129th MAINE LEGISLATURE
		LD 1857		LR 2673(01)
	An Act To Protect Teachers from Punitive or Retaliatory Transfers
	Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement for Original Bill
	Sponsor: Rep. McCrea of Fort Fairfield
	Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
	Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded
State Mandates
	Required Activity				Unit Affected	Local Cost
	Requires local school boards to hold a hearing within 15 days of receiving a request from a teacher who has been involuntarily transferred to another location or teaching assignment and who believes the involuntary transfer is for punitive or retaliatory reasons. This may be a state mandate whenever an additional board meeting must be held because no regularly scheduled board meeting will occur within the 15 day time period.				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.