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Legislator > Trey Stewart
State Senator
Trey Stewart
(R) - Maine
Maine Senate District 02
In Office - Started: 12/02/2020
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General Capitol Building Address
3 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333
Augusta, ME 04333
Phone: 207-287-1505
Phone 2: 207-227-0569
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| LD1498 | An Act to Address Maine's Housing Crisis by Limiting Municipal Impact Fees on Housing Development | An Act to Address Maine's Housing Crisis by Limiting Municipal Impact Fees on Housing Development | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1500 | An Act to Establish the Maine Community Development Financial Institution Fund to Support Small Businesses, Rural Economic Development and Affordable Housing | This bill establishes the Maine Community Development Financial Institution Fund and the Maine Community Development Financial Institution Program within the Department of Economic and Community Development. The program will provide loans and grants to community development financial institutions to provide financing to underserved communities in Maine. The bill also requires a $500,000 transfer from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund to the fund. | Passed |
| LD1667 | Resolve, to Allow Hemphill Farms, Inc. to Sue the State | This resolve authorizes Hemphill Farms, Inc., in Presque Isle, which claims to have suffered damages in connection with actions taken by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, to sue the department for damages resulting from those actions. | Passed |
| LD839 | An Act to Create the Net Energy Billing Cost Stabilization Fund | This bill prohibits the inclusion of certain costs associated with the kilowatt-hour credit and commercial and institutional net energy billing programs in the operating expenses of a transmission and distribution utility. The bill requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt routine technical rules to establish a process by which kilowatt-hour credit program costs and commercial and institutional program costs, less monetized benefits, are distributed to transmission and distribution utilities and distributed generation resources, as applicable. The bill establishes the Net Energy Billing Cost Stabilization Fund for the purposes of receiving General Fund appropriations for payments for kilowatt-hour credit program costs and commercial and institutional program costs and any overpayments returned by transmission and distribution utilities. | Passed |
| LD1217 | An Act Regarding the New Markets Tax Credit and the Maine New Markets Capital Investment Program | An Act Regarding the New Markets Tax Credit and the Maine New Markets Capital Investment Program | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1755 | An Act to Increase the Maine Historic Property Rehabilitation Tax Credit in Rural Areas | An Act to Increase the Maine Historic Property Rehabilitation Tax Credit in Rural Areas | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1951 | An Act to Promote Food Processing and Manufacturing Facility Expansion and Create Jobs | An Act to Promote Food Processing and Manufacturing Facility Expansion and Create Jobs | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1770 | Resolve, to Establish the Real Estate Property Tax Relief Task Force | Resolve, to Establish the Real Estate Property Tax Relief Task Force | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD753 | An Act to Authorize the Use of Funds Resulting from the Issuance of Securities by the Maine Governmental Facilities Authority for the Purpose of Developing or Improving New or Existing Court Facilities in Penobscot County | An Act to Authorize the Use of Funds Resulting from the Issuance of Securities by the Maine Governmental Facilities Authority for the Purpose of Developing or Improving New or Existing Court Facilities in Penobscot County | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD366 | An Act to Ensure Consistency of Income Tax Deductions for Retired Members of the Uniformed Services | An Act to Ensure Consistency of Income Tax Deductions for Retired Members of the Uniformed Services | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD434 | An Act to Authorize the Maine Governmental Facilities Authority to Issue Additional Securities for the Replacement of the Legislative Management System for the Senate and the House of Representatives | An Act to Authorize the Maine Governmental Facilities Authority to Issue Additional Securities for the Replacement of the Legislative Management System for the Senate and the House of Representatives | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD361 | An Act to Support the Francis Malcolm Science Center | This bill provides one-time funds to support the Francis Malcolm Science Center in Easton. | Passed |
| LD462 | An Act to Amend the Eligibility Criteria for Creditable Service in the Armed Forces of the United States Under the Maine Public Employees Retirement System | This bill amends the state retirement system laws governing creditable service for service in the United States Armed Forces to provide credit for service during operations in Lebanon, occurring from August 21, 1982 to February 26, 1984, and operations in Grenada, occurring from October 25, 1983 to December 15, 1983. | Passed |
| LD298 | An Act to Employ Mental Health Personnel Within the Maine State Police | This bill creates 3 Behavioral Health Coordinator positions assigned to the state police Southern Field Troop, Central Field Troop and Troop F responsible for making decisions about the health, safety and welfare of persons in the community who have interacted with law enforcement professionals and are in need of services. The bill also creates one Behavioral Health Coordinator Supervisor position to oversee the activities of the Behavioral Health Coordinator positions and coordinate with the state police field troops. | Passed |
| LD507 | An Act to Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue to Fund LifeFlight of Maine | The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $13,485,000, will be used to improve emergency aviation infrastructure, including hospital helipads, fuel systems, automated weather observation systems, communications systems and emergency transport, to improve the safety of and access to critical emergency medical services. | In Committee |
| LD504 | An Act to Improve Family Court Procedure | Beginning January 1, 2026, this bill authorizes a party to a divorce, legal separation, parentage or parental rights and responsibilities proceeding or a post-judgment motion arising out of one of these actions to file a motion requesting that the court issue an ex parte emergency parental rights and responsibilities order on the basis that there is an immediate and present risk of substantial harm to the physical or emotional health or safety of a child. The order may be issued by a District Court Judge or a family law magistrate and may include a temporary allocation of parental rights and responsibilities between the parties in the underlying action, conditions of parent-child contact and directives regarding the residence of the child. If a judge or magistrate issues an emergency parental rights and responsibilities order ex parte, the court must hold a hearing within 21 days to determine the need for continuation of the temporary relief granted in the order. A party affected by the emergency parental rights and responsibilities order, other than the party that requested the order, may file a motion to modify or to dissolve the order, which the court must hear as expeditiously as the interests of justice require. The bill also directs the Maine Commission on Domestic and Sexual Abuse to convene a working group of stakeholders, similar to the working group established by Resolve 2021, chapter 99, to review data from the judicial branch gathered for at least 2 years following implementation of the emergency parental rights and responsibilities order process established in this legislation to evaluate the efficacy of the process. The bill directs the commission to submit a report regarding the working group's findings to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over judiciary matters by November 1, 2028. The committee may report out legislation to the 134th Legislature in 2029 in response to the report. | Passed |
| LD374 | An Act to Provide Comparable Compensation and Benefits for Deputy and Assistant District Attorneys, Assistant Attorneys General and Public Defenders | This bill requires that, for purposes of compensation and benefits, deputy and assistant district attorneys must be treated comparably to assistant attorneys general and public defenders. | In Committee |
| LD527 | An Act to Establish Bail Officers to Administer the Maine Bail Code | This bill amends the Maine Bail Code to create a new position of bail officer within the judicial branch to set and execute bail in accordance with the law. This bill requires the Maine Criminal Justice Academy to collaborate with the Chief Judge of the District Court to establish a training class for law enforcement officers regarding the execution of bail bonds. The bill also authorizes the court to impose a surcharge for accepting bail payments made by credit card. | Passed |
| LD195 | An Act to Create the Small Business Capital Savings Account Program | This bill establishes the Small Business Capital Savings Account Program in the Department of Economic and Community Development to certify small businesses engaged in commercial agricultural production, commercial fishing or commercial wood harvesting eligible to claim a tax deduction for contributions made to qualifying small business capital savings accounts to be used for capital expenditures. The bill creates the tax deduction and establishes that withdrawals from the savings accounts are taxable income if not used for capital expenditures. Contributions may be made beginning January 1, 2026 but may not be made after December 31, 2029. | Passed |
| LD814 | An Act to Provide Funding to Area Agencies on Aging for Community-based Services and Programs to Support Older Adults | This bill expands coordinated community programming for older adults to include case management and navigation services. It provides ongoing funding to develop programs and deliver services for older adults in each of the State's coordinated community program areas. | Passed |
| LD888 | An Act to Expand Property Tax Relief for Veterans and Survivors of Veterans | This bill changes the property tax benefits for veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States for property tax years beginning on or after April 1, 2026. The bill provides that veterans are no longer required to have served during a federally recognized war period and receive an exemption of up to $5,000 of the just value of the property. It provides that veterans who are 62 years of age or older receive an exemption of up to $6,000 of the just value of the property. It also provides that veterans receive an exemption of between $10,000 and $50,000 based on their United States Department of Veterans Affairs service- connected disability rating. The bill provides that a veteran's unremarried surviving spouse, minor child or parent remains eligible for the benefit that the veteran would be eligible for if the veteran was living. | Passed |
| LD1201 | An Act to Protect Maine Agriculture and Farms by Exempting Certain Pesticides from Regulation | This bill amends the law providing for exemption of certain veterinary products from the law governing products containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, to allow products approved for use for aerial or land application that are regulated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. It creates an exemption for a pesticide registered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act applied by a person licensed by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry, Board of Pesticides Control as an agricultural basic applicator, a private applicator or a commercial applicator. | Dead |
| LD1297 | Resolve, to Establish the Committee to Study the Use of Sunflower Crops to Produce Biofuels and Other Products | This resolve establishes the Committee to Study the Use of Sunflower Crops to Produce Biofuels, which is directed to study the feasibility of using the State's sunflower crops to produce biofuels and review current and past legislation and biofuel projects in Hawaii as a potential model for use in this State. The committee is required to submit a report and suggested legislation by December 3, 2025 to the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology and the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, which are authorized to report out legislation based on the report to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. | Passed |
| LD1775 | An Act to Authorize the Issuance of a Revenue Bond to Upgrade County Jails to Meet the Corrections Needs of Maine's Counties | This bill authorizes the Finance Authority of Maine to issue revenue bonds in the amount of $87,000,000 to provide funding to county jails, including those that detain adult residents for up to 72 hours, to upgrade their facilities to accommodate residents who have a substance use disorder and to provide treatment and recovery services for those residents and to provide supplemental funding for jails that may have potential funding shortfalls. The bonds are issued for 10 years and are repaid using equal amounts from revenue from the contract for wholesale spirits operations and the funds received from the opioid settlement funds. | In Committee |
| LD1812 | An Act to Establish the Loans for Trade Tools Program | This bill, to encourage participation in the trades, does the following. 1. It establishes the Loans for Trade Tools Program, which is a program administered by the Finance Authority of Maine to provide low-interest loans to graduates of a trade program for the purchase of tools and equipment necessary for employment in a trade. Loans are limited to $20,000 and must be repaid within 10 years. If an employee maintains full-time employment, meaning at least 32 hours per week, in the trade, that employee's loan may be forgiven. 2. It establishes a tax credit for employers of employees engaged in a trade for the purchase of tools or equipment needed by that employee within the first year of employment with that employer. The credit is limited to 25% of the amount of the cost of the trade tools and $5,000 per employee, is nonrefundable and may not be carried forward from year to year. 3. It provides an appropriation of $1,000,000 for each year of the 2026-2027 biennium to the Finance Authority of Maine for the Loans for Trade Tools Program. | Passed |
| LD1803 | An Act to Amend the Laws Governing Optometric Practice | This bill amends provisions of the law governing optometrists. The bill provides a more detailed explanation of what constitutes the practice of optometry. The definition of "practice of optometry" in current law does not include surgical procedures. Under the bill, certain types of ophthalmic surgeries are included in the practice of optometry and certain procedures are specifically excluded. An optometrist may only perform ophthalmic surgery if the optometrist meets credentialing requirements established by the State Board of Optometry. The bill also broadens the authority of an optometrist to dispense drugs by expanding the types of drugs an optometrist may dispense to include schedule II narcotics limited to pharmaceuticals containing specified doses of hydrocodone combined with doses of another drug and by removing language that prohibits an optometrist from administering drugs by injection or intravenously. The bill directs the board to adopt rules to further define the scope of practice of optometry and establish credentialing requirements for surgical procedures. The bill clarifies that the board, and no other board or commission in the State, has the authority to define the scope of practice of optometry and to exercise the powers of the board. The bill authorizes the board to issue advisory opinions and declaratory rulings. The bill also makes minor changes to the provisions relating to telehealth services and filling contact lense and spectacle prescriptions. | In Committee |
| LD1588 | An Act to Ensure Transparency in Student Transfer Requests | This bill modifies the education laws governing student transfers to require greater transparency by school administrative units and the Commissioner of Education. The bill requires school administrative units to report information pertaining to requests by students to transfer either to or from that school administrative unit within the past year. The bill also requires the commissioner to make a de-identified version of that information available on the Department of Education's publicly accessible website, including information related to any transfer request reviewed by the commissioner. | Passed |
| LD1737 | An Act to Ensure the Future of Maine's Sporting Camp Heritage | This bill establishes a separate license for a commercial sporting camp that is different than the existing license for a recreational camp or sporting camp. The bill defines "commercial sporting camp." Under the provisions of the bill, the Department of Health and Human Services may not require a commercial sporting camp located in an area without a municipal water supply to install sprinkler systems or to make upgrades or improvements to existing plumbing systems or septic systems as long as those plumbing and septic systems are operational. The department may not require an applicant for a license to demonstrate compliance with any other state laws except for compliance with the licensing requirements. The bill provides that a commercial sporting camp must qualify to serve meals and may not be prohibited from serving or catering meals to the general public if the camp meets the requirements of a Class A restaurant. The bill also makes a commercial sporting camp eligible for a separate moose permit drawing. | In Committee |
| LD1649 | Resolve, to Establish the Commission to Study and Recommend Solutions for Modernizing and Improving the Effectiveness of the Legislature | This resolve establishes the Blue Ribbon Commission to Study the Operations of the Legislature. The commission consists of 12 members, including 4 Legislators and 8 members of the public who have expertise in public policy, government relations, private business and organized labor. The commission is required to study the existing structure and operations of the Legislature for the purpose of determining its adequacy and effectiveness and identifying changes to the Legislature that could improve efficiency; provide better information to inform decisions; help prioritize legislative activity; develop, implement and coordinate a strategic plan; and reinforce political trust and support in State Government. | Passed |
| LD1640 | An Act to Implement the Recommendations of the Gagetown Harmful Chemical Study Commission and to Reestablish the Gagetown Harmful Chemical Study Commission | This bill establishes the Base Gagetown Training Registry within the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, Maine Bureau of Veterans' Services to collect and maintain data related to military service and health conditions from individuals who voluntarily provide such data and who have trained at the Canadian military support base in Gagetown, New Brunswick. The bill also reestablishes the Gagetown Harmful Chemical Study Commission and requires the study commission to request certain information it determines necessary from the United States Department of Defense and other federal agencies to provide medical testing for individuals identified through information received pursuant to the requests as necessary to complete its study. | Passed |
| LD1912 | An Act to Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue to Address Maine's Housing Shortage | The funds provided by the bond issue in Part A of this bill, in the amount of $60,000,000, will be used to provide funds for the Innovative Housing Incentive Program to support manufacturers of manufactured and other innovative housing in the State by providing grants for operating expenses, manufacture of affordable and energy-efficient housing and low-interest loans to develop new factories or expand existing factories by capitalizing the Home Accessibility and Repair Program Fund, provide funds to support the Maine State Housing Authority's home accessibility and repair program by capitalizing the Housing Opportunities for Maine Fund, provide funds for the Weatherization Plus Program to provide grants to eligible low-income households for weatherization readiness and weatherization projects and provide funds to support a pilot program to issue grants to nonprofit housing developers to rehabilitate existing aging housing stock in the State for purchase by qualified first-time home buyers. | In Committee |
| LD1867 | An Act to Prohibit Financial Institutions from Using Merchant Category Codes to Identify or Track Firearm Purchases or Disclose Firearm Purchase Records | This bill prohibits keeping or using a list, record or registry of firearms purchases or firearms owners or distinguishing a firearms dealer or discriminating against a firearms dealer by using a product code for firearms or firearms purchases separate from general merchandise or sporting goods retailers in the State. The bill allows the Attorney General or a complainant if the Attorney General fails to act to seek an injunction against a person in violation of the bill's provisions or a penalty up to $10,000 if the injunction is not followed. | Passed |
| LD1609 | An Act to Prevent the Participation of Individuals and Companies Linked to Federally Recognized Criminal Organizations in the Medical and Adult Use Cannabis Programs | This bill requires the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Office of Cannabis Policy to deny a license under the Cannabis Legalization Act to any person associated with organized crime as identified by state or federal law enforcement officers within the 5 years prior to application. It requires the office to deny a license to any person who operates a cannabis establishment at a physical location known to be associated with organized crime within the 5 years before the finding of the association as identified by state or federal law enforcement officers. It also requires the office to revoke, for a period of 5 years, a license currently held by a licensee if the person or the physical location of a licensed cannabis establishment is known to be associated with organized crime as identified by state or federal law enforcement officers. These requirements also apply to registrations issued under the Maine Medical Use of Cannabis Act. | In Committee |
| LD1521 | An Act to Require All State Agencies to Provide a Zero-based Budget Once Every 10 Years | The bill requires the development of a new budgeting system in which agencies would be subject to zero-based budgeting every 10 years and in the interim years be subject to review and alternative budget requirements. The bill also requires the Department of Administrative and Financial Services to submit legislation facilitating a zero-based budget to the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs and authorizes the committee to report out a bill based on the department's submission. | In Committee |
| LD1577 | Resolve, to Establish the Commission to Study and Recommend Solutions for Modernizing the Maine Legislature | This resolve establishes the Commission to Study and Recommend Solutions for Modernizing the Maine Legislature. The commission has 15 members, including current and former Legislators, nonpartisan staff, a member appointed by the Governor and a member appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. The commission is required to study issues regarding and solutions for modernizing the Legislature, including, but not limited to, improving efficiencies through technology; increasing transparency; limiting the number of bills; changing the structure and type of Legislature through a reduction in the overall size or the length of sessions; increasing staffing; and improving physical access and facilities The commission is required to submit a report to the Joint Standing Committee on State and Local Government no later than November 4, 2026. The joint standing committee may submit legislation based on the report to the 133rd Legislature in 2027. | In Committee |
| LD1343 | An Act to Protect the Right to Harvest Wildlife | This bill defines the verb "harvest" for the marine resources laws and the inland fisheries and wildlife laws. The bill provides that the people of this State have the right to harvest wildlife by hunting, fishing or trapping, subject to applicable laws, rules and regulations. | Crossed Over |
| HP1339 | JOINT RESOLUTION TO EXPRESS THE LEGISLATURE'S DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE DEATHS OF MINNESOTA REPRESENTATIVE MELISSA HORTMAN AND HER HUSBAND MARK HORTMAN | JOINT RESOLUTION TO EXPRESS THE LEGISLATURE'S DEEPEST CONDOLENCES ON THE DEATHS OF MINNESOTA REPRESENTATIVE MELISSA HORTMAN AND HER HUSBAND MARK HORTMAN | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1866 | An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding the State-designated Agency Advocating for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness | An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding the State-designated Agency Advocating for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1325 | An Act to Create Clarity in the Laws Regarding Property Tax Abatement Appeals | An Act to Create Clarity in the Laws Regarding Property Tax Abatement Appeals | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1337 | An Act to Amend the Maine Human Rights Act Regarding Female Athletes and Safety in Women's Single-sex Shelters | This bill exempts from the definition of "place of public accommodation" in the Maine Human Rights Act privately owned and operated facilities that provide emergency shelter to women or temporary residence for women who are in reasonable fear of their safety. The bill also amends the provisions in the Maine Human Rights Act governing unlawful educational discrimination to provide that they may not be construed to affect the rights of a female athlete under the federal laws known as Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. | Dead |
| LD1318 | An Act to Enhance Data Collection Requirements Related to Immigration Status and Asylum Seekers to Safeguard Services for Legal Residents | This bill requires the Office of New Americans within the Office of Policy Innovation and the Future to systematically collect and maintain data on the immigration status of individuals served or supported by the activities of the office and collect and analyze data on the outcomes for individuals seeking asylum, including the status and resolution of asylum claims, in order to understand immigration trends and support service delivery. | Dead |
| LD1166 | An Act to Change the Professional Title and Identification of Physician Assistants to Physician Associates | An Act to Change the Professional Title and Identification of Physician Assistants to Physician Associates | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1432 | An Act to Remove Consideration of Gender Identity from the Maine Human Rights Act | This bill removes consideration of gender identity from the Maine Human Rights Act. The bill also makes a technical change by repealing a definition of a term to correct a cross-reference. | Dead |
| LD1321 | An Act to Reform Net Energy Billing by Establishing Limitations on the Programs' Duration and Compensation | This bill does the following. 1. It amends the law governing the kilowatt-hour credit net energy billing program to provide that, unless a distributed generation resource has met the timing requirements established for participation in the program, only distributed generation resources with a nameplate capacity of 20 kilowatts or less may be used for net energy billing. For distributed generation resources participating pursuant to this provision, the number of shared financial interest customers or meters is limited to 10 and a customer may not, at one time, have a financial interest in more than 5 distributed generation resources that have net energy billing arrangements. The bill also provides that kilowatt-hour credits may be credited only to a customer's electricity supply charges. 2. It amends the law governing the tariff rate net energy billing program to limit the tariff rate to the supply rate of the standard-offer service rate. 3. It amends the laws governing the tariff rate and kilowatt-hour credit net energy billing programs to prohibit participation 20 years from the date a net energy billing agreement between the entity proposing the development of the distributed generation resource and the transmission and distribution utility was executed or on December 31, 2045, whichever occurs earlier. The bill also requires a distributed generation resource participating in net energy billing programs to sell in the State renewable energy credits generated by the resource. | Dead |
| LD1430 | An Act Regarding the Transfer of Moose Permits to Disabled Veterans | An Act Regarding the Transfer of Moose Permits to Disabled Veterans | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1027 | An Act to Strengthen the Law Regarding Relief for Improvident Transfers of Title | An Act to Strengthen the Law Regarding Relief for Improvident Transfers of Title | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD719 | Resolve, to Direct the County Corrections Professional Standards Council to Examine Funding of and Compliance by County and Regional Jails | Resolve, to Direct the County Corrections Professional Standards Council to Examine Funding of and Compliance by County and Regional Jails | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1032 | An Act Regarding Court Security | This bill requires the State Court Administrator to contract for the services of qualified individuals to perform court security-related functions and services at a court if court operations at that court have been adversely affected by a lack of available court security for more than 2% of scheduled court time in a month at that court. It provides that, when the State Court Administrator contracts for the services of qualified individuals to perform court security-related functions and services, the State Court Administrator must first offer the contract to the appropriate sheriff's office before the contract is offered to another party. | Dead |
| LD508 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Require Constitutional Officers to Be Elected by Popular Election | This resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that provides for direct popular election beginning in 2026 of the Secretary of State, the Treasurer of State and the Attorney General biennially in the manner currently provided for Senators and Representatives. | Dead |
| LD1754 | An Act to Provide for the Direct Shipment of Spirits to Consumers | This bill allows distilleries, small distilleries, rectifiers and out-of-state spirits manufacturers to ship their spirits to recipients in the State in a manner similar to that presently allowed for wineries to ship their wine products. The bill authorizes a direct shipper of spirits to use a fulfillment provider for the direct shipment of spirits. The bill provides that fulfillment providers must be registered with the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations in order to ship spirits on behalf of a direct shipper to recipients in this State. The bill establishes reporting and record retention requirements for direct shippers, fulfillment providers and common carriers. The bill establishes shipment restrictions and limitations for direct shippers of spirits and procedures for establishing spirits pricing and for payments to the bureau for spirits shipped directly to recipients in the State, rather than going through the State's warehouse. The bill also establishes an effective date of July 1, 2026. | Dead |
| LD1863 | An Act to Amend the Laws Governing the Maine Space Corporation | An Act to Amend the Laws Governing the Maine Space Corporation | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1823 | An Act to Promote Transparency in the Criminal Justice System by Requiring the Posting of Criminal Case Decisions | This bill requires the Attorney General to post to the publicly accessible website of the Office of the Attorney General the final decision of a criminal case decided within the State within 60 days of the case's final disposition. The bill requires the clerks of the District Court and clerks of the Superior Court to post to those clerks' publicly accessible websites the final decision of a criminal case decided within that prosecutorial district within 60 days of the case's final disposition. The bill also requires the clerk of the Unified Criminal Docket to post on the clerk's publicly accessible website the final decision of a criminal case decided within the State within 60 days of the case's final disposition. | Dead |
| LD1154 | An Act to Require That Informed Consent for Abortion Include Information on Perinatal Hospice | This bill requires a health care professional, as part of ensuring informed consent for an abortion of a pregnant woman whose fetus has received a diagnosis of a lethal fetal anomaly, to inform the woman of perinatal hospice services and provide the woman with a list of available perinatal hospice services providers. If the woman declines receiving perinatal hospice services and elects to proceed with the abortion, the woman must certify that decision in writing and that the woman received the list of perinatal hospice services providers. | Dead |
| LD1283 | An Act to Allow Employees Covered Under the Maine Retirement Savings Program to Elect to Enroll and Unenroll in a Payroll Deduction for an Individual Retirement Account | This bill amends provisions regarding the Maine Retirement Savings Board by providing that covered employees must enroll in the payroll deduction IRA, instead of being automatically enrolled with the ability to opt out. The bill also requires program participants to ensure their account information is up to date. | Dead |
| LD1257 | An Act to Ban the Sale of Cell-cultured Meat | This bill requires that a label be placed on a food or food product offered for sale in the State derived from aquaculture, livestock or poultry that is genetically engineered. | Dead |
| LD898 | Resolve, to Support Rural Health Care Workforce Recruitment | Resolve, to Support Rural Health Care Workforce Recruitment | Passed |
| LD568 | Resolve, Directing the Public Utilities Commission to Evaluate Different Procurement Methods for Standard-offer Service | Resolve, Directing the Public Utilities Commission to Evaluate Different Procurement Methods for Standard-offer Service | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD312 | An Act Regarding the Rates of Speed at Which School Buses Travel | An Act Regarding the Rates of Speed at Which School Buses Travel | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1412 | An Act to Increase Contingency Reserves for Maine's Consumer-owned Electric Transmission and Distribution Utilities | An Act to Increase Contingency Reserves for Maine's Consumer-owned Electric Transmission and Distribution Utilities | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1290 | An Act to Update the Laws Regarding Athletic Trainers | An Act to Update the Laws Regarding Athletic Trainers | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1707 | An Act to Require a Person to Be a United States Citizen to Receive State or Local Financial Assistance and to Ensure Municipal Compliance with Federal Immigration Laws | This bill requires an individual to be a citizen of the United States in order to receive any form of financial assistance from the State or a municipality, except for funding for general purpose aid for education. The bill also provides that a municipality is ineligible to receive municipal general assistance and state-municipal revenue sharing if that municipality prohibits or restricts, formally or informally, the exchange of information with federal immigration authorities or any other federal, state or local government entity regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual or the maintenance of such information. | Dead |
| SP0791 | Joint Order, to Require the Adjournment Sine Die of the First Special Session of the 132nd Legislature | Joint Order, to Require the Adjournment Sine Die of the First Special Session of the 132nd Legislature | Dead |
| SP0790 | Joint Order, to Require the Legislative Council to Hold a Public Hearing on L.D. 1378, I.B. 2, An Act to Protect Maine Communities by Enacting the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act | Joint Order, to Require the Legislative Council to Hold a Public Hearing on L.D. 1378, I.B. 2, An Act to Protect Maine Communities by Enacting the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act | Dead |
| SP0789 | Joint Order, to Waive the Requirement to Hold a Public Hearing on L.D. 1378, I.B. 2, An Act to Protect Maine Communities by Enacting the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act | Joint Order, to Waive the Requirement to Hold a Public Hearing on L.D. 1378, I.B. 2, An Act to Protect Maine Communities by Enacting the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act | Dead |
| LD38 | An Act Requiring Photographic Identification for Voting | This bill requires the presentation of proof of identity in the form of a photograph identification document when voting in person. Acceptable forms of photograph identification are a current and valid driver's license or nondriver identification card issued in this State, a United States passport, a military identification or a permit to carry a concealed handgun issued in this State if that permit includes a photograph. An identification issued by a college or university may not be accepted for voter identification. The bill also allows a person who does not possess a photograph identification document to request a free special voter photograph identification card from the Secretary of State. | Dead |
| LD924 | Resolve, Directing the Judicial Branch to Authorize the Lease of a Courthouse That Meets Accessibility and Functional Needs in the Town of Newport | This resolve directs the judicial branch to enter into a long-term lease agreement for a new courthouse facility in Newport. The leased facility must comply with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the public accommodations provisions of the Maine Human Rights Act and include adequate space for courtroom operations. The resolve requires the judicial branch to dedicate up to $200,000 from the judicial branch's existing resources for maintenance and repair. Finally, the resolve directs the judicial branch to report to the Joint Standing Committee on Judiciary no later than December 31, 2025 with information on the judicial branch's progress in securing the lease agreement. | Dead |
| LD921 | An Act to Expand Use of Electronic Proceedings in the Judicial Branch | This bill requires that certain categories of hearings and other judicial proceedings in the District Court, Superior Court and Supreme Judicial Court be conducted by electronic means absent a finding that conducting the proceeding by electronic means is inappropriate because it would result in a deprivation of due process, fairness or justice. This requirement does not apply to criminal trials or to civil jury trials requiring the presentation of evidence absent the approval of the court and consent of each party to the proceeding. The bill also requires the court to provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with limited access to the technology required to participate by electronic means as well as individuals with disabilities that limit the individuals' ability to fully participate by electronic means. The bill recognizes the authority of the Supreme Judicial Court to adopt rules and issue orders to implement the provisions of this legislation. It further directs the Supreme Judicial Court to submit an annual report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over judiciary matters regarding the conduct of hearings and other judicial proceedings by electronic means in state courts. The bill also requires the Supreme Judicial Court to submit a report by December 3, 2025 to the Joint Standing Committee on Judiciary detailing the provisions rendered of no effect due to the bill's provisions. | Dead |
| LD375 | Resolve, Directing the University of Maine System to Study the Feasibility of Distance Learning Programs at the University of Maine School of Law | Resolve, Directing the University of Maine System to Study the Feasibility of Distance Learning Programs at the University of Maine School of Law | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD132 | Resolve, to Establish the Commission to Study the Constitution of Maine | This resolve creates the Commission to Study the Constitution of Maine to study and review the Constitution of Maine and any constitutional resolutions introduced in the 132nd Legislature. The bill requires the commission to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Joint Standing Committee on Judiciary by November 4, 2026 and authorizes the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over judiciary matters to submit legislation, including a resolution to amend the Constitution of Maine, based on the findings and recommendations in the report to the 133rd Legislature in 2027. | Dead |
| LD267 | An Act Regarding the Remote Appearance of Counsel in Pretrial Nontestimonial Criminal Matters | An Act Regarding the Remote Appearance of Counsel in Pretrial Nontestimonial Criminal Matters | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1011 | An Act to Change the Residency Requirements for State Funding for Student Tuition at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics | This bill changes the residency requirement for a student to receive free tuition at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics from the student being required to have resided in the State with a parent, other relative or guardian for a period of at least 6 months to the student's parent or guardian being required to be a resident of the State at the start of the school year for which tuition is to be paid. | Dead |
| LD1538 | An Act to Index Unemployment Benefits to the Unemployment Rate | This bill renames the Employment Security Law the Reemployment Assistance Program and establishes the maximum amount of unemployment benefits at 14 weeks if the State's average unemployment rate is 5.5% or below, with an additional week added for every 0.5% the rate is above 5.5% to a maximum of 26 weeks of benefits. | Dead |
| LD1431 | An Act to Implement an Interstate Voter Registration Cross-check Program | This bill authorizes the Secretary of State to collaborate and cross-check voter registration data with other states to identify voters who may have moved out of the State and registered in another state. The bill also authorizes the Secretary of State to contract with a private sector data system provider to support a program for maintenance of voter registration. The bill also ensures that the personally identifying data and other information of the voters of the State are protected when exchanging data with other states and with a private sector data provider. | Dead |
| LD1307 | An Act to Suspend the Remittance Obligation for Paid Family and Medical Leave Private Plan Users | This bill immediately suspends the payroll premiums imposed on employers under the paid family and medical leave benefits program until January 1, 2026, but allows an employer that wants to participate in the program to continue to pay the premiums. The bill also requires the Department of Labor to amend its rules adopted for the program to establish an expedited process for approval of an employer's substitute private plan that is substantially equivalent to the program and to waive the payroll premiums during consideration of an employer's application for exemption. The rules must be in effect no later than November 1, 2025. | Dead |
| LD1573 | An Act to Require Legislative Approval for Certain Emergency Powers of the Governor | This bill provides that the Governor may not reissue or renew an emergency proclamation, issue another emergency proclamation that is substantially similar to one that expired or reissue an emergency proclamation terminated by the Legislature without approval of the Legislature. | Dead |
| LD1903 | An Act to Conform the State's Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Laws to Federal Standards | This bill conforms state standards for certain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, to federal standards in the following ways. 1. It establishes soil concentration levels for PFAS for the purposes of determining when land is contaminated by PFAS under the Fund To Address PFAS Contamination. 2. It amends the law authorizing the adoption of state drinking water rules by the Commissioner of Health and Human Services to require that those rules establish a maximum contaminant level equivalent to the standards of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's national primary drinking water regulations adopted in April 2024 for certain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. 3. It provides that federal law or regulation regulating the sale of a food package to which PFAS have been intentionally added preempts state authority to prohibit the sale of such food packaging. 4. It provides that if surface water quality standards for PFAS are established pursuant to federal law, the Department of Environmental Protection must adopt rules for surface water quality standards to match the federal water quality standards. 5. It provides that if the United States Environmental Protection Agency adopts emissions standards for PFAS, emissions standards for PFAS adopted by the Department of Environmental Protection, Board of Environmental Protection must be the same as the emissions standards established by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. | Dead |
| LD1213 | An Act Regarding Apportionment of Stipends to Agricultural Fairs | An Act Regarding Apportionment of Stipends to Agricultural Fairs | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1306 | An Act to Continue the Exemption for Polystyrene Foam Disposable Food Service Containers Prepackaged at Wholesale | An Act to Continue the Exemption for Polystyrene Foam Disposable Food Service Containers Prepackaged at Wholesale Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legislature do not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and Whereas, this legislation amends the provisions of law regarding disposable food service containers. Pursuant to Public Law 2021, chapter 208, those provisions of law are effective July 1, 2025; and Whereas, this legislation needs to be enacted prior to July 1, 2025; and Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, therefore, | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD788 | An Act to Promote an Innovation-driven Economy by Increasing Research and Development Spending | An Act to Promote an Innovation-driven Economy by Increasing Research and Development Spending | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1437 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Specify the Qualifications of Electors in State and Local Elections | This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to specify that only a person who is a citizen of the United States may vote in a state, county or municipal or other local election. | Dead |
| LD1358 | An Act to Reduce Electricity Rates by Removing Limitations on the Ownership of Generation by an Affiliate of an Investor-owned Transmission and Distribution Utility | This bill permits an affiliate of an investor-owned transmission and distribution utility to own generation or generation-related assets in accordance with standards of conduct adopted by the Public Utilities Commission including when the generation or generation- related assets are directly interconnected to the facilities owned or operated by that investor-owned transmission and distribution utility. The bill also removes the prohibition on affiliate generation or generation-related assets participating in long-term contracts under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A. | Dead |
| LD1688 | An Act to Encourage Continuing Education Relating to Certain Infection-associated Chronic Conditions for Physicians and Nurses | This bill requires the Board of Osteopathic Licensure, the Board of Licensure in Medicine and the State Board of Nursing to encourage licensees and applicants for relicensure to attend continuing education relating to infection-associated chronic conditions, including long COVID, chronic Lyme disease, myalgic encephalomyelitis, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and dysautonomia. | Dead |
| LD1284 | An Act to Repeal Provisions of Law Governing the Privacy of Broadband Internet Customer Personal Information | This bill repeals the laws requiring providers of broadband Internet access service to protect customer personal information from unauthorized use, disclosure or access and prohibiting those providers from using, disclosing, selling or permitting access to customer personal information without the express, affirmative consent of the customer. | Dead |
| LD1818 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Limit Taxes, Spending or Debt Without Approval by the Voters | This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to prohibit any new taxes and increases in taxes, including taxes on income and property, increases in fiscal spending beyond the rate of inflation and increases in debt unless those taxes or increases are approved by the voters of the State or by the voters in the municipality or county affected by the tax, fiscal spending or debt, as determined by and in accordance with a process enacted by the Legislature in statute. | Dead |
| LD1762 | An Act to Protect Recreational Trails by Establishing the Trails for the Future Program | This bill creates the Trails for the Future Fund and the Trails for the Future Program to protect public access to established recreational trails, including snowmobile trails and all-terrain vehicle, or ATV, trails, through the acquisition of property and the establishment of easements. The bill requires that an acquisition or grant made pursuant to the program is subject to the requirement that the recreational trail on the property may not be altered or developed in a manner that precludes its existing use, including use by a snowmobile or by an ATV, if applicable. The bill also requires that any change to the access or layout of a recreational trail protected pursuant to the program must be approved by the snowmobile club, ATV club or another club or group that maintains the recreational trail. If no club or group is responsible for maintaining the recreational trail the proposed changes must be approved by the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. | Dead |
| SP0779 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 2025 AS MAINE TREATMENT AND RECOVERY COURT MONTH | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 2025 AS MAINE TREATMENT AND RECOVERY COURT MONTH | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1878 | An Act to Establish a Managed Care Program for MaineCare Services | This bill establishes a managed care program for MaineCare services. The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a request for proposals to contract with 3 managed care organizations to provide MaineCare services. Managed care refers to a system of delivering services through arrangements with selected providers to furnish health care services and financial incentives for patients to use the participating providers and procedures included in the managed care program. The model also requires that the department reimburse the managed care organizations primarily using negotiated monthly rate per enrollee, rather than a fee-for-service model. The bill establishes a number of requirements for developing the procurement process and essential contract terms. The bill establishes deadlines by which specific categories of eligible enrollees must be enrolled in the managed care program, beginning February 1, 2029. The department must submit a report to the Legislature by December 3, 2025 detailing its plan for implementing the program within the timeline established by this legislation. The bill also includes a deadline of April 1, 2026, by which time the department must submit all waivers and amendments for the state Medicaid plan that are necessary to implement this legislation. The department is authorized to adopt rules. Rules adopted are considered major substantive rules under the Maine Administrative Procedure Act. | Dead |
| LD1532 | An Act to Expand the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Outdoor Education Programs to Schools and Communities | This bill allows the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to conduct the department's educational programs at locations owned by 3rd parties through leases or partnerships with the 3rd parties. The bill allows the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to collaborate with the Department of Education to develop a curriculum for a program to allow the program to count as secondary school instruction. A secondary school may elect to participate in the program, which may be held in whole or in part at the 3rd- party location or the secondary school or a school administrative unit facility. Members of the public and homeschoolers may attend the programs. The bill directs the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to secure at least 3 locations in geographically diverse areas of the State by January 1, 2026 and to develop a curriculum for one or more programs to be conducted at the locations as soon as practicable in 2026. | Dead |
| LD937 | An Act to Establish a Permit to Hunt Coyote over Bait | This bill establishes that a person who possesses a valid hunting license may obtain a permit to hunt coyote over bait between September 1st and December 15th in wildlife management districts 1 to 14, 18, 19, 27 and 28, as long as the person places coyote bait in towns known to have active deer wintering areas and the person follows other bait placement and use provisions already in statute. The bill also directs the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to establish rules related to the placement of coyote bait and sets a fee for the permit at $4. | Dead |
| LD482 | An Act to Expand Educational Opportunities and Broaden Educational Services for Students Enrolled in Equivalent Instruction Programs | This bill modifies the provisions of law governing standards for participation in public school by students who are enrolled in equivalent instruction programs. Equivalent instruction programs include home instruction programs, private schools or other alternative arrangements approved by the Commissioner of Education. Current law provides different standards for participation in public school for students enrolled in home instruction programs as opposed to students enrolled in certain recognized private schools. The bill amends the law to provide one set of standards to apply to all types of equivalent instruction programs. The bill makes changes related to the approval process that a student enrolled in an equivalent instruction program must follow to participate in regular classes in a public school. These changes include eliminating the requirement that a student receive written approval from the superintendent or the superintendent's designee to enroll in or audit a course and modifying the terms used to describe the academic achievement a student must demonstrate in order to participate. The bill allows an equivalent instruction program to use facilities on property owned or leased by a library, community service organization, museum, performing arts venue, theater, cinema or church facility if the property is being used solely for the purpose of operating a type of facility described in the bill, the facility is or was actively used for one of those purposes within 5 years of any executed agreement for the equivalent instruction program to use that facility and the facility follows the state and local health, safety and welfare laws, codes and rules applicable to that facility, including fire safety and building safety. | Dead |
| LD388 | An Act to Provide Access to Quality Family Child Care for Military Personnel by Exempting Certain Military Child Care Providers from State Licensing Requirements | An Act to Provide Access to Quality Family Child Care for Military Personnel by Exempting Certain Military Child Care Providers from State Licensing Requirements | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD206 | An Act to Protect Maine Businesses by Eliminating the Automatic Cost-of-living Adjustment to the Minimum Hourly Wage | This bill sets the minimum hourly wage at $14.65 and removes the annual cost-of- living adjustment. The minimum hourly wage as of January 1, 2025 pursuant to Initiated Bill 2015, chapter 2 is $14.65 per hour due to inflation adjustments. The bill also removes cross-references to the annual cost-of-living adjustment. | Dead |
| LD1210 | An Act to Regarding Renewable Electricity Generation by Hydropower Projects | This bill amends the laws regulating the Department of Environmental Protection's process for approving or disapproving a permit for a hydropower project and for issuing or denying a water quality certification for a hydropower project as required under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. It requires the department, in determining whether to approve or deny a permit, or issue or deny a water quality certification, to consider the effect of that approval, disapproval, issuance or denial on the State's renewable energy, decarbonization and economic development policies and goals; the environmental and economic benefits to the State of the hydroelectric generation provided by the project; and, taking those factors into consideration, whether approval of the permit or issuance of the certification for the project is permissible notwithstanding the project's effect on wildlife habitat and aquatic life within the waters affected by the project, including affected waters downstream of the project. | Dead |
| LD420 | An Act to Fund the Carleton Project to Provide Additional Access to a Nontraditional Secondary School | This bill provides annual funding for the 5-year period from fiscal year 2025-26 through fiscal year 2029-30 to support the cost to the Carleton Project, a nontraditional secondary school program, of adding up to 10 additional students. | Dead |
| LD789 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Require Legislative Approval of Any State of Emergency Lasting Longer than 60 Days | This resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that provides that a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor may not continue for longer than 60 days and that each subsequent state of emergency must be approved by the Legislature. | Dead |
| LD935 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Environmental Protection to Report on Air and Soil Chemical and Metal Levels and on Soil Testing on Solar Panel Farm Sites | This resolve directs the Department of Environmental Protection to submit 2 reports to the Joint Standing Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. The first report must include available information on the levels of chemicals and metals, both airborne and in soil, in the State, including information on any periodic sampling performed by the department. The 2nd report must include information regarding soil testing done by the department on solar panel farm sites in the State, including testing done before installation, testing done after installation and any ongoing testing, and any results of that testing. | Dead |
| LD174 | An Act to Restore Religious Exemptions to Immunization Requirements | This bill reinstates exemptions from immunization requirements based on a sincere religious belief for students in elementary, secondary and postsecondary schools and employees of nursery schools. It also provides the same exemption to health care practitioners. | Dead |
| LD1541 | An Act to Provide Property Tax Relief for Senior Residents | This bill amends the property tax stabilization for senior citizens program, which was limited to one property tax year, by: 1. Changing the benefit under the program to a complete exemption from property taxes, for property tax years beginning on or after April 1, 2027; 2. Specifying that an eligible individual is someone who is at least 65 years of age, or who will attain 65 years of age during the property tax year for which the exemption is requested, and has maintained a permanent residence in this State for at least 10 consecutive years prior to applying for the exemption; 3. Removing the requirement that an applicant apply every year for the exemption, instead requiring that the eligible individual file an affidavit declaring that the individual is still eligible for the exemption; 4. Allowing the transfer of the exemption only if the transferee jointly owns the homestead and is eligible under the program; and 5. Requiring the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability, in 2030, to conduct a review of the program, considering: A. Whether the exemption fulfills its goal of decreasing the tax burden on senior residents of this State and allowing them to continue to reside in their homes; and B. Performance measures such as whether the program is fiscally sustainable and may be expanded or modified. The office is required to submit, by January 15, 2031, a report with its findings to the Government Oversight Committee and to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over taxation matters, which may report out a bill related to the report to the 135th Legislature in 2031. | Dead |
| SP0780 | JOINT RESOLUTION TO REAFFIRM THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN MAINE AND TAIWAN, ENHANCE BILATERAL TRADE RELATIONS WITH TAIWAN AND SUPPORT TAIWAN'S INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION | JOINT RESOLUTION TO REAFFIRM THE FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN MAINE AND TAIWAN, ENHANCE BILATERAL TRADE RELATIONS WITH TAIWAN AND SUPPORT TAIWAN'S INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1891 | An Act to Address the Dental Professional Workforce Shortage by Establishing Scholarship and Loan Programs and Updating the Dental Care Access Tax Credit | This bill establishes the Dentists for Maine's Future Scholarship Program to provide a tuition subsidy of 50% of the cost of attendance, up to a maximum of $25,000 per student annually, for eligible students who enter dental school programs in this State for the purpose of increasing the number of dentists in this State who practice in extreme shortage areas of the State. The bill also establishes the Extreme Shortage Area Dental Education Loan Program to provide loans and loan repayment agreements to eligible dental students and individuals who are eligible for licensure as a doctor of dental medicine or as a dental hygienist, dental therapist, expanded function dental assistant or dental assistant who agrees to serve an extreme shortage area in the State. The bill also updates the dental care access tax credit to include eligible dental hygienists and changes the date that the tax credit is repealed to December 31, 2032. | Dead |
| LD472 | Resolve, Directing the Maine-Canadian Legislative Advisory Commission and the New England and Eastern Canada Legislative Commission to Examine Restoring Passenger Rail from Boston to Montreal | Resolve, Directing the Maine-Canadian Legislative Advisory Commission and the New England and Eastern Canada Legislative Commission to Examine Restoring Passenger Rail from Boston to Montreal | | Passed |
| LD878 | Resolve, to Study the Effects of 5G and Other Non-ionizing Radio Frequency Radiation-emitting Technology on Bird, Bee, Insect and Other Wildlife Populations and the Effects of Long-term Exposure on Children | of its activities and recommendations to the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology and the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs. SUMMARY This resolve creates the Independent Commission to Study the Effects of 5G and Other Non-ionizing Radio Frequency Radiation-emitting Technology. The independent commission is directed to review scientific literature related to the effects of so-called 5G wireless technology and other non-ionizing radio frequency radiation-emitting wireless technology on bird, bee, insect and other wildlife populations and to study the effects of long-term and acute exposure to 5G and other non-ionizing radio frequency radiation- emitting wireless technology and radio frequency radiation on children. The independent commission is required to report findings to the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology and the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs no later than December 3, 2025. | Dead |
| LD1305 | An Act to Improve Access to Transportation to Work for Forestry Workers and Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers | This bill allows a forestry worker or migrant and seasonal farm worker who meets federal driver qualifications and possesses a valid or recently expired driver's license in the worker's home country to operate a motor vehicle in this State for the purpose of driving workers between the workers' lodgings and work sites each day. If a worker provides documentary evidence that the worker meets the driver qualifications under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 26, section 643, subsection 1, paragraph B and possess a valid or recently expired driver's license from the operator's home country, the Secretary of State is required to issue the worker a temporary driver's license. The license issued to a forestry worker or migrant and seasonal farm worker is considered a Class B license and is valid only for driving workers between the workers' lodgings and work sites each day. | Dead |
| LD31 | An Act Regarding School Enrollment for Military-connected Students | An Act Regarding School Enrollment for Military-connected Students | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD422 | An Act to Require the State to Obtain Municipal Approval Before Placing Noncitizens in the Municipality | This bill prohibits the State from placing noncitizens within a municipality without the municipality's prior authorization and allows the municipality to limit the number of noncitizens the State places within the municipality. | Dead |
| LD389 | Resolve, to Increase Transparency and Evaluate Emergency Response Through a COVID-19 Review Commission | This resolve establishes the COVID-19 Review Commission to review and study the State's response to COVID-19 and state laws, rules and policies governing that response in the State, including the executive orders related to the declared COVID-19 emergency; contracts entered into related to executing the Governor's emergency proclamation and related executive orders and the data related to COVID-19 collected by the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, including suicide attempts and deaths and drug-related hospitalizations and deaths; the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention's response, including testing and use of contact tracing; and the policies and rules connected to COVID-19 implemented by the Department of Health and Human Services; the Department of Education; the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, Maine Emergency Management Agency; and the Department of Economic and Community Development. The commission is required to submit a report based on its review that includes its findings and recommendations, including suggested legislation, to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services no later than December 3, 2025. | Dead |
| HP1242 | JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE MEMORY OF POPE FRANCIS | JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE MEMORY OF POPE FRANCIS | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1401 | An Act to Repeal the Provisions of Law Requiring Motor Vehicle Liability Insurance Policies to Cover the Cost of Towing and Storing Certain Vehicles | This bill repeals the laws requiring motor vehicle liability coverage in an amount up to $500 per accident for the towing and storage charges incurred as a result of an accident involving the insured vehicle if the vehicle is towed at the request of a law enforcement officer. | Dead |
| LD1447 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Expedite Reimbursement of All Vendors | This resolve requires the Department of Health and Human Services to amend its rules in Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual to require the department to reimburse at least 75% of a submitted claim for services rendered within 90 days of receipt. | Dead |
| LD1491 | An Act to Provide a Tax Credit for New Attorneys Practicing in Underserved Areas | This bill establishes a tax credit of up to $18,000 per year for attorneys who agree to begin practicing law in underserved areas of the State, as determined by the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services, for at least 5 years. | Dead |
| LD1363 | An Act to Exempt Resident Minors' Income from Income Tax | This bill exempts from Maine income tax income earned by an individual who is under 18 years of age. The exemption also applies to income earned by a dependent of a taxpayer, if that dependent is under 18 years of age. | Dead |
| LD1345 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Timely Provide Interim Settlement Payments to Long-term Care Facilities | This resolve: 1. Reinforces, by providing specific deadlines, requirements of the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to Resolve 2023, chapter 121, subsection 1 to reimburse nursing facility interim settlement amounts; 2. Clarifies that the 75% reimbursement of as-filed settlements to nursing facilities within 90 days of the receipt of facility cost reports also applies to private nonmedical institutions, including previously filed cost reports awaiting payment; and 3. Requires the department to amend its rules to conform to this resolve. | Dead |
| LD203 | An Act to Provide an Income Tax Credit for Employer-supported Child Care | This bill repeals the law governing the employer-assisted day care income tax credit, which by its own terms does not apply to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2016. The bill authorizes, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, a refundable tax credit for an employer that pays or provides in-kind resources for child care for the children of its employees. The amount of the annual credit is 50% of the amount expended or $3,000 per child, whichever is lower. The bill also provides that the credit is subject to ongoing legislative review. | Dead |
| LD614 | An Act to Modify Current Property Tax Assessment Methods to Make Property Taxes Affordable for Longtime Property Owners | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to modify the methods of assessing property taxes on residential properties to help residents retain their homes. | Dead |
| LD1137 | An Act to Expand Landowner Liability Protections to Include Sport Shooting Ranges | This bill specifies that the owner, lessee, manager, holder of an easement or occupant of land who gives permission to another to engage in sport shooting on that owner's, lessee's manager's, holder's or occupant's land is entitled to limited liability for injury to that other person. Sport shooting is defined as engaging in archery, skeet and trap shooting or other similar shooting sports and the shooting of rifles, shotguns and pistols. | Dead |
| LD1046 | An Act to Establish a 180-day State Residency Requirement for Receiving Municipal General Assistance | This bill establishes a 180-day state residency requirement for applicants for municipal general assistance. | Dead |
| LD1489 | Resolve, to Provide Stability to Long-term Care Facility Funding | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide a cost-of- living adjustment for residential care facilities and apply that adjustment retroactively to January 1, 2025. The bill also requires the department to conduct a rate study and determine rates for residential care facility services no later than January 1, 2026. | Dead |
| LD1685 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine Concerning the Direct Initiative Process | This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine by modifying the direct initiative process to remove the requirement that a measure proposed by the people must go to referendum vote before becoming law when the Legislature has enacted an amended form of the measure proposed by the people or a substitute to the measure proposed by the people by an affirmative vote of 2/3 of the members of each House present and voting. The resolution clarifies that if the Governor vetoes the measure, and the veto is sustained by the Legislature, the measure must then be referred to a referendum. The resolution clarifies that in the case that the Legislature has enacted an amended form of the measure proposed by the people or a substitute to the measure proposed by the people by a majority vote, but does not reach the 2/3 threshold, both the original and amended version of the measure must be sent to a referendum in such a manner that the people can choose one or the other, or reject both. The resolution also makes organizational changes to improve clarity. | Dead |
| LD1144 | An Act to Reinstate the Property Tax Stabilization Program | This bill reinstates the program that stabilizes property taxes on homesteads of permanent residents 65 years of age or older for property tax years beginning on or after April 1, 2026. It limits stabilization to $900,000 of the assessed value of an eligible homestead and provides that an eligible individual may have the property tax stabilized on only one eligible homestead in a property tax year. It provides that a municipality may recover from the State the cost to administer the program. | Dead |
| LD1295 | An Act to Waive Basic Law Enforcement Training Requirements for Full-time Law Enforcement Officers Who Have Successfully Completed Equivalent Courses in Other Jurisdictions | Current law permits, but does not require, the Board of Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy to waive basic training requirements for newly employed law enforcement officers that have completed an equivalent basic law enforcement training course. This bill changes the waiver from permissive to mandatory if an officer has completed an equivalent training course. Additionally, the bill directs the board to conduct a study to review the current waiver requirements and suggest legislation to reduce any unnecessary or burdensome requirements that would prevent a law enforcement officer from qualifying for a law enforcement basic training waiver. | Dead |
| LD257 | An Act to Eliminate the Practice of Net Energy Billing | This bill repeals the laws that authorize the Public Utilities Commission to adopt rules governing net energy billing and that direct the commission to establish a net energy billing program for commercial and institutional customers of investor-owned transmission and distribution utilities. It prohibits the commission from adopting rules that require a transmission and distribution utility to allow a customer to participate in net energy billing. The bill also amends the laws that reference the net energy billing programs repealed by this bill, including repealing the provisions of law that provide for real estate and personal property tax exemptions for solar energy equipment used in connection with net energy billing customers. | Dead |
| LD1 | An Act to Increase Storm Preparedness for Maine's Communities, Homes and Infrastructure | An Act to Increase Storm Preparedness for Maine's Communities, Homes and Infrastructure Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legislature do not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and Whereas, the winter storms of December 18, 2023, January 9, 2024 and January 13, 2024 caused an estimated $90,000,000 of damage to public infrastructure and significant additional damage to private property, including homes, wharves and businesses; and Whereas, the damage demonstrates an urgent need for increased preparedness for improved resiliency from future extreme weather events; and Whereas, the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, Maine Emergency Management Agency has obligated the existing balance of the Disaster Recovery Fund to fund the state match for funding for previously declared disasters and requires additional funding to fully fund the state cost share for funding for current open disasters; and Whereas, the Maine Emergency Management Agency currently lacks the capacity to apply for competitive hazard mitigation grant funds, improve much-needed statewide emergency systems and provide matching funds needed for United States Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster and hazard mitigation loan funds; and Whereas, in its November report to the Governor, the State of Maine Infrastructure Rebuilding and Resilience Commission recommended a set of immediate actions to improve emergency communication, increase community resilience, prepare for future extreme weather events and increase public safety; and Whereas, county, municipal and tribal leaders, regional planners, state agencies and emergency managers at the state, county and local level lack up-to-date hydrological and sea level rise modeling data and are operating with outdated Federal Emergency Management Agency maps; and Whereas, only 1.3% of all homes and buildings in the State are covered under the National Flood Insurance Program, a number that has declined while people in the State who do have flood insurance are filing more claims; and Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, therefore, | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SP0609 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAINE'S REALTORS | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAINE'S REALTORS | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HP0950 | JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE LATE HONORABLE LOIS GALGAY RECKITT ON THE OCCASION OF THE BOSTON RED SOX OPENING HOME GAME ON APRIL 4, 2025 | JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE LATE HONORABLE LOIS GALGAY RECKITT ON THE OCCASION OF THE BOSTON RED SOX OPENING HOME GAME ON APRIL 4, 2025 | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD7 | An Act to Increase the Homestead Property Tax Exemption for Residents 65 Years of Age or Older | This bill increases the homestead property tax exemption for permanent residents of this State who are 65 years of age or older and have owned a homestead in the State for at least 10 years from $25,000 to $75,000 for property tax years beginning on or after April 1, 2025. | Dead |
| LD934 | An Act to Provide 100 Percent of the Maine Resident Homestead Property Tax Exemption Amount to Seniors and Veterans | Under the Maine resident homestead property tax exemption, an eligible homestead is entitled to an exemption of $25,000 of the just value of the homestead. The actual amount of the exemption is based on the certified assessment ratio provided by a municipality to the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Revenue Services. Unless the municipality has a certified assessment ratio of 100%, the exemption amount is less than $25,000. This bill provides 100% of the exemption amount, regardless of the assessment ratio of the municipality, to an individual who qualifies for the Maine resident homestead property tax exemption and is either at least 65 years of age or a veteran who served in the Armed Forces of the United States. This bill also requires the State to reimburse a municipality for 100% of the revenue lost as a result of this full exemption. Currently, the State reimburses municipalities 76% of the revenue lost due to the Maine resident homestead property tax exemption. | Dead |
| LD797 | An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding Work Search Efforts for Unemployment Benefits and to Eliminate Benefits for Temporary Unemployment | This bill updates the eligibility conditions for unemployment compensation to require an individual to actively seek work 3 times each week to be considered eligible and removes the provision exempting an individual from this requirement by receiving a waiver by the Commissioner of Labor. The bill establishes acceptable work search efforts for the purpose of fulfilling the requirements to receive unemployment compensation, establishes submission requirements for the evidence of a work search to be submitted to the Department of Labor and establishes verification and audit requirements for the department. The bill also removes the provision allowing an individual to receive unemployment compensation while temporarily unemployed. | Dead |
| LD258 | Resolve, to Establish a Program to Recruit and Retain Behavioral Health Clinicians | This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to develop and implement a program to provide a $25,000 recruitment and retention incentive to behavioral health clinicians in the State during fiscal year 2025-26. It directs the department to establish criteria regarding participation in the program and to submit a report regarding the program to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services in 2025. | Dead |
| LD387 | An Act to Prohibit the Governor from Relocating Illegal Immigrants to This State | This bill provides that the Governor may not relocate illegal immigrants into this State or take any other actions intended to authorize, approve or otherwise assist in the relocation or transportation of illegal immigrants into this State. As used in the bill, "illegal immigrant" means a person who is not lawfully present in the United States. | Dead |
| LD469 | An Act to Prioritize State Access to Electricity Generated in Canada via High-impact Electric Transmission Lines | This bill prohibits, beginning December 31, 2026, the Public Utilities Commission from issuing a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a high- impact electric transmission line to deliver electricity generated in Canada to other states within the electric grid operated by the New England independent system operator unless at least 50% of the electricity delivered to the State will be allocated to and consumed within the State. It requires the person operating a high-impact electric transmission line to file quarterly reports with the commission and provides that any penalties for noncompliance with the requirements of the law are paid into the Public Utilities Commission Energy Affordability Fund. The bill requires the commission to review the requirement established by the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, section 3132-E, subsection 1 and develop recommendations for how the cost of electricity may be reduced to increase consumption and ensure that the 50% threshold required by the bill is met. By December 31, 2025, the commission must provide a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology regarding its findings, including any recommendations for legislation. No later than December 31, 2030, the commission is required to provide a report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over electricity matters assessing the local consumption standard requirement, including an evaluation of the laws' effect on the benefits and costs to electricity customers in the State and on regional energy markets. The commission's report must include recommendations regarding the continuation of the local consumption standard requirement. The bill includes a provision that repeals the laws on December 31, 2031. The bill also requires that, beginning December 31, 2027, each transmission and distribution utility and competitive electricity provider to submit to the commission an annual report describing the transmission and distribution utility's or competitive electricity provider's efforts to collaborate with state and local economic development agencies to encourage the expansion of businesses in the State or the relocation of businesses to the State, including specific actions taken or considered by the transmission and distribution utility or competitive electricity provider. | Dead |
| SP0478 | JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE ROLE OF IRISH IMMIGRANTS AND IRISH-AMERICANS IN THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE | JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE ROLE OF IRISH IMMIGRANTS AND IRISH-AMERICANS IN THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SP0219 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING FEBRUARY 2025 AS 211 MAINE MONTH | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING FEBRUARY 2025 AS 211 MAINE MONTH | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LD143 | An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services | Enactment RC #651 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD143 | An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services | Recede And Concur RC #649 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD143 | An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services | Suspend Rules (2/3) RC #640 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD166 | An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Tobacco Products in Pharmacies and Retail Establishments Containing Pharmacies | Enactment RC #650 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD182 | An Act to Provide Per Diem Payments for MaineCare Residents of the Maine Veterans' Homes | Suspend Rules (2/3) RC #656 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Reconsider RC #647 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Enactment RC #646 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD549 | An Act to Establish a Statewide Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kit Tracking System and Update Certain Requirements Regarding Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kits | Suspend Rules (2/3) RC #653 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD588 | An Act to Enact the Agricultural Employees Concerted Activity Protection Act | Veto Override (2/3) RC #642 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD698 | An Act to Sustain Emergency Homeless Shelters in Maine | Enactment RC #652 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD893 | An Act to Exempt Nonprofit Agricultural Membership Organizations from Insurance Requirements | Enactment RC #648 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1088 | An Act to Enact the Maine Consumer Data Privacy Act | Accept Report 'a' Ought Not To Pass RC #645 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1126 | An Act Requiring Serial Numbers on Firearms and Prohibiting Undetectable Firearms | Enactment RC #654 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1126 | An Act Requiring Serial Numbers on Firearms and Prohibiting Undetectable Firearms | Adopt Senate Amendment (sbs-468) To Committee Amendment RC #638 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1217 | An Act Regarding the New Markets Tax Credit and the Maine New Markets Capital Investment Program | Reconsider RC #659 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1217 | An Act Regarding the New Markets Tax Credit and the Maine New Markets Capital Investment Program | Commit RC #657 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1731 | An Act to Increase the Influence of the Maine State Ferry Advisory Board on the Funding and Operations of the Maine State Ferry Service | Veto Override (2/3) RC #643 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1802 | An Act to Implement the Recommendations of the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services to Clarify When an Indigent Criminal Defendant Is Entitled to Counsel at State Expense | Veto Override (2/3) RC #641 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1816 | An Act to Establish a Statewide Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kit Tracking System and Conduct an Inventory of Existing Forensic Examination Kits in the Possession of Law Enforcement | Suspend Rules (2/3) RC #655 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1968 | An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding Legislative Reimbursement | Enactment RC #658 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| SP0799 | Joint Order, to Require the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs to Report Out 2 Bills to the Senate | Passage RC #644 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD210 | An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations from the General Fund and Other Funds for the Expenditures of State Government and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027 | Enactment RC #635 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD210 | An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations from the General Fund and Other Funds for the Expenditures of State Government and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027 | Indefinitely Postpone Senate Amendment (scs-436) RC #631 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD210 | An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations from the General Fund and Other Funds for the Expenditures of State Government and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027 | Indefinitely Postpone Senate Amendment (sbs-434) RC #630 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD210 | An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations from the General Fund and Other Funds for the Expenditures of State Government and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027 | Indefinitely Postpone Senate Amendment (sas-433) RC #629 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD210 | An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations from the General Fund and Other Funds for the Expenditures of State Government and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027 | Indefinitely Postpone RC #628 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD210 | An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations from the General Fund and Other Funds for the Expenditures of State Government and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027 | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #627 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD442 | An Act to Amend the Automotive Repair Statute | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #621 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Recede And Concur RC #620 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD532 | An Act to Protect Health Care Workers by Addressing Assaults in Health Care Settings | Recede And Concur RC #632 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD746 | An Act to Authorize a Local Option Sales Tax on Short-term Lodging to Fund Municipalities and Affordable Housing | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #624 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD1227 | An Act to Repeal the Requirement That Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Equip Vehicles with a Standardized Data Access Platform | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #622 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD1270 | An Act to Establish the Department of Energy Resources | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #626 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD1394 | An Act to Support Maine's Electric Vehicle Adoption Goals by Providing an Exclusion for Electric Vehicles from Certain Requirements of the Right to Repair Law | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #623 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD1666 | An Act to Include in the Ranked-choice Election Method for General and Special Elections the Offices of Governor, State Senator and State Representative and to Make Other Related Changes | Enactment RC #637 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD1777 | An Act to Reduce Costs and Increase Customer Protections for the State's Net Energy Billing Programs | Adopt Senate Amendment (s-439) To Committee Amendment RC #633 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD1940 | An Act to Revise the Growth Management Program Laws | Accept Report 'c' Ought To Pass As Amended RC #625 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD1971 | An Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities | Enactment RC #634 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| HP1338 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING JUNE 2025 AS PRIDE MONTH | Adoption RC #636 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD93 | An Act to Reduce Cost and Increase Access to Disease Prevention by Expanding the Universal Childhood Immunization Program to Include Adults | Adopt Senate Amendment (s-426) To Committee Amendment RC #600 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD93 | An Act to Reduce Cost and Increase Access to Disease Prevention by Expanding the Universal Childhood Immunization Program to Include Adults | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #599 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD252 | An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact | Commit RC #608 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD252 | An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact | Recede And Concur RC #607 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD532 | An Act to Protect Health Care Workers by Addressing Assaults in Health Care Settings | Indefinitely Postpone RC #619 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1077 | An Act to Exempt Drinking Water from Sales and Use Tax | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #601 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1126 | An Act Requiring Serial Numbers on Firearms and Prohibiting Undetectable Firearms | Adopt Cah-660 RC #596 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1126 | An Act Requiring Serial Numbers on Firearms and Prohibiting Undetectable Firearms | Adopt Senate Amendment (s-403) To Committee Amendment RC #595 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1211 | An Act Regarding Certain Definitions in the Sales and Use Tax Laws Affecting Rental Equipment | Accept Report 'a' Ought To Pass As Amended RC #613 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1189 | An Act to Allow an Attorney for the State to Determine Whether to Charge Certain Class E Crimes as Civil Violations | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #603 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1270 | An Act to Establish the Department of Energy Resources | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #616 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1228 | An Act to Clarify Certain Terms in and to Make Other Changes to the Automotive Right to Repair Laws | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #618 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1386 | An Act to Provide Emergency One-time Relief from the Wild Blueberry Tax for Sellers in Maine and Partial Relief for Processors and Shippers | Recede And Concur RC #609 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1386 | An Act to Provide Emergency One-time Relief from the Wild Blueberry Tax for Sellers in Maine and Partial Relief for Processors and Shippers | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #602 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1656 | An Act to Facilitate Compliance with Federal Immigration Law by State and Local Government Entities | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #604 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1667 | Resolve, to Allow Hemphill Farms, Inc. to Sue the State | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #597 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1749 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Corrections to Study Achieving Gender Equality | Accept Majority Ought To Pass Report RC #617 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1849 | An Act to Establish a Minimum Age at Which Conduct Constitutes a Juvenile Crime and to Confer Jurisdiction to the Juvenile Courts Over Any Criminal Offense Under Maine Law Committed by a Juvenile | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #615 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1868 | An Act to Advance a Clean Energy Economy by Updating Renewable and Clean Resource Procurement Laws | Enactment RC #612 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1868 | An Act to Advance a Clean Energy Economy by Updating Renewable and Clean Resource Procurement Laws | Enactment RC #610 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1868 | An Act to Advance a Clean Energy Economy by Updating Renewable and Clean Resource Procurement Laws | Commit RC #598 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1873 | An Act to Require Age Verification for Online Obscene Matter | Recede RC #611 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1963 | An Act to Protect and Compensate Public Utility Whistleblowers | Recede And Concur RC #614 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1971 | An Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities | Passage To Be Engrossed As Amended RC #606 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1971 | An Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #605 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD93 | An Act to Reduce Cost and Increase Access to Disease Prevention by Expanding the Universal Childhood Immunization Program to Include Adults | Table Until Later RC #587 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD184 | Resolve, Establishing the Commission to Study the Foreclosure Process | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #578 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD233 | An Act to Prohibit Biological Males from Participating in School Athletic Programs and Activities Designated for Females When State Funding Is Provided to the School | Recede And Concur RC #586 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD233 | An Act to Prohibit Biological Males from Participating in School Athletic Programs and Activities Designated for Females When State Funding Is Provided to the School | Accept Report 'b' Ought Not To Pass RC #556 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD244 | Resolve, to Provide Safe, Short-term Housing to Individuals Recently Released from Correctional Facilities | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #564 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD252 | An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact | Reconsider RC #577 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD252 | An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact | Accept Majority Ought To Pass Report RC #567 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD297 | An Act Regarding the Management of Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludge at the State-owned Landfill | Enactment RC #571 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD291 | An Act to Eliminate the Lodging Tax on Campground Sites and Revert to Using the Current Sales Tax | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #588 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD515 | An Act to Reverse Recent Changes Made to the Law Governing Net Energy Billing and Distributed Generation | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #590 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Reconsider RC #576 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Table Until Later RC #566 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Accept Majority Ought To Pass Report RC #565 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD670 | An Act to Address Coercive Control in Domestic Abuse Cases | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #563 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD738 | An Act to Remove Barriers to Becoming a Lawyer by Establishing a Law Office Study Program | Accept Minority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #550 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD868 | An Act to Ensure Equity and Safety in Athletics, Restrooms, Changing Rooms and Housing at Elementary, Secondary and Postsecondary Schools | Accept Report 'b' Ought Not To Pass RC #557 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD953 | An Act to Change the Definition of "Machine Gun" in the Maine Criminal Code | Indefinitely Postpone RC #569 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1089 | An Act to Permanently Fund 55 Percent of the State's Share of Education by Establishing a Tax on Incomes of More than $1,000,000 | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #593 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1089 | An Act to Permanently Fund 55 Percent of the State's Share of Education by Establishing a Tax on Incomes of More than $1,000,000 | Accept Minority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #592 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1107 | An Act to Amend the Tax Expenditure Review Process and Centralize Incentive Data Collection | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #555 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1217 | An Act Regarding the New Markets Tax Credit and the Maine New Markets Capital Investment Program | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #583 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1164 | An Act to Create Economic Opportunity for the Wabanaki Nations Through Internet Gaming | Reconsider RC #575 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1164 | An Act to Create Economic Opportunity for the Wabanaki Nations Through Internet Gaming | Indefinitely Postpone RC #574 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1164 | An Act to Create Economic Opportunity for the Wabanaki Nations Through Internet Gaming | Accept Minority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #573 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1164 | An Act to Create Economic Opportunity for the Wabanaki Nations Through Internet Gaming | Reconsider RC #570 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1298 | An Act Establishing Alternative Pathways to Social Worker Licensing | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #572 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1337 | An Act to Amend the Maine Human Rights Act Regarding Female Athletes and Safety in Women's Single-sex Shelters | Accept Report 'b' Ought Not To Pass RC #558 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1318 | An Act to Enhance Data Collection Requirements Related to Immigration Status and Asylum Seekers to Safeguard Services for Legal Residents | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #559 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1488 | An Act Regarding Cannabis Testing | Adopt Cas-320 RC #568 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1498 | An Act to Address Maine's Housing Crisis by Limiting Municipal Impact Fees on Housing Development | Accept Report RC #579 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1665 | An Act to Provide Property Tax Relief to Maine Families | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #584 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1672 | An Act to Allow Participation in the Adult Use Cannabis Tracking System to Be Voluntary | Accept Report 'a' Ought To Pass As Amended RC #552 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1710 | An Act Regarding the Authority to Transport Prisoners Confined in Jail and the Use of Physical Force with Respect to Prisoners and Persons Who Have Been Arrested | Accept Minority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #589 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1748 | An Act to Enhance Businesses' Understanding of Labor Standards and Grow Maine's Energy Economy Through Project Development Information Resources | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #549 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1731 | An Act to Increase the Influence of the Maine State Ferry Advisory Board on the Funding and Operations of the Maine State Ferry Service | Enactment RC #553 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1743 | An Act to Allow Municipalities to Prohibit Firearms Within Their Municipal Buildings and Voting Places and at Their Municipal Public Proceedings | Recede And Concur RC #562 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ME | Maine Senate District 02 | Senate | Republican | In Office | 12/02/2020 | |
| ME | Maine House District 147 | House | Republican | Out of Office | 12/07/2016 | 05/25/2024 |