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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. Transition adjustments. The following transition adjustments
apply to eligible school administrative districts and community
school districts.

 
1. For fiscal year 2005-06, eligible school administrative
districts and community school districts must receive transition
adjustments to the member municipalities' local contributions and
the districts' state contributions.

 
A. A school administrative district or community school
district is eligible for these adjustments if it meets the
following eligibility criteria.

 
(1) One or more member municipalities, but not all the
district's member municipalities, have a local
contribution that is below the 8.26 mill expectation.

 
(2) A member municipality's local contribution
pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A,
section 15688 is 5% greater than that municipality's
local share would have been under its existing local
cost-sharing formula.

 
B. A school administrative district or community school
district that meets the eligibility criteria in paragraph A
must receive a transition adjustment to the state
contribution equal to the following.

 
(1) For each municipality in the district that meets
the eligibility criteria in paragraph A, the sum of
each municipality's special education allocation as
determined in paragraph D multiplied by 0.25.

 
C. A school administrative district or community school
district that meets the eligibility criteria in paragraph A
must have its local contribution adjusted as follows.

 
(1) For each municipality in the district that meets
the eligibility criteria in paragraph A, the
municipality's local contribution as determined
pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15688 must be reduced
by an amount equal to the municipality's special
education allocation as determined in paragraph D
multiplied by 0.25.

 
D. Each member municipality's special education allocation is
the special education allocation pursuant to Title 20-A,


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