal year 
2009-10. 
(4-B) For the 2010 property tax year, the full-value education mill rate is the 
amount necessa1y to result in a 54.16% statewide total local share in fiscal year 
2010-11. 
( 4-C) For the 2011 property tax year, the full-value education mill rate is the 
amount necessary to result in a 53.98% statewide total local share in fiscal year 
2011-12. 
(5) FOl' the 2012 property tax year, the full-value education mill rate is the 
amount necessa1y to result in a 54.13% statewide total local share in fiscal year 
2012-13. 
(6) For the 2013 property tax year, the full-value education mill rate is the 
amount necessa1y to result in a 52.71 % statewide total local share in fiscal year 
2013-14. 
(7) For the 2014 property tax year, the full-value education mill rate is the 
amount necessary to result in a 53,20% statewide total local share in fiscal year 
2014-15, 
(8) For the 2015 property tax year, the full-value education mill rate is the 
amount necessa1y to result in a 52.46% statewide total local share in fiscal year 
2015-16. 
(9) For the 2016 property tax year, the full-value education mill rate is the 
amount necessa1y to result in a 51. 86% statewide total local share in fiscal year 
2016-17. 
(10) For the 2017 property tax year, the full-value education mill rate is the 
amount necessa1y to result in a 50.86% statewide total local share in fiscal year 
2017-18. 
(11) For the 2018 property tax year and subsequent tax years, the full-value 
education mill rate is the amount necessa1y to result in a 4.3-% 50.50% statewide 
total local share in fiscal year 2018-19 and after. 
(12) For the 2019 prope1ty tax year and subsequent tax years, the full-value 
education mill rate is the amount necessaty to result in a 45% statewide total 
local share in fiscal year 2019-20 and after. 
Sec. 2. Mill expectation. The mill expectation pursuant to the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15671-A for fiscal year 2018-19 is 8.48. 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
cf<. 
HOUSE AMENDMENT ''.fi "to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "B" to S.P. 712, L.D. 1869 
Sec. 3. Total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 
12. The total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 for fiscal 
year 2018-19 is as follows: 
Total Operating Allocation 
Total operating allocation pursuant to the Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15683 
Total adjustments to state subsidy pursuant to 
Title 20-A, section 15689 included in 
subsidizable costs and total other subsidizable 
costs pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15681-A 
Total Operating Allocation and Subsidizable Costs 
Total operating allocation pursuant to Title 20-A, 
section 15683 and total other subsidizable costs 
pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15681-A 
Total Debt Service Allocation 
Total debt service allocation pursuant to Title 
20-A, section 15683-A 
Total Adjustments pursuant to Title 20-A, section 
15689 
Audit adjustments pursuant to Title 20-A, 
section 15689, subsection 4 
Educating students in long-term drug 
treatment center adjustments pursuant to Title 
20-A, section 15689, subsection 5 
Regionalization, consolidation and efficiency 
assistance adjustments pursuant to Title 20-A, 
section 15689, subsection 9 
Bus refurbishing program adjustments 
pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689, 
subsection 13 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
2018-19 
TOTAL 
$1,463,639,305 
$509,865,569 
$1,973,504,874 
$96,696,235 
$250,000 
$391,378 
$4,083,539 
$180,123 
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HOUSE AMENDMENT'A "to COMMITTEEAMENDMENT"B" to S.P. 712, L.D. 1869 
MaineCare seed payments adjustments 
$642,466 
pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689, 
subsection 14 
Special education budgeta1y hardship 
$1,000,000 
adjustment pursuant to Title 20-A, section 
15689, subsection 15 
Total adjustments to the state share of total 
$6,547,506 
allocation pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689 
Targeted Education Funds pursuant to Title 20-A, 
section 15689-A 
Special education costs for state agency 
$29,737,998 
clients and state wards pursuant to Title 20-A, 
section 15689-A, subsection 1 
Essential programs and services components 
$300,000 
contract pursuant to Title 20-A, section 
15689-A, subsection 3 
Education research institute contract pursuant 
$250,000 
to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 6 
Emergency bus loan pursuant to Title 20-A, 
$0 
section 15689-A, subsection 9 
Data management and suppott services for 
$4,926,754 
essential programs and services pursuant to 
Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 10 
Postsecondmy course payments pursuant to 
$3,000,000 
Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 11 
National board ce1tification sala1y 
$307,551 
supplement pursuant to Title 20-A, section 
15689-A, subsection 12 
Learning through technology program 
$14,114,965 
pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, 
subsection 12-A 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
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HOUSE AMBNDMENT".A" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "B" to S.P. 712, L.D. 1869 
Jobs for Maine's Graduates including college 
pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, 
subsection 13 
Maine School of Science and Mathematics 
pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, 
subsection 14 
Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and 
Hard of Headng pursuant to Title 20-A, 
section 15689-A, subsection 15 
Transportation administration pursuant to 
Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 16 
Special education for juvenile offenders 
pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, 
subsection 17 
Center of Excellence for At-risk Students 
pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, 
subsection 20 
Fund for the Efficient Delive1y of 
Educational Services pursuant to Title 20-A, 
section 15689-A, subsection 21 
Comprehensive early college programs 
funding (bridge year program) pursuant to 
Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 23 
Community school pilots (3 pilot projects for 
years) pursuant to Title 20-A, section 
15689-A., subsection 25 
Maine School for Marine Science, 
Technology, Transportation and Engineering 
pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, 
subsection 26 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
$3,545,379 
$3.,615,347 
$7,769,215 
$389.,890 
$382,418 
$152,000 
$0 
$1,000.,000 
$50,000 
$320,414 
HOUSE AMENDMENT" A" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "B" to S.P. 712, L.D. 1869 
Total targeted education funds pursuant to Title 
20-A, section 15689-A 
Enhancing student performance and opportunity 
pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15688-A and section 
15672, subsection 1-D 
Career and technical education costs pursuant 
to Title 20-A, section 15688-A, subsection 1 
Career and technical education middle school 
costs pursuant to Title 20-A, section l 5672, 
subsection 1-D 
College transitions programs through adult 
education college readiness programs 
pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15688-A, 
subsection 2 
New or expanded public preschool pursuant 
to Title 20-A, section 15688-A, subsection 4 
School improvement and suppo1t pursuant to 
Title 20-A, section 15688-A, subsection 5 
National industry standards for career and 
technical education pursuant to Title 20-A, 
section 15688-A, subsection 6 
Total enhancing student perfonnance and 
opportunity pursuant to Title 20-A, section 
15688-A and section 15672, subsection 1-D 
Total Cost of Funding Public Education from 
Kindergarten to Grade 12 
Total cost of funding public education from 
kindergarten to grade 12 for fiscal year 
pursuant to Title 20-A, chapter 606-B, not 
including normal retirement costs 
Total nonnal cost of teacher retirement 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
$69,861,931 
$53,500,000 
$500,000 
$450,000 
$0 
$0 
$2,000,000 
$56,450,000 
$2,203,060,546 
$46,519,107 
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HOUSE AMENDMENT 'A" to COMMITIEE AMENDMENT "B" to S.P. 712, L.D. 1869 
Total cost of funding public education from 
kindergarten to grade 12 for fiscal year 
pursuant to Title 20-A, chapter 606-B, 
including normal retirement costs 
Total cost of state contribution to unfunded 
actuarial liabilities of the Maine Public 
Employees Retirement System that are 
attributable to teachers, retired teacher health 
insurance and retired teacher life insurance 
for fiscal year 2018-19 pursuant to Title 5, 
chapters 421 and 423, excluding the normal 
cost of teacher retirement 
Total cost of funding public education from 
kindergarten to grade 12, plus state 
contributions to the unfunded actuarial 
liabilities of the Maine Public Employees 
Retirement System that are attributable to 
teachers, retired teacher health insurance and 
retired teacher life insurance for fiscal year 
2018-19 pursuant to Title 5, chapters 421 and 
$2,249J579J653 
$181,527,833 
$2A3 l,107,486 
Sec. 4. 
Local and state contributions to total cost of funding public 
education from kindergarten to grade 12. The local contribution and the state 
contribution appropriation provided for general purpose aid for local schools for the fiscal 
year beginning July 1, 2018 and ending June 30, 2019 is calculated as follows: 
Local and State Contributions to the 
Total Cost of Funding Public Education 
from Kindergarten to Grade 12 
Local and state contributions to the total 
cost of funding public education from 
kindergatien to grade 12 pursuant to the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, 
section 15683, subject to statewide 
distributions required by law 
2018-19 
LOCAL 
$1)34,201,570 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
2018-19 
STATE 
$1,l 15,378J083 
HOUSE AMENDMENT «,4» to COMMITIEE AMENDMENT "B" to S.P. 712, L.D. 1869 
State contribution to the total cost of 
unfunded actuarial liabilities of the 
Maine Public Employees Retirement 
System that are attributable to teachers> 
teacher retirement health insurance and 
teacher retfrement life insurance for 
fiscal year 2018-19 pursuant to Title 5 > 
chapters 421 and 423 excluding the 
normal cost of teacher retirement 
State contribution to the total cost of 
funding public education from 
kindergarten to grade 12 plus state 
contribution to the total cost of 
unfunded actuarial liabilities of the 
Maine Public Employees Retirement 
System that are attributable to teachers, 
teacher retirement health insurance and 
teacher retirement life insurance 
pursuant to Title 5, chapters 421 and 
$181,527,833 
$1,296,905,916 
Sec. 5. Authorization of payments. If the State's continued obligation for any 
individual component contained in those sections of this Act that set the total cost of 
funding public education from kindergatten to grade 12 and the local and state 
contributions for that purpose exceeds the level of funding provided for that component, 
any unexpended balances occurring in other programs may be applied to avoid proration 
of payments for any individual component. Any unexpended balances from this Act may 
not lapse but must be carried forward for the same purpose. 
Sec. 6. Limit of State's obligation. Those sections of this Act that set the total 
cost of funding public education from ldndergaiien to grade 12 and the local and state 
contributions for that purpose may not be construed to require the State to provide 
payments that exceed the appropriation of funds for general purpose aid for local schools 
for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018 and ending June 30, 2019. 
Sec. 7. Allocation for career and technical education center or career and 
technical education region. For the purposes of calculating the total allocation for a 
career and technical education center or career and technical education region, to the 
extent that funding under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15688-A, 
subsection 1 allows, any cap on the total allocation does not apply for the fiscal year 
beginning July 1, 2018 and ending June 30, 2019 only.'' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment makes the following changes to the bill as amended by Committee 
Amendment "B." 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
HOUSE AMENDMENT ·A " 
to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "B" to S.P. 712, L.D. 1869 
1. 
It strikes language from the bill that provides that employees of school 
management and leadership centers are eligible to pa1ticipate in the Maine Public 
Employees Retirement System. 
2. 
It does not incorporate language proposed in Senate Amendment 
11B
to 
Committee Amendment "A" regarding the dissolution for a school administrative unit to 
withdraw from a school management and leadership center, or provisions for the merging 
of bargaining units. 
3. It changes the mill expectation from 8.49 to 8.48. 
4. It increases the allocation for career and technical education costs by $2,000,000. 
5. 
It decreases the allocation for alignment of career and technical education 
programs with national indushy standards by $2,000,000. 
6. It makes changes to the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to 
grade 12 and to the local contribution to the total cost of funding public education from 
kindergarten to grade 12. 
7. It provides that for the pmposes of calculating the total allocation for a career and 
technical education center or career and technical education region, to the extent that 
funding under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15'688-A, subsection 1 
allows, any cap on the total allocation does not apply for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 
2018 and ending June 30, 2019 only. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
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SPONSORED BY: 
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TOWN: Bangor 
HOUSE AMENDMENT 
Approved; 06/26/18 fe.ac 
LD 1869 
LR 2728(16) 
An Act To Establish the Total Cost of Education and the State and Local Contributions to Education 
for Fiscal Year 2018-19 and To Provide That Employees of School Management and Leadership 
Centers Are Eligible To Participate in the Maine Public Employees Retirement System 
Fiscal Note for House Amendment,¢}• to Committee Amendment "B" 
Sponsor: Rep. Kornfield of Bangor 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Reduces 2018-2019 total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
This amendment reduces the 2018-2019 total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 by 
$1,200,000 and lowers the local contribution by the same amount. This amendment also amends the allocations in 
2018-2019 by increasing the allocation for career and technical education costs by $2,000,000 and decreasing the 
allocation for national industty standards for career and technical education by the same amount. 
LR2728(16) - Fiscal Note - Page 1 of 1