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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Validate the Method of Education Cost Sharing in Maine School Administrative District 71’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. Method of cost sharing; Maine School Administrative District 71. Notwithstanding the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 15688 or any other provision of law to the contrary, for the purpose of local cost sharing, the provisions of Title 20-A, section 15688, subsection 3-A do not apply to municipalities that are members of Maine School Administrative District 71. For each municipality that is a member of Maine School Administrative District 71, for fiscal year 2008-09 and subsequent fiscal years, 70% of the local contribution for each municipality must be based on property fiscal capacity as defined in Title 20-A, section 15672, subsection 23, and 30% must be based on pupil counts pursuant to Title 20-A, section 15674, subsection 1, paragraph C.’
 
SUMMARY
The bill provided that certain provisions of law governing cost sharing do not apply to members of the school administrative districts whose cost-sharing formulas were validated pursuant to certain private and special laws. This amendment instead provides that those provisions of law governing cost sharing do not apply to members of Maine School Administrative District 71 and specifies the cost-sharing formula to be used by members of Maine School Administrative District 71.