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129th MAINE LEGISLATURE |
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LD 1965 |
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LR 2777(02) |
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An Act To Set a
Minimum Wage for School Support Staff |
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Fiscal Note for
Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment " " |
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Committee: Labor and Housing |
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Fiscal Note Required: Yes |
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| Fiscal Note |
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Future biennium cost increase - General Fund
Future biennium cost increase - local school administrative units |
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| Fiscal Detail
and Notes |
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This bill
establishes a minimum hourly wage of $16 per hour for school support staff
beginning with the 2022-2023 school year.
The Department of Education will incur a one-time cost of $80,000 in
fiscal year 2021-22 to the General Purpose Aid for Local Schools program to
update its data collection system to allow for school administrative units to
report hourly wage data for school support staff. Once collected, this data will be
incorporated into the essential programs and services (EPS) funding model
that is used to calculate the total cost of public education from
kindergarten to grade 12. This fiscal
note assumes that the department will include a request to fund this
initiative as part of its 2022-2023 biennial budget proposal. |
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Requiring a
minimum hourly wage of $16 per hour for school support staff will increase
costs to local school administrative units (SAU's) beginning in fiscal year
2022-23. This bill requires the State
to fund 100% of that cost for fiscal year 2022-23 only. No estimate of the cost of this provision
for 2022-23 and future years can be made until SAU's provide the required
wage information to the department by October 1, 2021. |
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After fiscal year
2022-23, SAU's will be responsible for funding 100% of the cost of this
initiative until the hourly wage data for these school personnel can be
collected and incorporated into the EPS funding model. For those components within the model that
are expenditure driven, it will be 2 years before the salary increase will be
reflected in the total cost of education as determined by the EPS funding
model. Other components of the model
that are not expenditure driven could be incorporated sooner, allowing for
those costs to be reflected in the total cost of education for fiscal year
2022-23. Given this information, the
increase in the State's contribution for funding K-12 public education as a
result of this legislation will not occur until the 2022-2023 biennium. |
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The increase in
the minimum wage for school support staff may also increase costs to the
child nutrition programs, which are not included in the calculation of the
total cost of public education for kindergarten to grade 12 and do not
receive state subsidy from the General Purpose Aid for Local Schools
program. Unless General Fund
appropriations are provided, SAU's will be responsible for 100% of this cost,
as well. |
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