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
Maine Legislature, Session 128, LD 1869
Committee Amendment CA_B-SA_D_S541 (Senate)
Amends: 20-A MRSA §3801, 20-A MRSA §3802

SENATE AMENDMENT ''D "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 Participate in 
the Maine Public Employees Retirement System" 
Amend the amendment by inserting after the title the following: 
'Amend the bill by inserting after section 1 the following: 
'Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §3801, sub-§3, ,rB, as enacted by PL 2017, c. 284, Pt. 
VVVVV, §6, is amended to read: 
B. An interlocal agreement may include but is not limited to a description of the 
following: 
(1) 
The approval process for the formation of a school management and 
leadership center; 
(2) Any associate members, the process for including associate members and 
their roles in the school management and leadership center; 
(3) The process to authorize the school management and leadership center to 
borrow funds for school construction purposes including bonds and notes; 
( 4) The process to approve the purchase or lease of buildings or land by the 
school management and leadership center; 
(5) The process by which a school management and leadership center may 
establish, maintain and expend funds from a reserve fund or contingency fund; 
( 6) The process of hiring an executive director for the school management and 
leadership center; and 
(7) A transition plan to move authorized programs and services from a member 
to the school management and leadership center .. : and 
(8) The process for withdrawal of a single school administrative unit from the 
school management and leadership center. 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
SENATE AMENDMENT '1)" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "B" to S.P. 712, L.D. 1869 
Sec. 3. 20-A MRSA §3802, sub-§§13 and 14, as enacted by PL 2017, c. 284, 
Pt. VVVVV, §6, are amended to read: 
13. Withdrawal from school management and leadership center. If-a A single 
school administrative unit applies to may withdraw, it must demonstrate to the 
oommissioner that as a result of the sohool administrative unit's vlithdrav.'ing that there 
will be no inorease in oosts or deorease in staden.t programs and servioes for the 
withdrawing sohool administrative unit and for any of the remaining member sohool 
administrath•e units of the sohool management and leadership center from a school 
management and leadership center only in accordance with withdrawal provisions 
included in the interlocal agreement pursuant to section 3801. subsection 3. 
14. 
Dissolution of school management and leadership center. 
A school 
management and leadership center may net be dissolved t1.nl0RR it annlleR to tl:ie 
oommissioner for approval and only if: 
A. 
All member school administrative units apply to transfer to another school 
management and leadership center and the commissioner approves; or 
B. If all the member sohool administrative units of a sohool management and 
leadership oenter apply to dissolve the sohool management and leadership oenter, 
they demonstrate to the commissioner that there will be no inorease in costs or 
decrease in student programs and servioes for any of the member sohool 
administrative units of the sohool management and leadership oenter. 
C. The dissolution is in accordance with the provisions of its interlocal agreement 
under Title 30-A. chapter 115 that provide for the termination of the agreement and 
the disposal of property.' ' 
Amend the amendment in the first indented paragraph in the last line (page 1, line 15 
in amendment) by striking out the following: 
118.49
and inserting the following: '8.48' 
Amend the amendment by striking out all of sections 4 and 5 and inserting the 
following: 
'Sec. 4. 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 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
2018-19 
TOTAL 
$1,463,639,305 
$509,865,569 
SENATE AMENDMENT" i)" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "B" to S.P. 712, L.D. 1869 
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 
MaineCare seed payments adjustments 
pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689, 
subsection 14 
Special education budgetary hardship 
adjustment pursuant to Title 20-A, section 
15689, subsection 15 
Total adjustments to the state share of total 
allocation pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
$1,973,504,874 
$96,696,235 
$250,000 
$391,378 
$4,083,539 
$180,123 
$642,466 
$1,000,000 
$6,547,506 
SENATE AMENDMENT" r)' to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "B'' to S.P. 712, L.D. 1869 
Targeted Education Funds pursuant to Title 20-A, 
section 15689-A 
Special education costs for state agency 
clients and state wards pursuant to Title 20-A, 
section 15689-A, subsection 1 
Essential programs and services components 
contract pursuant to Title 20-A, section 
15689-A, subsection 3 
Education research institute contract pursuant 
to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 6 
Emergency bus loan pursuant to Title 20-A, 
section 15689-A, subsection 9 
Data management and support services for 
essential programs and services pursuant to 
Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 10 
Postsecondary course payments pursuant to 
Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 11 
National board certification salary 
supplement pursuant to Title 20-A, section 
15689-A, subsection 12 
Learning through technology program 
pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, 
subsection 12-A 
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 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
$29,737,998 
$300,000 
$250,000 
$0 
$4,926,754 
$3,000,000 
$307,551 
$14,114,965 
$3,545,379 
$3,615,347 
SENATE AMENDMENT "P' to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "B" to S.P. 712, L.D. 1869 
Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and 
Hard of Hearing 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 Delivery 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 
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 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
$7,769,215 
$389,890 
$382,418 
$152,000 
$0 
$1,000,000 
$50,000 
$320,414 
$69,861,931 
$53,500,000 
SENATE AMENDMENT 1)" to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "B" to S.P. 712, L.D. 1869 
Career and technical education middle school 
costs pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15672, 
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 support 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 performance 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 normal cost of teacher retirement 
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 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
$500,000 
$450,000 
$0 
$0 
$2,000,000 
$56,450,000 
$2,203,060,546 
$46,519,107 
$2,249,579,653 
SENATE AMENDMENT" 1)' to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "B" to S.P. 712, L.D. 1869 
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 
$181,527,833 
$2,431,107,486 
Sec. 5. 
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 
kindergarten to grade 12 pursuant to the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, 
section 15683, subject to statewide 
distributions required by law 
2018-19 
LOCAL 
$1,134,201,570 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
2018-19 
STATE 
$1,115,378,083 
SENATE AMENDMENT 1)" to COMMITTEE 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 retirement 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 
Amend the amendment by adding after section 5 the following: 
'Amend the bill by adding after section 7 the following: 
$181,527,833 
$1,296,905,916 
'Sec. 8. 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.'' 
Amend the amendment by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter 
or section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment does the following. 
1. It includes provisions regarding dissolution for a school administrative unit to 
withdraw from a school management and leadership center. 
2. It changes the mill expectation from 8.49 to 8.48. 
3. It increases the allocation for career and technical education costs by $2,000,000. 
4. 
It decreases the allocation for alignment of career and technical education 
programs with national industry standards by $2,000,000. 
SENATE AMENDMENT 
SENATE AMENDMENT 'f)' to COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "B" to S.P. 712, L.D. 1869 
5. 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. 
6. It provides that 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. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
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LD 1869 
LR 2728(15) 
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 Senate Amendment~ to Committee Amendment "B" 
Sponsor: Sen. L:rrtgley of Hancock 
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 industry standards for career and technical education by the same amount. 
LR2728(15) - Fiscal Note - Page 1 of 1