An Act Concerning Locations for Career and Technical Education Regions and Centers
Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 1733
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
Sponsors: LANGLEY, KORNFIELD, WOODSOME
Amends: 20-A MRSA §8301-A, 20-A MRSA §8401, 20-A MRSA §8451

Legislative Document
No. 1733
S.P. 632
In Senate, December 22, 2017
An Act Concerning Locations for Career and Technical Education 
Regions and Centers
Submitted by the Department of Education pursuant to Joint Rule 203.
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on December 19, 2017.  Referred to the Committee 
on Education and Cultural Affairs pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
HEATHER J.R. PRIEST
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator LANGLEY of Hancock.
Cosponsored by Representative KORNFIELD of Bangor and
Senator: WOODSOME of York.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  20-A MRSA §8301-A, sub-§6, as amended by PL 2017, c. 171, §5, is 
further amended to read:
6.  Region.  "Region" means a quasi-municipal corporation established by the 
Legislature to provide career and technical education to secondary students and middle 
school level students that is comprised of all the school administrative units within the 
geographical geographic boundaries set forth established for each career and technical 
education region in pursuant to section 8451, subsection 6.  A region is governed by a 
cooperative board formed and operating in accordance with this chapter.
Sec. 2.  20-A MRSA §8301-A, sub-§8, as amended by PL 2017, c. 171, §5, is 
further amended to read:
8.  Satellite program.  "Satellite program" means a program providing career and 
technical education to secondary students and middle school level students that is 
operated, under section 8403-A, by a school administrative unit affiliated with a center or 
region.
Sec. 3.  20-A MRSA §8401, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 2011, c. 679, §11, is 
repealed and the following enacted in its place:
1.  Centers.  A center may be operated within geographic boundaries established in 
accordance with criteria set forth in rules for career and technical education and shall 
serve the affiliated units of the school administrative unit operating the center.
Sec. 4.  20-A MRSA §8451, sub-§2, as amended by PL 2017, c. 171, §9, is 
repealed.
Sec. 5.  20-A MRSA §8451, sub-§3, as amended by PL 2017, c. 171, §10, is 
repealed.
Sec. 6.  20-A MRSA §8451, sub-§4, as amended by PL 1991, c. 716, §6 and PL 
2003, c. 545, §5, is repealed.
Sec. 7.  20-A MRSA §8451, sub-§5, as amended by PL 2017, c. 171, §11, is 
repealed.
Sec. 8.  20-A MRSA §8451, sub-§6 is enacted to read:
6.  Regions.  A region may be operated within geographic boundaries established in 
accordance with criteria set forth in rules for career and technical education adopted by 
the department and shall serve the school administrative units within those geographic 
boundaries.
SUMMARY
This bill strikes the provisions in current law that define the organizational makeup of 
career and technical education centers and regions and instead authorizes the Department 
of Education to adopt rules that define the organizational makeup of career and technical 
education centers and regions.  The bill clarifies that a satellite program may be affiliated 
with a region.