124th MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 174		LR 251(01)
	An Act Regarding School Consolidation
	Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement for Original Bill
	Sponsor: Sen. Bryant of Oxford
	Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
	Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement
No State fiscal impact
Fiscal Detail and Notes
	This legislation will not impact the total state and local cost of funding K-12 public education or the State's share of that cost, however, it may impact the distribution of State subsidy among school administrative units. Allowing school administrative units (SAU's) to include students who reside in the unorganized territories and attend schools within those SAU's in the total number of students served when submitting a reorganization plan may result in more plans being approved by the Commissioner of Education than would have been had this provision not been in place.  With the approval of more reorganization plans, fewer school administrative units will be subject to the penalty provisions, including a reduction in state subsidy.  This will result  in less state subsidy being distributed to those conforming school administrative units.  The impact to individual school administrative units can not be determined at this time.