Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the following:

SUMMARY

This amendment replaces the bill, which is a concept draft. This amendment provides that if a school administrative unit seeks to transfer a teacher to a teaching assignment and that transfer is involuntary, it must do so in accordance with a written policy adopted by the school administrative unit that addresses involuntary transfers. If a school administrative unit adopts a written policy on involuntary transfers, the policy must provide for notification to the teacher of the involuntary transfer. This amendment provides that a teacher who receives notice of an involuntary transfer may request, within 15 days of the notice, a hearing with the school board, which must take place within 30 days of the request.

The fiscal note on the amendment identifies certain requirements in this amendment as a potential state mandate. In order to be a mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, a provision must require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue. The committee members voting for this report find that the provisions identified as a potential mandate do not require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue.

The requirement in the amendment that a school administrative unit adopt a written policy on involuntary transfers if the school administrative unit decides to involuntarily transfer a teacher does not require an expansion or modification of activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue since there is no requirement that a school administrative unit involuntarily transfer a teacher.