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:
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ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS
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182
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ROSEN R
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An Act Regarding the Reorganization of Regional School Units and Allowing a Municipality To Opt Out of an Existing School Structure
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190
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MACDONALD
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An Act To Amend the Definitions Regarding Isolated Rural Communities in the Laws Governing the Consolidation of School Units
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230
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SCHATZ
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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
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231
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SCHATZ
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An Act To Allow an Alternative Organizational Structure To Act as a Fiscal Agent for Each Member or Municipality in That Alternative Organizational Structure
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232
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SCHATZ
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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
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233
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SCHATZ
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An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Consolidation of School Administrative Units To Delay All Penalties for 2 Years
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251
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BRYANT B
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An Act Regarding School Consolidation
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283
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MILLS P
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An Act To Exempt School Administration District 12 from the Laws Requiring School Administration Consolidation
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474
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MCFADDEN
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An Act To Establish a Moratorium on School Administrative Regionalization
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662
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JOHNSON
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An Act To Exempt School Union No. 60 from the Laws Requiring School Administrative Unit Consolidation
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764
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FITTS
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An Act To Provide Additional Time to Certain School Administrative Units To Comply with School Administrative Unit Reorganization Laws
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833
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CLARK H
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An Act To Authorize the Commissioner of Education To Issue Separate Subsidy Checks to Each Municipality in an Alternative Organizational Structure
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CLARK H
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An Act To Eliminate the Opt-out Penalty for Consolidation of Schools
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869
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WEAVER
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An Act To Allow School Budget Validation Referendum Votes To Be Held on a Saturday
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965
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BOWMAN
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An Act To Authorize Alternative Plans To Be Submitted by School Administrative Units with No Contiguous School Reorganization Partner
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TRAHAN
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An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Brookings Institution Regarding Education
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CLARK H
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An Act To Amend the Laws Governing School Funding Penalties
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1059
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FINCH
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An Act To Improve the Laws Governing the Consolidation of School Administrative Units
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1065
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DAMON
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An Act To Amend the Laws Governing School Consolidation To Eliminate Penalties, Establish Incentives and Allow Alternative Voting Procedures
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1108
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SUTHERLAND
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An Act To Encourage Cooperation Among Maine School Districts
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1113
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SUTHERLAND
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An Act To Allow Certain School Units To Reorganize without Meeting Minimum Student Population Requirements without Being Penalized
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1185
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COURTNEY
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An Act To Permit Efficient School Districts To Opt Out of Consolidation
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1202
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MCFADDEN
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An Act To Require that Separate Checks Are Issued to Each Town in an Education Alternative Organizational Structure
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CAIN
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An Act To Provide Collective Bargaining Protection for Alternative Organization Structure Employees
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TRINWARD
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An Act To Improve Transparency in the Determination of Funding for Schools
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ROBINSON
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An Act To Waive Certain Tuition Fee Requirements for Regional School Units
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RAYE
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An Act To Improve Alternative Organizational Structure by Requiring the Department of Education To Provide Certain Information
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ADAMS
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An Act To Amend the School Consolidation Laws as They Pertain to Meetings To Accept Budgets
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COST-SHARING
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660
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JOHNSON
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An Act To Require the Department of Education To Provide Certain Information to Individual Communities of Educational Units
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EBERLE
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An Act To Exempt Certain Municipalities from the Requirement To Hold Referenda on School Budgets
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GOODALL
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An Act To Improve the Efficiency of the Regional School Unit Budgeting Process
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MUNICIPAL WITHDRAWAL
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1385
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RAYE
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An Act To Allow a Municipality To Withdraw from a School Unit or from a Regional Planning Committee
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PENALTIES
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EDGECOMB
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An Act To Eliminate Penalties for Nonconforming School Administrative Units
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JOHNSON
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An Act To Remove the Penalties for Failing To Comply with the School Administrative Unit Consolidation Requirements
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REPEAL
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EDGECOMB
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An Act To Repeal the Laws Governing Consolidation of School Administrative Units
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CROCKETT J
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An Act To Repeal the Laws Pertaining to School Consolidation
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657
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JOHNSON
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An Act To Repeal the School Administrative District Consolidation Requirements
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712
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TRAHAN
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An Act To Repeal the Laws Requiring the Consolidation of School Administrative Units and Implement the Recommendations of the Brookings Institution
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CELLI
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An Act To Repeal the School Consolidation Law
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