An Act To Repeal Certain Provisions Regarding the System Administration Allocation Affecting Maine School Districts in the 2018-2019 Biennial Budget
Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 1689
Committee Amendment CA_B_S415 (Senate)
Amends: 20-A MRSA §15680-A

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT .. (5" to S.P. 625, L.D. 1689, Bill, "An Act To 
Repeal Certain Provisions Regarding the System Administration Allocation Affecting 
Maine School Districts in the 2018-2019 Biennial Budget" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the 
summary and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §15680-A, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 2017, c. 284, Pt. C, 
§35, is repealed. 
Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §15680-A, sub-§4, as enacted by PL 2017, c. 284, Pt. C, 
§35, is amended to read: 
4. Beginning in fiscal year 2019-20. Beginning in fiscal year 2020 21 2019-20, the 
per-pupil rate for the system administration allocation must be determined by the 
commissioner based on a review by a statewide education policy research institute of the 
system administration costs of high-performing, efficient school administrative units. 
Only school administrative units that have established regionalized administrative 
services pursuant to chapter 123 and school administrative units for which the percentage 
of system administration expenditures of districts identified as high-performing, efficient 
school administrative units by a statewide education policy research institute are eligible 
for the system administration allocation.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment, which is the minority report of the committee, strikes and replaces 
the bill. Like the bill, the amendment amends the system administration allocation law by 
striking the requirement that, beginning in fiscal year 2019-20, a portion of the system 
administration allocation must be allocated to school administrative units that have 
established regionalized administrative services. Instead, the amendment provides that 
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only school administrative units that have established regionalized administrative services 
and school administrative units that are identified as high-performing, efficient school 
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administrative units by a statewide education policy research institute due to their 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" f>" to S.P. 625, L.D. 1689 
percentage of system administration expenditures are eligible for the allocation. The 
amendment also retains the portion of the law that establishes the system administration 
allocations for fiscal year 2018-19, which is repealed in the bill. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 03/15/18 ;:b'.ac. 
LD 1689 
LR2558(03) 
An Act To Repeal Certain Provisions Regarding the System Administration Allocation Affecting 
Maine School Districts in the 2018-2019 Biennial Budget 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment 'v.{' l S- L/ ,9 
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs 
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Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Redistribution of state subsidy - Local school administrative units 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
This legislation repeals the sections of current law that set the per-pupil amounts for system administration to be 
allocated to school administrative units (SAU's) in fiscal year 2019-20 and instead requires that, beginning in fiscal 
year 2019-20, the per-pupil allocation be provided only to those SAU's that have established regionalized 
administrative services pursuant to Title 20-A, chapter 123 or are identified as high-performing, efficient schools 
based on a review of system administration costs for high-performing, efficient SAU's. 
This change will result in a redistribution of state subsidy in fiscal year 2019-20, with some SA U's receiving more 
subsidy than would have been received absent this legislation and some SAU's receiving less. The impact to 
individual SAU's can not be determined. 
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