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An Act To Ensure Equitable Support of Education for Maine Students in School Administrative District No. 6 and School Administrative District No. 44
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  20-A MRSA §15688, sub-§2-A  is enacted to read:
 
2-A.  Municipalities in School Administrative District No. 6 and School Administrative District No. 44.     With regard to the local cost of education for member municipalities in School Administrative District No. 6 and School Administrative District No. 44, the cost-sharing formulas established between these member municipalities in these 2 school administrative districts prior to January 1, 2005 must be set to 50% valuation and 50% per pupil beginning January 1, 2016.
Sec. 2.  PL 2005, c. 2, Pt. D, §69  is repealed.
Sec. 3. P&SL 1997, c. 41, Pt. A, §8, as amended by P&SL 2001, c. 8, §1, is further amended to read:
Sec. A-8. Educational needs. If the Town of Frye Island is incorporated and separated from the Town of Standish, it remains in the School Administrative District 6 or its successor and pays its proportional share of costs, unless or until such time as it withdraws from the school administrative district in accordance with applicable state law. School transportation services must be provided as follows: The Town of Frye Island is authorized to require each resident with a child or children enrolled in School Administrative District 6 to provide transportation from the island to the mainland point of pickup at the resident's own expense; transportation costs from the mainland point of pickup to the school must be provided, as is customarily done, by the school administrative district.
Sec. 4. P&SL 1997, c. 41, Pt. A, §9, as enacted by P&SL 2001, c. 8, §2, is repealed.
 
SUMMARY
This bill eliminates the exemption for member municipalities in School Administrative District No. 6 and School Administrative District No. 44 from the standard municipal cost-sharing arrangement. For purposes of the cost-sharing calculation between these member municipalities in these 2 school administrative districts, the valuation and per-pupil figures for the member municipalities must both be set to 50%. The bill also repeals the prohibition against the withdrawal of the Town of Frye Island from School Administrative District No. 6.