124th MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 189		LR 662(01)
	An Act To Exempt School Union No. 60 from the Laws Requiring School Administrative Unit Consolidation
	Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement for Original Bill
	Sponsor: Rep. Johnson of Greenville
	Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
	Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement
No State fiscal impact
Fiscal Detail and Notes
	Requiring the Commissioner of Education to consider School Union No. 60 as geographically isolated and exempting it from the requirement to form a regional school unit and the penalty provisions associated with not conforming to the law will not impact the total state and local cost of funding K-12 public education or the State's share of that cost.  However, it will impact the distribution of State subsidy among school administrative units with School Union No. 60 receiving approximately $136,272 more State subsidy than it would have received had it been subject to the penalty provisions and those conforming school administrative units receiving approximately $136,272 less.  The impact to specific individual school administrative units can not be determined at this time.