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LD512 • 2025

An Act to Provide Educational Opportunities for Students in Secondary Schools with 200 or Fewer Students

An Act to Provide Educational Opportunities for Students in Secondary Schools with 200 or Fewer Students

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Sponsor
Senator Stacey Guerin
Last action
2025-05-07
Official status
Reports READ On motion by Senator RAFFERTY of York The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED PREVAILED Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 136 Yeas 22 - Nays 11 - Excused 2 - Absent 0 Ordered sent down forthwith for concurrence
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An Act to Provide Educational Opportunities for Students in Secondary Schools with 200 or Fewer Students

An Act to Provide Educational Opportunities for Students in Secondary Schools with 200 or Fewer Students Sponsor: Senator Stacey Guerin Reference committee: Education and Cultural Affairs Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Provide Educational Opportunities for Students in Secondary Schools with 200 or Fewer Students Sponsor: Senator Stacey Guerin Reference committee: Education and Cultural Affairs Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

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Amendments

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Filed

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR1220(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR1220(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 512 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • S- ) 3EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS 4 Reproduced and distributed under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate.
  • 5STATE OF MAINE 6SENATE 7132ND LEGISLATURE 8FIRST SPECIAL SESSION 9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT “ ” to S.P.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-07 House

    Reports READ . On motion of Representative MURPHY of Scarborough, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED . ROLL CALL NO. 115 (Yeas 106 - Nays 32 - Absent 12 - Excused 0 - Restricted - 1) In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. Placed in the Legislative Files. ( DEAD )

  2. 2025-05-06 Senate

    Reports READ On motion by Senator RAFFERTY of York The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED PREVAILED Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 136 Yeas 22 - Nays 11 - Excused 2 - Absent 0 Ordered sent down forthwith for concurrence

  3. 2025-05-02 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

  4. 2025-03-25 Committee

    Work Session Held

  5. 2025-03-25 Committee

    Voted; Divided Report

  6. 2025-02-07 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Provide Educational Opportunities for Students in Secondary Schools with 200 or Fewer Students
Sponsor:
Senator Stacey Guerin
Reference committee:
Education and Cultural Affairs
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 512
S.P. 230 In Senate, February 11, 2025
An Act to Provide Educational Opportunities for Students in
Secondary Schools with 200 or Fewer Students
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on February 7, 2025. Referred to the Committee
on Education and Cultural Affairs pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator GUERIN of Penobscot.
Cosponsored by Representative BAGSHAW of Windham and
Representatives: HAGGAN of Hampden, LYMAN of Livermore Falls.

Page 1 - 132LR1220(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §5204, sub-§7 is enacted to read:
37. Secondary schools with 200 or fewer students. Notwithstanding any provision of
4 this section to the contrary, secondary students whose parents reside in a school
5 administrative unit with a secondary school with a total April 1st resident student count of
6 200 or fewer may enroll in another school administrative unit's secondary school in
7 accordance with this subsection.
8 A. The student's parents must notify the superintendent of the school administrative
9 unit where the student's parents reside of the intent to enroll in another secondary
10 school by April 1st.
11 B. The student's parents must provide the resident school administrative unit with an
12 acceptance letter from the receiving school by May 1st.
13 C. The receiving school administrative unit shall invoice the resident school
14 administrative unit on a quarterly basis for payment at the per-pupil rate, which may
15 not exceed the state maximum allowable tuition rate.
16SUMMARY
17 This bill provides that a secondary student whose parents reside in a school
18 administrative unit with a secondary school with a total resident student count of 200 or
19 fewer may enroll in another school administrative unit's secondary school upon acceptance
20 from that school. The student's parents must notify the resident school of the intent to
21 enroll in another school by April 1st and provide the resident school administrative unit
22 with an acceptance letter from the receiving school by May 1st. The receiving school
23 administrative unit must invoice the resident school administrative unit for payment at the
24 per-pupil rate, which may not exceed the state maximum allowable tuition rate.
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