SP0712
LD 1869
Session - 128th Maine Legislature
S "D" to C "B", Filing Number S-541, Sponsored by Langley
LR 2728
Item 15
Bill Tracking, Additional Documents Chamber Status

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, ¶B,  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.

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 commissioner that as a result of the school administrative unit's withdrawing that there will be no increase in costs or decrease in student programs and services for the withdrawing school administrative unit and for any of the remaining member school administrative units of the school 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 not be dissolved unless it applies to the commissioner 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 school administrative units of a school management and leadership center apply to dissolve the school management and leadership center, they demonstrate to the commissioner that there will be no increase in costs or decrease in student programs and services for any of the member school administrative units of the school management and leadership center.
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: "8.49" 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:

2018-19
TOTAL
Total Operating Allocation
Total operating allocation pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15683 $1,463,639,305
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 $509,865,569
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 $1,973,504,874
Total Debt Service Allocation
Total debt service allocation pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15683-A $96,696,235
Total Adjustments pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689
Audit adjustments pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689, subsection 4 $250,000
Educating students in long-term drug treatment center adjustments pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689, subsection 5 $391,378
Regionalization, consolidation and efficiency assistance adjustments pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689, subsection 9 $4,083,539
Bus refurbishing program adjustments pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689, subsection 13 $180,123
MaineCare seed payments adjustments pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689, subsection 14 $642,466
Special education budgetary hardship adjustment pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689, subsection 15 $1,000,000
Total adjustments to the state share of total allocation pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689 $6,547,506
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 $29,737,998
Essential programs and services components contract pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 3 $300,000
Education research institute contract pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 6 $250,000
Emergency bus loan pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 9 $0
Data management and support services for essential programs and services pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 10 $4,926,754
Postsecondary course payments pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 11 $3,000,000
National board certification salary supplement pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 12 $307,551
Learning through technology program pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 12-A $14,114,965
Jobs for Maine's Graduates including college pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 13 $3,545,379
Maine School of Science and Mathematics pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 14 $3,615,347
Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 15 $7,769,215
Transportation administration pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 16 $389,890
Special education for juvenile offenders pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 17 $382,418
Center of Excellence for At-risk Students pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 20 $152,000
Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Educational Services pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 21 $0
Comprehensive early college programs funding (bridge year program) pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 23 $1,000,000
Community school pilots (3 pilot projects for 5 years) pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 25 $50,000
Maine School for Marine Science, Technology, Transportation and Engineering pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A, subsection 26 $320,414
Total targeted education funds pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15689-A $69,861,931
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 $53,500,000
Career and technical education middle school costs pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15672, subsection 1-D $500,000
College transitions programs through adult education college readiness programs pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15688-A, subsection 2 $450,000
New or expanded public preschool pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15688-A, subsection 4 $0
School improvement and support pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15688-A, subsection 5 $0
National industry standards for career and technical education pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15688-A, subsection 6 $2,000,000
Total enhancing student performance and opportunity pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15688-A and section 15672, subsection 1-D $56,450,000
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 $2,203,060,546
Total normal cost of teacher retirement $46,519,107
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 $2,249,579,653
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 $181,527,833
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 423 $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:

2018-19 2018-19
LOCAL STATE
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 $1,134,201,570 $1,115,378,083
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 $181,527,833
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 423 $1,296,905,916

Amend the amendment by adding after section 5 the following:

Amend the bill by adding after section 7 the following:

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.

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
(See attached)


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