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127th MAINE LEGISLATURE |
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LD 1081 |
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LR 1348(01) |
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An Act To Change
the Individualized Education Program Notice Requirements |
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Preliminary
Fiscal Impact Statement for Original Bill |
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Sponsor: Rep. Warren of Hallowell |
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Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs |
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Fiscal Note Required: Yes |
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| Preliminary
Fiscal Impact Statement |
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Potential current biennium cost increase - Federal Expenditures
Fund
Potential current biennium cost increase - local school administrative
units |
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| Fiscal Detail
and Notes |
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Making it easier
for a parent to block a change proposed by a school administrative unit (SAU)
to a child's special education services and requiring SAU's to initiate a
more costly dispute resolution process may result in increased costs to the
Department of Education, who provides the dispute resolution services, and/or
local school administrative units due to a potential increase in the number
of higher cost mediation and/or hearing requests and a decrease in the number
of lower cost complaint investigations from what currently occurs. |
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Under current
law, a parent can only block a change in their child's special education
services by requesting a complaint investigation, mediation or a
hearing. According to the Department
of Education, the complaint investigation is the least expensive of the 3
options. However, federal law only
allows for parents to request a complaint investigation and is not an option
for local SAU's. The Department of
Education estimates that, had this provision been in place during fiscal year
2013-14, the additional cost would have been approximately $95,000. This estimate assumes an additional cost of
conducting a hearing versus a complaint investigation to be approximately
$5,000 per request and is based on 19 requests for complaint investigations
during that year. The impact to the
Department and local SAU's will depend on actual experience. |
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