‘Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §3801, sub-§3, ¶B, as enacted by PL 2017, c. 284, Pt. VVVVV, §6, is amended to read:
(1) The approval process for the formation of a school management and leadership center;
(2) Any associate members, the process for including associate members and their roles in the school management and leadership center;
(3) The process to authorize the school management and leadership center to borrow funds for school construction purposes including bonds and notes;
(4) The process to approve the purchase or lease of buildings or land by the school management and leadership center;
(5) The process by which a school management and leadership center may establish, maintain and expend funds from a reserve fund or contingency fund;
(6) The process of hiring an executive director for the school management and leadership center; and
(7) A transition plan to move authorized programs and services from a member to the school management and leadership center . ; and
(8) The process for withdrawal of a single school administrative unit from the school management and leadership center.
An interlocal agreement must provide for the continuation of continuing contract rights under section 13201 for participating school administrative unit teachers who subsequently are employed by the school management and leadership center.
Sec. 3. 20-A MRSA §3802, sub-§§13 and 14, as enacted by PL 2017, c. 284, Pt. VVVVV, §6, are amended to read:
Sec. 4. 20-A MRSA §3808 is enacted to read:
§ 3808. Collective bargaining in school management and leadership centers
(1) In the initial establishment of such units, units must be structured primarily on the basis of the existing pattern of organization, maintaining the grouping of employee classifications into bargaining units that existed prior to the creation of the school management and leadership center and avoiding conflicts among different bargaining agents to the extent possible.
(2) In the event of a dispute regarding the classifications to be included within a school management and leadership center-wide bargaining unit, the current bargaining agent or agents or the school management and leadership center may petition the Maine Labor Relations Board to determine the appropriate unit in accordance with this section and Title 26, section 966, subsections 1 and 2.
(1) A petition for an election to determine the bargaining agent must be filed with the Maine Labor Relations Board by any of the current bargaining agents or the school management and leadership center.
(2) The petition must be filed not more than 90 days prior to the first August 31st occurring after either the 3rd anniversary date of the operational date of the school management and leadership center or the date on which positions are transferred from member school units to the school management and leadership center, whichever is later.
(3) The election ballot may contain only the names of the bargaining agents of bargaining units that will be merged into the school management and leadership center-wide bargaining unit and the choice of no representative, but no other choices. A showing of interest is not required from any such bargaining agent other than its current status as representative.
(4) The obligation to bargain with existing bargaining agents continues from the operational date of the school management and leadership center or the date on which positions are transferred from member school units to the school management and leadership center, whichever is later, until the determination of the bargaining agent of the school management and leadership center-wide bargaining unit under this section; but in no event may any collective bargaining agreement that is executed after the operational date extend beyond the first August 31st occurring after either the 3rd anniversary date of the operational date of the school management and leadership center or the date on which positions are transferred from member school units to the school management and leadership center, whichever is later.
(5) The Maine Labor Relations Board shall expedite to the extent practicable all petitions for determination of the bargaining agent in the school management and leadership center filed pursuant to this section.
(6) The bargaining units must be merged into a school management and leadership center-wide bargaining unit as of the date of certification of the results of the election by the Maine Labor Relations Board or the expiration of the collective bargaining agreements in the unit, whichever occurs later.
(7) Until the first August 31st occurring after either the 3rd anniversary date of the operational date of the school management and leadership center or the date on which positions are transferred from member school units to the school management and leadership center, whichever is later, existing bargaining agents shall continue to represent the bargaining units that they represented on the day prior to the operational date of the school management and leadership center. If necessary, each bargaining agent and the school management and leadership center must negotiate interim collective bargaining agreements to expire the first August 31st occurring after either the 3rd anniversary date of the operational date of the school management and leadership center or the date on which positions are transferred from member school units to the school management and leadership center, whichever is later.
(8) When there are 2 or more bargaining units in which there are employees who are represented either by the same bargaining agent or by separate local affiliates of the same state labor organization that will be merged into a school management and leadership center-wide bargaining unit with one or more other bargaining units pursuant to the election procedures described in this paragraph, the bargaining units that are represented either by the same bargaining agent or by separate local affiliates of the same state labor organization must merge as of the operational date. The procedures for merger of separate local affiliates of the same state labor organization described in paragraph D must be followed if applicable.