Howe & Company's Legislative Report
Maine Association of Independent Schools
1/19/2001
LD 1: An Act to Phase Out Community Income Considerations from the School Funding Formula
| Description: | This bill phases out over a 3-year period the consideration of local median household income and increases by an equal percentage the reliance on property values in determining the local contribution portion of the school funding formula. |
| Position: | | Status: | Referred to Committee |
| Sponsor: | Sen. Nutting | Cosponsors: | Rep. Laverdiere, Sen. Cathcart, et. al |
| Committee: | E&CA | Hearing: | |
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LD 3: An Act to Establish Guidelines for High School Sports.
| Description: | This requires all school administrative units to allow student athletes and coaches to participate in sports-related activities at any time throughout the year. It also prohibits school administrative units from requiring student athletes to participate in sports outside the regular season in order to participate during the regular season |
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| Sponsor: | Sen. Bennett | Cosponsors: | |
| Committee: | E&CA | Hearing: | |
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LD 12: An Act to Provide a Tax Credit for Certain Educational Materials Used by Homeschoolers.
| Description: | This allows a tax credit for a taxpayer of home-schooled children for certain expenses incurred in the purchase of educational material. The credit is limited to $400 per child or $1,000 per family. |
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| Sponsor: | Rep. Clough | Cosponsors: | Sen. Shorey, Rep. Glynn, et al |
| Committee: | Tax | Hearing: | |
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LD 22: Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 125.17D: Regulations Governing Timeout Rooms, Therapeutic Restraints and Aversives in Public Schools and Approved Private Schools, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education.
| Description: | Title is self-explanatory. |
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| Sponsor: | Rep. Richard for DOE | Cosponsors: | |
| Committee: | E&CA | Hearing: | |
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LD 39: An Act to Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue in the Amount of $9,000,000 to Purchase School Buses for Public Schools.
| Description: | The funds provided by this bond issue ($9,000,000) will be used to purchase school buses for public schools. Proceeds of the bond issue will be dispersed over a 3-year period. It also required DOE to adopt rules to determine the criteria for bus replacement. The minimum would be at least 10 years old and have mileage in excess of 150,000 miles. |
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| Sponsor: | Sen. McAlevey | Cosponsors: | Rep. Tarazewich, Sen. Martin, et al |
| Committee: | A&FA | Hearing: | |
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LD 93: An Act to Implement the Recommendations that Relate to Juvenile and Criminal Law of the Joint Study Committee to Study Bomb Threats in Maine Schools.
| Description: | This would have the court, in scheduling cases, give priority to cases involving making a bomb threat to a school. |
| Position: | | Status: | |
| Sponsor: | Reported by Rep. McDonough for Committee | Cosponsors: | |
| Committee: | CJ | Hearing: | 01/30/01, 1:30 pm, Rm 211, SOB |
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LD 94: An Act to Implement the Minority Recommendations Relating to Criminal and Juvenile Law of the Joint Study Committee to Study Bomb Threats in Maine Schools. (Emergency)
| Description: | This allows the court to suspend, revoke or deny issuance of driver's licenses and permits and occupational and recreational licenses to persons up to and including 19 years of age who are adjudicated or convicted of crimes involving making a bomb threat to a school. |
| Position: | | Status: | |
| Sponsor: | Reported by Rep. Bull for the Committee | Cosponsors: | |
| Committee: | CJ | Hearing: | 01/30/01, 1:30 pm, Rm 211, SOB |
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LD 124: An Act to Allow for a Prorated Application of Property Tax Exemptions for Charitable and Benevolent Institutions.
| Description: | The Supreme Court of Maine ruled in City of Lewiston v. Marcotte Congregate Housing, Inc. that charitable and benevolent institutions must use the entirety of a parcel of land for their own purposes in order to obtain a property tax exemption. This revises the law to conform to what had been the practice in many jurisdictions prior to the Marcotte decision which is to allow the property tax exemption on a prorated basis for those portions of property used for the purposes of a charitable or benevolent institution or a literary or scientific institution. |
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| Sponsor: | Rep. Mayo | Cosponsors: | Sen. Lemont, Rep. Bouffard, et al |
| Committee: | Tax | Hearing: | 02/01/01, 1 pm, Rm 127, SH |
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LD 146: An Act to Promote High Technology Training Programs in Maine Schools.
| Description: | This provides a General Fund appropriation to the DOE of $100,000 to develop a grant program for schools with innovative plans to bring technology into the school. |
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| Sponsor: | Rep. Mendros | Cosponsors: | Rep. Dudley, Rep. McKenney, et al |
| Committee: | A&FA | Hearing: | |
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LD 152: An Act to Require the State to Pay Medicare Costs for Retired Employees, Retired Teachers and Retirees in Participating Local Districts.
| Description: | This requires the State to pay Medicare Part B premiums for state retirees, retired teachers and retirees from participating local districts. |
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| Sponsor: | Rep. Fuller | Cosponsors: | Rep. Matthews, Sen. Daggett, et al |
| Committee: | Lab | Hearing: | |
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