Sec. AAAA-16. 20-A MRSA §15689-A, sub-§12 is enacted to read:

12.__National board certification salary supplement.__The commissioner may pay annual payments to public school teachers who have attained certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

Sec. AAAA-17. 20-A MRSA §15690, sub-§3, ķA, as amended by PL 2005, c. 12, Pt. WW, §6 and affected by §18, is further amended to read:

A. If the amount of the additional funds does not result in the unit's exceeding its maximum state and local spending target established pursuant to section 15671-A, subsection 4, an article in substantially the following form must be used when a school administrative unit is considering the appropriation of additional local funds:

(1) "Article ....: To see what sum the (municipality or district) will raise and to appropriate the sum of (Recommend $.....) in additional local funds for school purposes under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15690. (Recommend $......)"

(2) The following statement must accompany the article in subparagraph (1). "Explanation: The additional local funds are those locally raised funds over and above the school administrative unit's local contribution to the total cost of funding public education from kindergarten to grade 12 as described in the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act and local amounts raised for the annual debt service payment on previously approved non-state-funded school construction projects and the non-state-funded portion of school construction projects and minor capital projects debt service that will help achieve the (municipality's or district's) budget for educational programs."