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This bill creates a new legal process that allows residents of a municipality within a school union to petition and vote to withdraw from that school union, using the same procedural steps that currently exist for a single municipality withdrawing from a regional school unit. Specifically, the bill amends Maine Revised Statutes Title 20-A, Section 1905, by inserting language that enables participating municipalities in a municipal school unit within a school union to initiate a withdrawal process that mirrors the existing withdrawal mechanism for regional school units. The key context is that school unions are collaborative arrangements where multiple municipalities join together to manage educational services, and this bill provides a standardized method for a municipality to potentially exit such a union if its residents choose to do so. The term "MRSA" stands for Maine Revised Statutes Annotated, which is the official compilation of state laws, and the reference to section 1466 indicates that the withdrawal process will follow specific existing legal guidelines for municipal school administrative changes.

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