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LD 150 Title Page An Act to Provide Equal Access for Meeting the Needs of Students at Public Inst... LD 150 Title Page
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LR 1688
Item 1

 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §10007 is enacted to read:

 
§10007.__Information and services to private bookstores

 
1.__Information and services to private bookstores.__Upon
request, a public postsecondary institution other than the Maine
Maritime Academy shall provide to a private bookstore the same
information and services that the institution provides to a
campus bookstore operated by or on behalf of the institution.__
The information and services include, but are not limited to:

 
A.__The courses offered by the institution;

 
B.__The instructional materials required or recommended for
courses offered by the institution;

 
C.__The expected number of students to be enrolled in
courses offered by the institution;

 
D.__Participation in student orientation sessions;

 
E.__Access to student and faculty mailing lists;

 
F.__The ability to credit the purchase of course and
instructional materials against a student's financial aid
account; and

 
G.__The ability to accept student campus debit cards for the
purchase of materials.

 
2.__Equal access; policies.__A public postsecondary
institution other than the Maine Maritime Academy may not deny or
obstruct timely access by a private bookstore to information and
services that the private bookstore has requested pursuant to
subsection 1.__Every public postsecondary institution other than
the Maine Maritime Academy shall adopt and publish policies to
comply with this section.

 
SUMMARY

 
This bill requires public postsecondary institutions other
than the Maine Maritime Academy to provide to private bookstores
the same information and services that the postsecondary
institution provides to campus bookstores operated by or on
behalf of the institution.


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