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Amend the resolve by striking out everything after the emergency preamble and before the emergency clause and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1 Adoption. Resolved: That final adoption of portions of Chapter 180: Performance Evaluation and Professional Growth Systems, a provisionally adopted major substantive rule of the Department of Education that has been submitted to the Legislature for review pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A is authorized only if the rule is amended in Section 9, subsection 2 to reorder the effectiveness ratings to be consistent with Section 8 of the rule in the following order: highly effective, effective, partially effective and ineffective.’
Amend the resolve by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section number to read consecutively.
 
SUMMARY
This amendment, which is the majority report of the committee, authorizes final adoption of portions of Chapter 180: Performance Evaluation and Professional Growth Systems, a major substantive rule of the Department of Education, only if the rule is amended to reorder the effectiveness ratings for consistency.