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Legislator > Billy Bob Faulkingham
State Representative
Billy Bob Faulkingham
(R) - Maine
Maine House District 012
In Office - Started: 12/07/2022
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2 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0002
2 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0002
Phone: 800-423-2900
Phone 2: 207-287-1440
| 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 |
| 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 |
| LD461 | An Act to Fund Rural Patrol Services in Washington County | This bill provides funding for 4 Maine State Trooper positions and related All Other to conduct rural patrols in Washington County. | 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 |
| LD208 | An Act to Eliminate the 72-hour Waiting Period on Firearm Purchases | This bill repeals the requirement that a seller of firearms wait 72 hours before delivering a purchased firearm to the buyer. | In Committee |
| LD192 | An Act to Exempt from State Sales Tax Utility Vehicles Purchased for Use in Commercial Fishing, Agricultural Production, Aquacultural Production and Wood Harvesting | This bill provides that utility vehicles, as defined in the bill, are eligible for the refund of sales tax on depreciable machinery and equipment used in commercial agricultural production, commercial fishing, commercial aquacultural production and commercial wood harvesting. | Passed |
| LD395 | An Act to Restore Access to Federal Laws Beneficial to the Wabanaki Nations | This bill: 1. Establishes new findings within the Maine Implementing Act to distinguish legislative findings relevant to this bill from the findings made during the enactment of the original 1980 Implementing Act. Separate but identical findings are included for the Passamaquoddy Tribe, Penobscot Nation and Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians. These findings describe the effect of Section 6(h) and Section 16(b) of the federal Settlement Act, United States Public Law 96-420, in precluding the Passamaquoddy Tribe, Penobscot Nation and Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians from benefiting from federal laws and regulations that are generally applicable to or enacted for the benefit of Indians or relate to a special status or right of Indian nations or tribes or bands of Indians or to lands owned by or held in trust for Indians, Indian nations or tribes or bands of Indians if such law or regulation affects or preempts the civil, criminal or regulatory jurisdiction of this State, including, without limitation, laws of this State relating to land use or environmental matters. The findings describe the purposes of the amendments to the Maine Implementing Act included in this legislation regarding the application of state and federal law to the Passamaquoddy Tribe, Penobscot Nation and Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians; 2. Adds separate but identical sections to the Maine Implementing Act that apply to the Passamaquoddy Tribe, Penobscot Nation and Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians and that describe the application of federal and state law to each. Regarding state law, the language provides that any law of this State that would be affected or preempted by the operation, application or implementation of any statute or regulation of the United States that accords a special status or right to or relates to a special status or right of any Indian, Indian nation, tribe or band of Indians, Indian lands, Indian reservations, Indian country, Indian territory or land held in trust for Indians does not apply, except as specifically provided in the Act; 3. Regarding federal law, provides that any statute or regulation of the United States enacted before, on or after October 10, 1980 that accords a special status or right to or relates to a special status or right of any Indian, Indian nation, tribe or band of Indians, Indian lands, Indian reservations, Indian country, Indian territory or land held in trust for Indians is applicable within this State, without regard to any effect on the application of the laws of this State, except as specifically provided; 4. Provides that modification of the application of the laws of this State is limited to those particular circumstances in which the application of the laws of this State would conflict or interfere with the actual operation, application or implementation of a statute or regulation of the United States that accords a special status or right to or relates to a special status or right of any Indian, Indian nation, tribe or band of Indians, Indian lands, Indian reservations, Indian country, Indian territory or land held in trust for Indians. If the operation, application or implementation of any statute or regulation of the United States in this State would result in the absence of any law or regulation applicable to a matter of public health or safety, including without limitation laws relating to land use or environmental matters, the corresponding laws of the State with respect to that health or safety matter apply to fill any regulatory gap; 5. Describes a process by which the Passamaquoddy Tribe, Penobscot Nation and Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians are to notify the Attorney General in the event they believe that a law of this State does not apply by virtue of the amendments proposed by this legislation; 6. Provides that the Passamaquoddy Tribe, Penobscot Nation and Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians may conduct gaming activities only in accordance with the laws of this State and may not conduct gaming activities under the authority of the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act or under any regulations promulgated under the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act by the chair of the National Indian Gaming Commission or its successor organization; 7. Provides that the laws of this State applicable to the crimes and juvenile crimes described in this legislation apply to the Passamaquoddy Tribe, Penobscot Nation and Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians as provided in this legislation; the statutes and regulations of the United States that conflict with or affect or preempt the jurisdiction of this State over crimes and juvenile crimes described in this legislation do not apply in this State; and the federal laws identified in Section 6(c) of United States Public Law 96-420 do not apply in this State; 8. Provides that the federal Clean Water Act, the federal Water Quality Act of 1987, the federal Clean Air Act and the federal Indian Mineral Development Act of 1982, as well as all future amendments to those laws, do not apply to the Passamaquoddy Tribe, Penobscot Nation, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians and Mi'kmaq Nation and their Indian territory or trust land to the extent the provisions affect or preempt the application of the laws of this State and extend the jurisdiction of the tribe, nation or band beyond their Indian territory or trust land, unless such provisions are specifically made applicable within the State; 9. Provides that, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the State, the Passamaquoddy Tribe, the Penobscot Nation and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians agree and intend that each tribe, nation or band has the power to enact laws and ordinances relating to the operation, application and implementation of any statute or regulation of the United States enacted before, on or after October 10, 1980 that accords a special status or right to or relates to a special status or right of any Indian, Indian nation, tribe or band of Indians, Indian lands, Indian reservations, Indian country, Indian territory or land held in trust for Indians, except as otherwise provided; 10. Creates a new chapter within the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 30 pertaining to the Mi'kmaq Nation with provisions that mirror those applicable to the Passamaquoddy Tribe, Penobscot Nation and Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians; 11. Adds contingent effective date language specific to each tribe, nation or band; and 12. Adds contingent repeal language. | In Committee |
| LD584 | An Act to Make the Director of the Office of Cannabis Policy an Appointed Position Subject to Confirmation by the Legislature | This bill provides that the Director of the Office of Cannabis Policy within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services is appointed by the Governor and that the appointment is subject to review by the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over cannabis matters and to confirmation by the Legislature. The bill also requires the Governor to appoint the Director of the Office of Cannabis Policy no later than 60 days after the effective date of this legislation. | In Committee |
| LD681 | An Act Regarding Public Higher Education Funding in the State | This bill provides that, beginning in fiscal year 2025-26 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Legislature must increase the percentage of the Maine Maritime Academy's total state appropriation as a share of its total operating costs by 5% until the percentage of the Maine Maritime Academy's total state appropriation as a share of the academy's total operating costs equals at least the lesser of the percentages of the University of Maine System's and the Maine Community College System's total state appropriation as a share of each respective system's total operating costs. The bill also establishes the Commission to Study the Funding of Public Institutions of Higher Education to review the State's laws and rules related to higher education, analyze past, present and alternative methods and mechanisms of funding public higher education and analyze present and future goals, including expanding access to affordable higher education. The commission is required to submit a report based on its findings to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs by December 3, 2025. | Passed |
| LD555 | An Act to Create a Separate Department of Child and Family Services | This bill creates a new Department of Child and Family Services and transfers the functions of the Department of Health and Human Services that relate to child and family services and child welfare to the new department. The Department of Child and Family Services will have a commissioner appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Legislature as is the current Commissioner of Health and Human Services. The bill also establishes provisions for transferring functions to the new department. | In Committee |
| LD785 | An Act to Enact the Remaining Recommendations of the Task Force on Changes to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Implementing Act | This bill implements several of the consensus recommendations of the Task Force on Changes to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Implementing Act governing the relationship between the State and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation. The January 14, 2020 report of the Task Force on Changes to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Implementing Act is available online at http://legislature.maine.gov/maine-indian-claims-tf . The bill makes substantial changes to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 30, chapter 601, currently known as "AN ACT to Implement the Maine Indian Claims Settlement," including by renaming the chapter "the Maine Implementing Act." The bill is designed to restore to the Passamaquoddy Tribe, the Penobscot Nation and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians many of the rights to self-determination enjoyed by other federally recognized Indian tribes within the United States. To carry out this purpose, the bill repeals or amends many provisions of the Maine Implementing Act to recognize that federal Indian law governs the rights, privileges, powers, duties and immunities of the tribe, nation and band. "Federal Indian law" is defined to mean the United States Constitution and all generally applicable federal statutes and regulations as well as common law and case law interpreting, implementing, applying or enforcing those constitutional, statutory and regulatory provisions relating to the rights, status, privileges, powers, duties and immunities of federally recognized Indian tribes and their members and land or other natural resources within the United States. With respect to tribal land acquisition, the bill: 1. Repeals the definition of "Houlton Band Jurisdiction Land" enacted in Public Law 2023, chapter 369 and instead recognizes that the rights, privileges, powers, duties and immunities of the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians recognized in the Maine Implementing Act apply to "Houlton Band Trust Land," which is defined to include all land and natural resources acquired by the United States Secretary of the Interior in trust for the band under the federal Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians Supplementary Claims Settlement Act of 1986 or any other applicable federal law, including the federal Indian Reorganization Act; 2. Amends the provisions describing Passamaquoddy Indian territory and Penobscot Indian territory, the lands over which the tribe and the nation have the rights, privileges, powers, duties and immunities of federally recognized Indian tribes under the Maine Implementing Act. The bill restructures the procedures for land acquired by the United States Secretary of the Interior in trust for the tribe or the nation to be considered Indian territory. Instead of limiting trust land acquisition to specifically described parcels of land, the bill recognizes as Indian territory any land acquired by the secretary in trust for the tribe or nation within specific counties of the State either prior to the effective date of this legislation or after the effective date of this legislation if the land is not located within the borders of a city, town, village or plantation. If trust land within the specified counties is acquired after the effective date of this legislation and is located within the borders of a city, town, village or plantation, it may be considered Indian territory if the tribe or nation enters into an agreement with the local government addressing payments in lieu of taxes, allocation of law enforcement responsibility and land use. Lands acquired in trust for the tribe or the nation under any applicable federal law, including the federal Indian Reorganization Act, are also considered Indian territory; 3. Includes within Passamaquoddy Indian territory all lands owned in fee simple by the Passamaquoddy Tribe on the effective date of this legislation if those lands are located within specific counties and are subsequently acquired by the United States Secretary of the Interior in trust for the Passamaquoddy Tribe; and 4. Repeals the provisions of the Maine Implementing Act regarding the takings of tribal lands for public use. The bill provides that the Passamaquoddy Tribe, the Penobscot Nation and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, as well as their officers and employees, are immune from suit to the same extent as other federally recognized Indian tribes and their officers and employees under federal Indian law. With respect to the regulation of natural resources, the bill: 1. Recognizes the exclusive authority of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, the Penobscot Nation and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians to regulate fishing, hunting, trapping and other taking of wildlife by both tribal and nontribal citizens within their respective Indian territories and trust land; 2. Retains the authority of the Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission under current law to regulate fishing on boundary waters; and 3. Authorizes the State, solely for conservation purposes, to regulate tribal members engaged in fishing, hunting, trapping and other taking of wildlife off Indian territory or trust land to the extent permitted under federal Indian law and consistent with reserved tribal treaty rights. The bill combines within one section of the Maine Implementing Act the authority of law enforcement officers appointed by the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation to enforce laws within their respective Indian territories and trust land. The bill recognizes that law enforcement officers appointed by the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation have exclusive authority to enforce within their respective Indian territories, and law enforcement officers appointed by the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians have exclusive authority to enforce within Houlton Band Trust Land, the criminal and juvenile laws over which their respective tribal courts have exclusive jurisdiction. The bill also recognizes the authority of the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians to create a tribal school committee analogous to the authority of the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation to create tribal school committees under current law. With respect to civil jurisdiction, the bill: 1. Recognizes the exclusive authority, under federal Indian law, of the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation to exercise civil regulatory authority on their respective Indian territory or trust land over their respective tribal members and tribal entities; 2. Recognizes the concurrent authority with the State, under federal Indian law, of the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation to exercise civil regulatory authority on their respective Indian territory or trust land over persons and entities who are not tribal citizens or tribal entities; and 3. Recognizes and adopts the application of federal Indian law with respect to the authority of the State and of the tribal courts of the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation to exercise adjudicatory jurisdiction over civil actions arising on the band's, tribe's or nation's respective Indian territory or trust land. The bill also requires the development of a dispute resolution process to facilitate resolution of disputes between the State and tribes. The bill explicitly provides that, for purposes of the federal Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, Public Law 96-420, except for any provision of federal Indian law that conflicts with the Maine Implementing Act's allocation between the State and the tribes of jurisdiction over crimes and juvenile crimes, the provisions of any federal law enacted before, on or after October 10, 1980, that accords a special status or right to or relates to a special status or right of any Indian, Indian nation, tribe or band of Indians, Indian lands, Indian reservations, Indian country, Indian territory or land held in trust for Indians applies to the Passamaquoddy Tribe, the Penobscot Nation, the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians and their members and tribal lands. However, the Passamaquoddy Tribe, the Penobscot Nation and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians may conduct gaming activities only in accordance with state law and not under the authority of the federal Indian Gaming Regulatory Act or its implementing regulations. Finally, the bill either repeals or repeals and replaces each provision of the Maine Implementing Act that was enacted by Public Law 1981, chapter 675 and provides that, if the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians certifies its agreement to the provisions of this legislation, that agreement constitutes a jurisdictional agreement between the State and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians for purposes of the federal Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, Public Law 96-420, Section 6(e)(2) but does not constitute an agreement by the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians that the provisions of Public Law 1981, chapter 675 ever took effect. The provisions of this bill take effect 150 days after adjournment of the First Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature only if the relevant officials of the Passamaquoddy Tribe, the Penobscot Nation and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians certify the tribe's, nation's and band's agreements to the legislation within 120 days after adjournment of the First Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. | In Committee |
| LD958 | An Act to Prohibit Eminent Domain on Existing Tribal Trust Lands | This bill amends the Act to Implement the Maine Indian Claims Settlement and the Mi'kmaq Nation Restoration Act to prevent the taking of land for public uses under the laws of this State if the land is located within Passamaquoddy Indian territory, Penobscot Indian territory, the Houlton Band Trust Land or the Mi'kmaq Nation Trust Land. | Vetoed |
| 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 |
| LD1694 | An Act to Provide an Income Tax Credit for Certain Disaster Mitigation Projects for Working Waterfront Property | This bill provides a tax credit for taxpayers that undertake working waterfront disaster mitigation projects, such as the elevation of foundation walls, flood risk protection, shoreline stabilization and warning systems. The credit is equal to 30% of the cost of the qualifying working waterfront disaster mitigation project but may not exceed $300,000. A business qualifies if it has $47,000,000 or less in average annual gross receipts. | 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 |
| LD1353 | An Act Regarding Required Landings in the Menhaden Fishery | This bill authorizes the Commissioner of Marine Resources to issue a 2026 resident commercial menhaden fishing license or a 2026 nonresident commercial menhaden fishing license to an individual if that individual reported legal landings of menhaden of 20,000 pounds or more in at least one of the following years, 2019, 2020, 2021 or 2022. The individual must also have possessed a license to fish commercially for menhaden in at least 2 of the following years, 2019, 2020, 2021 or 2022. | 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 |
| LD1054 | An Act to Authorize the Penobscot Nation to Use Wild Game Harvested on the Penobscot Indian Territory at Food Venues Located Within the Penobscot Indian Territory | This bill provides an exception to the prohibitions against the purchase, sale or offer for sale of certain wild animals and wild birds. A member of the Penobscot Nation who is a resident of the State and who has lawfully killed or trapped and registered a bear, deer, moose or wild turkey or lawfully killed or trapped a wild bird within the Penobscot Indian territory may use, sell or offer for sale or aid in buying, selling or offering for sale bear, deer, moose, wild turkey and wild birds at an eating establishment, lodging place, mobile eating place or recreational camp or sporting camp that is located within the Penobscot Indian territory. | In Committee |
| LD1229 | An Act to Create Equity in Maine's Campaign Finance Laws | This bill applies the same contribution limit in any one election cycle to a gubernatorial or legislative candidate who is not on the ballot in a primary election as a gubernatorial or legislative candidate who is on the ballot in primary election. | Dead |
| LD1733 | An Act to Provide Reduced Interest Rates for Logging and Fishing Operations | An Act to Provide Reduced Interest Rates for Logging and Fishing Operations | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1810 | Resolve, to Establish the Commission to Study the Judicial Disciplinary Process | This bill establishes the Commission on Judicial Conduct, comprised of 3 judicial officers appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, one each from the Superior Court, the District Court and the Probate Court; 3 licensed attorneys appointed by the Chief Justice; and 3 members of the public appointed by the Governor. The bill charges the commission with receiving and investigating complaints, conducting hearings and making findings and recommendations to the Supreme Judicial Court concerning allegations that an Active or Active Retired Judge or Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, the Superior Court, the District Court or a county Probate Court has either engaged in actions or omissions that constitute grounds for discipline or has a mental or physical disability affecting the judge's or justice's judicial performance. The bill also directs the commission to hire an executive director to assist the commission in performing its duties, including by screening complaints and recommending dispositions to the commission; employing counsel, private investigators, hearing officers and other staff; administering the commission's budget; and preparing an annual report to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court and the joint standing committee of the Legislature with jurisdiction over judiciary matters. Finally, the bill authorizes the Supreme Judicial Court to establish an advisory committee with the authority to issue advisory opinions interpreting the Maine Code of Judicial Conduct. | 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 |
| 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 | This bill requires the Maine State Ferry Service to consult with the Maine State Ferry Advisory Board on matters regarding budgets, strategic planning and major operational decisions. Recommendations made by the board regarding certain matters must be considered by the Maine State Ferry Service during its decision-making processes for the following fiscal year. The bill requires the Maine State Ferry Service to provide regular reports to the board and requires the board to review and provide feedback and recommendations. The bill also requires the board to conduct an annual review of the Maine State Ferry Service's performance and operations and provide a report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over transportation matters by January 15th of each year. | Vetoed |
| 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 |
| LD1888 | Resolve, to Study the Establishment of a New Crime of Racketeering for Drug Offenses and Sex Trafficking | This bill creates the criminal offense of racketeering, which allows for prosecution of individuals who are members of a racketeering enterprise when 2 or more qualifying criminal acts have been committed by members of the criminal enterprise. Qualifying criminal acts include human trafficking, drug trafficking, illicit marijuana cultivation operations, thefts and financial fraud, gambling and violent acts. The bill provides a mechanism for assets, including money, wrongfully obtained through a racketeering enterprise to be forfeited by amending the criminal asset forfeiture laws. | Passed |
| 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 |
| LD1954 | An Act to Lower Household Costs by Expanding the Sales Tax Exemption for Certain Grocery Staples Sold in Grocery Stores | This bill exempts from the sales tax, when sold in a grocery store, items for nourishment or products for internal human consumption such as prepared foods, including sandwiches and salads; supplemental meal items, such as pretzels, cheese sticks and dips; fruit bars and granola bars; nuts and seeds; and meat sticks. Liquor, water, medicine, dietary substitutes, candy, dessert and bakery items and cannabis remain subject to tax, regardless of where sold. "Grocery store" is defined to be a store primarily engaged in the retail sale of canned food, dry goods, fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh meats, fish and poultry and includes a convenience store, but does not include a separately owned eating establishment located within a grocery store. | In Committee |
| LD1902 | An Act to Support Nonprofit Organizations by Authorizing the Operation of Electronic Lucky Seven Devices and Similar Sealed Ticket Games | This bill authorizes the Department of Public Safety, Gambling Control Unit to issue licenses to operate electronic lucky seven devices to eligible organizations. The bill provides restrictions on the number, location and operation of electronic lucky seven devices and requires licensees to operate at least one kiosk for the redemption of electronic lucky seven vouchers. It also requires distributors of electronic lucky seven devices to be licensed. The bill also makes other necessary changes to the charitable gaming laws. | In Committee |
| 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 |
| LD252 | An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact | This bill repeals the National Popular Vote for President Act and makes changes to other election statutes to reflect that repeal. | Dead |
| 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 | Current law imposes a tax at the rate of 1 1/2 cents per pound on wild blueberries shipped or processed in the State; 1/2 of the tax is paid by the seller and 1/2 of the tax is paid by the processor or the shipper. This bill exempts sellers of blueberries harvested in the State from the imposition of the blueberry tax for the 2025 calendar year, which will result in a tax of 0.75 cents per pound on processors and shippers for blueberries harvested in the State. Processors and shippers continue to be responsible for collecting and paying the tax on blueberries harvested outside the State. | Dead |
| LD1933 | Resolve, to Study Pathways for Tribal Law Enforcement Officers to Receive a Waiver for the Maine Criminal Justice Academy Basic Law Enforcement Training Requirement | Resolve, to Study Pathways for Tribal Law Enforcement Officers to Receive a Waiver for the Maine Criminal Justice Academy Basic Law Enforcement Training Requirement | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1672 | An Act to Allow Participation in the Adult Use Cannabis Tracking System to Be Voluntary | This bill amends the Cannabis Legalization Act to provide that a cannabis establishment licensee may voluntarily elect, but is not required, to use the tracking system for adult use cannabis and adult use cannabis products implemented and administered by the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Office of Cannabis Policy. The office is directed to adopt major substantive rules regarding minimum inventory control system and other requirements that must be satisfied by a licensee that does not voluntarily elect to use that tracking system implemented and administered by the office. The bill also prohibits the office from renewing, extending, negotiating or entering into any contract or other agreement with a 3rd-party entity for the administration of, or otherwise relating to, the tracking system for adult use cannabis and adult use cannabis products. The office is directed to, as expeditiously as possible, take all reasonable steps to cancel or terminate any such existing contracts or agreements with 3rd-party entities, subject to the terms, conditions and other limitations of those contracts or agreements. By June 30, 2026, the Department of Administrative and Financial Services is required to transfer to the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, Bureau of Veterans' Services, Maine Veterans' Homes Stabilization Fund, established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 37-B, section 613, all funds in its possession allocated or otherwise dedicated to the administration of, or otherwise relating to, the tracking system for adult use cannabis and adult use cannabis products. | Dead |
| 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 |
| LD525 | An Act to Strengthen Maine Citizens' Second Amendment Rights by Allowing the Discharge of Firearms on Private Property That Is Within 500 Feet of School Property in Certain Circumstances | This bill provides that the current prohibition on the discharge of a firearm within 500 feet of a school does not apply to a person acting pursuant to the laws governing the use of force in defense of premises. | Dead |
| LD291 | An Act to Eliminate the Lodging Tax on Campground Sites and Revert to Using the Current Sales Tax | Under current law, the rental of living quarters in tourist camps and trailer camps is subject to a sales tax of 9%. This bill removes living quarters in tourist camps and trailer camps from inclusion under the 9% sales tax rate, which will result in the rental of living quarters in trailer camps and tourist camps being subject to the general sales tax rate, which is currently 5.5%. | 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 |
| LD1330 | An Act to Clarify That a Business's License or Subscription to Use Software Is Not Considered a Lease for the Purposes of Sales and Use Tax | This bill amends the definition of "lease or rental" within the provisions of the law governing sales and use tax to clarify that leases, licenses, subscriptions or similar rights to use or access software are not considered leases or rentals if the user is a business. | Dead |
| LD1231 | An Act to Require Legislative Approval of Proposed Permanent Changes to the Overnight Docking of State Ferries on Islands | An Act to Require Legislative Approval of Proposed Permanent Changes to the Overnight Docking of State Ferries on Islands | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1858 | An Act to Promote Local Seafood in Schools | An Act to Promote Local Seafood in Schools | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD150 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Provide for the Popular Election of the Treasurer of State | This resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that provides for popular election beginning in 2026 of the Treasurer of State biennially in the manner currently provided for Senators and Representatives. | Dead |
| LD856 | An Act to Phase Out the Income Tax | This bill phases out the income tax over 5 years beginning in 2026 and requires that state department budgets be reduced proportionally. | Dead |
| LD1561 | Resolve, Regarding the Percentage of a Lobster and Crab Fishing Licensee's Lobster Traps That May Be Fished in a Lobster Management Zone Listed on the License as a Secondary Zone | Resolve, Regarding the Percentage of a Lobster and Crab Fishing Licensee's Lobster Traps That May Be Fished in a Lobster Management Zone Listed on the License as a Secondary Zone | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HP1333 | Joint Order, to Require the Legislative Council to Hold a Public Hearing on the Initiated Bill Enacting the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act | Joint Order, to Require the Legislative Council to Hold a Public Hearing on the Initiated Bill Enacting the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act | Introduced |
| 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 |
| LD1708 | An Act to Create the Commercial Fishing Safety Fund to Further Develop Training and Provide Equipment to Recover Ships and Other Watercraft and Persons in Distress or Lost at Sea | An Act to Create the Commercial Fishing Safety Fund to Further Develop Training and Provide Equipment to Recover Ships and Other Watercraft and Persons in Distress or Lost at Sea | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1593 | An Act to Require Certain Public Entities to Define Their Use of the Term "Equity" | This bill requires the State or a local government or other political subdivision or educational institution when making a decision based on advancing equity, the entity making that decision must provide on a publicly accessible website the definition of "equity" used to make the decision and the metrics used by that entity to measure equity. | Dead |
| 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 |
| LD1341 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Marine Resources to Evaluate How to Effectively Allow 2 Licensed Individuals to Fish for Lobsters or Scallops from a Single Vessel | Resolve, Directing the Department of Marine Resources to Evaluate How to Effectively Allow 2 Licensed Individuals to Fish for Lobsters or Scallops from a Single Vessel | | Passed |
| LD147 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Provide for the Popular Election of the Secretary of State | This resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that provides for popular election beginning in 2026 of the Secretary of State biennially in the manner currently provided for Senators and Representatives. | Dead |
| LD149 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Provide for the Popular Election of the Attorney General | This resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that provides for popular election beginning in 2026 of the Attorney General biennially in the manner currently provided for Senators and Representatives. | Dead |
| LD553 | An Act to Assert State Sovereignty over Ocean Waters and Marine Resources up to 12 Nautical Miles off the State's Coast | This bill provides that, notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the State owns and may exercise jurisdiction over and control all waters within the rise and fall of the tide seaward 12 nautical miles and makes other changes to the law governing the State's sovereignty over and ownership of offshore waters, submerged lands and the harvesting of marine resources. It also requires the Office of the Attorney General to take all actions necessary to assert the State's sovereignty over and ownership of offshore waters and the harvesting of the living resources of the seas from those waters and, by May 1, 2025, to submit to the Joint Standing Committee on Marine Resources a report outlining the progress of those actions. | Dead |
| LD1333 | An Act to Make Changes to the Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits Program | This bill makes the following changes to the paid family and medical leave benefits program. 1. It requires an employee to be employed with an employer for 120 days before being eligible to take leave. 2. It clarifies that the definition of "self-employed individual" applies only to employers with less than 15 employees. 3. It allows employers to have intermittent leave schedules reviewed by the program administrator. 4. It applies the same delay of implementation to private employers with collective bargaining agreements as currently applies to public employers. 5. It prohibits the taking of paid leave unless the employee simultaneously takes any available unpaid leave. 6. It reduces the retroactive application deadline from 90 days to 30 days. 7. It requires the paid family and medical leave benefits program administrator to give employers 5 days' notice of leave being approved for an employee. 8. It requires the Department of Labor to post on its publicly accessible website no later than February 1st of each year the dates by which contribution reports and premiums must be remitted. 9. It relieves employers with collective bargaining agreements of the obligation to bargain over the employee's share of the premium. 10. It allows employers to correct mistakes in the employee share of taxes for up to 3 months. 11. It establishes a 52-week formula for calculating the 15-employee threshold. 12. It changes the applications of penalties against employers from mandatory to discretionary. 13. It requires self-employed individuals who elect coverage to pay 1/4 of a year's worth of premiums upon first applying for coverage. 14. It places limits on the fees charged for private plan substitutions. 15. It requires the Department of Labor to post on its publicly accessible website the appropriate tax forms, based on guidance from the United States Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Maine Revenue Services, that employers with approved private plans must provide to employees taking leave. 16. It clarifies that the provision that provides that an employee who takes leave is entitled to be restored to the employee's former position does not apply to an employee who is taking retroactive paid leave and who did not notify the employer for more than 5 days of the employee's absence. 17. It changes rules from routine technical to major substantive. 18. It clarifies that at no time may an employee receive benefits of over 100% of the employee's wages. 19. It establishes that employee count is determined using an existing method to calculate unemployment insurance liability. | Dead |
| LD1273 | An Act to Make Paid Family and Medical Leave Voluntary | Part A of this bill repeals the provisions in law that established the paid family and medical leave benefits program. Part A requires the Department of Labor to refund contributions made by employers and self-employed individuals to the Department of Labor under the paid family and medical leave benefits program and requires an employer that deducted a portion of the premium required for an employee from that employee's wages to remit that portion of the premium to the employee as part of the employee's wages. Part A also requires the State Controller to transfer unappropriated funds from the Department of Labor, Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund, Other Special Revenue Funds account to the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund. Part B of the bill establishes a voluntary paid family and medical leave program for employers of 50 or more employees and also allows individual employees whose employers do not participate in the program to voluntarily participate. Part B requires the Commissioner of Labor to contract with an insurance company authorized to do business in this State to provide this coverage after a competitive bidding process. The commissioner is required to issue the request for proposals no later than January 1, 2026, and voluntary paid family and medical leave coverage must be available for purchase no later than January 1, 2027. The program provides employees who are eligible for paid family and medical leave with 60% of their average weekly wage, up to a maximum amount based on the cap on wages eligible for social security benefits, for up to 6 weeks per year. | Dead |
| LD1553 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Require a Supermajority of the Legislature to Approve Raising Taxes | This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to require that the rate of taxation imposed by the State with regard to any tax may not be increased and a new tax may not be imposed by the State unless by consent of the people by exercise of their right of direct initiative or by a 2/3 vote of the members of each House. | Dead |
| LD1790 | An Act Regarding Lobster Measurement | This bill removes the authority of the Commissioner of Marine Resources to adopt rules to set minimum and maximum lobster sizes different from those specified in statute. Instead, the bill requires the department to submit legislation to the Legislature when changes to minimum and maximum lobster sizes are necessary to comply with changes to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission Interstate Fishery Management Plan for American Lobster. | 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 |
| LD1357 | An Act to Create Alternative Pathways for Certification or Endorsement of Industrial Arts Teachers | This bill directs the State Board of Education to adopt rules to amend the credentialing of educational personnel to create a pathway for a teacher to obtain a conditional certificate and a pathway for a teacher to obtain an endorsement on a teaching certificate for a component of industrial arts with an experiential laboratory. | Dead |
| LD1253 | An Act to Authorize the Commissioner of Marine Resources to Add Limited-access Area Fishing Days During the Scallop Season | An Act to Authorize the Commissioner of Marine Resources to Add Limited- access Area Fishing Days During the Scallop Season | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1525 | An Act to Promote Firewood Banks in Maine | An Act to Promote Firewood Banks in Maine | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1655 | An Act to Allow the Keeping of Chickens on Private Residential Property | An Act to Allow the Keeping of Chickens on Private Residential Property | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| LD309 | An Act to Allow a Political Party to Determine How That Party's Nominee Is Selected in a Primary Election | This bill allows a political party, during the state convention held by each party between March 1st and August 1st biennially during each general election year, to determine if the party's primary election to be held for the general election following the next general election after the party's convention will be determined by ranked-choice voting pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 21-A, section 723-A or by an alternate method determined for the party's primary election at the state convention and incorporated into the party's rules. The bill requires the party's state committee to notify the Secretary of State no later than October 1st of the year prior to a party's primary election if that party has determined an alternate method for conducting that party's primary election. | Dead |
| LD855 | An Act to Limit Eligibility Under the Maine Clean Election Act | This bill limits participation as a Maine Clean Election Act candidate to once every 15 years for either House of the Legislature. | Dead |
| LD1683 | An Act to Make a Freedom of Access Act Request Free of Charge upon Petition | This bill amends the Freedom of Access Act by: 1. Prohibiting the charging of a fee by an agency or official that has custody or control of a public record that is requested if that request is accompanied by a petition signed by at least 150 individuals registered to vote in this State making the same request; and 2. Requiring that the agency or official to provide an update regarding the status of the request at least every 30 working days; current law requires the agency or official to make a good faith effort to comply with the request within the nonbinding estimate of time provided by the agency or official. | Dead |
| LD1470 | An Act to Create a Liaison Program to Self-insured Entities and Consumers | This bill directs the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Bureau of Insurance to establish a liaison program, including a complaint process, to provide assistance to consumers seeking coverage or reimbursement of claims from a self-insured entity. | Dead |
| LD1331 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine Regarding When the Governor May Call the Legislature into Session | This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to provide that if the Legislature has adjourned without day, the Governor may not convene the Legislature until 90 days after the Legislature adjourned without day. | 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 |
| LD1438 | Resolve, Regarding Deer Hunting on Mount Desert Island | This resolve directs the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to adopt rules opening Mount Desert Island to deer hunting in accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, section 11402, subsection 4. | Dead |
| LD777 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to Study Lengthening the Muzzle-loading Season for Deer in Certain Wildlife Management Districts | Resolve, Directing the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to Study Lengthening the Muzzle-loading Season for Deer in Certain Wildlife Management Districts | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| LD148 | An Act to Provide for the Statewide Popular Election of the State Auditor | This bill provides for the statewide popular election of the State Auditor every 4 years beginning in 2028. | Dead |
| LD890 | An Act to Permit the Dispensing of Ivermectin Pursuant to a Standing Order upon Request for COVID-19, Flu and Cancer Patients | This bill authorizes a pharmacist to dispense ivermectin upon request of a patient pursuant to a standing order from a practitioner acting within the lawful scope of the practitioner's license. The standing order must meet certain conditions, including authorization to dispense ivermectin to a patient for the treatment of COVID-19, influenza or cancer. A pharmacist who acts under a standing order is deemed to be dispensing ivermectin for a legitimate medical purpose in the usual course of the practice of pharmacy. | 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 |
| 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 |
| LD1316 | An Act to Amend the Mandated Reporter Laws Regarding Medical Records, Additional Information and Immunity | This bill clarifies that mandated reporters are not required to document suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation in the subject's medical record or report shared to 3rd parties. Reports must still be made to the Department of Health and Human Services. If suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation is documented in a medical record or other report that is shared with a 3rd party outside of the reporter's office or place of business and the reporter subsequently discovers information that may dispute or counter a report of suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation, the reporter is required to add the subsequent information to the medical record or other report and forward the amended medical record or other report to every 3rd party who received the initial medical record or other report. If a reporter discovers information that disputes or counters a report of abuse, neglect or exploitation provided to the Department of Health and Human Services, the reporter is required to forward the subsequent information to the department within 48 hours of discovery of the subsequent information. This bill excepts from immunity persons who violate the reporting laws or provide 3rd parties an unverified diagnosis or subjective opinion of abuse, neglect or exploitation. | Dead |
| LD1249 | An Act to Delay Payment of Benefits Under the Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits Program | This bill delays the implementation of the paid family and medical leave benefits program until July 1, 2027 and the requirement that the administrator of the program begin processing claims for benefits under the program until November 1, 2027. The bill also makes corresponding changes to other related implementation dates. | Dead |
| LD918 | An Act to Allow a Qualifying Religious Organization to Self-insure for Automobile Insurance | This bill provides authorization for qualifying religious organizations to satisfy the requirements for financial responsibility to operate a motor vehicle registered in this State through self-insurance. The bill sets forth the requirements that must be met before the Secretary of State may grant a certificate of self-insurance to a religious organization and its members. The bill authorizes a member of the qualifying religious organization to provide that certificate of self-insurance as evidence of financial responsibility to register a motor vehicle owned or operated by that member. | Dead |
| LD1592 | An Act to Reduce Energy Costs by Permitting the Ownership of Generation by Investor-owned Transmission and Distribution Utilities | This bill permits an investor-owned transmission and distribution utility to own, have a financial interest in or otherwise control generation or generation-related assets in accordance with terms, conditions and standards of conduct adopted by the Public Utilities Commission. The commission must adopt major substantive rules that ensure that the ratepayers of an investor-owned transmission and distribution utility are not responsible for the costs of that investor-owned transmission and distribution utility's generation or generation-related assets except as approved by the commission; require the accounts and records of the investor-owned transmission and distribution utility to be kept separate from the accounts and records associated with any generation or generation-related assets owned by the utility; and protect ratepayers. The commission's rules may also establish standards of conduct applicable to the ownership of generation or generation-related assets by an affiliate of an investor-owned transmission and distribution utility. | Dead |
| LD1274 | An Act to Cap State General Assistance Reimbursement to Municipalities | This bill provides that the Department of Health and Human Services may not reimburse a single municipality for general assistance in an amount totaling more than 50% of the funds reimbursed to municipalities for general assistance in a fiscal year. | Dead |
| SP0713 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 1, 2025 AS PUREBRED DOG DAY | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 1, 2025 AS PUREBRED DOG DAY | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1373 | An Act to Repeal the National Popular Vote Compact | This bill repeals the National Popular Vote for President Act and makes changes to other election statutes to reflect that repeal. | Dead |
| LD1352 | An Act to Amend Provisions Regarding the Scallop Fishery License Apprentice Program, Licensing and Limited Access Areas | This bill amends provisions regarding the scallop fishery by: 1. Prohibiting an apprentice program for entry into the scallop fishery to be conducted through a lottery; 2. Allowing a new entrant to be eligible for a hand fishing scallop license or a scallop dragging license only upon the termination of an existing hand fishing scallop license or a scallop dragging license; and 3. Directing the Department of Marine Resources to adopt rules to allow all holders of hand fishing scallop licenses and scallop dragging licenses equal access to limited access scallop fishing areas during the same period and not on a rotational basis. | Dead |
| LD1334 | An Act to Require Retailers to Place Any Liquor That Is Accessible to Customers at Least 48 Inches from the Payment Terminal | This bill requires a liquor retailer to display liquor that is not placed in a display case or behind the counter at least 48 inches from a cash register or payment terminal. | Dead |
| HP1185 | JOINT RESOLUTION TO RECOGNIZE THE SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLES OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD | JOINT RESOLUTION TO RECOGNIZE THE SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL OF THE BATTLES OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1168 | An Act to Amend the Law Regarding the Current Use Valuation of Certain Working Waterfront Land with Respect to Commercial Boat Yards | This bill amends the tax laws relating to the current use valuation of certain working waterfront land to clarify that working waterfront land includes commercial boat yards. The bill also includes a new definition for "commercial boat yard." | 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 |
| HP1155 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING CHRISTIAN HOLY WEEK IN MAINE | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING CHRISTIAN HOLY WEEK IN MAINE | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD373 | An Act to Establish "Welcome Home" as the Official State Anthem | This bill establishes "Welcome Home," as written, recorded and performed by Gordon Thomas Ward, as the official state anthem. | Dead |
| LD969 | An Act to Increase Emergency Medical Services Provider Training Opportunities | This bill directs the Emergency Medical Services' Board to adopt rules to allow municipalities to conduct or host emergency medical services licensing and relicensing training. | Dead |
| LD495 | An Act to Require Rules Designed to Reduce Climate Change to Include Estimates of the Reduction in Adverse Climate Effects and of the Cost to Consumers | This bill requires the Department of Environmental Protection, when adopting rules designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to issue an estimate of the level of adverse effects on the climate that will be prevented by the reduction in emissions and the costs associated with the reduction in emissions that will be borne by consumers. | Dead |
| LD226 | An Act to Protect the Cultural Resources and Historical Heritage of Sears Island in Searsport by Extending Conservation Easement Protections | This bill directs the Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, to extend the current conservation easement to cover all lands on Sears Island that are not managed under a permanent buffer conservation easement between the State and the trust. | Dead |
| LD658 | An Act to Lower Property Taxes by Increasing the Homestead Property Tax Exemption | This bill increases the property tax exemption for a homestead from $25,000 to $50,000 of the just value of the homestead for property tax years beginning on or after April 1, 2025. | Dead |
| LD1171 | An Act to Restore Complimentary Licenses to Hunt, Trap and Fish for Residents 70 Years of Age and Older | This bill repeals the law prohibiting complimentary licenses to hunt, trap and fish for persons 70 years of age and older, which has the effect of restoring the requirement that the complimentary licenses must be issued upon application. | Dead |
| LD183 | An Act to Cap Publicly Owned Land Area at No More than 50 Percent of Any County | This bill limits publicly owned land in the State to no more than 50% of the land area in any county. The bill also allows the State, a county or a municipality to exceed the limits with the approval of 2/3 of each House of the Legislature. The Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry is required to report biannually beginning April 15, 2026 to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over public lands matters on the percentage of federal, state, county and municipal property ownership statewide and by county. | 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 |
| LD336 | An Act to Change the Waiting List System for Commercial Lobster and Crab Fishing Licenses | This bill establishes that, notwithstanding any provision of law or rule to the contrary, the exit ratio for lobster and crab fishing licenses within limited-entry zones is one to one. | Dead |
| LD687 | An Act to Assert State Ownership over Ocean Waters up to 12 Nautical Miles and Submerged Lands and Marine Resources up to 24 Nautical Miles off the State's Coast and to Direct the Attorney General to Study That Ownership | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would exert the State's ownership and jurisdiction over all waters within the rise and fall of the tide seaward 12 nautical miles and all submerged lands and the harvesting of marine resources from the coastline for a distance of 24 nautical miles. The bill would also require the Office of the Attorney General to study the legal issues regarding state ownership and sovereignty over marine resources beyond the 12-nautical-mile territorial sea limit. | Dead |
| LD1223 | An Act to Lower Electric Rates for Maine Ratepayers by Requiring the Payment of Certain Costs from the General Fund | This bill does the following. 1. It prohibits the recovery in rates of costs incurred by a transmission and distribution utility that are attributable to net energy billing and provides that such costs must be paid from the General Fund. The bill directs the Public Utilities Commission to adopt routine technical rules to identify the types of costs that are attributable to net energy billing. 2. It provides that costs incurred by a transmission and distribution utility for the purchase or contracting required by the commission for energy, renewable energy credits, energy storage systems and transmission infrastructure must be paid from the General Fund. 3. It prohibits an electricity customer in the State who is a participant in an assistance program from purchasing generation service from a competitive electricity provider and requires that the customer be enrolled in standard-offer service. 4. It requires the commission to require a standard-offer service provider to implement time-of-use rates for residential and small commercial customers in the service area of a transmission and distribution utility if the utility has the necessary electric billing and metering services to accommodate time-of-use rates. It also requires the commission to require a transmission and distribution utility that has selected one or more standard-offer service providers to establish electric billing and metering services necessary to accommodate time-of-use rates. 5. It provides that certain costs associated with low-income assistance provided by the commission and an arrearage management program established by a transmission and distribution utility may not be paid by an assessment on the utilities or by electricity customers and instead must be paid from the General Fund. 6. It excepts electricity consumed by residential and small commercial customers from the definition of "tangible personal property" that is subject to sales tax. 7. It limits the applicability of a property tax exemption for solar energy equipment to those that have been approved by the municipality in which the solar energy equipment is located. | Introduced |
| Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LD70 | An Act to Fund Free Health Clinics | Enactment RC #601 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD70 | An Act to Fund Free Health Clinics | Recede And Concur RC #588 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD109 | Resolve, Directing the Maine Arts Commission to Study Federal and National Efforts to Protect Artists from Copyright Infringement by Artificial Intelligence Companies and Users and to Monitor Educational Use | Recede And Concur RC #589 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD143 | An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services | Enactment RC #602 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD143 | An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services | Recede RC #599 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD166 | An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Tobacco Products in Pharmacies and Retail Establishments Containing Pharmacies | Recede And Concur RC #590 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD698 | An Act to Sustain Emergency Homeless Shelters in Maine | Recede And Concur RC #591 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD747 | An Act to Provide Funds to Reduce Student Homelessness | Recede And Concur RC #592 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD874 | An Act to Provide Relief to Federal or State Employees Affected by a Federal Government or State Government Shutdown | Recede And Concur RC #593 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD958 | An Act to Prohibit Eminent Domain on Existing Tribal Trust Lands | Reconsideration - Veto RC #586 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1023 | Resolve, to Reestablish the Blue Economy Task Force to Support Maine's Emergence as a Center for Blue Economy Innovation and Opportunity in the 21st Century | Recede And Concur RC #594 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1126 | An Act Requiring Serial Numbers on Firearms and Prohibiting Undetectable Firearms | Recede And Concur RC #595 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1184 | An Act to Require Municipal Reporting on Residential Building Permits, Dwelling Units Permitted and Demolished and Certificates of Occupancy Issued | Recede And Concur RC #596 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1328 | An Act to Create Culturally Appropriate and Trauma-informed Housing and Recovery Services | Reconsideration - Veto RC #587 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1738 | An Act to Establish the Biohazard Waste Disposal Grant Program to Support Public Health Efforts in the State | Recede And Concur RC #597 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1951 | An Act to Promote Food Processing and Manufacturing Facility Expansion and Create Jobs | Recede And Concur RC #598 | 06/25/2025 | 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 | Enactment RC #583 | 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 | Recede And Concur RC #579 | 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 | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #571 | 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 | Enactment RC #582 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD893 | An Act to Exempt Nonprofit Agricultural Membership Organizations from Insurance Requirements | Passage To Be Engrossed RC #578 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD1088 | An Act to Enact the Maine Consumer Data Privacy Act | Acc Report "a" Ontp RC #584 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD1211 | An Act Regarding Certain Definitions in the Sales and Use Tax Laws Affecting Rental Equipment | Acc Report "a" Otp-am RC #575 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD1298 | An Act Establishing Alternative Pathways to Social Worker Licensing | Recede And Concur RC #580 | 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 #576 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD1940 | An Act to Revise the Growth Management Program Laws | Recede And Concur RC #581 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD1960 | An Act to Exempt Electronic Smoking Devices or Other Tobacco Products Containing Ingestible Hemp from the Tax Imposed on Tobacco Products | Recede And Concur RC #572 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD1963 | An Act to Protect and Compensate Public Utility Whistleblowers | Recede And Concur RC #573 | 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 #574 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| HP1338 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING JUNE 2025 AS PRIDE MONTH | Adoption RC #577 | 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 | Enactment RC #556 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD184 | Resolve, Establishing the Commission to Study the Foreclosure Process | Recede And Concur RC #548 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD252 | An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact | Recede And Concur RC #546 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Acc Maj Ought To Pass Rep RC #553 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD532 | An Act to Protect Health Care Workers by Addressing Assaults in Health Care Settings | Acc Min Otp As Amended Rep RC #567 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD532 | An Act to Protect Health Care Workers by Addressing Assaults in Health Care Settings | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #566 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD746 | An Act to Authorize a Local Option Sales Tax on Short-term Lodging to Fund Municipalities and Affordable Housing | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #568 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD953 | An Act to Change the Definition of "Machine Gun" in the Maine Criminal Code | Acc Report "b" Ontp RC #547 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD978 | An Act to Increase General Assistance Reimbursement for Municipalities and Indian Tribes | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #545 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1077 | An Act to Exempt Drinking Water from Sales and Use Tax | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #537 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1126 | An Act Requiring Serial Numbers on Firearms and Prohibiting Undetectable Firearms | Enactment RC #557 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1217 | An Act Regarding the New Markets Tax Credit and the Maine New Markets Capital Investment Program | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #558 | 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 | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #539 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1164 | An Act to Create Economic Opportunity for the Wabanaki Nations Through Internet Gaming | Enactment RC #550 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1270 | An Act to Establish the Department of Energy Resources | Adopt Hah-771 To Cah-746 RC #561 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1270 | An Act to Establish the Department of Energy Resources | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #536 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1228 | An Act to Clarify Certain Terms in and to Make Other Changes to the Automotive Right to Repair Laws | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #565 | 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 | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #538 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1423 | An Act to Improve Recycling by Updating the Stewardship Program for Packaging | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #554 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1656 | An Act to Facilitate Compliance with Federal Immigration Law by State and Local Government Entities | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #540 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1667 | Resolve, to Allow Hemphill Farms, Inc. to Sue the State | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #563 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1715 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Amend the Appointment and Confirmation Process for Certain Judicial, Civil and Military Officers | Recede And Concur RC #549 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Enactment RC #552 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Table Until Later RC #551 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1749 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Corrections to Study Achieving Gender Equality | Acc Maj Ought To Pass Rep RC #564 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1751 | An Act to Improve the Growth Management Program Laws | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #570 | 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 | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #562 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1867 | An Act to Prohibit Financial Institutions from Using Merchant Category Codes to Identify or Track Firearm Purchases or Disclose Firearm Purchase Records | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #560 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1871 | An Act to Permit Sealing Criminal History Record Information of Victims of Sex Trafficking or Sexual Exploitation | Enactment RC #542 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1937 | An Act to Require Hospitals and Hospital-affiliated Providers to Provide Financial Assistance Programs for Medical Care | Adopt Hah-707 To Cas-346 RC #544 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1937 | An Act to Require Hospitals and Hospital-affiliated Providers to Provide Financial Assistance Programs for Medical Care | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #543 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1940 | An Act to Revise the Growth Management Program Laws | Acc Report "a" Otp-am RC #569 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1963 | An Act to Protect and Compensate Public Utility Whistleblowers | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #559 | 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 | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #541 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1987 | An Act to Fund Collective Bargaining Agreements with Executive Branch Employees and Continue the Voluntary Employee Incentive Program | Recede And Concur RC #555 | 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 | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #526 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD184 | Resolve, Establishing the Commission to Study the Foreclosure Process | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #517 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD264 | An Act to Remove the 12-month Waiting Period for the Maine Resident Homestead Property Tax Exemption | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #527 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD297 | An Act Regarding the Management of Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludge at the State-owned Landfill | Recede RC #511 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD291 | An Act to Eliminate the Lodging Tax on Campground Sites and Revert to Using the Current Sales Tax | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #528 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD372 | An Act to Protect Maine People from Inflation by Exempting Gold and Silver Coins and Bullion from the State Sales and Use Tax | Recede And Concur RC #507 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD427 | An Act to Regulate Municipal Parking Space Minimums | Recede And Concur RC #534 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD427 | An Act to Regulate Municipal Parking Space Minimums | Enactment RC #514 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD515 | An Act to Reverse Recent Changes Made to the Law Governing Net Energy Billing and Distributed Generation | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #531 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD525 | An Act to Strengthen Maine Citizens' Second Amendment Rights by Allowing the Discharge of Firearms on Private Property That Is Within 500 Feet of School Property in Certain Circumstances | Recede And Concur RC #505 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD670 | An Act to Address Coercive Control in Domestic Abuse Cases | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #518 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD613 | An Act to Amend the Maine Death with Dignity Act to Ensure Access by Qualified Patients | Recede And Concur RC #508 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD738 | An Act to Remove Barriers to Becoming a Lawyer by Establishing a Law Office Study Program | Insist RC #523 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD879 | An Act to Increase Maximum Small Claim Limits for Home Construction Contracts | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #512 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD958 | An Act to Prohibit Eminent Domain on Existing Tribal Trust Lands | Enactment RC #513 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1138 | An Act to Reduce Pollution Associated with Transportation in Alignment with the State's Climate Action Plan | Recede And Concur RC #510 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1299 | An Act to Prohibit the Unsecured Storage of Handguns in Motor Vehicles | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #516 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1266 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Behavioral Health to Convene a Working Group to Propose a Plan for Expanding the Reach of Treatment Courts | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #519 | 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 | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #532 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1517 | An Act to Replace Participation Thresholds with Approval Thresholds in Certain School, Municipal and County Measures | Recede And Concur RC #506 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1672 | An Act to Allow Participation in the Adult Use Cannabis Tracking System to Be Voluntary | Insist RC #524 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1715 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Amend the Appointment and Confirmation Process for Certain Judicial, Civil and Military Officers | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #533 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| 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 | Acc Min Otp As Amended Rep RC #530 | 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 #509 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1815 | An Act to Require a Blood Test for Drugs for Drivers Involved in a Motor Vehicle Accident That Results in Serious Bodily Injury or Death | Recede And Concur RC #535 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1853 | An Act to Establish an Educational Tax Credit Program to Help Parents Pay for Nonpublic School Tuition and Fees | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #529 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1868 | An Act to Advance a Clean Energy Economy by Updating Renewable and Clean Resource Procurement Laws | Enactment RC #515 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1873 | An Act to Require Age Verification for Online Obscene Matter | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #522 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1897 | An Act Regarding Outdoor Cultivation in the Medical Use Cannabis and Adult Use Cannabis Industries | Acc Min Otp As Amended Rep RC #521 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1897 | An Act Regarding Outdoor Cultivation in the Medical Use Cannabis and Adult Use Cannabis Industries | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #520 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1968 | An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding Legislative Reimbursement | Recede RC #525 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD179 | An Act to Amend the Maine Bail Code to Eliminate the Class E Crime of Violation of Condition of Release | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #484 | 06/13/2025 | Yea |
| LD165 | An Act to Allow School Boards to Expel or Suspend Students Regardless of Grade Level | Acc Report "a" Ontp RC #473 | 06/13/2025 | Nay |
| LD182 | An Act to Provide Per Diem Payments for MaineCare Residents of the Maine Veterans' Homes | Acc Ought To Pass As Amend Rep RC #487 | 06/13/2025 | 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 | Acc Report "b" Ontp RC #492 | 06/13/2025 | Nay |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ME | Maine House District 012 | House | Republican | In Office | 12/07/2022 | |
| ME | Maine House District 136 | House | Republican | Out of Office | 12/05/2018 | 03/13/2024 |