131st MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 1898		LR 2496(01)
	An Act to Ensure That a Teacher Who Participates in the Prevention of Dangerous Behavior Is Protected Under a Collective Bargaining Agreement
	Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement for Original Bill
	Sponsor: Pres. Jackson of Aroostook
	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 a dispute involving a public school employee covered by a collective bargaining agreement arising out of an incident of dangerous behavior by a student be subject to the dispute resolution process of the collective bargaining agreement.  This requirement may result in increased costs to local school administrative units for legal and other services.				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