Maine 2023 2023-2024 Regular Session

Maine House Bill LD1643 Introduced / Fiscal Note

Filed 05/30/2023

                    Approved: 05/30/23
LD 1643	LR 1424(01)
State Mandates
Unit Affected Local Cost
School Significant 
statewide
131st MAINE LEGISLATURE
An Act Regarding Instructional Materials, Surveys, Analyses, Evaluations and Events at Public 
Schools
Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement for Original Bill
Sponsor: Rep. Sampson of Alfred
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
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 Note Required: Yes
Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded
Required Activity
Requires school administrative units to: 1) make all instructional materials available 
for inspection by the parents or guardians of the children enrolled in a school of the 
unit; 2) adopt policies concerning student privacy, parental access to information 
and administration of certain physical examiniations to minors and to notify parents 
and guardians of the adoption of the policies or substantive change to the policies; 
and 3) notify parents or guardians of certain activities that are scheduled to take 
place during the school year.
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