129th MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 470		LR 253(01)
	An Act To Provide Traffic Safety Education in Schools
	Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement for Original Bill
	Sponsor: Rep. Larsen-Daughtry of Brunswick
	Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
	Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded
State Mandates
	Required Activity				Unit Affected	Local Cost
	Requires school administrative units to provide a minimum of one hour of age-appropriate traffic safety education to students in grades 2 to12 annually.				School	Significant statewide
	The required local activities in this bill may represent a state mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine. If the bill does require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue, the state mandate provisions of the Constitution of Maine require either: (1) General Fund appropriations be provided to fund at least 90% of any additional necessitated local costs of the mandate; or (2) a Mandate Preamble be added to the bill and two-thirds of the members of each House vote to exempt the mandate from the funding requirement. If the bill does represent a state mandate and neither one of these actions occurs, the local units of government will not be required to implement the mandated activities.