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An Act To Eliminate the Regional Adjustment for Public School Systems
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 20-A MRSA §15676, sub-§§1 and 2, as amended by PL 2017, c. 284, Pt. C, §31, are further amended to read:
 
1. Teaching staff costs.   Beginning July 1, 2017, theThe salary and benefit costs for school level teaching staff that are necessary to carry out this Act, calculated in accordance with section 15678 and adjusted by the regional adjustment under section 15682;
 
2. Other staff costs.   Beginning July 1, 2017, theThe salary and benefit costs for school-level staff who are not teachers, but including substitute teachers, that are necessary to carry out this Act, calculated in accordance with section 15679 and adjusted by the regional adjustment under section 15682; and
Sec. 2. 20-A MRSA §15682, as amended by PL 2011, c. 419, §2, is repealed.
 
SUMMARY
This bill removes the regional adjustment in the total operating allocation for school administrative units under the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act.