An Act To Amend Teacher Evaluation Requirements
Maine Legislature, Session 129, LD 0092
Committee Amendment CA_A_H18 (House)
Amends: 20-A MRSA §13704

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 78, L.D. 92, Bill, "An Act To Amend 
Teacher Evaluation Requirements" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'An Act To Amend Educator Evaluation Requirements' 
Amend the bill by striking out all of section 3 and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 3. 20-A MRSA §13704, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2011, c. 635, Pt. A, §\ is 
amended to read: 
2. 
Multiple measures of effectiveness. 
Multiple measures of. educator 
effectiveness, ether than standards of including but not limited to professional practice, 
including but not limited to student learning and grewth standards;' 
Amend the bill in section 4 in paragr,aph A in the first line (page 1, line 19 in L.D.) by 
inserting after the following: "practice and" the following: 'may include other' 
, Amend the bill by inserting after section 4 the following: 
'Sec. 5. 20-A MRSA §13704, sub-§5, ,rJ), as enacted by PL 2011, c. 635, Pt. A, 
§3, is amended to read: 
D. Formation of a steering committee composed of teachers, administrators and 
other school administrative unit staff that regularly reviews and refines the 
performance evaluation and professional growth system to ensure that it is aligned 
with school administrative unit goals and priorities. 
A majority of the steering 
committee members must be teachers and must be chosen by the local representative 
of the applicable collective bargaining unit if the teachers in the school administrative 
unit are covered by a collective bargaining agreement. 
Any revisions to the 
performance evaluation and professional growth system made by the steering 
committee must be reached by consensus; and' 
Amend the bill by inserting after section 6 the following: 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ''A "to H.P. 78, L.D. 92 
'Sec. 7. Effective date. Those sections of this Act that amend the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 20-A, section 13704, subsections 1, 2 and 3 take effect September 1, 2021.' 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
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SUMMARY 
This amendment is the majority report of the committee and clarifies that a school 
administrative lmit is not required to use student growth measures in educator evaluation 
requirements and provides that the effective date of the provisions in the legislation that 
remove the requirement regarding student growth and learning systems is September 1, 
2021. 
This amendment also requires that a school administrative unit's steering 
committee on the elements of the school administrative unit's performance evaluation and 
professional growth system must include a majority of teachers chosen by the school 
administrative unit's local union and that any revisions to the performance evaluation and 
professional growth system made by the steering committee must be reached by 
consensus. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Approved: 02/21/19 feac 
LD92 
LR 374(02) 
An Act To Amend Teacher Evaluation Requirements 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment 'Y{' ( H- f c:;J) 
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Minor cost increase - General Fund 
Effective September 1, 2021, this bill repeals the requirements that measurements of student learning and growth be 
significant factors in performance evaluations and professional growth systems for teachers and principals and that 
certain state assessment growth data be used as at least one measure of performance for teachers and principals. The 
required use of state assessment growth data as a perf01mance measure was pait of statut01y changes made in Public 
Law 2015, chapter 3 to address compliance concerns with the Elementary and Seconda1y Education Act (ESEA) of 
1965 that could have resulted in the loss of certain federal funds had those concerns not been addressed. With the 
passage of the Eve1y Student Succeeds Act, which reauthorized the ESEA, the federal requirements for educator 
evaluation and support systems went away. Given that change, passage of this bill will not put receipt of federal 
funds at risk. 
This legislation requires the Department of Education to amend it rules to implement these changes. Additional costs 
to the department associated with the rulemaking process can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources. 
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