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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §15603, sub-§26-A, ¶F, as amended by PL 1999, c. 401,
Pt. GG, §2, is further amended to read:

 
F. If for any fiscal year the total amount appropriated for
the State's share of the total allocation is less than the
amount specified in the certified funding level for that
year, then all subsidizable costs except as noted in
subparagraphs (1) and, (2) and (3) are reduced by a
percentage of the original cost amounts. The reduction
percentage is the smallest percentage that results in a
state share of the total allocation that does not exceed the
amount appropriated for this purpose, except that the
reduction percentage that would ordinarily be used for
operating and program costs must be reduced for the purpose
of computing state subsidy for transportation operating
costs as defined in subsection 29. Until fiscal year 2000-
01, the reduction percentage ordinarily used for
transportation operating costs must be reduced by the amount
necessary to provide additional state subsidy equal to
$4,500,000 for this category of costs. The statewide
adjustment factor under section 15654, subsection 1,
paragraph B must be adjusted by an amount sufficient to
provide this additional funding for program costs.
Beginning in fiscal year 1999-00, the reduction percentage
must be phased out over 4 years. In fiscal year 1999-00,
the reduction percentage for program costs other than
transportation operating costs must be 15.88%. It is the
intent of the Legislature that the reduction percentage for
all program costs and the insured value factor be lowered to
9.97% in fiscal year 2000-01, to 4.98% in fiscal year 2001-
02 and to 0% in fiscal year 2002-03. Beginning in fiscal
year 2000-01, if the appropriation and any increase in the
mill rate determined by the Legislature to be needed under
section 15653 are not sufficient to achieve both the
targeted reduction percentage and the targeted per pupil
guarantee, as defined in section 15653, then the per pupil
guarantee must advance toward the targeted per pupil
guarantee in the same proportion as the reduction
percentage, as defined in this section, is lowered toward
the targeted reduction percentage. The following
subsidizable costs may not be reduced:

 
(1) Principal and interest on approved school
construction costs; and

 
(2) Approved lease costs.; and


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