Maine LD1222: An Act to Limit Sovereign Immunity for Schools and School Superintendents

What the bill says

An Act to Limit Sovereign Immunity for Schools and School Superintendents" Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 'An Act to Limit Sovereign Immunity for School Administrative Units and School Superintendents' Amend the bill by inserting after the title and before the enacting clause the following: 'Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the Consti.

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An Act to Limit Sovereign Immunity for Schools and School Superintendents" Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 'An Act to Limit Sovereign Immunity for School Administrative Units and School Superintendents' Amend the bill by inserting after the title and before the enacting clause the following: 'Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government to expand or modify activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the members elected to each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure.' Amend the bill in section 3 in subsection 5 in the last line (page 1, line 10 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "subsection 1" and inserting the following: 'subsection 2' Amend the bill in section 4 in subsection 3 in the last line (page 1, line 21 in L.D.) by striking out the following: "subsection 1" and inserting the following: 'subsection 2' Amend the bill by striking out all of section 5 and inserting the following: 'Sec. 5. 14 MRSA §8104-E is enacted to read: §8104-E. School administrative units and school superintendents 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, unless …

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Sponsors

• Reagan Paul (R, 37) · primary sponsor