Relating to education; modifying the debt service equalization aid +program to encourage sound historic preservation and cost efficient remodeling +projects by school districts; authorizing and providing for the commissioner of +education to examine and evaluate plans to remodel facilities and compare the +expected cost of remodeling against the likely costs of new construction, +authorizing the commissioner to qualify cost effective remodeling projects for +enhanced debt service equalization aid; prohibiting the state or local +government units from using public funds to promote or defeat a ballot question, +subjecting persons intentionally violating the prohibition to personal liability+ and a civil penalty, authorizing actions for enforcement purposes, +requiring office forfeiture for multiple violations; providing for certain other +remedies (mk)