131st MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 1297		LR 1439(01)
	An Act to Notify School Boards and Select Boards That Lobbying Associations Are Not Governmental Agencies
	Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement for Original Bill
	Sponsor: Rep. Andrews of Paris
	Committee: State and Local Government
	Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded
State Mandates
	Required Activity				Unit Affected	Local Cost
	Requires the preparation and maintainence of lists of nongovernmental agencies and organizations or other private entities that have registered with the secretary of a school board or a municipal clerk prior to submitting information or engaging in an official capacity with a school board member, a select board member or a municipal official.				Municipality School	Insignificant statewide
	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 from 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