An Act To Facilitate School Access to Federal Title I Funds and Improve the Delive1y of Special Education Services
Maine Legislature, Session 129, LD 0651
Committee Amendment CA_A_H154 (House)
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs on the progress, including recommendations and

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT .. f/ ,, to H.P. 472, L.D. 651, Bill, "An Act To 
Facilitate School Access to Federal Title I Funds and Improve the Delive1y of Special 
Education Services" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'Resolve, To Facilitate School Access to Federal Title I Funds and Improve the 
Delivery of Special Education Services' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and inserting the following: 
'Sec. 1. 
Delivery of special education services. Resolved: 
That the 
Department of Education, no later than January 1, 2020, shall report to the Joint Standing 
Committee 
on Education 
and 
Cultural 
Affairs 
on the 
progress, 
including 
recommendations and suggested legislation, on the following cunent projects, which 
were recommendations of the Task Force To Identify Special Education Cost Drivers and 
Innovative Approaches to Services during the 128th Legislature: 
1. 
Enhancement of response to intervention to become an all-encompassing 
multitiered system of support in all school administrative units and removing the 
regulations on general education interventions from Department of Education rule 
Chapter 101: Maine Unified Special Education Regulation Bitth to Age Twenty and 
amending rule Chapter 125: Basic Approval Standards: Public Schools and School 
Administrative Units to include regulations on general education interventions; 
2. Facilitation of the process by which schools apply for schoolwide status with 
respect to funds under Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondaty Education Act of 
1965; 
3. Increased use of dual certification programs for general education and special 
education certification; 
4. Review of the maintenance of effort funding component of the essential programs 
and services funding formula under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 
15681-A, subsection 2, paragraph D; and 
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5. Improvement of regional programs that facilitate MaineCare billing for medically 
necessary services for schools. 
The Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs may report out a 
bill to the Second Regular Session of the 129th Legislature to implement any 
recommendations in the report.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment replaces the bill with a resolve. 
The amendment directs the 
Department of Education to report to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and 
Cultural Affairs no later than January 1, 2020 on progress, including recommendations 
and suggested legislation, on the following: 
1. 
Enhancement of response to intervention to become an all-encompassing 
multitiered system of support in all school administrative units and removing the 
regulations on general education interventions from Department of Education rule 
Chapter 101: Maine Unified Special Education Regulation Birth to Age Twenty and 
amending rule Chapter 125: Basic Approval Standards: Public Schools and School 
Administrative Units to include regulations on general education interventions; 
2. Facilitation of the process by which schools apply for schoolwide status with 
respect to funds under Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 
1965; 
3. Increased use of dual certification programs for general education and special 
education certifications; 
4. Review of the maintenance of effort funding component of the essential programs 
and services funding f01mula; and 
5. Improvement ofregional programs that facilitate MaineCare billing for medically 
necessary services for schools. 
The Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs may report out a 
bill to the Second Regular Session of the 129th Legislature to implement any 
recommendations in the report. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Approved: 04/09/19 .?dLZC':.. 
LD 651 
LR 990(02) 
An Act To Facilitate School Access to Federal Title I Funds and Improve the Delivery of Special 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Education Services 
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Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment ,If { /f ,JS"~ 
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Minor cost increase - General Fund 
Any additional costs to the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services from the 
provisions of this bill are expected to be minor and can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources. 
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