123rd MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 484		LR 1291(02)
	An Act To Adjust the School Funding Formula with Regard to Unorganized Territories
	Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment "   "
	Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
	Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Fiscal Note
			2007-08	2008-09	Projections 2009-10	Projections 2010-11
Net Cost (Savings)
	General Fund		$50,000	$0	$0	$0
Appropriations/Allocations
	General Fund		$773,953	$760,150	$798,158	$838,066
Revenue
	Other Special Revenue Funds		$723,953	$760,150	$798,158	$838,066
Transfers
	General Fund		$723,953	$760,150	$798,158	$838,066
	Other Special Revenue Funds		($723,953)	($760,150)	($798,158)	($838,066)
Fiscal Detail and Notes
	This bill has a total General Fund cost of $50,000 in fiscal year 2007-08.  The bill includes General Fund appropriations totaling $773,953 in fiscal year 2007-08 and $760,150 in fiscal year 2008-09 for the cost associated with increasing the maximum allowable tuition rates authorized to be paid to receiving school administrative units on behalf of tuition students from the unorganized territories.
	This bill includes ongoing General Fund appropriations of $723,953 in fiscal year 2007-08 and $760,150 in fiscal year 2008-09 for the Education in the Unorganized Territory program within the Department of Education to fund the increased tuition costs.  The bill also includes a one-time General Fund appropriation of $50,000 in fiscal year 2007-08 to the Unorganized Territory Section, Property Tax Division within the Bureau of Revenue Services, Department of Administrative and Financial Services for the cost associated with modifying the assessing and billing system software in order to assess and collect the specific tuition costs in each of the townships that have one or more Unorganized Territory tuition students.
	The additional revenue to the Unorganized Territory Educational and Services Fund within the Department of Audit to be collected from the townships in the unorganized territory that have one or more tuition students is expected to be $723,953 in fiscal year 2007-08 and $760,150 in fiscal year 2008-09.  This additional revenue will be transferred to the General Fund to reimburse it for the additional tuition costs.