Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §1002, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 1981, c. 693, §§5 and 8, is amended to read:

2. Employment by school administrative unit, school union, academy. A Except as provided in this subsection, a member of a school board or spouse of a member may not be employed as a full- time employee in a public school within the jurisdiction of the school board to which the member is elected or contract high school or academy located within a supervisory union in which the member is a representative on the union committee. The spouse of a school board member may be employed as a substitute teacher or a coach of extracurricular activities and may work as a volunteer in a public school within the jurisdiction of the school board or union committee on which that person's spouse serves.__A school board member must be recused during salary or other personnel deliberations directly affecting the spouse of the school board member.

SUMMARY

This bill amends the conflict of interest law for school board members to permit the spouse of a board member to be employed as a substitute teacher or extracurricular activity coach or to work as a volunteer in a school within the jurisdiction of the school board on which that person's spouse serves.