132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
LD 11 LR 55(01)
An Act Regarding Temperature Standards for School Buildings
Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement for Original Bill
Sponsor: Sen. Bennett of Oxford
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 boards to adopt and implement a written policy establishing minimum and maximum temperature standards for school buildings and post the policy on the school administrative unit's publicly accessible website. School Insignificant 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.