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                                                                 APPROVED                 CHAPTER
                                                                  JULY 1, 2025                 110
                                                                BY GOVERNOR               RESOLVES
                                  STATE OF MAINE
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                          IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
                        TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE
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                                   S.P. 182 - L.D. 396
Resolve, Directing the Department of Education to Develop a Grant Program
        to Encourage Secondary Schools to Adopt Later Start Times
    Sec. 1. Later Secondary School Start Time Fund established. Resolved:
That the Later Secondary School Start Time Fund is established within the Department of
Education for the purposes of administering the program under section 2.
    Sec. 2. Grant program. Resolved: That the Department of Education shall
establish a grant program to encourage school administrative units to collaborate on
changing school start times to allow secondary schools to have a start time at or after 8:30
a.m. The department shall award grants from the Later Secondary School Start Time Fund
established in section 1. Funds must be used by a school administrative unit to develop
plans to allow secondary schools to start at or after 8:30 a.m. by coordinating school start
times among the unit's schools or in partnership with neighboring school administrative
units.
    Sec. 3. Department of Education to adopt rules. Resolved: That the
Department of Education shall adopt rules to ensure that grants administered through the
grant program established pursuant to section 2 are administered in a manner that is
equitable and fair.
    Sec. 4.    Appropriations and allocations. Resolved: That the following
appropriations and allocations are made.
EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF
Innovative Teaching and Learning Z394
Initiative: Provides one-time funds for a contracted position to administer the school start
time grant program.
GENERAL FUND                                                      2025-26         2026-27
 All Other                                                       $106,078              $0
                                                              __________       __________
GENERAL FUND TOTAL                                               $106,078              $0
Later Secondary School Start Time Fund N522
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Initiative: Provides one-time funds for grants to school administrative units to collaborate
on changing school start times to allow secondary schools to have a later start time than
elementary schools.
GENERAL FUND                                                     2025-26          2026-27
 All Other                                                        $75,000              $0
                                                              __________       __________
GENERAL FUND TOTAL                                                $75,000              $0
EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF
DEPARTMENT TOTALS                                                 2025-26          2026-27
  GENERAL FUND                                                   $181,078              $0
                                                              __________       __________
DEPARTMENT TOTAL - ALL FUNDS                                     $181,078              $0
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