Danger! Legislature at Work!

Susan Cover’s entry  Want to see what your legislator is up to? at On Maine Politics(KJ) helpfully points us to this page at the Legislature; at the top there’s a listing of all bills (pdf – 141 pages, Excel – 4890 lines) proposed by the present legislature.

At this point, most of them are just titles, because the revisor’s office is busy putting them into bill form. So far, 275 bills have been printed out of the 1,535 requests submitted.

You’ll want to see the ones concerning education.  In the pdf see pages 71-79;  in the Excel spreadsheet, see lines 2291-2575.  In all there are 141 requests affecting education.

Here are those listed under “Consolidation” that bear on K-12 education:

ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS

182

ROSEN R

An Act Regarding the Reorganization of Regional School Units and Allowing a Municipality To Opt Out of an Existing School Structure

190

MACDONALD

An Act To Amend the Definitions Regarding Isolated Rural Communities in the Laws Governing the Consolidation of School Units

230

SCHATZ

An Act To Provide an Administrative Structure for a School Administrative Unit That Does Not Join a Regional School Unit or an Alternative Organizational Structure

231

SCHATZ

An Act To Allow an Alternative Organizational Structure To Act as a Fiscal Agent for Each Member or Municipality in That Alternative Organizational Structure

232

SCHATZ

An Act To Require the Department of Education To Provide an Accounting of School Subsidy Based on Individual Members in a Regional School Unit or Alternative Organizational Structure

233

SCHATZ

An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Consolidation of School Administrative Units To Delay All Penalties for 2 Years

251

BRYANT B

An Act Regarding School Consolidation

283

MILLS P

An Act To Exempt School Administration District 12 from the Laws Requiring School Administration Consolidation

474

MCFADDEN

An Act To Establish a Moratorium on School Administrative Regionalization

662

JOHNSON

An Act To Exempt School Union No. 60 from the Laws Requiring School Administrative Unit Consolidation

764

FITTS

An Act To Provide Additional Time to Certain School Administrative Units To Comply with School Administrative Unit Reorganization Laws

833

CLARK H

An Act To Authorize the Commissioner of Education To Issue Separate Subsidy Checks to Each Municipality in an Alternative Organizational Structure

843

CLARK H

An Act To Eliminate the Opt-out Penalty for Consolidation of Schools

869

WEAVER

An Act To Allow School Budget Validation Referendum Votes To Be Held on a Saturday

965

BOWMAN

An Act To Authorize Alternative Plans To Be Submitted by School Administrative Units with No Contiguous School Reorganization Partner

996

TRAHAN

An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Brookings Institution Regarding Education

1011

CLARK H

An Act To Amend the Laws Governing School Funding Penalties

1059

FINCH

An Act To Improve the Laws Governing the Consolidation of School Administrative Units

1065

DAMON

An Act To Amend the Laws Governing School Consolidation To Eliminate Penalties, Establish Incentives and Allow Alternative Voting Procedures

1108

SUTHERLAND

An Act To Encourage Cooperation Among Maine School Districts

1113

SUTHERLAND

An Act To Allow Certain School Units To Reorganize without Meeting Minimum Student Population Requirements without Being Penalized

1185

COURTNEY

An Act To Permit Efficient School Districts To Opt Out of Consolidation

1202

MCFADDEN

An Act To Require that Separate Checks Are Issued to Each Town in an Education Alternative Organizational Structure

1438

CAIN

An Act To Provide Collective Bargaining Protection for Alternative Organization Structure Employees

1471

TRINWARD

An Act To Improve Transparency in the Determination of Funding for Schools

1606

ROBINSON

An Act To Waive Certain Tuition Fee Requirements for Regional School Units

1682

RAYE

An Act To Improve Alternative Organizational Structure by Requiring the Department of Education To Provide Certain Information

1734

ADAMS

An Act To Amend the School Consolidation Laws as They Pertain to Meetings To Accept Budgets

COST-SHARING

660

JOHNSON

An Act To Require the Department of Education To Provide Certain Information to Individual Communities of Educational Units

786

EBERLE

An Act To Exempt Certain Municipalities from the Requirement To Hold Referenda on School Budgets

1527

GOODALL

An Act To Improve the Efficiency of the Regional School Unit Budgeting Process

MUNICIPAL WITHDRAWAL

1385

RAYE

An Act To Allow a Municipality To Withdraw from a School Unit or from a Regional Planning Committee

PENALTIES

54

EDGECOMB

An Act To Eliminate Penalties for Nonconforming School Administrative Units

663

JOHNSON

An Act To Remove the Penalties for Failing To Comply with the School Administrative Unit Consolidation Requirements

REPEAL

23

EDGECOMB

An Act To Repeal the Laws Governing Consolidation of School Administrative Units

365

CROCKETT J

An Act To Repeal the Laws Pertaining to School Consolidation

657

JOHNSON

An Act To Repeal the School Administrative District Consolidation Requirements

712

TRAHAN

An Act To Repeal the Laws Requiring the Consolidation of School Administrative Units and Implement the Recommendations of the Brookings Institution

781

CELLI

An Act To Repeal the School Consolidation Law

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