An Act To Establish the Summer Success Program Fund
Maine Legislature, Session 129, LD 0502
Committee Amendment CA_A_H200 (House)
Amends: 20-A MRSA §15688-A

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 359, L.D. 502, Bill, "An Act To 
Establish the Summer Success Program Fund" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'An Act To Establish the Summer Success Pilot Program Fund' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the 
following: 
'Sec, 1. 20-A MRSA c. 317, sub-c. 2 is enacted to read: 
SUBCHAPTER 2 
SUMMER SUCCESS PILOT PROGRAM FUND 
§8811. Definitions 
As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following 
terms have the following meanings. 
1. Program fund. "Program fund" means the Summer Success Pilot Program Fund 
established in section 8812. 
2. Summer success pilot program. "Summer success pilot program" means a pilot 
program offered by a public school that provides traditional and alternative teaching 
methods to ensure that every student has access to a high-quality extended school year 
program that helps the student improve the student's academic achievement and addresses 
the needs of the student to demonstrate content area proficiency based on the student's 
grade level. 
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§8812. Summer Success Pilot Program Fund 
1. Establishment. The Summer Success Pilot Program Fund is established as a 
General Fund carrying account within the department to be directed and administered by 
the commissioner and held by the Treasurer of State. 
2. Sources of money. Money a:gpropriated from the General Fund may be paid into 
the program fund. 
3. Application of program fund. Money in the program fund must be continuously 
applied by the commissioner to carry out this section and may not be used for any other 
purpose. A school administrative unit shall ensure that program funds made available to 
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the school administrative unit to provide grants for access to summer success pilot 
programs for elementary and secondary school students supplement and do not supplant 
federal funding. 
§8813. Standards; approval 
The commissioner shall use the program fund to encourage the facilitation of high-
quality summer success pilot programs in school administrative units throughout the 
State. 
1. Standards. The commissioner shall establish standards for summer success pilot 
programs consistent with the basic school approval requirements as set forth in 
subchapter 1 for summer school programs offered at elementary or secondary schools in 
the State. In establishing standards for summer success pilot programs, the commissioner 
may also consider the following: 
A. Guidelines similar to, but not identical with, the requirements of the community 
learning centers program authorized under Title IV, Part B of the federal Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended by the federal Every Student 
Succeeds Act, 20 United States Code, Chapter 70, to help students improve their 
academic achievement by providing educational opportunities that close the 
achievement gap between high-performing and low-performing students, including 
the gap between economically disadvantaged students and their peers; 
B. Effective models of summer success programs that improve student achievement, 
including model programs that involve networking and partnerships with community-
based organizations that provide a range of high-quality services to support student 
learning and development. In order to partner with a summer success pilot program, a 
community-based organization must be exempt from federal income taxation under 
the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, Section 501(a), pursuant to the 
United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, Section 50l(c)(3); and 
C. Implementation of the formative and summative assessment methods used by a 
school administrative unit during the school year to measure student achievement in 
order to monitor the progress of students in that school administrative unit who are 
participating in the summer success pilot programs. 
2. 
Approval. 
A summer success pilot program may be offered by a school 
administrative unit with the approval of the commissioner. The commissioner may 
inspect a summer success pilot program, after which the commissioner shall approve and 
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grant a certificate to a school that maintains approval standards under subsection 1. The 
department shall pay the expense of the inspection. 
§8814. Program fund grants; eligibility 
1. Program fund grants. Beginning in fiscal year 2020-21 and each subsequent 
year, the department, through a grant application process, shall provide from the program 
fund funding to cover 90% of the costs of summer success pilot programs in school 
administrative units. Those school administrative units with greater than 50% student 
participation in the federal free and reduced-price lunch program pursuant to section 
6602, subsection 1, paragraph A must be given priority in the distribution of funding from 
the program fund. 
2. Eligibility. To receive program fund money, a school administrative unit must be 
in compliance with any applicable standards and program requirements for summer 
success pilot programs established by the commissioner pursuant to section 8813. 
§8815. Report 
The department shall report by June 30, 2021 and annually thereafter to the joint 
standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education and cultural 
affairs on the number of school administrative units administering summer success pilot 
programs, the nature of the summer success pilot programs receiving money from the 
program fund, the amount of money distributed and the number of children participating 
in a summer success pilot program. The report must also include a recommendation on 
whether the summer success pilot program should continue as a pilot program, be 
modified or become a permanent program. 
Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §15688-A, sub-§9 is enacted to read: 
9. Summer success pilot programs. Beginning in fiscal year 2020-21 and for each 
subsequent fiscal year, the commissioner may expend and disburse funds to provide 
grants for access to summer success pilot programs for elementaty and secondary school 
students pursuant to chapter 317, subchapter 2. 
The amounts of the grant funding 
provided to qualified school administrative units pursuant to chapter 317, subchapter 2 
are limited to the amounts appropriated, allocated or authorized by the Legislature for the 
operation of summer success pilot programs. 
Any balance of funds appropriated, 
allocated or authorized by the Legislature remaining at the end of a fiscal year do not 
lapse and are carried forward to the next fiscal year to carry out the pm:poses of chapter 
317, subchapter 2. 
Sec. 3. Maine Revised Statutes headnote amended; revision clause. In the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, chapter 317, before section 8801, the headnote 
"subchapter 1, summer schools" is enacted and the Revisor of Statutes shall implement 
this revision when updating, publishing or republishing the statutes. 
Sec. 4. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and 
allocations are made. 
EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF 
Summer Success Pilot Program Fund N311 
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Initiative: Provides ongoing funding for the Summer Success Pilot Program. 
GENERAL FUND 
All Other 
GENERAL FUND TOTAL 
2019-20 
$0 
$0 
2020-21 
$243,000 
$243,000 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
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This amendment strikes and replaces the title and the bill. The amendment establishes 
the Summer Success Pilot Program and corresponding fund to encourage the facilitation 
of high-quality summer success pilot programs in school administrative units throughout 
the State and does the following: 
1. It provides that the fund is established as a General Fund carrying account within 
the Department of Education to be directed and administered by the Commissioner of 
Education and held by the Treasurer of State and that only General Fund appropriations 
may be paid into the fund; 
2. It requires the Commissioner of Education to establish standards and approval for 
the allocation and use of fund money for summer success pilot programs offered at 
elementary and secondary schools in the State. It also allows the commissioner to include 
the following in the standards: 
A. Guidelines similar to those of the federal 21st Century Community Leaming 
Centers program to close the achievement gap between high-performing and low-
performing students; 
B. 
Effective models of summer success programs that involve networking and 
partnerships with community-based organizations that provide a range of high-quality 
services to support student learning and development; and 
C. Implementation of the formative and summative assessment methods to measure 
student achievement in order to monitor the progress of students participating in 
summer success pilot programs; 
3. It provides that, beginning in fiscal year 2020-21, the department is required to 
provide grant funding from the fund, through a grant application process, to cover 90% of 
the costs of summer success pilot programs and that the department must prioritize 
distribution of funding to school administrative units with greater than 50% student 
participation in the federal free and reduced-price lunch program; 
4. It adds the fund to the enhancing student performance and opportunity provisions 
of the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act; and 
5. It requires the Commissioner of Education to annually report to the joint standing 
committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education and cultural affairs on the 
number of school administrative units administering summer success pilot programs, the 
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nature of the summer success pilot programs receiving money from the fund, the amount 
of money distributed and the number of children participating in a summer success pilot 
program. The report must also include a recommendation on whether the pilot program 
should continue as a pilot program, be modified or become a pe1manent program. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 04/25/19 ;JW'ac.. 
LD502 
LR 700(02) 
An Act To Establish the Summer Success Program Fund 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment {f( //-Jo0 
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs 
Net Cost (Savings) 
General Fund 
Appropriations/Allocations 
General Fund 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
FY 2019-20 
FY2020-21 
$0 
$243,000 
$0 
$243,000 
Projections 
Projections 
FY2021-22 
FY2022-23 
$243,000 
$243,000 
$243,000 
$243,000 
This bill includes ongoing General Fund appropriations of $243,000 in fiscal year 2020-21 to a newly created Summer 
Success Pilot Program Fund within the Department of Education to provide grants to school administrative units 
(SAU's) for 90% of the cost of the pilot program. The estimated annual cost of the pilot program provided by the 
Department of Education is based on the assumption that one SAU in each of the 9 superintendent regions in the State 
will participate in the pilot program at a cost of$27,000 per SAU ($30,000 x 90%). The cost-per-region assumes the 
need for 3 teachers for 4 half-day sessions with 30 children participating. The estimate also includes transportation 
costs. 
Additional costs to the Department of Education to establish and administer the program can be absorbed within 
existing budgeted resources. 
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