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130th MAINE LEGISLATURE |
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LD 880 |
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LR 1015(02) |
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An Act To Protect
School Employees from Workplace Bullying |
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Fiscal Note for
Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment " " |
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Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs |
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Fiscal Note Required: Yes |
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Fiscal Note |
State Mandate - Funded |
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FY 2021-22 |
FY 2022-23 |
Projections FY 2023-24 |
Projections FY 2024-25 |
Net Cost
(Savings) |
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General Fund |
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$26,308 |
$0 |
$0 |
$0 |
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Appropriations/Allocations |
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General Fund |
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$26,308 |
$0 |
$0 |
$0 |
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State Mandates |
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Required Activity |
Unit Affected |
Local Cost |
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Requires school
boards to adopt and implement a policy to address the negative impact of
bullying and cyberbullying of school employees by administrators, school
employees, parents, students or any other individual associated with the
public school. The policy must include
the following: |
School |
$29,231 |
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~ provision
identifying the responsibility of all school employees to comply with the
policy; |
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~ provision
outlining the responsibility of a superintendent to implement and enforce the
policy; |
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~ procedure for
school staff members to report incidents of bullying or cyberbullying; and |
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~ procedure for
promptly investigating and responding to incidents of bullying or
cyberbullying, including written documentation of reported incidents. |
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The bill also
makes workplace bullying policy subject to the dispute resolution process if
an affected employee is covered by a collective bargaining unit. |
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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. |
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Fiscal Detail
and Notes |
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This bill
includes a one-time General Fund appropriation of $26,308 in fiscal year
2021-22 to a newly created State Mandate Reimbursement - Workplace Bullying
program within the Department of Education to reimburse local school
administrative units for 90% of the cost of adopting and implementing a
policy to address the effects of bullying on school employees. |
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