132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 1588		LR 1176(02)
	An Act to Ensure Transparency in Student Transfer Requests
	Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment " "
	Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
	Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Fiscal Note
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded
State Mandates
	Required Activity				Unit Affected	Local Cost
	Requires school administrative units (SAUs) to report to the Department of Education the total number of transfer requests presented to the SAU over the past year, including requests to transfer to or from the SAU and the number of transfers accepted and denied by July 1st of each year.				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 publish the required information on its publicly accessible website can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources.