LD 981, Page 3 - 122th Legislature, FIRST REGULAR Session

school board may make expenditures only in accordance with

allocations approved by the Legislature. Any balance of an

allocation or subdivision of an allocation made by the Legislature

for the school that at the time is not required for the purpose

named in the allocation or subdivision may be transferred prior to

the closing of the books for the fiscal year to any other

allocation or subdivision of any allocation made by the Legislature

for the use of the school for the same fiscal year. The transfer

is subject to review by the joint standing committee of the

Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial

affairs. Financial statements describing the transfer must be

submitted by the school board to the Office of Fiscal and Program

Review 30 days before the transfer is implemented. In case of

extraordinary emergency transfers, the 30-day prior submission

requirement may be waived by vote of the committee. These

financial statements must include information specifying the

accounts that are affected, the amounts to be transferred, a

description of the transfer and a detailed explanation of the

reason the transfer is needed. The school board shall also provide

an annual justification for the finances and operations of the

programs under the jurisdiction of the school to the joint standing

committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over

appropriations and financial affairs and the joint standing

committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education

matters. The justification for the finances and operations of the

school must be presented as a line-item budget for each of the

programs under its jurisdiction.

Sec. 6. 20-A MRSA §7407, sub-§17, as amended by PL 1999, c. 775, §11,
is further amended to read:

17. School programs. The school board may create, maintain
and expand center school programs and programs for children that
may be served by the school at any satellite school. For the
2000-01 and 2001-02 school years only, the residential program at
the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf located on Mackworth
Island is limited to enrolling up to 20 students who are deaf or
hard-of-hearing. The superintendent may request that the
commissioner approve a waiver of the residential enrollment limit
and establish additional placements for students in the
residential program at the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf
located on Mackworth Island; the commissioner may approve those
placements on a case-by-case basis and only if the individual
education plan of the prospective student who is deaf or hard-of-
hearing requires placement in a residential program. Beginning
with the 2002-03 school year, the school board shall establish a
satellite school program that offers an array of educational
programs that provide students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing
with geographically convenient access to

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