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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
SECOND REGULAR SESSION-2026
Legislative Document No. 2014
H.P. 1344 House of Representatives, December 5, 2025
An Act to Update the Funding Method for Career and Technical
Education Programs
Submitted by the Department of Education pursuant to Joint Rule 203.
Received by the Clerk of the House on December 3, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Education and Cultural Affairs pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to
Joint Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative MURPHY of Scarborough.
Page 1 - 132LR2616(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §15688-A, sub-§1, ¶F, as enacted by PL 2017, c. 420, §8, is
3 amended to read:
4 F. Equipment provided pursuant to subsection 6; and
5Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §15688-A, sub-§1, ¶G, as enacted by PL 2017, c. 420, §8, is
6 amended to read:
7 G. Student Until the 2027-2028 school year, student enrollment, which is determined
8 as follows.
9 (1) For each program or plan approved pursuant to chapter 313 that has 3 years of
10 attending student counts on October 1st, student enrollment is a 3-year average of
11 the attending student counts on October 1st for that program or plan.
12 (2) For each program or plan approved pursuant to chapter 313 that is not governed
13 by subparagraph (1), including a new program or plan approved pursuant to chapter
14 313, student enrollment must be based on the estimated attending student count
15 submitted in accordance with the application for the program or plan approval.
16 This estimated attending student count must be used until the program or plan has
17 3 consecutive years of actual attending student counts on October 1st. ; and
18Sec. 3. 20-A MRSA §15688-A, sub-§1, ¶G-1 is enacted to read:
19 G-1. Beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, student enrollment, which is
20 determined as follows.
21 (1) For each program or plan approved pursuant to chapter 313 that has 2 years of
22 attending student counts on October 1st, student enrollment is a 2-year average of
23 the attending student counts on October 1st for that program or plan.
24 (2) For each program or plan approved pursuant to chapter 313 that is not governed
25 by subparagraph (1), including a new program or plan approved pursuant to chapter
26 313, student enrollment must be based on the estimated attending student count
27 submitted in accordance with the application for the program or plan approval.
28 This estimated attending student count must be used until the program or plan has
29 2 years of actual attending student counts on October 1st.
30SUMMARY
31 This bill updates the method for determining student enrollment for the purposes of
32 calculating funding for certain career and technical education programs from using a 3-
33 year average of the attending student counts to a 2-year average beginning with the 2027-
34 2028 school year.
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