Amend the bill by inserting after section 31 the following:

Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.

summary

This amendment allows the towns of Castine, Penobscot, Blue Hill, Brooksville, Brooklin, Sedgwick, Surry, Deer Isle and Stonington to form a school union governed by the school organization laws that were in effect prior to the enactment in 2007 of the law requiring the reorganization of school districts. In order to fully implement the formation and governance, the Department of Education is required to work with the towns and provide implementing legislation to the 124th Legislature.