An Act to Ensure
Maine Legislature, Session 132, LD 1588
Committee Amendment CA_A_H406 (House)
Amends: 20-A MRSA §5205

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "/Jr:" to H.P. 1046, L.D. 1588, "An Act to Ensure 
Transparency in Student Transfer Requests" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the 
following: 
'Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §5205, sub-§6, ,rA, as amended by PL 2013, c. 456, § 1, is 
further amended by enacting at the end a new last blocked paragraph to read: 
By July 1st of each year. a school administrative unit shall report to the commissioner 
the total number of transfer requests presented to the school administrative unit in the 
last year. including requests to transfer to or from the school administrative unit. The 
report must also state the number of transfers accepted and the number of transfers 
denied, The commissioner shall annually publish this data on the department's publicly 
accessible website, 
Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §5205, sub-§6, ~' as amended by PL 2013, c. 456, §2, is 
further amended by enacting at the end a new first blocked paragraph to read: 
The commissioner shall publish on the department's publicly accessible website the 
number of transfer determinations. the number of transfers accepted and the number of 
transfers denied. 1 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section 
number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment removes from the bill the requirement that school administrative units 
provide the written description for each student transfer denial to the Commissioner of 
Education. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
State Mandates 
Approved: 05/28/25 LRL 
LD 1588 
LR 1176(02) 
An Act to Ensure Transparency in Student Transfer Requests 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendmentft" (H-1/ 0 6) 
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded 
Required Activity 
Unit Affected 
Local Cost 
Requires school administrative units (SAUs) to report to the Department of 
School 
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Education the total number of transfer requests presented to the SAU over the past 
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year, including requests to transfer to or from the SAU and the number of transfers 
accepted and denied by July 1st of each year. 
The required local activities in this bill may represent a state mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine. If the bill 
does require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures 
fro·m local revenue, the state mandate provisions of the Constitution of Maine require either: (1) General Fund 
appropriations be provided to fund at least 90% of any additional necessitated local costs of the mandate; or (2) a 
Mandate Preamble be added to the bill and two-thirds of the members of each House vote to exempt the mandate from 
the funding requirement. If the bill does represent a state mandate and neither one of these actions occurs, the local 
units of government will not be required to implement the mandated activities, 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Additional costs to the Department of Education to publish the required information on its publicly accessible website 
can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources. 
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