‘An Act To Require Schools To Submit Pest Management Activity Logs and Inspection Results to the Board of Pesticides Control for the Purposes of Providing Information to the Public’
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Session - 128th Maine Legislature C "A", Filing Number H-374, Sponsored by
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LR 163 Item 2 |
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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Require Schools To Submit Pest Management Activity Logs and Inspection Results to the Board of Pesticides Control for the Purposes of Providing Information to the Public’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §1471-M, sub-§8 is enacted to read:
The board shall post on its publicly accessible website all information provided by each school under this subsection. The board shall also post and maintain on its publicly accessible website a current list of all board inspections of pesticide use by each school and the results of those inspections.
For purposes of this subsection, "school" means any public or private school, as defined by the department by rule.’
summary
This amendment is the minority report of the committee and replaces the bill. The amendment establishes in law certain requirements of the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Board of Pesticides Control related to pest management on school property, including the maintenance of records related to the application of pesticides. It requires this information to be provided annually to the board and requires the board to post that information on its publicly accessible website. It also requires that the board post on its publicly accessible website a list of all board inspections of a school's use of pesticides and the results of those inspections.
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 finds 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 submit a copy of its pest management activity log, which is already required by rule to be maintained, does not require an expansion or modification of activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue. The committee does not feel that the act of submitting once per year a pest management activity log that is already required to be maintained constitutes additional expenditures from local revenue.