Sec. 21. Early childhood and vocational education. To ensure greater equity of education opportunities and efficiency in the use of early childhood and vocational education resources, beginning no later than fiscal year 2007-08, early childhood program costs and vocational education program costs must be included in the essential programs and services operating cost calculations.

Sec. 22. Sharing of total costs in school administrative districts and community school districts whose cost sharing formulas were created by private and special law; Department of Education facilitation. To ensure that member municipalities of school administrative districts and community school districts whose cost sharing formulas were established by private and special law do not experience significant adverse impacts as a result of the cost sharing mechanism established pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15688, subsection 2, the Department of Education shall facilitate a review and analysis, school administrative unit by school administrative unit, of the implications of this proposed cost sharing mechanism on the member municipalities of these school administrative districts and community school districts. The Department of Education shall report the findings of this review, including any recommended legislation, to the First Regular Session of the 122nd Legislature by January 31, 2005.