129th MAINE LEGISLATURE
LD 908 LR 1854(01)
An Act To Require Schools To Submit Pest Management Activity Logs and Inspection Results to the Board of Pesticides Control for the Purpose of Providing Information to the Public
Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement for Original Bill
Sponsor: Rep. Larsen-Daughtry of Brunswick
Committee: Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Fiscal Note Required: Yes
             
Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded
State Mandates
Required Activity Unit Affected Local Cost
Requires local school administrative units to submit a pest management activity log to the Board of Pesticide Control by January 15th of each year for the previous calendar year.  Local school administrative units currently prepare a pest management activity log with the required data pursuant to rules established by the Board of Pesticide Control. School Insignificant statewide
The required local activities in this bill may represent a state mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine. If the bill does require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue, the state mandate provisions of the Constitution of Maine require either: (1) General Fund appropriations be provided to fund at least 90% of any additional necessitated local costs of the mandate; or (2) a Mandate Preamble be added to the bill and two-thirds of the members of each House vote to exempt the mandate from the funding requirement. If the bill does represent a state mandate and neither one of these actions occurs, the local units of government will not be required to implement the mandated activities.
Fiscal Detail and Notes
Any additional cost the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Board of Pesticides Control as a result of changes to rules related to their record keeping of pest management activity on school properties are anticipated to be minor and can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources.