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An Act To Provide for a Later Starting Time for High Schools
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  20-A MRSA §4801, sub-§2-B  is enacted to read:
 
2-B.  Start time.     A school administrative unit shall ensure that a secondary school in the unit does not start a school day before 8:30 a.m.
Sec. 2. Effective date. That section of this Act that enacts the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 4801, subsection 2-B takes effect September 1, 2020.
 
SUMMARY
This bill requires that, by September 1, 2020, each school administrative unit ensure that its secondary schools' school days start no earlier than 8:30 a.m.