132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 808		LR 1419(01)
	An Act to Require School Boards and Governing Bodies of Approved Private Schools to Implement Wearable Panic Alert Systems
	Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement for Original Bill
	Sponsor: Rep. Mastraccio of Sanford
	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 school board or governing body of an approved private school to 1) implement wearable panic alert systems capable of integrating with local public safety answering point infrastructure to transmit a 9-1-1 call and initiate a campuswide lockdown notification at each school building beginning with the 2026-2027 school year; 2) ensure that each staff person within a school building receives training on the protocol for and appropriate use of a wearable panic alert system device prior to the first day of each school year, and 3) ensure that all security data within a school building are accessible by a local law enforcement agency.				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.