129th MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 1050		LR 2072(05)
	An Act To Require Education about the Holocaust
	Fiscal Note for House Amendment " " to Committee Amendment "A"
	Sponsor: Rep. Talbot Ross of Portland
	Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Fiscal Note
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded
State Mandates
	Required Activity				Unit Affected	Local Cost
	Requires African-American studies, with an emphasis on Maine African-American history and culture, to be taught in schools.				School	Moderate 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.
Fiscal Detail and Notes
	Additional costs to the Department of Education to implement the requirements of this legislation can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources.