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| | | An Act To Ensure Timely Responses to Requests for School |
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| | | Administrative District Reapportionments |
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| | | Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units | | of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate | | additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide | | funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the | | Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the | | members elected to each House have determined it necessary to | | enact this measure. |
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| | | Emergency preamble. Whereas, Acts of the Legislature do not become | | effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as | | emergencies; and |
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| | | Whereas, this legislation needs to take effect before the | | expiration of the 90-day period in order to take advantage of its | | provisions, which require the Commissioner of Education to make | | more timely determinations regarding the reapportionment of | | school administrative districts; and |
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| | | Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create | | an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and | | require the following legislation as immediately necessary for | | the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, | | therefore, |
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| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §1255, sub-§§1 and 3, as amended by PL 1987, c. 395, | | Pt. A, §54, are further amended to read: |
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