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Legislator > Henry Ingwersen
State Senator
Henry Ingwersen
(D) - Maine
Maine Senate District 32
In Office - Started: 12/07/2022
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General Capitol Building Address
3 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0003
Augusta, ME 04333-0003
Phone: 207-287-1515
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| LD470 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Education to Review Teacher Mentoring Programs in Maine Public Schools | This bill requires the Department of Education to develop peer support and teacher mentoring programs to be adopted by school administrative units. A school administrative unit may develop its own peer support and teacher mentoring program and submit the program to the department for approval. A peer support and teacher mentoring program must include a $5,000 stipend per school year for mentoring teachers for each teacher they mentor, plans to train mentoring teachers and to provide support for and regular engagement with teachers required to be mentored and regular professional development for mentoring teachers to improve their mentoring abilities. Mentoring teachers must be selected from a list provided by or in consultation with a local teacher's association and must have held a teacher certificate in the State for at least 5 years. All peer support and teacher mentoring programs must be reviewed by the department every 7 years. The Commissioner of Education may waive the requirement for a teacher to be mentored for no more than one year if the school administrative unit has demonstrated that the requirements of the peer support and teacher mentoring program would result in the school administrative unit being unable to operate. School administrative units without a peer support and teacher mentoring program may not hire conditionally certified teachers or teachers holding emergency teacher certificates. The legislation goes into effect July 1, 2026. | Passed |
| LD697 | An Act to Direct the Maine Prescription Drug Affordability Board to Assess Strategies to Reduce Prescription Drug Costs and to Take Steps to Implement Reference-based Pricing | This bill makes the following changes to the laws governing the Maine Prescription Drug Affordability Board. 1. It adds to the board the executive director of the Maine Health Data Organization, or the executive director's designee, as an ex officio, nonvoting member. 2. It removes the authority of the board to recommend that public payors pay an annual assessment to support the administration of the board. 3. It changes the scope of the duties of the board from determining prescription drug spending targets to focusing on an assessment of strategies to reduce prescription drug costs, reduce the rate of growth in prescription drug spending and reduce cost barriers for consumers. 4. It requires the board to review how states with authority to establish upper payment limits have implemented that authority and their regulation of pharmacy benefits managers, to recommend whether the board should have comparable authority and to assess implementing reference-based pricing for the first 10 prescription drugs for which the Medicare program has negotiated maximum fair prices through the Medicare drug price negotiation program. 5. It requires the board to recommend annual spending targets for prescription drugs for public payors and implementing complementary purchasing strategies; annual spending targets and strategies for the commercial insurance market; transparency requirements and supply chain regulation; strategies to reduce out-of-pocket costs through insurance regulation; and aligning prescription drug payment with acquisition costs. The bill also directs the board to recommend a program to reduce the impact of prescription drug costs on the State's health care system, stem the rate of growth in prescription drug spending and reduce cost barriers for consumers based on data the board has collected. The board is directed to submit in reports to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health coverage, insurance and financial services matters a preliminary plan to implement the program by January 30, 2026 and a final plan by October 1, 2027. The joint standing committee is authorized to report out legislation based on the reports. | Passed |
| LD870 | An Act Regarding the Membership of the Maine Land Use Planning Commission | This bill amends the membership of the Maine Land Use Planning Commission by increasing the number of members from 9 to 13, with the Governor appointing the additional members. The bill also adds qualifications to be considered by the Governor and boards of county commissioners when appointing members to the commission and provides a membership term limit of 2 consecutive 4-year terms. The bill also requires the Secretary of State to include information about the members of the commission in its annual report on board appointments, including information on the date of expiration of the term of each member and the authority responsible for appointments or reappointments. | Passed |
| LD957 | An Act to Integrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander History into the Statewide System of Learning Results | This bill includes instruction on Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander history in the Department of Education's required units of instruction on American history and Maine studies. The bill requires the department to convene a volunteer advisory committee to collect information and prepare materials for teaching Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander history and to develop and provide guidance, best practices and exemplar modules to local school administrative units to integrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander history into their curriculum. The bill also requires the department to develop a process to enable a local school administrative unit to conduct an internal audit of its curriculum to ensure an equitable representation of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander voices and an accurate historical account of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander history and culture. The bill also requires the department to submit a report on the progress of the implementation of this legislation to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs no later than April 1, 2030. | Passed |
| LD1141 | An Act to Increase the Procurement of Maine Foods by Certain State Institutions | This bill clarifies existing state policy governing food procurement by state institutions to require rather than encourage the procurement of Maine foods and food products by state institutions. The bill requires the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to implement and promote a Maine foods and food products procurement program that consolidates food commodity purchases by centralizing the control and purchase of food to stabilize state institution food budgets. The program must allow state institutions to take advantage of opportunity buying, coordinate dietary requirements and establish healthy menus consistently throughout state institutions. The bill creates a definition for "opportunity buying," which is defined as the purchasing of food and food products from vendors at a significant discount that is only available for a short period of time before the food or food products become unavailable for purchase. The bill also requires that the program measurably improve the quality and reduce the cost of food and food products for state institutions. Current law requires the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to establish a Maine foods and food products procurement program with the goal that 20% of food procured by state institutions is Maine food and food products. The bill adjusts the program goal with a requirement that, by 2030, that percentage must be 30%. The bill also requires the commissioner to designate an employee of the department as an institutional food procurement coordinator to coordinate food procurement for all state institutions and to implement and oversee a strategy to strengthen connections between Maine food producers, distributors and other institutional stakeholders outside of State Government to achieve the procurement goal established. The bill gives permission for the State to engage in off-contract purchasing, outlines requirements for the convening of an annual meeting and an advisory committee to assist the coordinator in advancing strategies for increasing purchases of Maine foods and food products by state institutions and requires the inclusion of the progress toward the procurement goal in the commissioner's biennial report. | Passed |
| LD1187 | An Act to Include Certain Mental Health Data in Firearm Fatalities and Hospitalizations Reports | This bill adds to the categories of uniform crime reports that all law enforcement agencies are required to submit to the Department of Public Safety, Bureau of State Police, State Bureau of Identification to require the reporting of the number of mental health referrals made pursuant to the extreme risk protection order statutes and the number of individuals who received services pursuant to those referrals. | Passed |
| LD1738 | An Act to Establish the Biohazard Waste Disposal Grant Program to Support Public Health Efforts in the State | This bill establishes the Biohazard Waste Disposal Grant Program within the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The purpose of the program is to disseminate grant funds to community organizations seeking to develop or enhance community hypodermic apparatus mitigation and disposal efforts. The center is required to establish grant guidelines and selection requirements, as well as to submit an annual report to the Legislature. | Passed |
| LD1955 | An Act to Increase Child Care Affordability and Early Childhood Educator Stability | This bill does the following. 1. It replaces the early childhood educator workforce salary supplement system with the Salary Sustainability Program for Child Care Professionals. It establishes requirements for the program, requires 5-year assessments and provides funding for the program. 2. It enacts the child care staff scholarship program established as a pilot program in Public Law 2023, chapter 643, Part TT as a permanent program in the Maine Revised Statutes known as the Maine Child Care Affordability Program Child Care Award. 3. It establishes a program of child care provider scholarships for early childhood education or related fields to eligible individuals pursuing associate, bachelor's or graduate degrees or certificates in those fields. 4. It establishes a program of apprenticeships for individuals employed or seeking employment at a licensed child care facility or licensed family child care provider. 5. It requires the State Board of Education to update its plan for career and technical education centers to include opportunities for early childhood education and child care education at career and technical education centers around the State. 6. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a long-term plan for financial sustainability of the Maine Child Care Affordability Program and submit a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services no later than January 2, 2026. 7. It requires an appropriation of $3,800,000 to the Maine Child Care Affordability Program and a yearly appropriation of $500,000 for wage supplement awards and $1,000,000 to support child care needs. | Passed |
| LD166 | An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Tobacco Products in Pharmacies and Retail Establishments Containing Pharmacies | An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Tobacco Products in Pharmacies and Retail Establishments Containing Pharmacies | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD143 | An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services | An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD353 | Resolve, to Establish the Commission to Recommend Methods for Preventing Deed Fraud in the State | Resolve, to Establish the Commission to Recommend Methods for Preventing Deed Fraud in the State | Passed |
| LD384 | An Act to Prevent Student Homelessness | An Act to Prevent Student Homelessness | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD698 | An Act to Sustain Emergency Homeless Shelters in Maine | An Act to Sustain Emergency Homeless Shelters in Maine | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD689 | An Act to Support the Northern New England Poison Center | An Act to Support the Northern New England Poison Center | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1529 | An Act to Enhance the Protection of High-value Natural Resources Statewide | An Act to Enhance the Protection of High-value Natural Resources Statewide | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD396 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Education to Develop a Grant Program to Encourage Secondary Schools to Adopt Later Start Times | Resolve, Directing the Department of Education to Develop a Grant Program to Encourage Secondary Schools to Adopt Later Start Times | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1937 | An Act to Require Hospitals and Hospital-affiliated Providers to Provide Financial Assistance Programs for Medical Care | An Act to Require Hospitals and Hospital-affiliated Providers to Provide Financial Assistance Programs for Medical Care | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1859 | An Act to Improve Access to Child Care and Early Childhood Education by Establishing Regional Resource Hubs | This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish, through contracts with community entities, early childhood learning and development resource hubs. The resource hubs must provide families with the information and support necessary to locate early childhood programs; assist families in connecting with other resources in the State; support the training of child care workers; and build networks among child care providers. The bill requires the department, beginning January 1, 2027 and annually thereafter, to submit a report to the joint standing committees of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters and education and cultural affairs and to the members of the Children's Cabinet and its advisory council regarding the status of state and regional early childhood education and family needs, data collected by resource hubs and any related recommendations to increase access to early childhood services. The bill provides $471,087 in funds in fiscal year 2025-26 and $1,621,048 in fiscal year 2026-27 to support the purposes of the resource hubs. | Passed |
| LD1957 | An Act to Promote Film Production in Maine | This bill repeals the law governing the certified visual media production tax credit. It increases reimbursements under the laws governing the visual media production reimbursement and places limits on those reimbursements. It changes the definition of "visual media production expense" and requires an applicant for a visual media production certificate to agree to withhold a percentage of payments made to an entity created to hire out the services of one individual. | In Committee |
| LD1959 | An Act to Prohibit the Department of Health and Human Services from Reducing General Assistance Reimbursement Maximums for Payment of Costs of Providing Emergency Shelter | This bill provides that, retroactive to July 1, 2023, the maximum level of municipal general assistance for emergency shelter is the actual cost of providing emergency shelter services. It prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services from adopting any rule reducing or otherwise restricting maximum levels of municipal general assistance for providing emergency shelter or any rule establishing maximum time periods for eligibility for emergency housing assistance that are more restrictive than limits established in the laws governing municipal general assistance. | In Committee |
| LD1728 | An Act to Establish the Maine Child Care Affordability Program Advisory Board | The bill establishes the Maine Child Care Affordability Program Advisory Board to advise the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Child and Family Services on the Maine Child Care Affordability Program, including any program changes. The board consists of 5 members, with the legislative member serving a 2-year term, and the remaining 4 members serving 3-year terms. The board must meet at least quarterly and submit an annual report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters on its activities and with its recommendations. The joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters is authorized to report out legislation in the year in which the report is submitted. The bill requires the Office of Child and Family Services to amend its rule Chapter 6: Child Care Affordability Program Rules, to add child care employees who qualify for the program to be included in the families who are prioritized when there is a waiting list for the program. The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services together with the Maine Child Care Affordability Program Advisory Board to develop a long-term plan for financial sustainability of the Maine Child Care Affordability Program and submit the report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services no later than January 2, 2026. The bill requires an appropriation of $3,800,000 to clear the current waiting list for the Maine Child Care Affordability Program. | In Committee |
| LD1983 | An Act to Protect Minors from Intoxicating Hemp-derived Products by Regulating Those Products Under the Adult Use Cannabis Laws | This bill makes the following changes to the cannabis laws regarding the regulation of intoxicating hemp-derived products. 1. It amends the definition of "hemp" in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 7, section 2231 to exclude intoxicating hemp-derived products. 2. It defines in Title 7, section 2231 "hemp product," "intoxicating hemp-derived product" and "total tetrahydrocannabinol" and distinguishes hemp products from intoxicating hemp-derived products for the purposes of tracking and regulating intoxicating hemp-derived products as adult use cannabis under Title 28-B, chapter 1. 3. It amends Title 28-A to prohibit the sale of intoxicating hemp-derived products by liquor licensees and creates a penalty for liquor licensees found to be in violation of that prohibition. 4. It amends the definitions of "cannabis," "cannabis concentrate" and "cannabis product" to include intoxicating hemp-derived products and defines "intoxicating hemp- derived product" in Title 28-B, chapter 1. 5. It permits a products manufacturing facility licensee to accept transfers of intoxicating hemp-derived products from outside the adult use cannabis program for testing, tracking, packaging, labeling and sale within the adult use cannabis program. 6. It provides for the taxation of intoxicating hemp-derived products and applies a tax of 20% of the cost price of any intoxicating hemp-derived products sold wholesale to adult use cannabis establishments or sold to a consumer. | In Committee |
| LD1017 | An Act to Include Food Provided or Served at Emergency Shelters in General Assistance Reimbursement | This bill includes the cost of food provided or served at emergency shelters in the Department of Health and Human Services' reimbursement of general assistance costs to municipalities. | Passed |
| LD1177 | Resolve, to Study the Public Health and Environmental Risks from Synthetic Turf | This resolve puts a 3-year moratorium on the installation or reinstallation of synthetic turf in any park, outdoor playing field or athletic field, indoor athletic facility or similar venue. It directs the Department of Environmental Protection to examine whether synthetic turf is a risk to public health, the surrounding environment and the climate emissions goals of the State as compared to turf and, if it is a risk, the ways in which synthetic turf is a risk. It directs the department to submit, no later than November 4, 2026, a report that includes its findings and recommendations, including suggested legislation, for presentation to the 133rd Legislature in 2027. The department is also directed to conduct an outreach program to inform local governments, civic organizations, schools and the public regarding the findings of the report. | Passed |
| LD1261 | Resolve, to Establish the Community Navigator Pilot Program to Support At-risk Families | This bill establishes a 2-year pilot program in the Department of Health and Human Services to award contracts to 4 child abuse and neglect prevention councils in this State for a community navigator position within each council. The bill requires community navigators to work with families who have been reported to the department for suspected child abuse or neglect but have been determined by the department to not meet the criteria for a child protective services investigation. Community navigators are required to help connect these families with community services as needed. Under the bill, community navigators are required to provide outreach and education to mandated reporters of suspected child abuse or neglect to enhance their knowledge of available community services for families and how to connect families with those services. The educational outreach must also provide mandated reporters with guidelines for working directly with families in need to help shift the role of mandated reporters from just reporting suspected child abuse or neglect to actively supporting families in need. The bill requires the department to provide funding for the community navigators in the amount of $90,000 per position, per year, for both year one and year 2 of the pilot program. The department must determine to which child abuse and neglect councils the contracts are awarded based on which child abuse and neglect prevention councils are most prepared to participate in the pilot program. | Passed |
| LD1522 | An Act to Establish the Maine Eviction Prevention Program | Public Law 2023, chapter 643, Part KKKK, section 3 established an eviction prevention pilot program within the Maine State Housing Authority. This bill establishes the Maine Eviction Prevention Program as a permanent program within the authority and provides funding for the program. | Passed |
| LD1311 | An Act to Expand Maine's Health Care Workforce by Improving Educational Opportunities | This bill establishes the Maine Health Care Education Training and Medical Residency Fund and appropriates $5,000,000 annually to support health care in rural and underserved communities and physician workforce development. | Passed |
| LD1326 | An Act to Protect the Drinking Water for Consumers of Certain Water Systems by Establishing Maximum Contaminant Levels for Certain Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances | An Act to Protect the Drinking Water for Consumers of Certain Water Systems by Establishing Maximum Contaminant Levels for Certain Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1611 | An Act to Decrease the Retirement Contributions Required for Teachers and State Employees | This bill, beginning July 1, 2026, decreases the contributions required for the State Employee and Teacher Retirement Program from 7.65% of earnable compensation to 6.2% of earnable compensation. | Passed |
| LD1746 | An Act to Reduce Dental Disease and Ensure Access to Essential Preventive Dental Care Among Maine Children | This bill does the following. 1. It delays the requirement for oral health services to be available in all schools from January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2027 and clarifies that the requirement applies only to public schools. 2. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to develop public-private partnerships to establish a model to provide for mobile dental services providers to provide additional preventive oral health and disease intervention services in schools based on the model in the Cumberland County School Oral Health Project. It requires the department to provide for at least one mobile dental services provider in each public health district per school year. 3. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide training and education to primary care providers on minimally invasive dental disease treatment for infants and small children using guidance from the From the First Tooth program or its successor program and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Pediatricians are encouraged to use silver diamine fluoride in primary care settings to reduce dental disease and prevent cavities. 4. It makes permanent 2 previously established limited positions related to provided oral health services in public schools within the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. | Passed |
| LD1771 | An Act to Strengthen Oversight of Kennels by Changing the Licensing Authority from Municipalities to the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry | An Act to Strengthen Oversight of Kennels by Changing the Licensing Authority from Municipalities to the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1847 | An Act to Institute Testing and Tracking of Medical Use Cannabis and Cannabis Products Similar to Adult Use Cannabis and Cannabis Products, Dedicate a Portion of the Adult Use Cannabis Sales and Excise Tax to Medical Use Cannabis Programs and Create a Study Group | This bill provides: 1. For the same testing and tracking provisions that are applied for adult use cannabis and adult use cannabis products to be applied for medical use cannabis and medical use cannabis products; 2. A requirement that a portion of the adult use cannabis and adult use cannabis products excise and sales tax must be used to fund public health and safety campaigns related to the sale and use of medical use cannabis and medical use cannabis products; 3. That edible adult use cannabis products that are gummies must be blister packaged; and 4. For the establishment of a study group to examine youth consumption of medical use and adult use cannabis, including a study of data related to cannabis use of people under 21 years of age in the State, science concerning the effects of the use of cannabis on youth development and overall health, strategies to improve the quality, availability and transparency of data concerning cannabis use by people under 21 years of age in the State and an approach to regularly report to the Legislature on youth consumption of cannabis. | In Committee |
| LD1843 | An Act to Provide Peer Respite for Individuals with Mental Health Care Needs | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide peer respite services and establish a peer respite center. The center must provide 24-hour peer respite services to individuals 18 years of age or older in need of voluntary, short-term mental health services. | Passed |
| LD1647 | An Act to Amend the Maine Human Rights Act to Provide Additional Remedies for Educational Discrimination | This bill modifies provisions of the Maine Human Rights Act to allow a court to award compensatory damages in cases of intentional educational discrimination. Compensatory damages include damages for loss of education, loss of educational opportunity, past and future pecuniary losses, emotional pain, suffering, inconvenience, mental anguish, loss of enjoyment of life and other nonpecuniary losses. The bill specifies that these compensatory damages are not available in cases when the discriminatory practice involves the provision of a reasonable accommodation and the educational institution had demonstrated good faith efforts, in consultation with the person with the disability, to make a reasonable accommodation that would provide that individual with an equally effective opportunity and would not cause undue hardship on the operation of the educational institution. Compensatory damages are not available in cases in which the practice was unlawful only because of its disparate impact. The bill also adds language that excludes cases of intentional educational discrimination from the existing limited monetary remedy available for unlawful discrimination under the Maine Human Rights Act. | In Committee |
| LD1658 | An Act to Preserve and Strengthen the Fund for a Healthy Maine | This bill, beginning January 5, 2026, increases the cigarette excise tax rate by 50 mills, changing the rate per pack of 20 cigarettes from $2 to $3, and the rate per cigarette from 10¢ to 15¢. Under current law, when the cigarette tax increases, the tax on tobacco products also increases by an equivalent amount. The bill includes in the excise tax on tobacco products that equivalent increase and specifies that the definition of "tobacco products" includes products with synthetic nicotine. The bill also, beginning in fiscal year 2027-28, requires the State Tax Assessor and the State Controller to annually determine the amount of revenue from the taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products that is needed to ensure the Fund for a Healthy Maine receives at least $65,000,000 annually from all sources of revenue, including from the so-called tobacco settlement and from certain slot machine income. | In Committee |
| LD1665 | An Act to Provide Property Tax Relief to Maine Families | This bill amends the property tax fairness credit, for tax years beginning in 2025 or later by increasing the benefit base as follows: 1. For individuals filing as a head of household who have one child or dependent or for married individuals filing joint returns who have one child or dependent, the benefit base is increased to $3,250; 2. For individuals filing as a head of household who have more than one child or dependent or for married persons who have more than one child or dependent, the benefit base is increased to $4,000; and 3. For individuals 65 years of age or older, the benefit base is increased to $4,250. This bill also increases the maximum credit for an individual filing as a head of household or filing a joint return and who has a child or dependent to $2,000. This bill also requires the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Revenue Services to convene a working group to study the property tax fairness credit and make recommendations for how to make the credit easier to understand and simplify the process for applying for the credit. The working group consists of advocates for low-income and elderly individuals and municipal governments. | Passed |
| LD703 | An Act to Establish a Health Care Gap Year Program for Recent College Graduates | This bill provides one-time funds for a health care gap year program that incentivizes recent college graduates to work in critical health care positions, particularly in underserved and rural communities. | Passed |
| LD896 | An Act to Provide Young Children Stable Access to Health Care | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to apply, by December 31, 2025, to the federal Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a waiver or demonstration project or to amend a pending or current waiver or demonstration project to provide continuous eligibility to a child from birth through 5 years of age who is eligible for and enrolls in the Medicaid program. Upon the approval of such a waiver or demonstration project, it requires the department to adopt rules to establish the continuous eligibility of a child from birth through 5 years of age who is eligible for and enrolls in the Medicaid program, regardless of the child's family's change in income. Continuous eligibility must be maintained through the end of the month in which the child attains 6 years of age, but a child's eligibility to receive continuous coverage must be redetermined or terminated if the child is no longer a resident of the State, the child's parent or legal guardian requests termination of the child's eligibility, the child dies or the department determines that the child's eligibility was erroneously granted at the most recent determination, redetermination or renewal of eligibility because of agency error, fraud, abuse or perjury. | Passed |
| LD943 | An Act to Require the ASPIRE-TANF Program to Be Administered by State Employees | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to administer the Additional Support for People in Retraining and Employment - Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, also known as the ASPIRE-TANF program, with department employees and provides for the phasing out of contracted public and private agencies providing program services by December 31, 2026, except for certain service delivery functions including job training and education, employment support, child care assistance and transportation assistance. The bill also requires the department to submit an annual report to the Legislature detailing the staffing and participant outcomes of the program and the challenges and successes of administering the program. | In Committee |
| LD840 | An Act to Modernize the State Supplement to Supplemental Security Income by Removing Marriage Disincentives | This bill amends the 1974 State Supplemental Income Act in the following ways. 1. It replaces provisions of law that currently provide that payments to couples, both of whom receive the supplement, are 150% of the benefit for an individual with provisions of law providing that payments to the couples are 200% of the benefit for an individual. 2. It requires that the standard used to determine need is the current annual budget at the lower level of living for an individual as most recently determined by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for Portland, Maine, or budgets consistent with such a budget taking into account budget variances by living arrangements permitted pursuant to Title XVI of the United States Social Security Act. 3. It establishes that, in determining any increase according to the United States Consumer Price Index, consideration must be given to the goal of reaching, within a reasonable time, a benefit level equal to or consistent with the current budget at the lower level of living for an individual, rather than a retired couple, established by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for Portland, Maine. | Passed |
| LD834 | An Act to Update the State Supplement to Supplemental Security Income | This bill amends the 1974 State Supplemental Income Act in the following ways. 1. It changes the minimum state supplemental income benefit from $8 per month for an individual and $12 per month for a couple to $65 per month for an individual and an amount per couple that is consistent with the amount provided to an individual and to a couple under current law, which requires benefits for a couple to be 150% of the benefit for an individual, making the new amount $97.50 per month for a couple. 2. It provides that, starting October 1, 2026, the state supplemental income benefit must be annually increased by the cost-of-living adjustment to the federal payment standard. 3. It provides that, in the priority sequence by which the Department of Health and Human Services must budget and authorize for expenditure appropriations available for benefits, the cost-of-living adjustment must have priority immediately after the minimum payment. 4. It updates the declared intent of the Act to provide that, if it is proposed that benefits provided are to be increased on any future date, cost-of-living adjustments be included in the benefits to be increased rather than increasing the benefits provided to a beneficiary who resides in certain living arrangements. 5. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that eligible individuals residing in nursing homes have a monthly amount for personal needs equal to at least 3 times the amount of the state supplemental income benefit. | Passed |
| LD875 | An Act to Fund Essential Services for Victims of Domestic Violence | This bill provides funding for essential services for victims of domestic violence. | Passed |
| LD849 | An Act to Establish a Recall Process for Public School Board Members | This bill provides that public school board members may be recalled only for specified behavior or misconduct and may not be recalled for the performance of a required duty or a discretionary duty. The petition to recall the school board member must be signed by at least 25% of the voters who voted in the last gubernatorial election in the municipality or, if the school board member was elected as a school board member-at-large, by at least 25% of the voters who voted in the school administrative unit in the last gubernatorial election. The recall must be approved by a majority of voters in an election in which the total number of ballots is at least 35% of the number of votes cast in the municipality or, if applicable, the school administrative unit in the last gubernatorial election. | In Committee |
| LD415 | An Act to Support Hunger Prevention in Maine | This bill provides an additional $1,000,000 each year in ongoing funding to contract with nonprofit organizations that provide statewide hunger relief services. | Passed |
| LD582 | An Act to Require Health Insurance Carriers to Provide Coverage for Blood Testing for Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances | This bill requires carriers offering health plans in this State to provide coverage for blood testing for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, recommended by a provider as medically necessary health care in accordance with clinical guidelines established by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The requirements of the bill apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026. The bill also includes language stating the Legislature's finding that the requirement for coverage for blood testing for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances are not an expansion of the State's essential health benefits and do not require the State to defray costs pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. | Passed |
| LD468 | An Act to Address Food Insecurity by Helping Maine Residents Access Locally Produced Food | This bill provides ongoing funding of $1,200,000 per fiscal year to the Fund To Address Food Insecurity and Provide Nutrition Incentives to be used to match contributions from private and public sources. | Passed |
| LD500 | An Act to Ensure Access to Safe Drinking Water from Household Wells in Rural Areas by Expanding Testing | This bill adds contaminants to the Department of Health and Human Services' uniform testing recommendation for private wells. The bill requires a program to provide free testing for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in household well water of low- income residents through contracts with qualified laboratories to be paid for by funds from the department's Health and Environmental Testing Laboratory dedicated account. The department is required to conduct educational outreach to make low-income residents aware of the availability of free testing of well water and eligibility for grants from the Maine State Housing Authority to pay for water treatment systems. The bill clarifies that homeowners served by well water that exceeds state standards for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances and other contaminants are eligible for the grants. | Passed |
| LD493 | An Act to Expand Testing for Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances to Private Drinking Water Wells | This bill requires testing of well water for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances by a landlord of a residential building supplied by a private drinking water well. Under the bill, for residential property that uses a private water supply, the seller of that property is required to disclose a water test that indicates the presence of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The bill also adds perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances to the list of contaminants in the Department of Health and Human Services uniform testing recommendations for private drinking water wells. | Passed |
| LD260 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Establish That All Maine Residents Have Equal Rights Under the Law | This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to prohibit the denial or abridgment by the State or any political subdivision of the State of equal rights based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, physical or mental disability, ancestry or national origin of an individual. | Passed |
| LD613 | An Act to Amend the Maine Death with Dignity Act to Ensure Access by Qualified Patients | An Act to Amend the Maine Death with Dignity Act to Ensure Access by Qualified Patients | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1938 | An Act Regarding the Regulation of Tobacco | An Act Regarding the Regulation of Tobacco | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD767 | An Act to Amend the Laws Governing Licensing of Certain Types of Establishments and Professions by the Department of Health and Human Services | An Act to Amend the Laws Governing Licensing of Certain Types of Establishments and Professions by the Department of Health and Human Services | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1323 | Resolve, Directing the Board of Pesticides Control to Evaluate the Impact of Neonicotinoids on Pollinators, Humans and the Environment | Resolve, Directing the Board of Pesticides Control to Evaluate the Impact of Neonicotinoids on Pollinators, Humans and the Environment | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1296 | An Act to Amend the Law Governing Watercraft Franchisor Warranty Reimbursements | An Act to Amend the Law Governing Watercraft Franchisor Warranty Reimbursements Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legislature do not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and Whereas, approximately 80% of watercraft sold in Maine are equipped with an outboard motor; and Whereas, the outboard motor manufacturer industry has recently been consolidated to primarily 2 companies that share the market; and Whereas, warranty repairs currently performed on watercraft are reimbursed with a flat rate for the labor performed based upon a manufacturer's estimate of the repair duration, which is not fitting for the marine industry; and Whereas, the upcoming summer months generally correlate with an increase in watercraft warranty repairs; 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 |
| LD1858 | An Act to Promote Local Seafood in Schools | An Act to Promote Local Seafood in Schools | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD769 | An Act Regarding Access to Behavioral Health Supports for Adults with Certain Disabilities | An Act Regarding Access to Behavioral Health Supports for Adults with Certain Disabilities | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1961 | An Act to Clarify the Laws Relating to the Licensure of Certain Facilities by the Department of Health and Human Services | An Act to Clarify the Laws Relating to the Licensure of Certain Facilities by the Department of Health and Human Services | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1638 | An Act Regarding Disability Retirement Benefits Under the Maine Public Employees Retirement System | An Act Regarding Disability Retirement Benefits Under the Maine Public Employees Retirement System | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD768 | An Act to Update the Laws Governing the Licensing of Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities | An Act to Update the Laws Governing the Licensing of Intermediate Care Facilities for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1450 | An Act Regarding the Voluntary Municipal Farm Support Program | An Act Regarding the Voluntary Municipal Farm Support Program | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1550 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Amend Its Rules to Protect Water Quality by Reducing Nutrient Pollution from Septic Systems | Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Amend Its Rules to Protect Water Quality by Reducing Nutrient Pollution from Septic Systems | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| 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 |
| LD1269 | Resolve, to Study the Costs and Funding of a Universal Health Care Plan for Maine | This resolve directs the Office of Affordable Health Care to study, in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Services, the costs and potential funding of a publicly funded, privately and publicly provided, universal health care plan for the State. It directs the office to submit a report with its findings and recommendations to the Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services, which is authorized to report out a bill to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. | Dead |
| LD1204 | An Act to Support Direct Access Worker Employment by Removing Certain Employment Disqualifications | This bill removes aggravated cultivating of marijuana as a disqualifying offense that prohibits an individual's employment as a direct access worker for a personal care agency. | Dead |
| LD1205 | An Act to Set Limits on Virtual Currency Kiosks | This bill requires licensing of virtual currency kiosk operators, caps fees at the greater of $5 and 3% of the dollar amount of the transaction, establishes a $1,000 per day transaction limit, and requires an operator that allows another person to engage in virtual currency business activity via a virtual currency kiosk owned by that operator to ensure that the person engaging in the virtual currency business activity is licensed and in compliance with applicable provisions governing virtual currency kiosk operators. | Dead |
| LD193 | An Act to Fund Students in Maine Schools Who Are Experiencing Homelessness | This bill amends the school funding formula to provide an additional .50 weight to a school administrative unit's per-pupil count for each student experiencing homelessness. The bill also adds these additional weights to the calculation of the base total of a school administrative unit's total operating allocation. | Dead |
| LD1084 | Resolve, to Alleviate the Behavioral Health Workforce Shortage by Allowing the Training and Granting of Behavioral Health Certifications by Community-based Agencies and Hospitals | This resolve requires the Department of Health and Human Services to, by January 1, 2026, amend its rules to allow community-based agencies and hospitals to provide in-house training and to certify their own staff for all levels of mental health rehabilitation technicians, certified residential medication aides and behavioral health professionals. It requires the department to terminate 3rd-party contracts to conduct this training and to end the requirement for 3rd-party approval for certifications for those positions. | Dead |
| LD1630 | An Act to Amend the Open Space Tax Law | This bill makes changes to the valuation method for the open space tax law. It extends eligibility for a reduced valuation to land managed under a forest climate resilience and carbon management plan and to land on which an approved wildlife habitat management plan has been certified. The bill allows a landowner determined to be a nonprofit organization by the United States Internal Revenue Service to apply for classification for more than an aggregate total of 15,000 acres under the laws governing the valuation of open space land. This bill also: 1. Increases the amount of the reduction of property taxes that land enrolled as open space is eligible for from 20% to 45% and reduces the additional reduction of property taxes that permanently protected open space land is eligible for from 30% to 25%; 2. Eliminates the additional percentage reduction in property taxes that forever wild open space land and managed forest open space land is eligible for; and 3. Provides an additional 25% reduction in property taxes to open space land for which an approved wildlife habitat management plan or forest climate resilience and carbon management plan has been completed. | Dead |
| LD1644 | An Act to Require Train Axle Bearing Sensors to Be Installed on Passenger Rail Lines | This bill requires the installation of a hotbox detector every 20 miles on a railroad line that operates in the State on which a passenger train operates, beginning January 1, 2027. | Dead |
| LD110 | An Act to Require Reporting on the Expenditure of Opioid Settlement Funds by Certain Municipalities and County Governments | An Act to Require Reporting on the Expenditure of Opioid Settlement Funds by Certain Municipalities and County Governments | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD279 | An Act to Address the Shortage of Direct Care Workers for Children with Disabilities in Maine | This bill allows for the reimbursement of a parent providing in-home personal care services to the parent's child by allowing the parent to register as a personal care agency if the parent has made reasonable but unsuccessful efforts to obtain regular in-home personal care services and has passed a background check. The child must be eligible for the MaineCare program. An individual who is not a parent of the child must be designated as the employer and must be approved as the employer by both the parent and the Department of Health and Human Services. The department is required to request the necessary state plan amendments or waivers from the federal Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and adopt routine technical rules within 6 months of federal approval. | Dead |
| LD808 | An Act to Require School Boards and Governing Bodies of Approved Private Schools to Implement Wearable Panic Alert Systems | This bill requires, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, a school board or a governing body of an approved private school to implement at each school building a wearable panic alert system that is capable of integrating with local public safety answering point infrastructure to transmit a 9-1-1 call and initiating a campuswide lockdown notification. It directs a school board or a governing body of an approved private school to provide each staff person in a school building with a wearable panic alert device and training on the use of the device. It requires each school board and approved private school governing body to ensure that all security data within a school building are accessible by a local law enforcement agency. It stipulates that records related to physical security or fire safety are not public records pursuant to the Freedom of Access Act but does provide for certain disclosures. | Dead |
| LD1203 | An Act to Provide Grants to Schools That Contract for Behavioral and Mental Health Services | This bill establishes a grant program within the Department of Education to provide grants to school administrative units that contract for behavioral and mental health services provided by licensed behavioral and mental health service providers. The bill limits the use of funds provided through the grant program to behavioral and mental health services that are not otherwise covered or reimbursable through the MaineCare program and provides that funds must be used in a manner that does not supplant qualified and available school administrative unit behavioral and mental health staff. The bill also provides that the amounts of the grants must be based on a school administrative unit's need for clinicians and in the amount of $20,000 per clinician prior to July 1, 2027 and $25,000 per clinician beginning July 1, 2027. The bill provides funding for the grants for fiscal years 2025-26 and 2026-27. | Dead |
| LD376 | An Act to Improve Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes Through Doula Care | This bill requires reimbursement under the MaineCare program for doula services. | Dead |
| LD130 | An Act to Establish the PFAS Response Program and to Modify the Fund To Address PFAS Contamination | An Act to Establish the PFAS Response Program and to Modify the Fund To Address PFAS Contamination | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HP1241 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 2025 AS MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 2025 AS MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1185 | An Act to Prohibit Persons Under 18 Years of Age from Marrying | An Act to Prohibit Persons Under 18 Years of Age from Marrying | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SP0514 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE MAINE FOREST SERVICE FOR ITS 2024 OUT-OF-STATE MOBILIZATIONS | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE MAINE FOREST SERVICE FOR ITS 2024 OUT-OF-STATE MOBILIZATIONS | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1028 | Resolve, to Establish the Task Force to Study Equitable Access to Maternal Health Care and Birthing Facilities | This resolve establishes the Task Force to Study Equitable Access to Maternal Health Care and Birthing Facilities, which is directed to study past closures of maternal health care centers in the State, the current availability of access to maternal health care services in the State and methods to increase patient access to maternal health care services, including equitable access for vulnerable populations. The task force is required to submit a report and suggested legislation by January 6, 2026 to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services, which is authorized to report out legislation based on the report to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. | Dead |
| LD263 | Resolve, to Provide Rural Nonmedical Transportation Services to the Elderly and Adults with Disabilities Receiving Home and Community Benefits Under MaineCare | This resolve requires the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a pilot project lasting 18 months that provides nonmedical transportation services to individuals receiving services pursuant to rule Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter II, Section 19, Home and Community Benefits for the Elderly and Adults with Disabilities, in an amount up to $2,000, in addition to currently permissible medical transportation services. The department is required to submit a report regarding the costs, effectiveness and future viability of the pilot project to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services no later than December 3, 2025. | Dead |
| LD585 | An Act to Use Certain Regional Transmission Organization Payments for Beneficial Electrification to Reduce Electricity Rates | An Act to Use Certain Regional Transmission Organization Payments for Beneficial Electrification to Reduce Electricity Rates | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD580 | An Act to Protect Maine Consumers by Prohibiting Fees Charged for Receiving Paper Statements from Financial Institutions and Credit Card Issuers | An Act to Protect Maine Consumers by Prohibiting Fees Charged for Receiving Paper Statements from Financial Institutions and Credit Card Issuers | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1132 | An Act to Further Protect Low-impact Landscaping | This bill prohibits any instrument, such as a deed or bylaw, governing activities on real estate within a condominium or real estate subject to common ownership from prohibiting low-impact landscaping on any portion of a condominium or real estate subject to common ownership, including limited common elements. It also prohibits the application of pesticides on limited common elements or land within 50 feet of a unit without the express permission of the unit owner. | Dead |
| LD672 | Resolve, to Rename the Salmon Falls Bridge Between Buxton and Hollis the Salmon Falls Veterans Memorial Bridge | Resolve, to Rename the Salmon Falls Bridge Between Buxton and Hollis the Salmon Falls Veterans Memorial Bridge | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD980 | Resolve, to Create the Commission to Improve the Oversight of the Long-term Care System | This resolve creates the Commission to Improve the Oversight of the Long-term Care System to study and make recommendations on the current status of and improvements to long-term care facilities and the long-term care industry in the State. The resolve requires the commission to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services by March 1, 2026 and authorizes the joint standing committee to submit legislation based on the findings and recommendations in the report to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. | Dead |
| LD518 | Resolve, Increasing Access to Maternal and Child Health Care | This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to examine barriers to the universal referral of all pregnant or parenting individuals and families to the State's maternal and child health home visiting program, known as "CradleME," and develop recommendations for removing the barriers and increasing referrals. The department is directed to seek input from interested stakeholders in the development of the recommendations and to make its report, including any suggested legislation, to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services no later than December 3, 2025. The joint standing committee is authorized to submit legislation to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. | Dead |
| LD79 | Resolve, to Rename the Bridge on Main Street Between Biddeford and Saco the General Wallace H. Nutting Memorial Bridge | Resolve, to Rename the Bridge on Main Street Between Biddeford and Saco the General Wallace H. Nutting Memorial Bridge | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HP0577 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING FEBRUARY 2025 AS CHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH MONTH | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING FEBRUARY 2025 AS CHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH MONTH | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HP0504 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MARCH 2025 AS SOCIAL WORK MONTH | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MARCH 2025 AS SOCIAL WORK 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 | Yea |
| LD143 | An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services | Recede And Concur RC #649 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| LD166 | An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Tobacco Products in Pharmacies and Retail Establishments Containing Pharmacies | Enactment RC #650 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | 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 #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 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| LD1088 | An Act to Enact the Maine Consumer Data Privacy Act | Accept Report 'a' Ought Not To Pass RC #645 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1126 | An Act Requiring Serial Numbers on Firearms and Prohibiting Undetectable Firearms | Enactment RC #654 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| LD1217 | An Act Regarding the New Markets Tax Credit and the Maine New Markets Capital Investment Program | Reconsider RC #659 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1217 | An Act Regarding the New Markets Tax Credit and the Maine New Markets Capital Investment Program | Commit RC #657 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| LD442 | An Act to Amend the Automotive Repair Statute | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #621 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| LD532 | An Act to Protect Health Care Workers by Addressing Assaults in Health Care Settings | Recede And Concur RC #632 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| LD1270 | An Act to Establish the Department of Energy Resources | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #626 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| LD1940 | An Act to Revise the Growth Management Program Laws | Accept Report 'c' Ought To Pass As Amended RC #625 | 06/18/2025 | 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 | Enactment RC #634 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| HP1338 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING JUNE 2025 AS PRIDE MONTH | Adoption RC #636 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| LD252 | An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact | Commit RC #608 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD252 | An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact | Recede And Concur RC #607 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD532 | An Act to Protect Health Care Workers by Addressing Assaults in Health Care Settings | Indefinitely Postpone RC #619 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1077 | An Act to Exempt Drinking Water from Sales and Use Tax | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #601 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1126 | An Act Requiring Serial Numbers on Firearms and Prohibiting Undetectable Firearms | Adopt Cah-660 RC #596 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| LD1270 | An Act to Establish the Department of Energy Resources | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #616 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| LD1667 | Resolve, to Allow Hemphill Farms, Inc. to Sue the State | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #597 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1749 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Corrections to Study Achieving Gender Equality | Accept Majority Ought To Pass Report RC #617 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| LD1868 | An Act to Advance a Clean Energy Economy by Updating Renewable and Clean Resource Procurement Laws | Enactment RC #612 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1868 | An Act to Advance a Clean Energy Economy by Updating Renewable and Clean Resource Procurement Laws | Enactment RC #610 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1868 | An Act to Advance a Clean Energy Economy by Updating Renewable and Clean Resource Procurement Laws | Commit RC #598 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1873 | An Act to Require Age Verification for Online Obscene Matter | Recede RC #611 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1963 | An Act to Protect and Compensate Public Utility Whistleblowers | Recede And Concur RC #614 | 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 | Passage To Be Engrossed As Amended RC #606 | 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 | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #605 | 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 | Table Until Later RC #587 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD184 | Resolve, Establishing the Commission to Study the Foreclosure Process | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #578 | 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 | Recede And Concur RC #586 | 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 | Accept Report 'b' Ought Not To Pass RC #556 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| LD252 | An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact | Reconsider RC #577 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD252 | An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact | Accept Majority Ought To Pass Report RC #567 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | 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 #576 | 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 | Table Until Later RC #566 | 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 | Accept Majority Ought To Pass Report RC #565 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD670 | An Act to Address Coercive Control in Domestic Abuse Cases | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #563 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| LD953 | An Act to Change the Definition of "Machine Gun" in the Maine Criminal Code | Indefinitely Postpone RC #569 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| LD1164 | An Act to Create Economic Opportunity for the Wabanaki Nations Through Internet Gaming | Indefinitely Postpone RC #574 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| LD1164 | An Act to Create Economic Opportunity for the Wabanaki Nations Through Internet Gaming | Reconsider RC #570 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1298 | An Act Establishing Alternative Pathways to Social Worker Licensing | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #572 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| LD1488 | An Act Regarding Cannabis Testing | Adopt Cas-320 RC #568 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Yea |
| 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 | Nay |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ME | Maine Senate District 32 | Senate | Democrat | In Office | 12/07/2022 | |
| ME | Maine House District 010 | House | Democrat | Out of Office | 12/05/2018 | 12/05/2024 |