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LD854 • 2025

An Act to Provide Equitable Capital Construction Funding for Maine's Charter Schools

An Act to Provide Equitable Capital Construction Funding for Maine's Charter Schools

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Sponsor
Representative Sheila Lyman
Last action
2025-05-13
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act to Provide Equitable Capital Construction Funding for Maine's Charter Schools

An Act to Provide Equitable Capital Construction Funding for Maine's Charter Schools Sponsor: Representative Sheila Lyman Reference committee: Education and Cultural Affairs Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Provide Equitable Capital Construction Funding for Maine's Charter Schools Sponsor: Representative Sheila Lyman Reference committee: Education and Cultural Affairs Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-13 Senate

    Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  2. 2025-05-08 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP

  3. 2025-05-06 Committee

    Work Session Held

  4. 2025-05-06 Committee

    Voted; ONTP

  5. 2025-03-21 House

    Carried over, in the same posture, to the next special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 519.

  6. 2025-03-04 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Provide Equitable Capital Construction Funding for Maine's Charter Schools
Sponsor:
Representative Sheila Lyman
Reference committee:
Education and Cultural Affairs
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 854
H.P. 540 House of Representatives, March 4, 2025
An Act to Provide Equitable Capital Construction Funding for
Maine's Charter Schools
Reference to the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs suggested and ordered
printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative LYMAN of Livermore Falls.

Page 1 - 132LR1517(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §15901, sub-§6, as corrected by RR 1991, c. 2, §71 and
3 amended by PL 2003, c. 545, §5, is further amended to read:
46. School administrative unit. "School administrative unit" means a school
5 administrative unit as defined by section 1, subsection 26, a public charter school approved
6 under chapter 112 and a career and technical education region as defined by section
78301‑A, subsection 6, except that in section 15907, the reference to "unit" or "school
8 administrative unit" means a unit within a career and technical education region.
9SUMMARY
10 This bill specifies that any public charter school approved under the Maine Revised
11 Statutes, Title 20-A, chapter 112 is eligible for school construction funding.
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