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State Senator
Rick Bennett
(I) - Maine
Maine Senate District 18
In Office - Started: 06/24/2025
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General Capitol Building Address
3 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333
Augusta, ME 04333
Phone: 207-287-1505
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| LD117 | An Act to Provide Funding for Sexual Assault Services | An Act to Provide Funding for Sexual Assault Services | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1425 | An Act to Improve Access to Sustainable and Low-barrier Trauma Recovery Services | This bill provides one-time funding only in fiscal years 2025-26 and 2026-27 to the Maine Resiliency Center in Lewiston to support the continuation and expansion of services for residents of the State affected by the immediate and cumulative effects of trauma through connection, information and support. | Passed |
| 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 |
| LD1265 | An Act to Amend the Laws Governing Public Employee Market Pay Studies and Comprehensive Reviews of the Classification Plan for State Service Positions | This bill modifies the provisions of civil service law requiring periodic market pay studies and periodic review of the plan for state employee job classification by requiring that the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Human Resources issue a request for proposals and contract with an experienced contractor to complete those market pay studies and reviews. | Passed |
| LD839 | An Act to Create the Net Energy Billing Cost Stabilization Fund | This bill prohibits the inclusion of certain costs associated with the kilowatt-hour credit and commercial and institutional net energy billing programs in the operating expenses of a transmission and distribution utility. The bill requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt routine technical rules to establish a process by which kilowatt-hour credit program costs and commercial and institutional program costs, less monetized benefits, are distributed to transmission and distribution utilities and distributed generation resources, as applicable. The bill establishes the Net Energy Billing Cost Stabilization Fund for the purposes of receiving General Fund appropriations for payments for kilowatt-hour credit program costs and commercial and institutional program costs and any overpayments returned by transmission and distribution utilities. | Passed |
| LD870 | An Act Regarding the Membership of the Maine Land Use Planning Commission | This bill amends the membership of the Maine Land Use Planning Commission by increasing the number of members from 9 to 13, with the Governor appointing the additional members. The bill also adds qualifications to be considered by the Governor and boards of county commissioners when appointing members to the commission and provides a membership term limit of 2 consecutive 4-year terms. The bill also requires the Secretary of State to include information about the members of the commission in its annual report on board appointments, including information on the date of expiration of the term of each member and the authority responsible for appointments or reappointments. | Passed |
| LD1643 | An Act to Establish the Maine Life Science Innovation Center | This bill establishes the Maine Life Science Innovation Center to leverage and expand the State's growing life science sector and appropriates $2,000,000 of one-time funds in fiscal years 2025-26 and 2026-27 for the center's start-up costs. | Passed |
| LD1840 | An Act to Amend the Maine Medical Use of Cannabis Act | This bill makes the following changes to the Maine Medical Use of Cannabis Act. 1. It amends the definition of "caregiver retail store" to clarify that it is a retail store with regular business hours at a location accessible to the general public where a registered caregiver sells cannabis paraphernalia, cannabis plants, harvested cannabis, related supplies or educational materials to qualifying patients without an appointment and other items to the general public. It provides that a caregiver retail store does not include an office at a location not accessible to the general public where a registered caregiver provides consultation services, cannabis paraphernalia, cannabis plants, harvested cannabis, related supplies or educational materials to qualifying patients by appointment. 2. It prohibits the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, except where explicitly authorized or directed by law, from requiring a registered caregiver, registered dispensary, cannabis testing facility or manufacturing facility to use a form issued by the department in complying with the requirements of the Act or of adopted rules and from issuing a guidance document or memorandum to such persons regarding compliance by those persons with the requirements of the Act or of adopted rules. The bill directs the department’s Office of Cannabis Policy to, as expeditiously as possible, rescind and remove from public availability any noncompliant forms and guidance documents or memoranda. 3. It repeals the provision of law that authorizes a caregiver to receive reasonable monetary compensation for costs associated with cultivating cannabis plants or assisting a qualifying patient with that patient's medical use of cannabis. 4. It provides that a caregiver is authorized to transport, sell, offer to sell or furnish cannabis plants or harvested cannabis on the property or premises owned, leased or rented by the caregiver; at trade shows, festivals or other cannabis industry-related events; or through delivery to or private arrangement with a qualifying patient, caregiver or registered dispensary. 5. It removes the process under the Act by which a person that is not a qualifying patient, registered caregiver, registered dispensary or manufacturing facility may receive authorization from the department to engage in cannabis extraction using an inherently hazardous substance and prohibits such cannabis extraction other than by qualifying patients, registered caregivers, registered dispensaries or manufacturing facilities. A qualifying patient, registered caregiver, registered dispensary or manufacturing facility that engages in cannabis extraction using an inherently hazardous substance must comply with any rules regarding that activity adopted by the department by rule but is not required to obtain additional approvals or authorizations from the department to do so. 6. It prohibits the department from posting on its publicly accessible website or otherwise making publicly available, except upon request, applications, supporting information and other nonconfidential information regarding a registered caregiver, including any address where the registered caregiver cultivates, manufactures, tests, packages, stores or sells cannabis plants or harvested cannabis under this chapter. The bill directs the office to, as expeditiously as possible, remove from the office's website and otherwise from public availability, except upon request, any such nonconfidential information regarding registered caregivers. 7. It prohibits the department from requiring a caregiver retail store, registered dispensary, cannabis testing facility or manufacturing facility to use a form provided by the department to demonstrate municipal approval or other local authorization, if such approval or authorization is required by the municipality in which the store, dispensary or facility is seeking to operate. 8. It provides that a caregiver retail store, registered dispensary, cannabis testing facility or manufacturing facility that was previously issued by the department a registration or other authorization to operate and was subsequently denied such registration or other authorization based solely on the failure of the store, dispensary or facility to obtain a completed form provided by the department to demonstrate municipal approval or other local authorization, or based solely on the failure of the municipality to adopt or amend an ordinance or approve a warrant article as required by law, is deemed in compliance with applicable municipal approval or local authorization requirements under the Act. A caregiver retail store, registered dispensary, cannabis testing facility or manufacturing facility deemed in compliance with applicable municipal approval or local authorization requirements pursuant to this provision may request and the department shall issue a registration or other authorization to renew operations, provided that: the store, dispensary or facility is to be located in the same municipality in which it was located when last issued a registration or other authorization to operate by the department; and the store, dispensary or facility satisfies all other applicable registration or authorization requirements pursuant to the Act and adopted rules, excluding any such requirements relating to municipal approval or local authorization and any such requirements that the store, dispensary or facility maintain continuous operation since it was last issued a registration or other authorization to operate by the department. 9. It provides that the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, in its annual report to the Legislature regarding the medical cannabis program, must include information regarding the gross sales of cannabis for medical use for the current and prior fiscal years. 10. It directs the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Office of Cannabis Policy, on or before January 9, 2026, to provisionally adopt and submit for legislative review major substantive rules necessary to implement the medical cannabis research grant program in accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22, section 2430, subsection 5. | Passed |
| LD1871 | An Act to Permit Sealing Criminal History Record Information of Victims of Sex Trafficking or Sexual Exploitation | This bill amends provisions of the law governing post-judgment motions to seal criminal history record information by creating a new category of criminal conviction for which a person may file a motion to seal the related criminal history record information. Under the bill, a person may file a motion to seal criminal history record information for a criminal conviction for any current or former crime if the person shows by a preponderance of the evidence that the person has been a victim of sex trafficking or sexual exploitation, as defined by the bill, and the commission of the crime for which the person was convicted was a substantial result of sex trafficking or sexual exploitation. The bill also provides that a person who is regularly engaged in the business of collecting, assembling, evaluating or disseminating criminal history record information related to specific individuals for a fee, also called a business screening service, is required to disseminate only complete and accurate records; investigate disputed records; correct or delete records found to be inaccurate or reflecting a criminal conviction that was sealed or pardoned; and provide a notice with disseminated records including the date the record was collected and a notice that information may include criminal records that have been sealed or otherwise have become inaccessible to the public. A person is considered in violation of these provisions only if the person's conduct violates these provisions and also violates relevant provisions of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act. A person found in violation of both the state and federal law is liable to the subject of the record for a penalty of $1,000 and additional remedies. | Passed |
| LD1934 | An Act to Promote Responsible Outdoor Lighting | This bill requires that outdoor lighting installed or replaced after October 1, 2026 comply with certain standards, including standards established by the American National Standards Institute and the Illuminating Engineering Society, intended to reduce the amount of unnecessary light emitted. The bill includes exemptions for certain types of lighting such as outdoor sports lighting, temporary lighting and required and emergency lighting. The bill directs certain departments to adopt rules to implement the requirements of this bill. The bill also directs each municipality in the State to adopt a local ordinance to promote compliance with the provisions of this bill and allows a municipality to adopt ordinances that are more strict than those required by this bill. | Passed |
| LD1955 | An Act to Increase Child Care Affordability and Early Childhood Educator Stability | This bill does the following. 1. It replaces the early childhood educator workforce salary supplement system with the Salary Sustainability Program for Child Care Professionals. It establishes requirements for the program, requires 5-year assessments and provides funding for the program. 2. It enacts the child care staff scholarship program established as a pilot program in Public Law 2023, chapter 643, Part TT as a permanent program in the Maine Revised Statutes known as the Maine Child Care Affordability Program Child Care Award. 3. It establishes a program of child care provider scholarships for early childhood education or related fields to eligible individuals pursuing associate, bachelor's or graduate degrees or certificates in those fields. 4. It establishes a program of apprenticeships for individuals employed or seeking employment at a licensed child care facility or licensed family child care provider. 5. It requires the State Board of Education to update its plan for career and technical education centers to include opportunities for early childhood education and child care education at career and technical education centers around the State. 6. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a long-term plan for financial sustainability of the Maine Child Care Affordability Program and submit a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services no later than January 2, 2026. 7. It requires an appropriation of $3,800,000 to the Maine Child Care Affordability Program and a yearly appropriation of $500,000 for wage supplement awards and $1,000,000 to support child care needs. | Passed |
| LD1184 | An Act to Require Municipal Reporting on Residential Building Permits, Dwelling Units Permitted and Demolished and Certificates of Occupancy Issued | An Act to Require Municipal Reporting on Residential Building Permits, Dwelling Units Permitted and Demolished and Certificates of Occupancy Issued | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1287 | An Act to Support Workforce Development by Establishing the Housing Stability Fund | An Act to Support Workforce Development by Establishing the Housing Stability Fund | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1208 | An Act to Amend the Statutory Balance Limit on the Finance Authority of Maine's Loan Insurance Reserves for General Fund Transfers | An Act to Amend the Statutory Balance Limit on the Finance Authority of Maine's Loan Insurance Reserves for General Fund Transfers | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| 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 | 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 | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD819 | An Act to Clarify the Status of Energy Storage Systems with Regard to the Business Equipment Tax Exemption and the Business Equipment Tax Reimbursement Program | An Act to Clarify the Status of Energy Storage Systems with Regard to the Business Equipment Tax Exemption and the Business Equipment Tax Reimbursement Program | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1270 | An Act to Establish the Department of Energy Resources | An Act to Establish the Department of Energy Resources | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1453 | Resolve, to Establish the Housing Production Innovation Working Group | Resolve, to Establish the Housing Production Innovation Working Group | Passed |
| LD1433 | Resolve, to Establish a Working Waterfront Infrastructure Engineer Corps Pilot Program and to Conduct a Feasibility Study of a Higher Education Service Corps Program | Resolve, to Establish a Working Waterfront Infrastructure Engineer Corps Pilot Program and to Conduct a Feasibility Study of a Higher Education Service Corps Program | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1529 | An Act to Enhance the Protection of High-value Natural Resources Statewide | An Act to Enhance the Protection of High-value Natural Resources Statewide | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD146 | An Act to Increase the Maximum Amount of the Historic Property Rehabilitation Tax Credit That May be Taken in a Year | An Act to Increase the Maximum Amount of the Historic Property Rehabilitation Tax Credit That May be Taken in a Year | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD949 | An Act to Clarify Licensing Jurisdiction for Manufactured Housing Communities | An Act to Clarify Licensing Jurisdiction for Manufactured Housing Communities | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD876 | An Act to Support the Maine Service Fellows Program | This bill provides ongoing funds for 20 program fellows to participate in the Maine Service Fellows Program. The bill also directs the Maine Commission for Community Service, in conjunction with the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, to compile a list of volunteers who are available at the request of the Governor during states of emergency to provide emergency response and support services in coordination with the Maine Emergency Management Agency. | Passed |
| LD783 | An Act to Continue Support for the Maine Multicultural Center | This bill provides ongoing funds to the Maine Multicultural Center in Bangor for one or more positions to establish a comprehensive program for foreign-trained workers through the Maine Multicultural Center. | Passed |
| 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 |
| LD847 | An Act to Prohibit Housing Discrimination | This bill makes it a form of housing discrimination under the Maine Human Rights Act to refuse to rent or negotiate for the rental of a housing accommodation because of a person's source of money or other income. The bill also establishes, as a form of housing discrimination, assessing a person's ability to pay the entire rental amount when a portion of the rent is subsidized through federal, state or local housing assistance. In addition to any civil remedies available under the fair housing laws, a person aggrieved by a violation of these provisions is entitled to private remedies as an unfair trade practice as well as a monetary penalty of $1,000 or actual damages, whichever is greater. These provisions take effect January 1, 2026. | In Committee |
| LD884 | Resolve, to Establish the Criminal Justice Legal Aid Clinic Pilot Project at the University of Maine School of Law | This resolve requires the University of Maine System to establish within the University of Maine School of Law a criminal justice legal aid clinic 3-year pilot project and provides one-time funding for that purpose. The resolve also requires the University of Maine System to submit interim and final reports to the joint standing committees of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education matters, judiciary maters and appropriations and financial affairs on the criminal justice legal aid clinic pilot project. | Passed |
| LD1065 | An Act Regarding the Reduction and Recycling of Food Waste | An Act Regarding the Reduction and Recycling of Food Waste | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1014 | An Act to Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue to Develop Maine Talent and Innovation by Improving the Infrastructure of the University of Maine System | The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $100,000,000, will be used to improve infrastructure at all University of Maine System campuses to enhance education and economic development activities and meet the needs of Maine employers for more skilled workers and research-driven innovation. | In Committee |
| LD1022 | An Act to Protect and Increase Access to Justice in Civil Legal Matters for Persons with Low Incomes | This bill provides for increases in the ongoing appropriation to the Judicial Department for civil legal services. The appropriation supplements existing revenue from ongoing sources and replaces one-time funding with additional ongoing revenue to be distributed to providers of civil legal services by determination of the Maine Civil Legal Services Fund Commission. The bill also provides an ongoing minimum amount to be appropriated annually to the Maine Civil Legal Services Fund. It requires the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over judiciary matters to hold a public hearing on civil legal services funding in 2026 and biennially thereafter and to make a recommendation to the Governor and the Legislature based on those hearings regarding additional funding for civil legal services. The bill also requires an annual report by the commission to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over judiciary matters. | Passed |
| LD967 | An Act to Reinvigorate Maine's Workforce and Ensure Student Job Readiness by Providing Funds for the Career Exploration Program | This bill provides ongoing funds to continue and make permanent one Public Service Coordinator I position to support the Career Exploration Program in the Department of Economic and Community Development effective July 1, 2026. | Passed |
| LD1139 | An Act to Provide Funding for Essential Services for Victims of Crimes | This bill provides ongoing funding for crime victim services and requires any balance remaining at the end of a fiscal year appropriated to the Department of Health and Human Services to supplement grants under the federal victim assistance formula grant program to be carried forward to the next fiscal year for the same purpose. | Passed |
| LD1193 | An Act to Require the Legislature to Elect Constitutional Officers and the State Auditor in Convention with an Open Ballot System | This bill requires that the conventions held by the Legislature to elect the Secretary of State, the Treasurer of State, the Attorney General and the State Auditor must be open to the public and the vote of each voting Senator and Representative must be recorded. | Dead |
| LD1177 | Resolve, to Study the Public Health and Environmental Risks from Synthetic Turf | This resolve puts a 3-year moratorium on the installation or reinstallation of synthetic turf in any park, outdoor playing field or athletic field, indoor athletic facility or similar venue. It directs the Department of Environmental Protection to examine whether synthetic turf is a risk to public health, the surrounding environment and the climate emissions goals of the State as compared to turf and, if it is a risk, the ways in which synthetic turf is a risk. It directs the department to submit, no later than November 4, 2026, a report that includes its findings and recommendations, including suggested legislation, for presentation to the 133rd Legislature in 2027. The department is also directed to conduct an outreach program to inform local governments, civic organizations, schools and the public regarding the findings of the report. | Passed |
| LD1528 | An Act to Support Farmland Conservation | This bill establishes a separate nonlapsing, interest-bearing account administered by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to support public-private partnerships to carry out the purposes of the Maine Working Farmland Access and Protection Program. The account consists of money appropriated or allocated to the program account by the Legislature or received from any private or public source. The bill establishes and provides ongoing funding for one full-time, permanent position within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources. The bill also transfers $1,000,000 from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund to fund farmland conservation efforts under the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, Maine Working Farmland Access and Protection Program. | Passed |
| 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 |
| LD1496 | An Act to Ensure Ongoing Access to Medications and Care for Chronic Conditions by Changing Requirements for Prior Authorizations | This bill requires that a prior authorization for health care services remain valid for the duration of the treatment or one year, whichever is longer. It prohibits a health care plan from requiring the renewal of a prior authorization more frequently than once every 5 years for treatment that is necessary for more than one year. It also prohibits a health care plan from restricting coverage for a health care service or a prescription that was approved under a previous health care plan within 90 days of enrollment in the new health care plan and requires a health care plan to provide at least 90 days' notice to an enrollee prior to restricting coverage of a previously approved health care service. | Passed |
| LD1311 | An Act to Expand Maine's Health Care Workforce by Improving Educational Opportunities | This bill establishes the Maine Health Care Education Training and Medical Residency Fund and appropriates $5,000,000 annually to support health care in rural and underserved communities and physician workforce development. | Passed |
| LD1326 | An Act to Protect the Drinking Water for Consumers of Certain Water Systems by Establishing Maximum Contaminant Levels for Certain Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances | An Act to Protect the Drinking Water for Consumers of Certain Water Systems by Establishing Maximum Contaminant Levels for Certain Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1424 | An Act to Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for Investment in Workforce Housing and Raise Certain Income Eligibility Limits in the Affordable Homeownership Program | The funds provided by the bond issue in Part A, in the amount of $10,000,000, will be used by the Maine State Housing Authority to finance workforce housing in the State's opportunity zones through its Affordable Homeownership Program. Part B directs the Maine State Housing Authority to change the income limit of homebuyers participating in the Affordable Homeownership Program from 120% to 150% of the area median income in all counties outside of Cumberland, Sagadahoc and York. It also allows the authority to require leveraged funds. | In Committee |
| LD1443 | An Act to Ensure the Financial Stability of Behavioral Health Service Providers and Housing Assistance Providers | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to continue payments to service providers, including, but not limited to, private or nonprofit behavioral health agencies, housing assistance providers and other nonprofit organizations, in good standing with the department at their previous contract rates when delays in new contract awarding, finalization or payment exceed 30 days. It also requires the department to pay administrative expenses and interest charged on lines of credit or loans accessed by a service provider when a delay in awarding, finalization or payment of a department contract requires the service provider to access the line of credit or loan. | Passed |
| LD1419 | An Act to Provide a Sales Tax Exemption for Housing Constructed Off-site Similar to That for On-site Construction | Current law provides a sales tax exemption for sales of new manufactured housing for all costs, excluding materials, included in the sale price, but only to a maximum of 50% of the sale price. This bill changes that exemption to 75% of the sale price to reflect the exemption for housing built on the site of its location. | In Committee |
| LD161 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to Convene a Stakeholder Group Tasked with a Comprehensive Overhaul and Modernization of the State Subdivision Laws | This resolve requires the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to convene a stakeholder group to review and make recommendations concerning a comprehensive overhaul and modernization of the subdivision laws in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 12, chapter 206-A; Title 30-A, chapter 187, subchapter 4; and Title 38, chapter 3, subchapter 1, article 6. The resolve lists the minimum membership requirements for the stakeholder group. The department is required to submit a report to the joint standing committees of the Legislature having jurisdiction over subdivision review matters under those laws by December 3, 2025 and those committees may report out legislation related to that report to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. | In Committee |
| LD107 | An Act to Require Health Insurance Coverage for Biomarker Testing | This bill requires insurance coverage, including coverage in the MaineCare program, for biomarker testing. | Passed |
| LD127 | An Act to Strengthen Legislative Oversight of Government Agencies and Programs by Reaffirming the Legislature's Access to Confidential Records | This bill provides that the Government Oversight Committee may receive information and records that are privileged and confidential and that that information and those records are exempt from public disclosure. | In Committee |
| LD34 | An Act to Increase the Minimum Salary for Teachers | This bill incrementally increases minimum teacher salaries beginning in the 2026-2027 school year and provides limited supplemental funding to pay for those increases. | Passed |
| SP0002 | Joint Order, to Amend the Joint Rules to Increase the Number of Members on the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee | Joint Order, to Amend the Joint Rules to Increase the Number of Members on the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SP0008 | Joint Order, to Require the Joint Select Committee on Joint Rules to Convene and Consider Certain Changes to the Joint Rules | Joint Order, to Require the Joint Select Committee on Joint Rules to Convene and Consider Certain Changes to the Joint Rules | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD13 | An Act to Provide Funds Necessary for the Production and Delivery of Election Materials by the Secretary of State | This bill establishes the Production and Delivery of Election Materials Fund as a nonlapsing, interest-bearing Other Special Revenue Funds account within the Department of the Secretary of State for the purpose of receiving funds from the State to support the costs associated with the production and delivery of election materials. The use of funds from the fund is in addition to any other funds received by the department from the State for that purpose. It also provides for an ongoing transfer to the Production and Delivery of Election Materials Fund from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund. In 2025 the transfer is $266,000, and the amount must be adjusted for the cost of living every 2 years. Additionally, it provides for any remaining balances in the Department of Secretary of State, Bureau of Corporations, Elections and Commissions program, General Fund account at the end of each fiscal year to be transferred to the Production and Delivery of Election Materials Fund. The bill also reconvenes a working group to study polling places at schools in order to protect the security of school students and staff, election staff and voters and to consider polling place accessibility. | Passed |
| LD14 | An Act to Provide Indigenous Peoples Free Access to State Parks | This bill provides that a member of a federally recognized Indian nation, tribe or band in Maine is not required to pay a fee for admission to any state-owned park, historic site, camping area or beach managed by the State. The bill also specifies that to qualify for free admission, a person is required to present a qualifying tribal identification, as approved by the respective tribal government, to the park attendant or other designee of the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. | Passed |
| LD362 | An Act to Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue to Replenish the Land for Maine's Future Program | The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $50,000,000, will be used by the Land for Maine's Future Board for the acquisition of land and interest in land for conservation; water access; wildlife or fish habitat including deer wintering areas; outdoor recreation, including hunting and fishing; working farmland preservation; and working waterfront preservation. | In Committee |
| 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 |
| LD467 | An Act to Require the State to Pay Medicare Part B Premiums for Certain Retired State Employees | This bill provides that the State must pay 100% of certain retired state employees' shares of the premiums for Medicare Part B for retirees not eligible for benefits under the United States Social Security Act whose base annual state pension benefit on or after January 1, 2026 is projected to be less than or equal to the maximum amount of the retirement benefits that is subject to the cost-of-living adjustment. | Passed |
| LD493 | An Act to Expand Testing for Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances to Private Drinking Water Wells | This bill requires testing of well water for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances by a landlord of a residential building supplied by a private drinking water well. Under the bill, for residential property that uses a private water supply, the seller of that property is required to disclose a water test that indicates the presence of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The bill also adds perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances to the list of contaminants in the Department of Health and Human Services uniform testing recommendations for private drinking water wells. | Passed |
| LD506 | An Act to Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for Research and Development and Commercialization | The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $50,000,000, will be used to provide funds for research and development and commercialization as prioritized by the Maine Innovation Economy Advisory Board's most recent innovation economy action plan and the Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of Innovation's most recent science and technology action plan. The funds must be allocated in support of technological innovation leading to commercialization in the targeted sectors of life sciences and biomedical technology, environmental and renewable energy technology, information technology, advanced technologies for forestry and agriculture, aquaculture and marine technology, composites and advanced materials and precision manufacturing. The funds must be awarded through a competitive process and to Maine-based public and private institutions to leverage matching private and federal funds on at least a one-to-one basis. | In Committee |
| LD549 | An Act to Establish a Statewide Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kit Tracking System and Update Certain Requirements Regarding Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kits | This bill directs the Department of Public Safety to establish, operate and maintain a sexual assault forensic examination kit tracking system. The system must provide relevant information for victims, both those who choose to report to a law enforcement agency and those who choose not to report, and other approved users regarding the processing, custody, analysis and destruction of evidence. The department is required to submit an annual report beginning January 1, 2027 to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters and the Governor concerning information related to the status of sexual assault forensic examination kits reported in the tracking system. The bill provides requirements for the tracking system and requires the department to adopt routine technical rules, including rules regarding participation in the tracking system, confidentiality and the operation of the tracking system. The bill directs that, by June 1, 2026, a law enforcement agency that receives, maintains, stores or preserves sexual assault forensic examination kits must complete an inventory of all kits in its possession and report its findings to the Department of Public Safety. The department must compile all agency reports and present findings of the inventory by January 1, 2027 to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters and at the same time post the report on the department’s publicly accessible website. Public Law 2023, chapter 236 changed a provision in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 25 to require law enforcement agencies to store sexual assault forensic examination kits for 20 years. For consistency with that provision, this bill amends a provision in Title 24 to require law enforcement agencies to store sexual assault forensic examination kits for 20 years. The bill allows an alleged victim who has not reported an alleged offense to a law enforcement agency to request that a completed kit be transported to the Maine State Police Crime Laboratory to be processed by signing a consent form, and the results of the analysis must be kept anonymous. The bill requires that, beginning January 1, 2027, and every 5 years thereafter, all completed kits that identify an alleged victim and are being stored by a law enforcement agency must be transported to the Maine State Police Crime Laboratory and be processed on a rolling basis, beginning with kits most recently stored. The bill also requires all forensic examination kits completed on or after January 1, 2027 to be transported to the Maine State Police Crime Laboratory and be processed. | Passed |
| LD581 | An Act to Fund the Doctors for Maine's Future Scholarship Program | This bill provides ongoing funds to maintain the Doctors for Maine's Future Scholarship Program. | Passed |
| LD690 | An Act to Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue to Provide Funding for Affordable and Low-income Housing Programs | The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $100,000,000, will be used to support the Maine State Housing Authority's programs for rural rentals, the low-income housing tax credit, affordable homeownership and home repairs, with 20% of the funding provided to the rural affordable housing rental program, the low-income housing tax credit program and the affordable homeownership program made available for projects using or involving modular construction. | In Committee |
| LD629 | An Act to Restore Matching Funding to the Maine Development Foundation | This bill provides ongoing funds to restore matching funds for private contributions to support the Maine Development Foundation's economic, workforce and community development initiatives across the State, particularly in distressed communities and industries. | Passed |
| LD703 | An Act to Establish a Health Care Gap Year Program for Recent College Graduates | This bill provides one-time funds for a health care gap year program that incentivizes recent college graduates to work in critical health care positions, particularly in underserved and rural communities. | Passed |
| LD755 | An Act to Prevent Opioid Overdose Deaths by Allowing Municipalities to Approve the Establishment of Overdose Prevention Centers | This bill authorizes municipalities to approve overdose prevention centers at which clients may receive health screening, disease prevention and recovery support services and may self-administer previously obtained controlled substances on the premises. The bill also provides immunity from arrest, prosecution, revocation proceedings or termination proceedings for persons using, employed by or otherwise associated with an overdose prevention center when acting in accordance with the provisions of the bill. It also provides additional protections to such persons for actions in accordance with those provisions. | In Committee |
| LD754 | An Act to Ban the Sale, Use and Possession of Single-use Electronic Cigarettes and to Review Extended Producer Responsibility Options for All Batteries | This bill prohibits the sale, use and possession of single-use electronic nicotine delivery devices, which include electronic cigarettes, electronic cigars, electronic pipes, electronic hookahs and so-called vape pens. The bill establishes penalties for such sale, use and possession that are similar to the penalties for the sale of nicotine liquid containers that are not child resistant. The bill also directs the Department of Environmental Protection to convene a stakeholder group of interested parties to review the feasibility and viability of establishing an extended producer responsibility approach to all batteries not currently covered by an extended producer responsibility requirement, including, but not limited to, batteries used in electronic cigarettes, electronic cigars, electronic pipes, electronic hookahs and so-called vape pens. | In Committee |
| LD740 | An Act to Establish a Comprehensive Program to Divert Youth from the Criminal Justice System and Address Their Needs | This bill establishes a process allowing a law enforcement officer who has probable cause to believe that a juvenile has committed a juvenile crime, or a juvenile community corrections officer to whom a juvenile has been referred, to refer the juvenile to the Department of Health and Human Services for a juvenile needs assessment designed to identify the supports and services needed to promote child and family well-being and actions to be taken to address the medical, educational, social therapeutic or other services needed by the juvenile and the juvenile's family. The assessment must be conducted by persons with comprehensive training and must be completed within 60 days following referral of the juvenile to the department. If a juvenile needs assessment was completed for the juvenile within the 6 months prior to referral, the department must provide that report to the law enforcement officer or juvenile community corrections officer. The bill also requires that if the assessment reveals that the juvenile has complex behavioral health needs and is at risk or is already involved in multiple service systems, the department must refer the juvenile and the juvenile's family to high-fidelity wraparound care coordination services. The bill also establishes requirements for issuing petitions regarding a juvenile when that petition is being issued prior to or in conjunction with a referral for a juvenile needs assessment and following a juvenile needs assessment. The bill also establishes criteria for the use of the report and recommendations based on the juvenile needs assessment in adjudicatory hearings and stipulates that statements made by the juvenile or the juvenile's parents, guardian or legal custodian related to the juvenile needs assessment are not admissible as evidence in adjudicatory hearings. The bill also directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish an implementation stakeholder group to assist in the implementation of the juvenile needs assessment and train relevant persons and entities on all matters related to the juvenile needs assessment. The portion of the bill establishing the implementation stakeholder group takes effect upon enactment of this legislation, and the portions of the bill establishing the juvenile needs assessment become effective January 1, 2026. | In Committee |
| LD1943 | Resolve, to Establish a Commission to Study the Role of Private Equity in Maine's Economy and in Key Economic Sectors | This resolve establishes the Commission to Study Private Equity Firms to conduct a comprehensive study of the role of private equity firms in the State's economy, with a focus on transparency, investment practices and private equity's effects on key sectors such as energy, health care, housing and nursing homes. The commission must issue a report with its findings and recommendations to the Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services no later than December 3, 2025, which may include legislative proposals to address the effects of private equity firms on the State's economy and on key economic sectors, such as energy, health care, housing and nursing homes. | Passed |
| LD1894 | Resolve, to Establish the Commission to Study Consumer Grocery Pricing Fairness | This bill establishes laws prohibiting large grocery suppliers and retailers from engaging in price discrimination or imposing discriminatory terms of sale and extracting unfair and anticompetitive concessions from wholesalers and suppliers. The bill provides the Attorney General authority to enforce those provisions. | Passed |
| LD1870 | An Act to Establish a Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program to Impose Penalties on Climate Polluters | This bill establishes the Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program within the Department of Environmental Protection. Under the program, an entity or a successor in interest to an entity that was engaged in the trade or business of extracting fossil fuel or refining crude oil between January 1, 1995 and December 31, 2024 is assessed a cost recovery demand for the entity's share of fossil fuel extraction or refinement contributing to greenhouse gas-related costs in the State. An entity is assessed a cost recovery demand only if the department determines that the entity's products were responsible for more than one billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Cost recovery payments received by the department are deposited into the Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program Fund to provide funding for recovery of the costs to develop and implement the program and fund and for climate change adaptation projects in the State, which the department is directed to prioritize through the adoption of a resilience implementation strategy and to ensure that at least 35% of the funds are used for climate change adaptation projects that benefit low-income persons with environmental justice concerns. | In Committee |
| LD1893 | An Act to Establish an Independent Office of the Child Advocate | This bill establishes the Office of the Child Advocate as an independent agency with jurisdiction over all children's services delivered or arranged by the State. It endows the Child Advocate with authority to receive complaints, access information, investigate, publicly report, make recommendations and advise the Governor, the Legislature, administrators of state agencies and the public on the best interests of children in providing services. It repeals the provision creating the ombudsman program in the Child and Family Services and Child Protection Act but retains services formerly provided by the ombudsman to be provided by the Office of the Child Advocate. It also provides for the transfer of funding from the ombudsman program to the Office of the Child Advocate. | In Committee |
| LD1932 | An Act to Support Essential Support Workers and Enhance Workforce Development | This bill increases the rate for the labor portion of reimbursement for services provided by essential support workers from 125% of the minimum wage to 140%. This requirement is effective January 1, 2026. The bill requires that essential support workers whose services are reimbursed under the MaineCare program or a state-funded program must be paid no less than 125% of the minimum wage. The bill requires the Maine Health Data Organization, in consultation with the Essential Support Workforce Advisory Committee and the Department of Health and Human Services, to develop a methodology for establishing a baseline report in order to be able to examine the care gap in essential support worker services paid by the MaineCare program or a similar state-funded program. The care gap is defined as the difference between approved services and the hours of services actually provided. The bill requires the Department of Administrative and Financial Services to provide a biennial report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters that estimates the actual cost to the State of providing all long-term care services and forecasts costs in the future. The bill changes the membership of the Essential Support Workforce Advisory Committee to include a representative of the long-term care ombudsman program and a representative of an organization that provides personal care services in the home. The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to convene a stakeholder group to develop the Innovations in Care and Support Technology Plan to be submitted by October 15, 2026. The purpose of the plan is to advance the use of technology to reduce the number of approved but unstaffed essential support worker hours. The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to create a stakeholder group to assist the department in developing a 5-year plan to expand the department's worker portability and advancement initiative to establish a standardized curriculum and training program for essential support workers. | In Committee |
| LD1912 | An Act to Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue to Address Maine's Housing Shortage | The funds provided by the bond issue in Part A of this bill, in the amount of $60,000,000, will be used to provide funds for the Innovative Housing Incentive Program to support manufacturers of manufactured and other innovative housing in the State by providing grants for operating expenses, manufacture of affordable and energy-efficient housing and low-interest loans to develop new factories or expand existing factories by capitalizing the Home Accessibility and Repair Program Fund, provide funds to support the Maine State Housing Authority's home accessibility and repair program by capitalizing the Housing Opportunities for Maine Fund, provide funds for the Weatherization Plus Program to provide grants to eligible low-income households for weatherization readiness and weatherization projects and provide funds to support a pilot program to issue grants to nonprofit housing developers to rehabilitate existing aging housing stock in the State for purchase by qualified first-time home buyers. | In Committee |
| LD1962 | An Act to Establish the Corrections Ombudsman | This bill establishes the Office of the Corrections Ombudsman. The office is responsible for: 1. Receiving, investigating and resolving complaints and suggestions from certain incarcerated persons and from staff of the Department of Corrections; 2. Providing information to the Governor, the department and its staff, the Legislature, certain incarcerated persons and their families and the public; 3. Promoting public awareness and understanding of the problems and challenges of incarceration; 4. Identifying systemic issues and responses upon which the department, the Governor and the Legislature may act; and 5. Ensuring compliance with relevant statutes, rules, regulations and policies concerning correctional facilities, services, staff and treatment of certain incarcerated persons. | In Committee |
| SP0799 | Joint Order, to Require the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs to Report Out 2 Bills to the Senate | Joint Order, to Require the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs to Report Out 2 Bills to the Senate | Dead |
| LD1835 | An Act to Improve Nonemergency MaineCare Transportation | This bill does the following. 1. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to create and maintain a MaineCare nonemergency transportation dashboard, which is information posted on the department's publicly accessible website reflecting broker performance indicators and results. 2. It requires the department to track nonemergency transportation trips by region and categorize and issue a monthly report regarding all incidents involving the delivery on nonemergency transportation. 3. It establishes the nonemergency transportation ombudsman program as an independent program within the Executive Department to provide ombudsman services to MaineCare members regarding MaineCare nonemergency transportation provided by the department. 4. It requires the department to establish a nonemergency transportation advisory committee in each region to provide the department with recommendations regarding the performance of nonemergency transportation services in that region. | In Committee |
| LD1772 | An Act to Implement the Recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission to Design a Plan for Sustained Investment in Preventing Disease and Improving the Health of Maine Communities | This bill establishes the Trust for a Healthy Maine to receive money paid to the State pursuant to the tobacco settlement and from other sources and to distribute that money to state agencies or designated agents of the State to fund tobacco use prevention and addiction disease control, ensure adequate resources for other disease prevention efforts, promote public health, plan and deliver public health and prevention programs and services, support accreditation of the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and support public health workforce development. The trust is governed by a 15-member board of trustees composed of the Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and 14 members appointed by the Governor. | In Committee |
| LD1867 | An Act to Prohibit Financial Institutions from Using Merchant Category Codes to Identify or Track Firearm Purchases or Disclose Firearm Purchase Records | This bill prohibits keeping or using a list, record or registry of firearms purchases or firearms owners or distinguishing a firearms dealer or discriminating against a firearms dealer by using a product code for firearms or firearms purchases separate from general merchandise or sporting goods retailers in the State. The bill allows the Attorney General or a complainant if the Attorney General fails to act to seek an injunction against a person in violation of the bill's provisions or a penalty up to $10,000 if the injunction is not followed. | Passed |
| LD1865 | Resolve, to Create a Tax Incentive Pilot Project to Encourage Businesses to Adopt a 4-day Workweek | This resolve establishes the Four-day Workweek Pilot Project, administered by the Department of Labor, to promote, incentivize and support the use of a 4-day workweek by qualifying employers and to study the benefits and effects of a 4-day workweek on participating employees and employers. The pilot project is open to all private or public employers that have at least 15 employees, based on a selection process conducted by the department that ensures participation, as far as practicable, of qualifying employers of diverse size, occupation, industry sector and geographical location; qualifying employers that have both employees who are exempt from and who are subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; and qualifying employers that are veteran-owned, women- owned and minority-owned businesses and businesses owned by individuals with disabilities. The resolve specifies that at least 15 employees of a participating employer must participate in the pilot project. Those employees who participate must receive a meaningful reduction in hours worked per week without any loss of pay, employment status or benefits. The duration of the pilot project must be at least 2 years and no more than 4 years, as determined by the department. On a regular basis, a participating employer is required to provide the department access to the employer's data and to the employer's participating employees, including through interviews and surveys, so that the department can determine the efficacy and effect of transitioning to a 4-day workweek. Participating employees may opt out of the interviews and surveys and any data gathered from employees must be anonymized. The resolve establishes a tax credit for eligible employers participating in the pilot project. A participating employer that is certified as eligible, except for a public employer, is entitled to credit against income taxes owed by that employer in an amount determined by the department and the State Tax Assessor based on criteria such as a fixed dollar amount for each participating employer or a dollar amount that assists in offsetting a participating employer's costs to hire new employees due to the employer's participation in the pilot project. Based on the information gathered, for the duration of the pilot project, the department is required to annually report to the joint standing committees of the Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs, taxation matters, labor matters and economic and community development matters on the progress of and participation levels in the pilot project and submit a final report that details the economic and social effect of a 4-day workweek on the participating employers; the effect of a 4-day workweek on the well-being and work life of participating employees; and any findings or recommendations based on the research conducted on a 4-day workweek. The State Tax Assessor is also required to submit an annual report on the tax credit. | In Committee |
| LD1805 | An Act to Establish a Post-judgment Review Process for Crimes Committed by Victims of Sex Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation | This bill allows a victim of sex trafficking or sexual exploitation to file a post-judgment motion to reverse a criminal conviction if the victim demonstrates, by a preponderance of evidence, that the victim experienced sex trafficking or sexual exploitation and that the conduct underlying the criminal conviction was a substantial result of the sex trafficking or sexual exploitation. | Passed |
| LD1814 | An Act to Increase Transparency in State Government by Amending Laws Regarding Persons Attempting to Influence the Competitive Bidding Process and Lobbyist Reporting During Rule-making Processes | This bill requires any person who is specifically employed by another person for the purpose of attempting to influence the competitive bidding process to register with the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices for each employer and to submit monthly reports regarding activity, expenditures and compensation associated with attempting to influence any order, grant or contract on behalf of that employer. The bill requires the commission to create and maintain a publicly accessible website that displays this information to the public. It also expands the definition of "lobbying" and "grassroots lobbying" to include communicating directly with any official in the executive branch for the purpose of influencing any rulemaking. It requires a lobbyist or lobbyist associate who provides public comment on a proposed agency rule to disclose to the agency the name of the person or organization that lobbyist or lobbyist associate is representing in the same manner as when testifying before a joint select or joint standing committee of the Legislature. | In Committee |
| 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 |
| LD1816 | An Act to Establish a Statewide Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kit Tracking System and Conduct an Inventory of Existing Forensic Examination Kits in the Possession of Law Enforcement | This bill directs the Department of Public Safety to establish, operate and maintain a sexual assault forensic examination kit tracking system for all completed kits regardless of whether the alleged offense related to the kit was reported to a law enforcement agency. The tracking system must be continuously accessible to approved users. The department is required to submit a report by January 1, 2027, and annually thereafter, to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters and the Governor concerning information related to the status of sexual assault forensic examination kits reported in the tracking system. The bill provides requirements for the tracking system and requires the department to adopt routine technical rules, including rules regarding participation in the tracking system, confidentiality and the operation of the tracking system. The bill directs that, by June 1, 2026, a law enforcement agency that receives, maintains, stores or preserves sexual assault forensic examination kits must complete an inventory of all kits in its possession and report its findings to the Department of Public Safety. The department must compile all agency reports and present findings of the inventory by January 1, 2027 to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters and at the same time post the report on the department's publicly accessible website. Public Law 2023, chapter 236 changed a provision in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 25 to require law enforcement agencies to store sexual assault forensic examination kits for 20 years. For consistency with that provision, this bill amends a provision in Title 24 to require law enforcement agencies to store sexual assault forensic examination kits for 20 years. | Passed |
| LD1636 | Resolve, to Study Changing the Start of the State Fiscal Year to October 1st | This resolve establishes the Working Group to Study Changing the Start of the State Fiscal Year to study the feasibility of changing the state fiscal year from the time period covering July 1st to June 30th to the time period covering October 1st to September 30th and the implications for the State, counties, municipalities and school administrative units associated with that change. | In Committee |
| LD1605 | An Act to Support Farmers and Food Banks Affected by Federal Funding Cuts to Their Existing Contracts | This bill establishes the Food System Protection Program, administered by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, for the purpose of providing zero- interest loans and other resources to qualifying producers within the State, and nonprofit organizations within the State, established for the purpose of reducing hunger and increasing food security that have been affected by federal funding cuts and other changes to the status of contracts and certain federal programs. | In Committee |
| LD1646 | An Act to Amend Maine's Good Samaritan Laws Regarding Suspected Drug-related Overdoses | This bill updates the provisions regarding immunity from arrest, prosecution and revocation and termination proceedings when assistance has been requested for a suspected drug-related overdose to remove references to medical emergencies and expands the scope to include calls for assistance for a person exhibiting symptoms of a drug-related overdose. | In Committee |
| LD1649 | Resolve, to Establish the Commission to Study and Recommend Solutions for Modernizing and Improving the Effectiveness of the Legislature | This resolve establishes the Blue Ribbon Commission to Study the Operations of the Legislature. The commission consists of 12 members, including 4 Legislators and 8 members of the public who have expertise in public policy, government relations, private business and organized labor. The commission is required to study the existing structure and operations of the Legislature for the purpose of determining its adequacy and effectiveness and identifying changes to the Legislature that could improve efficiency; provide better information to inform decisions; help prioritize legislative activity; develop, implement and coordinate a strategic plan; and reinforce political trust and support in State Government. | Passed |
| LD1661 | An Act to Establish a Comprehensive and Interagency Approach to Invasive Species Management | This bill establishes the Maine Invasive Species Advisory Council and the Comprehensive Invasive Species Management Office to evaluate and prioritize invasive species management across all taxa and coordinate interagency collaboration to accomplish invasive species prevention, management, education and outreach. | In Committee |
| LD1665 | An Act to Provide Property Tax Relief to Maine Families | This bill amends the property tax fairness credit, for tax years beginning in 2025 or later by increasing the benefit base as follows: 1. For individuals filing as a head of household who have one child or dependent or for married individuals filing joint returns who have one child or dependent, the benefit base is increased to $3,250; 2. For individuals filing as a head of household who have more than one child or dependent or for married persons who have more than one child or dependent, the benefit base is increased to $4,000; and 3. For individuals 65 years of age or older, the benefit base is increased to $4,250. This bill also increases the maximum credit for an individual filing as a head of household or filing a joint return and who has a child or dependent to $2,000. This bill also requires the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Revenue Services to convene a working group to study the property tax fairness credit and make recommendations for how to make the credit easier to understand and simplify the process for applying for the credit. The working group consists of advocates for low-income and elderly individuals and municipal governments. | Passed |
| LD1696 | Resolve, to Study Maine's Absolute Dominion and Beneficial Use Laws Relating to Water Rights | This resolve establishes the Commission to Study Maine's Absolute Dominion and Beneficial Use Laws Relating to Water Rights and directs the commission to develop findings and recommendations, including any suggested legislation, for policy and statutory changes to the legal status of groundwater rights and ownership in Maine to promote the equitable and sustainable management of water resources in the State. The commission must submit a report by December 3, 2025 to the Joint Standing Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, which may report out related legislation. | Passed |
| 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 |
| LD1744 | An Act to Modify Provisions of the State Civil Service System Governing Employee Recruitment and Retention | This bill makes the following changes to the laws governing recruitment and retention adjustments for state employees in the classified service. 1. It changes one of the criteria for authorizing payment of a recruitment and retention adjustment to add the existence of high turnover or long-term vacancies within a specific department in the relevant occupational classifications or job series. It changes another of the criteria to require that reasonable recruitment and retention efforts have been attempted and have proven ineffective at the current levels of compensation. 2. It provides that payment of a recruitment and retention adjustment may be authorized when an occupational classification is in a job series or job family with an occupational classification entitled to an adjustment and the occupational classification would suffer from either salary compression or salary separation as a result of payment of that adjustment to the other occupational classification. 3. It requires the labor market adjustment to be reviewed at least every 4 years, in alignment with the market pay study conducted by the State. The resulting recruitment and retention adjustment applies to employees hired subsequent to this review. 4. It provides that, if the committee formed to evaluate each request from an agency or bargaining agent for a recruitment and retention adjustment agrees on the appropriate adjustments, the committee must provide a report recommending and documenting those adjustments. If the committee does not agree on the appropriate adjustments, the matter must be submitted to a neutral 3rd party for a final decision and report. 5. It requires the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Human Resources to prescribe the forms to be filed with the bureau to request a recruitment and retention adjustment. 6. It removes language that authorizes payment of a recruitment and retention adjustment when the relevant occupational classification or job series has a clear, geographically definable labor market within which the State must compete. 7. It provides that if the committee that reviews adjustments agrees on the appropriate adjustment, the committee must provide the appropriate persons with a report recommending and documenting the adjustments. | In Committee |
| LD1451 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Transportation to Establish the Maine Coordinating Working Group on Access and Mobility | Resolve, Directing the Department of Transportation to Establish the Maine Coordinating Working Group on Access and Mobility | | Passed |
| LD1554 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Labor to Report on Sexual Harassment | Resolve, Directing the Department of Labor to Report on Sexual Harassment | | Passed |
| LD985 | An Act to Impose a Moratorium on the Ownership or Operation of Hospitals in the State by Private Equity Companies or Real Estate Investment Trusts | An Act to Impose a Moratorium on the Ownership or Operation of Hospitals in the State by Private Equity Companies or Real Estate Investment Trusts Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legislature do not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and Whereas, this legislation establishes a one-year moratorium on the ownership or operation of hospitals in the State by private equity companies or real estate investment trusts; and Whereas, this legislation must take effect as soon as possible so that any transactions involving the State's hospitals and private equity companies or real estate investment trusts may not move forward for one year; 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 |
| LD857 | An Act to Increase Government Transparency in the Procurement of Goods and Services | An Act to Increase Government Transparency in the Procurement of Goods and Services | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1751 | An Act to Improve the Growth Management Program Laws | An Act to Improve the Growth Management Program Laws | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1963 | An Act to Protect and Compensate Public Utility Whistleblowers | This bill increases protections for public utility whistleblowers and allows the Public Utilities Commission to provide financial compensation for information leading to an administrative penalty or savings to utility customers. It requires that public utilities, competitive electricity providers and their affiliated interests and contractors provide training to all employees at least once every 2 years on the rights and responsibilities of whistleblowers. It provides that the Public Utilities Commission may investigate a whistleblower report while protecting the whistleblower's anonymity. The bill does not permit penalty, rate reduction or the disallowance of cost recovery against a utility based on an anonymous report. | Dead |
| LD1960 | An Act to Exempt Electronic Smoking Devices or Other Tobacco Products Containing Ingestible Hemp from the Tax Imposed on Tobacco Products | This bill exempts from the tax imposed on tobacco products an electronic smoking device or other tobacco product containing ingestible consumer products containing hemp or cannabidiol derived from hemp. | Dead |
| LD1298 | An Act Establishing Alternative Pathways to Social Worker Licensing | This bill establishes a method for a person who has attempted and failed to complete a State Board of Social Worker Licensure examination for licensure as a licensed social worker; licensed master social worker; licensed master social worker, conditional clinical; or licensed clinical social worker to qualify for licensure through an alternative pathway. | Dead |
| LD738 | An Act to Remove Barriers to Becoming a Lawyer by Establishing a Law Office Study Program | This bill creates additional opportunities for individuals to qualify to take the examination for admission to the bar. Under the bill, an applicant for admission to the bar who has studied law for 4 years in a law office study program under the supervision of a judge or attorney who is a member of the bar in good standing need not attend law school prior to taking the bar examination. During the 4-year period, the applicant must pursue a systematic course of legal study designed to prepare the applicant for the general practice of law that must include, at a minimum, each of the subjects tested on the bar examination. An applicant may receive credit for up to 2 of the 4 required years of legal study based on the applicant's study of law at an accredited law school in this country, study of law at an equivalent foreign law school, legal study in a foreign jurisdiction that led to the admission of the applicant to practice law before a court of general jurisdiction within that jurisdiction or legal study in compliance with the requirements of a law office study program in another state. The bill requires that an applicant who is determined by the board of bar examiners to be otherwise eligible through a law office study program to take the examination for admission to the bar must pay a fee fixed by the Supreme Judicial Court before the applicant is determined eligible to take the examination. The bill requires the board, by January 1, 2026, to create and make available forms for applicants to submit required reports and notices to the board to be eligible to take the examination for admission to the bar through a law office study program. If the board fails to make these forms available by the deadline, then applicants may submit those reports and notices in any reasonable form or format as long as the reports and notices otherwise conform with the law. | Dead |
| LD138 | An Act Regarding the Permitting of Projects Affecting Public-use Airports Under the Natural Resources Protection Act and the Site Location of Development Laws | An Act Regarding the Permitting of Projects Affecting Public-use Airports Under the Natural Resources Protection Act and the Site Location of Development Laws | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD358 | An Act to Increase Fees Paid to Registers of Deeds | An Act to Increase Fees Paid to Registers of Deeds | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1866 | An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding the State-designated Agency Advocating for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness | An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding the State-designated Agency Advocating for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SP0720 | An Act to Amend the Laws Affecting Insurance | An Act to Amend the Laws Affecting Insurance | Introduced |
| LD1715 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Amend the Appointment and Confirmation Process for Certain Judicial, Civil and Military Officers | This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to allow the Senate to confirm nominations of certain judicial, civil and military officers by a 2/3 vote. | Dead |
| LD1736 | An Act to Increase the Supply of Child Care Services Through the Use of Contracts | An Act to Increase the Supply of Child Care Services Through the Use of Contracts | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1756 | An Act to Establish a Statewide Transportation Project Selection Prioritization Process | This bill establishes the Transportation Project Selection Council to develop and manage a statewide project selection prioritization process. The council is directed to: 1. Advise the Department of Transportation and the Maine Turnpike Authority on the development of the prioritization process, in accordance with federal transportation requirements, and in cooperation with municipalities, counties and other planning organizations within the State; 2. Review projects and strategies to determine whether projects are consistent with assessment of capacity needs outlined in the department's or the authority's long-range transportation plans; 3. Weigh key goals for each of the State's federally designated planning organization regions; and 4. Solicit input from municipalities, counties and other planning organizations, transit operators, environmental groups, active transportation groups, economic development groups and other stakeholders in the development of the prioritization process. The council is required to report annually on the prioritization process to the Governor and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over transportation matters. | Dead |
| LD11 | An Act Regarding Temperature Standards for School Buildings | An Act Regarding Temperature Standards for School Buildings | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD649 | An Act to Certify Chiropractic Assistants Who Perform X-rays as Chiropractic Radiographers | This bill requires the certification of radiologic technologists who produce x-rays while employed as licensed chiropractic assistants. Certification requirements include satisfactory completion of a radiologic technology course of instruction of at least 50 hours and passing an examination approved by the Board of Chiropractic Licensure. The bill also contains provisions for certificate renewal, continuing radiologic technology education and violations for radiologic technologists. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1407 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Labor to Report the Findings of the Indoor Air Quality Advisory Group | Resolve, Directing the Department of Labor to Report the Findings of the Indoor Air Quality Advisory Group | | Passed |
| LD1787 | An Act to Increase Seed Money Contribution Limits for Gubernatorial Candidates Under the Maine Clean Election Act | An Act to Increase Seed Money Contribution Limits for Gubernatorial Candidates Under the Maine Clean Election Act | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1635 | An Act to Streamline Municipal Referenda Recount Initiation | An Act to Streamline Municipal Referenda Recount Initiation | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD970 | An Act to Support Affordable Housing Development | An Act to Support Affordable Housing Development | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD508 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Require Constitutional Officers to Be Elected by Popular Election | This resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that provides for direct popular election beginning in 2026 of the Secretary of State, the Treasurer of State and the Attorney General biennially in the manner currently provided for Senators and Representatives. | Dead |
| LD589 | An Act to Establish a State Minimum Hourly Wage for Agricultural Workers | An Act to Establish a State Minimum Hourly Wage for Agricultural Workers | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD455 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Require a Statewide Popular Election of the Secretary of State, the Treasurer of State and the Attorney General for 4-year Terms | This resolution proposes a constitutional amendment that provides for the popular election beginning in 2032 and every 4 years thereafter of the Secretary of State, the Treasurer of State and the Attorney General on the same date and in the manner currently provided for the election of members of the Senate and House of Representatives. | Dead |
| LD4 | An Act to Adopt Eastern Standard Time Year-round | This bill changes the exemption to federal provisions regarding the observation of eastern daylight saving time by establishing eastern standard time as the standard time year- round for the State. | Dead |
| LD1375 | Resolve, to Establish a Working Group to Address Regulatory Barriers to Housing Construction | Resolve, to Establish a Working Group to Address Regulatory Barriers to Housing Construction | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1469 | An Act to Clarify the Quality Rating System for Child Care Services in Maine | An Act to Clarify the Quality Rating System for Child Care Services in Maine | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1497 | An Act to Amend the Laws Governing Primary Care Reporting by the Maine Quality Forum and to Establish the Primary Care Advisory Council | An Act to Amend the Laws Governing Primary Care Reporting by the Maine Quality Forum and to Establish the Primary Care Advisory Council | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1576 | An Act to Extend a One-year Lobbying Prohibition to Partisan and Nonpartisan Staff of the Legislature | An Act to Extend a One-year Lobbying Prohibition to Partisan and Nonpartisan Staff of the Legislature | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1445 | An Act to Prevent Financial Exploitation of Vulnerable Adults | An Act to Prevent Financial Exploitation of Vulnerable Adults | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD3 | An Act to Adopt Eastern Daylight Time Year-round Contingent on Federal Approval | An Act to Adopt Eastern Daylight Time Year-round Contingent on Federal Approval | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD356 | Resolve, Directing the Board of Pesticides Control to Prohibit the Use of Rodenticides in Outdoor Residential Settings | Resolve, Directing the Board of Pesticides Control to Prohibit the Use of Rodenticides in Outdoor Residential Settings | | Passed |
| LD1181 | An Act Regarding the Designation of Short-term Rental Units as Commercial or Residential in Use | This bill clarifies that a municipality may require the municipal assessor to assign a land use code to a short-term rental unit that designates the short-term rental unit as commercial in use or residential in use. | Dead |
| LD1324 | An Act to Protect Maine Consumers Shopping for Electric Vehicles from Deceptive Advertising and Marketing Practices | This bill prohibits motor vehicle manufacturers and dealers from using deceptive marketing or advertising practices that falsely suggest or imply that gasoline-powered hybrid vehicles are wholly or primarily powered by electricity. The Attorney General may enforce the provisions of the bill. A violation of the provisions of the bill constitutes a violation of the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act. | Dead |
| LD1349 | An Act to Require Legislative Approval for a Contract to Operate the Juniper Ridge Landfill | This bill requires the approval of the Legislature for a contract or a contract renewal for the operation of the state-owned Juniper Ridge Landfill, located in the City of Old Town. | Dead |
| LD132 | Resolve, to Establish the Commission to Study the Constitution of Maine | This resolve creates the Commission to Study the Constitution of Maine to study and review the Constitution of Maine and any constitutional resolutions introduced in the 132nd Legislature. The bill requires the commission to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Joint Standing Committee on Judiciary by November 4, 2026 and authorizes the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over judiciary matters to submit legislation, including a resolution to amend the Constitution of Maine, based on the findings and recommendations in the report to the 133rd Legislature in 2027. | Dead |
| LD115 | An Act to Assess Impact Fees on Megayachts | This bill provides that a megayacht is subject to an impact fee of $10 per foot of length over 150 feet for each day up to 30 consecutive days that the megayacht is secured to a slip in a municipality that collects slip fees. Megayachts are defined as certain privately owned vessels that are at least 150 feet in length. It provides that commercial fishing vessels, certain commercial cruise vessels, commercial scientific research vessels, marine salvage or construction equipment vessels, commercial freight-carrying vessels, vessels built before 1950, vessels made primarily of wood, military vessels and vessels owned by academic institutions are not included in the definition of "megayacht." Municipalities are allowed to retain 10% of all impact fees, with the remainder to be transferred to the Megayacht Fund, which the bill establishes. The bill requires that 50% of funds in the Megayacht Fund support harbor infrastructure and sea level rise mitigation infrastructure and 50% of funds support public transit infrastructure, including ferries and land-based public transportation. | Dead |
| LD726 | An Act to Protect Municipalities' Investment in Law Enforcement Officers | Current law requires that when a governmental entity hires a full-time law enforcement officer within 5 years of the officer's graduation from the Maine Criminal Justice Academy or the Indian police academy at the federal law enforcement training center, and that officer's training had been paid for by the officer's original governmental entity, the hiring governmental entity must pay the original governmental entity a designated portion of the officer's training costs. This bill increases the amount of those payments. | Dead |
| LD1213 | An Act Regarding Apportionment of Stipends to Agricultural Fairs | An Act Regarding Apportionment of Stipends to Agricultural Fairs | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1413 | An Act to Amend Laws Governing Hearing Aid Dealers to Allow an Exception to Certain Hearing Examination Requirements | An Act to Amend Laws Governing Hearing Aid Dealers to Allow an Exception to Certain Hearing Examination Requirements | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1550 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Amend Its Rules to Protect Water Quality by Reducing Nutrient Pollution from Septic Systems | Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Amend Its Rules to Protect Water Quality by Reducing Nutrient Pollution from Septic Systems | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1292 | An Act to Codify the Maine Turnpike Authority's Contributions to the Highway Fund with Regard to the Sensible Transportation Policy Act | This bill specifies that the Maine Turnpike Authority must contribute, on a quarterly basis, to the Highway Fund any revenues and reserves exceeding the sum of the authority's legislatively approved operating budget, reserve maintenance fund, debt services fund and debt service reserve fund, the amount required to support the debt service, any additional amount required to be kept in reserve, any additional amount allocated to a planning or capital project outside the authority's general maintenance and preservation duty that has been legislatively approved and approved by the Department of Transportation and found to be a greater priority than any other department projects and to be consistent with the Sensible Transportation Policy Act. | Dead |
| LD788 | An Act to Promote an Innovation-driven Economy by Increasing Research and Development Spending | An Act to Promote an Innovation-driven Economy by Increasing Research and Development Spending | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD23 | An Act to Extend the Period of Time a Dentist May Operate the Practice of a Deceased or Incapacitated Dentist | An Act to Extend the Period of Time a Dentist May Operate the Practice of a Deceased or Incapacitated Dentist Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legislature do not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and Whereas, Maine is experiencing a shortage of dentists; and Whereas, this legislation extends the time by which the operations of a dental practice may continue after the death or incapacitation of a dentist; and Whereas, this legislation must take effect prior to the 90-day period to provide additional time for dental practices to be sold after the death or incapacitation of a dentist; 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 |
| LD202 | An Act to Increase the Number of Children a Child Care Provider May Care for Without Having to Be Licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services | An Act to Increase the Number of Children a Child Care Provider May Care for Without Having to Be Licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD733 | Resolve, to Require the Maine State Housing Authority to Submit a Report on the Pilot Project to Improve Access to Credit for Low-income Individuals | Resolve, to Require the Maine State Housing Authority to Submit a Report on the Pilot Project to Improve Access to Credit for Low-income Individuals | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD425 | An Act to Establish a Conviction Integrity Unit in the Attorney General's Office | This bill requires the Attorney General to establish a single Conviction Integrity Unit in the Office of the Attorney General to review convictions obtained by the Office of the Attorney General as well as any district attorney's office. The Conviction Integrity Unit must be separate from the Criminal Division, and the head of the unit reports directly to the Attorney General. The purpose of the Conviction Integrity Unit is to review convictions to determine whether there is clear and convincing evidence of actual innocence. The Conviction Integrity Unit is authorized, in its discretion and either upon its own initiative or upon application from any person, to review a conviction that contains facts that suggest a plausible claim of actual innocence, evidence of a constitutional violation or prosecutorial misconduct or facts or circumstances requiring a review in the interests of fairness or justice. The Conviction Integrity Unit is directed to report evidence of prosecutorial misconduct to the Board of Overseers of the Bar. The Attorney General is directed to submit an annual report describing the activities of the Conviction Integrity Unit to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over judiciary matters. | Dead |
| LD551 | An Act to Restore Balanced Emergency Powers | This bill: 1. Requires the emergency powers exercised by the Governor, a person within the executive branch or a municipal official that bind, curtail or infringe on the rights of private parties to be narrowly tailored to serve a compelling public health or safety purpose and to be limited in duration, applicability and scope to reduce any infringement of individual liberty. Only the Governor may issue an order that infringes on a right guaranteed under the United States Constitution or the Constitution of Maine, including, but not limited to, freedom of travel, assembly, work, speech and religion and freedom to purchase and possess firearms and ammunition. That order must be narrowly tailored to serve a compelling public health or safety purpose limited in duration, applicability and scope to reduce any infringement of a constitutional right; 2. Gives a state court jurisdiction to hear a case challenging the legality of the exercise of emergency powers and requires the court to expedite consideration of the case to the extent practicable. Inequality in the applicability of the impact of emergency orders on analogous groups, situations and circumstances may constitute one ground among others for a court to invalidate or enjoin an emergency order, or some of its applications, on the basis that it is not narrowly tailored to serve a compelling public health or safety purpose; 3. Requires the Governor to convene the Legislature if a declared state of emergency is to be in effect for longer than 30 days. If the Legislature does not, by a 2/3 vote in each House of the Legislature, vote to extend the state of emergency, the Governor may not declare a similar, subsequent state of emergency; 4. Provides that the Governor may not reissue or renew an emergency proclamation that is substantially similar to one that expired or reissue an emergency proclamation terminated by the Legislature without approval of the Legislature; and 5. Prohibits state agencies from adopting emergency rules without an emergency proclamation issued by the Governor. | Dead |
| LD1958 | An Act to Ensure Due Process for Recipients of No Trespass Orders on Certain State Properties | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. The bill would ensure due process for a recipient of a no trespass order from a State Government entity that prohibits the recipient of the order from accessing certain state properties. 1. The legislation is limited to state properties where the public accesses state services and where the public has a reasonable expectation of entry. 2. The no trespass order must include a reason for the order that is available to the recipient of the order upon request of the recipient of the order. 3. The allowable reasons to serve such a no trespass order are harassment of the State Government entity as defined in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 4651, subsection 2 or a refusal to leave the state property upon request 3 or more times in a one- month period. 4. The recipient of the no trespass order may contest the order within 14 days of the receipt of the order. 5. The court must set a date for return within 7 days of the recipient's contesting the order. 6. In a court proceeding on the issuance of such a no trespass order, the court must use the procedure as described for the issuance of a protection from abuse order under Title 19-A, chapter 103 and ensure that a defendant in a proceeding on the issuance of a no trespass order receives the same due process protections as a defendant in a proceeding on the issuance of a protection from abuse order. | Dead |
| LD482 | An Act to Expand Educational Opportunities and Broaden Educational Services for Students Enrolled in Equivalent Instruction Programs | This bill modifies the provisions of law governing standards for participation in public school by students who are enrolled in equivalent instruction programs. Equivalent instruction programs include home instruction programs, private schools or other alternative arrangements approved by the Commissioner of Education. Current law provides different standards for participation in public school for students enrolled in home instruction programs as opposed to students enrolled in certain recognized private schools. The bill amends the law to provide one set of standards to apply to all types of equivalent instruction programs. The bill makes changes related to the approval process that a student enrolled in an equivalent instruction program must follow to participate in regular classes in a public school. These changes include eliminating the requirement that a student receive written approval from the superintendent or the superintendent's designee to enroll in or audit a course and modifying the terms used to describe the academic achievement a student must demonstrate in order to participate. The bill allows an equivalent instruction program to use facilities on property owned or leased by a library, community service organization, museum, performing arts venue, theater, cinema or church facility if the property is being used solely for the purpose of operating a type of facility described in the bill, the facility is or was actively used for one of those purposes within 5 years of any executed agreement for the equivalent instruction program to use that facility and the facility follows the state and local health, safety and welfare laws, codes and rules applicable to that facility, including fire safety and building safety. | Dead |
| LD1160 | An Act to Prohibit Ownership of 6 Percent or More or Control of a Public Utility by an Entity Providing Aid to a Foreign Terrorist Organization | This bill prohibits the ownership of 6% or more or control of a public utility or the parent company of a public utility by an entity that the Public Utilities Commission finds to have provided material aid or comfort to an organization that is designated by the United States Secretary of State as a foreign terrorist organization. If the commission finds, after conducting an investigation and an adjudicatory proceeding, that a public utility is in violation of the law, the commission must order divestiture of or by the public utility. | Dead |
| LD1385 | An Act to Consider Municipalities Meeting Regional Housing Goals in Awarding Transportation Grants | This bill requires the Department of Transportation to consider a municipality's past actions and future plans toward meeting regional housing production goals when considering the award of discretionary grants. | Dead |
| LD171 | An Act to Enhance Protections Regarding Invasive Aquatic Plant and Animal Infestations in Inland Waters of the State | An Act to Enhance Protections Regarding Invasive Aquatic Plant and Animal Infestations in Inland Waters of the State | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD895 | An Act to Support Immersive Outdoor Education by Establishing the Outdoor School for All Maine Students Program | An Act to Support Immersive Outdoor Education by Establishing the Outdoor School for All Maine Students Program Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legislature do not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and Whereas, this legislation establishes an immersive outdoor education program that provides interdisciplinary and experiential education in an outdoor setting, and this legislation creates equitable opportunities for students across this State to have outdoor experiences; and Whereas, many children in this State lack opportunities to enjoy and learn about the outdoors because of home circumstances, lack of access or transportation or a deficiency of suitable school or community-based programs; and Whereas, the Outdoor School for All Maine Students Program will prepare children in this State for future success, will build self-awareness and confidence and will be an opportunity to instill the importance of the State's natural resources industries by encouraging future generations of farmers, foresters, persons who fish commercially and others working outdoors or as stewards of the State's natural resources; and Whereas, the Outdoor School for All Maine Students Program will begin in school year 2025-2026; 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 |
| SP0010 | JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING SEPARATE APPLICATIONS TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES CALLING ARTICLE V CONVENTIONS TO PROPOSE AMENDMENTS ESTABLISHING TERM LIMITS FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND TERM LIMITS FOR JUSTICES OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT | JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING SEPARATE APPLICATIONS TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES CALLING ARTICLE V CONVENTIONS TO PROPOSE AMENDMENTS ESTABLISHING TERM LIMITS FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS AND TERM LIMITS FOR JUSTICES OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT | Dead |
| LD944 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Improve Representation and Simplify Legislative Redistricting | This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to provide that the House of Representatives consists of an odd number of Representatives, not less than 151 nor more than 155. | Dead |
| LD1546 | An Act to Require Recommendations from Study Commissions to Be Printed as Legislative Documents | This bill requires that the recommendations of a study commission established by the Legislature be produced as legislation, submitted to the Legislature to which the study commission is required to submit its report, referred to a joint standing committee or joint select committee of the Legislature and given a public hearing. | Dead |
| LD1798 | An Act to Increase Revenue Sharing and to Control Property Taxes | This bill provides additional state-municipal revenue sharing to a municipality that has adopted and implemented a program to impose limits of increases of no more than 2% annually on the imposition of property taxes on residents who are at least 65 years of age and who qualify for the Maine resident homestead property tax exemption. The amount of the additional distribution is 20% of the amount that the municipality would receive before the additional distribution. | Dead |
| LD1729 | An Act to Increase the Rate of Reimbursement to Municipalities for Revenue Lost as a Result of the Maine Resident Homestead Property Tax Exemption | This bill increases the reimbursement rate by the State to municipalities for revenue lost as a result of the Maine resident homestead property tax exemption by 3 percentage points each year, beginning in 2026, until the reimbursement rate is 100%, which would be in 8 years under the bill. The current rate of reimbursement is 76%. | Dead |
| LD1714 | An Act to Create a New Pathway to Licensure to Drive School Buses | This bill creates a license specifically endorsed for the operation of a school bus, which must conform with the requirements of the federal Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986. An applicant for a license specifically endorsed for the operation of a school bus must follow requirements set out in the bill to obtain that license. The bill does not prohibit a holder of a commercial license with a school bus endorsement who is otherwise qualified to operate a school bus from operating a school bus in the State. A school bus learner's permit holder must complete a school bus driver's license skills course taught by an instructor who has at least 3 years of school bus driving experience and has completed a school bus driver's license skills instructor course, which may be offered in conjunction with a commercial driver's license instructor course. | Dead |
| LD1732 | An Act to Allow a Municipality to Waive the Excise Tax on an Antique Automobile Owned by a Person 65 Years of Age or Older | This bill allows a municipality to waive the excise tax on antique automobiles when the registered owner is 65 years of age or older. | Dead |
| LD1630 | An Act to Amend the Open Space Tax Law | This bill makes changes to the valuation method for the open space tax law. It extends eligibility for a reduced valuation to land managed under a forest climate resilience and carbon management plan and to land on which an approved wildlife habitat management plan has been certified. The bill allows a landowner determined to be a nonprofit organization by the United States Internal Revenue Service to apply for classification for more than an aggregate total of 15,000 acres under the laws governing the valuation of open space land. This bill also: 1. Increases the amount of the reduction of property taxes that land enrolled as open space is eligible for from 20% to 45% and reduces the additional reduction of property taxes that permanently protected open space land is eligible for from 30% to 25%; 2. Eliminates the additional percentage reduction in property taxes that forever wild open space land and managed forest open space land is eligible for; and 3. Provides an additional 25% reduction in property taxes to open space land for which an approved wildlife habitat management plan or forest climate resilience and carbon management plan has been completed. | Dead |
| SP0778 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAST UNITED STATES COMBAT MISSION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AT THE END OF THE VIETNAM WAR | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LAST UNITED STATES COMBAT MISSION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA AT THE END OF THE VIETNAM WAR | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1415 | An Act to Expand Reporting Requirements for Legislators and Lobbyists | This bill requires lobbyists and Legislators to report behested payments to the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices. Under the bill, behested payments are payments made by a lobbyist or other person to an organization for a legislative, governmental or charitable purpose at the suggestion or solicitation of, or made in coordination with, a member of the Legislature. | Dead |
| LD1317 | An Act to Promote Responsible, Cost-effective Energy in Maine by Amending the Tariff Rates Applicable to the Commercial and Institutional Net Energy Billing Program | This bill amends the commercial and institutional net energy billing program, starting in 2026, to allow the Public Utilities Commission to establish by rule the tariff rate applicable to all customers in the program, regardless of the size of the distributed generation resource involved in net energy billing. The bill requires the commission to establish the 2026 tariff rate at a rate between 12¢ per kilowatt-hour and the lesser of the tariff rates applicable in 2025. It requires the commission to establish the 2027 tariff rate at a rate between 12¢ per kilowatt-hour and the tariff rate applicable in 2026. Beginning January 1, 2028, the bill requires the tariff rate to equal 12¢ per kilowatt-hour. | Dead |
| LD955 | An Act to Ensure Human Oversight in Medical Insurance Payment Decisions | This bill prohibits, beginning January 1, 2026, health insurance carriers from denying coverage or claims for services under a health plan solely based on the use of artificial intelligence. The bill requires that, before a carrier denies benefits or reduces payment for services using artificial intelligence, a carrier must conduct a utilization review done by a physician who is licensed in this State that includes a review of the medical necessity of the services, the professional judgment of the enrollee's provider and the impact of any denial of benefits or reduction in payment on the enrollee's health outcomes. The bill requires carriers and the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Bureau of Insurance to report on a quarterly and annual basis, respectively, on the use of artificial intelligence. The bill also requires the bureau to adopt rules related to the use of artificial intelligence by carriers no later than November 1, 2025. | Dead |
| LD357 | An Act to Establish a State Minimum Hourly Wage for Agricultural Workers | This bill provides that individuals employed to perform agricultural labor may not be paid at a rate less than the state minimum hourly wage of $14.65 per hour and that, on January 1, 2027 and each January 1st thereafter, the minimum hourly wage then in effect must be increased by the increase in the cost of living. It also provides that employers that employ individuals to perform agricultural labor are required to keep a true and accurate record of the hours worked by each employee and the wages paid to each employee. The bill also provides remedies for employees and penalties for employers for unpaid minimum hourly wage violations. | Dead |
| LD563 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Apply for a Waiver from the Federal Government for the Medicaid Limitation on Payment to a Facility with More than 16 Inpatient Beds for Psychiatric Treatment | This resolve requires the Department of Health and Human Services, within 9 months of the effective date of this resolve, to apply to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a waiver of the prohibition against the provision of Medicaid-covered services to individuals who are inpatients in a hospital, nursing facility or other institution with more than 16 beds that is primarily engaged in providing diagnosis, treatment or care to persons with mental disease. The resolve also requires the department to inform the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters of its submission of the waiver application and to report to the joint standing committee, by January 1, 2027, on the status of the waiver request and its implementation of any services provided pursuant to authorities granted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. | 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 |
| LD1203 | An Act to Provide Grants to Schools That Contract for Behavioral and Mental Health Services | This bill establishes a grant program within the Department of Education to provide grants to school administrative units that contract for behavioral and mental health services provided by licensed behavioral and mental health service providers. The bill limits the use of funds provided through the grant program to behavioral and mental health services that are not otherwise covered or reimbursable through the MaineCare program and provides that funds must be used in a manner that does not supplant qualified and available school administrative unit behavioral and mental health staff. The bill also provides that the amounts of the grants must be based on a school administrative unit's need for clinicians and in the amount of $20,000 per clinician prior to July 1, 2027 and $25,000 per clinician beginning July 1, 2027. The bill provides funding for the grants for fiscal years 2025-26 and 2026-27. | Dead |
| LD1455 | An Act to Prevent Illegal Cannabis Growing Operations in the State | This bill amends the definition of "disqualifying drug offense" in the Maine Medical Use of Cannabis Act and in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 28-B to provide that a conviction that occurred after October 1, 2025 related to the cultivation or distribution of cannabis that is not authorized in the Maine Medical Use of Cannabis Act or in Title 28-B is a disqualifying drug offense. It also provides that the Department of Administrative and Financial Services may not register or issue a registration certificate for cannabis to a facility or a person if the physical location of the facility or person is under investigation by state or federal law enforcement officers for the illegal cultivation or distribution of cannabis or was used by a person convicted of illegal cultivation or distribution of cannabis for those purposes. The Office of Cannabis Policy within the department may not issue a license under the Cannabis Legalization Act to an applicant proposing to operate licensed premises at a physical location that is under investigation by state or federal law enforcement officers for the illegal cultivation or distribution of cannabis or that was used by a person convicted of illegal cultivation or distribution of cannabis for those purposes. | Dead |
| SP0726 | Joint Order to Amend Joint Rule 308 | Joint Order to Amend Joint Rule 308 | Dead |
| LD1670 | An Act to Establish the Maine Public Employees Retirement System Home Repair and Energy Upgrade Loan Program and Fund | This bill creates the Maine Public Employees Retirement System Home Repair and Energy Upgrade Program to provide low-interest loans to retirement system members and retired retirement system pension holders for residential energy efficiency improvements and home repairs. The Maine Public Employees Retirement System Home Repair and Energy Upgrade Loan Program is supported by the Maine Public Employees Retirement System Home Repair and Energy Upgrade Loan Fund, which is funded by allocations from Maine Public Employees Retirement System investment holdings in fossil fuel companies. | Dead |
| LD757 | Resolve, to Study and Oversee Water in the State of Maine | This resolve does the following. 1. It establishes the Commission to Study the Role of Water as a Resource in the State of Maine to develop findings and recommendations, including any suggested legislation, to ensure that there is adequate clean, safe and accessible drinking water for the State's residents and to meet the needs of commercial and business interests now and in the future. This study is designed to build off the work of the Commission To Study the Role of Water as a Resource in the State of Maine that was established pursuant to Resolve 2021, chapter 185. The commission is also required to review proposed major substantive rules of the Maine Public Drinking Water Commission regarding the transfer of a permit or contract in a sale of assets of an entity engaged in the exporting from the State of water extracted in the State and making recommendations, if any, to the Maine Public Drinking Water Commission. 2. It requires the Maine Public Drinking Water Commission to adopt major substantive rules regarding the transfer of a permit or contract in a sale of assets of an entity engaged in the exporting from the State of water extracted in the State and to submit the proposed rules to the Commission to Study the Role of Water as a Resource in the State of Maine established under this resolve for review before submitting the proposed rules for legislative review. | Dead |
| LD203 | An Act to Provide an Income Tax Credit for Employer-supported Child Care | This bill repeals the law governing the employer-assisted day care income tax credit, which by its own terms does not apply to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2016. The bill authorizes, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, a refundable tax credit for an employer that pays or provides in-kind resources for child care for the children of its employees. The amount of the annual credit is 50% of the amount expended or $3,000 per child, whichever is lower. The bill also provides that the credit is subject to ongoing legislative review. | Dead |
| LD1491 | An Act to Provide a Tax Credit for New Attorneys Practicing in Underserved Areas | This bill establishes a tax credit of up to $18,000 per year for attorneys who agree to begin practicing law in underserved areas of the State, as determined by the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services, for at least 5 years. | Dead |
| LD1486 | An Act to Provide Financing Assistance for Down Payments for First-generation Homeowners | This bill establishes a program to be administered by the Maine State Housing Authority that provides down payment assistance in the form of loans to prospective first- generation homeowners with household incomes at or below 100% of the area median income where the property to be purchased is located. Loans issued under the program may not exceed 10% of the purchase price of the property and administrative costs may not exceed $3,200 per loan. The bill provides ongoing funding of $10,000,000 per year to administer the program. | Dead |
| LD1489 | Resolve, to Provide Stability to Long-term Care Facility Funding | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide a cost-of- living adjustment for residential care facilities and apply that adjustment retroactively to January 1, 2025. The bill also requires the department to conduct a rate study and determine rates for residential care facility services no later than January 1, 2026. | Dead |
| LD625 | An Act Supporting Education for the Rural Health Care Workforce | This bill establishes the Maine Rural Health Care Education Workforce Fund to support rural primary care and health professions workforce development in rural areas of the State. | Dead |
| LD676 | An Act to Fund the Recommendations of the Mountain Division Rail Use Advisory Council | This bill provides a one-time allocation to go toward the replacement of the tracks on the 31 miles of the rail corridor between the towns of Fryeburg and Standish per the recommendations of the Mountain Division Rail Use Advisory Council. | 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 |
| LD80 | An Act to Designate the Seppala Siberian Sleddog as the Maine State Dog | An Act to Designate the Seppala Siberian Sleddog as the Maine State Dog | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD136 | An Act to Transfer the Responsibility for Tax Expenditure Review from the Government Oversight Committee to the Joint Standing Committee on Taxation | This bill amends the laws governing tax expenditure review by the Legislature. The bill transfers the primary responsibility for tax expenditure review and evaluation from the jurisdiction of the Government Oversight Committee to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over taxation matters. | Dead |
| LD1527 | An Act to Require Postage Prepaid Envelopes Be Provided for the Return of Absentee Ballots | This bill requires the Secretary of State, when providing municipalities with absentee ballots, to also provide postage prepaid return envelopes for those absentee ballots. | Dead |
| LD951 | An Act to Require Disclosure of Campaign Funding Sources | This bill requires certain party committees, political action committees and ballot question committees to notify and seek consent from a contributor in writing that the contribution may be used to make expenditures to influence a political campaign in this State. The bill requires the committee to report to the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices information about the identity of certain contributors and 3rd parties and the amount of the contribution used to make expenditures to influence a political campaign in this State. The bill contains other requirements regarding the source of contributions, required reporting relating to the top 3 funders and penalties for violations. | Dead |
| LD580 | An Act to Protect Maine Consumers by Prohibiting Fees Charged for Receiving Paper Statements from Financial Institutions and Credit Card Issuers | An Act to Protect Maine Consumers by Prohibiting Fees Charged for Receiving Paper Statements from Financial Institutions and Credit Card Issuers | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD367 | An Act to Authorize General Fund Bond Issues to Improve Highways, Bridges and Nonhighway Modes of Transportation | The funds provided in Part A by this bond issue, put out to referendum in November 2025, in the amount of $100,000,000, will be used to provide funding for improvements to roads and bridges and nonhighway modes of transportation. The funds provided in Part B by this bond issue, put out to referendum in November 2026, in the amount of $100,000,000, will be used to provide funding for improvements to roads and bridges and nonhighway modes of transportation. | Dead |
| LD925 | Resolve, To Create a License Plate To Recognize the Semiquincentennial of the United States of America | This resolve creates a commemorative simulated motor vehicle registration plate in celebration of the United States of America Semiquincentennial. The Secretary of State is directed to design and issue the plate, which may be displayed from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2026 covering the front registration plate on a motor vehicle. Revenue generated by the sale of the plate in excess of the cost of production and issuance will be given to the Maine State Cultural Affairs Council. | Dead |
| LD989 | An Act to Recognize Amateur Radio License Holders by Waiving Fees for License Plates Displaying Call Signs | This bill exempts amateur radio license holders from the annual administrative fee for a vanity registration plate if the vanity registration plate displays the call sign of the amateur radio station and the registrant complies with other motor vehicle registration laws. The registrant may be required to provide proof of a valid amateur radio license issued by the Federal Communications Commission. The bill specifies that the exemption will not be in effect until the Secretary of State does its regular update of the software used by the Department of the Secretary of State, Bureau of Motor Vehicles. | Dead |
| LD586 | An Act to Provide a Court Authority to Issue Proximity Restrictions in Protection from Abuse Orders | An Act to Provide a Court Authority to Issue Proximity Restrictions in Protection from Abuse Orders | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD7 | An Act to Increase the Homestead Property Tax Exemption for Residents 65 Years of Age or Older | This bill increases the homestead property tax exemption for permanent residents of this State who are 65 years of age or older and have owned a homestead in the State for at least 10 years from $25,000 to $75,000 for property tax years beginning on or after April 1, 2025. | Dead |
| LD12 | An Act to Amend the Freedom of Access Act to Apply to Legislative Caucuses | This bill provides that legislative caucuses are public proceedings under the Freedom of Access Act. The bill defines "legislative caucus" as 3 or more Legislators of the same political party meeting for the purpose of conducting legislative business. | Dead |
| LD133 | An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding Nuisance Dogs | This bill amends the definition of "nuisance dog" to include a dog or wolf hybrid that disturbs the peace of an individual by excessive barking, howling or yelping, and the individual is not trespassing on the dog or wolf hybrid owner's or keeper's premises at the time of the excessive barking, howling or yelping. The bill also explicitly authorizes a person to file a written complaint to a sheriff, local law enforcement officer or animal control officer if the person's peace has been disrupted by a dog that barks, howls or yelps excessively. | Dead |
| LD1199 | Resolve, Regarding the Development of a Medication Administration Training Program for Maine Youth Camps | This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to convene a work group that is tasked with creating a medication administration training program for unlicensed personnel that may be made available to licensed youth camps in the State. The department is required to submit the training program by February 1, 2026 to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services, which may submit legislation related to the training program to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. | Dead |
| LD1102 | Resolve, to Raise Awareness of the Importance of Brain Health and Reducing the Risk of Dementia | This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to conduct a public awareness campaign to promote brain health and risk reduction of Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia. It provides one-time funding of $100,000 for the public awareness campaign. | Dead |
| LD871 | An Act to Exempt All Persons, Including Health Care and Emergency Services Personnel, from COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements | This bill prohibits the State from requiring any person, including health care facility employees and emergency medical services personnel, to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. | Dead |
| HP0950 | JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE LATE HONORABLE LOIS GALGAY RECKITT ON THE OCCASION OF THE BOSTON RED SOX OPENING HOME GAME ON APRIL 4, 2025 | JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE LATE HONORABLE LOIS GALGAY RECKITT ON THE OCCASION OF THE BOSTON RED SOX OPENING HOME GAME ON APRIL 4, 2025 | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SP0319 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARCH FROM SELMA TO MONTGOMERY | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MARCH FROM SELMA TO MONTGOMERY | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD469 | An Act to Prioritize State Access to Electricity Generated in Canada via High-impact Electric Transmission Lines | This bill prohibits, beginning December 31, 2026, the Public Utilities Commission from issuing a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the construction of a high- impact electric transmission line to deliver electricity generated in Canada to other states within the electric grid operated by the New England independent system operator unless at least 50% of the electricity delivered to the State will be allocated to and consumed within the State. It requires the person operating a high-impact electric transmission line to file quarterly reports with the commission and provides that any penalties for noncompliance with the requirements of the law are paid into the Public Utilities Commission Energy Affordability Fund. The bill requires the commission to review the requirement established by the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, section 3132-E, subsection 1 and develop recommendations for how the cost of electricity may be reduced to increase consumption and ensure that the 50% threshold required by the bill is met. By December 31, 2025, the commission must provide a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology regarding its findings, including any recommendations for legislation. No later than December 31, 2030, the commission is required to provide a report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over electricity matters assessing the local consumption standard requirement, including an evaluation of the laws' effect on the benefits and costs to electricity customers in the State and on regional energy markets. The commission's report must include recommendations regarding the continuation of the local consumption standard requirement. The bill includes a provision that repeals the laws on December 31, 2031. The bill also requires that, beginning December 31, 2027, each transmission and distribution utility and competitive electricity provider to submit to the commission an annual report describing the transmission and distribution utility's or competitive electricity provider's efforts to collaborate with state and local economic development agencies to encourage the expansion of businesses in the State or the relocation of businesses to the State, including specific actions taken or considered by the transmission and distribution utility or competitive electricity provider. | Dead |
| LD116 | An Act to Prohibit the Use of Piercing Guns | This bill prohibits the use of a piercing gun to create a body piercing. | Dead |
| LD258 | Resolve, to Establish a Program to Recruit and Retain Behavioral Health Clinicians | This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to develop and implement a program to provide a $25,000 recruitment and retention incentive to behavioral health clinicians in the State during fiscal year 2025-26. It directs the department to establish criteria regarding participation in the program and to submit a report regarding the program to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services in 2025. | Dead |
| LD327 | An Act to Provide Additional Funding to Support In-home Personal Support Services for Qualified Senior Citizens | This bill provides ongoing funding for in-home personal support services provided to senior citizens under Department of Health and Human Services rule Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter II, Section 19, Home and Community Benefits for the Elderly and Adults with Disabilities. | Dead |
| LD463 | Resolve, to Rename the New Ten Mile River Bridge on Pequawket Trail in Brownfield the Brownfield Veterans Memorial Bridge | Resolve, to Rename the New Ten Mile River Bridge on Pequawket Trail in Brownfield the Brownfield Veterans Memorial Bridge | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD464 | Resolve, to Rename the Brackett Mill Bridge in Denmark the Brackett Mill Veterans Memorial Bridge | Resolve, to Rename the Brackett Mill Bridge in Denmark the Brackett Mill Veterans Memorial Bridge | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD381 | An Act to Enable Mortgage Portability and Promote Housing Affordability in the State | This bill authorizes mortgage porting, which is the process by which a mortgagor transfers the terms, outstanding balance and interest rate of an existing mortgage loan secured against a single-family dwelling or a dwelling that consists of no more than 4 units that is the principal residence of the mortgagor to another principal residence. The bill provides that a mortgagor is eligible for mortgage porting from a lender if the mortgagor has maintained the mortgagor's existing mortgage loan in good standing; the mortgagor meets the lender's appraisal and underwriting criteria; and the transfer is executed within 6 months from the sale of the previous principal residence of the mortgagor. The bill requires that, upon approval of mortgage porting, a lender must transfer the outstanding balance, interest rate and terms of the existing mortgage loan to the new mortgage loan and also requires that any additional funds needed to purchase the new principal residence must be financed at current market rates, although a lender must provide the option for a blended interest rate for the new mortgage loan. | Dead |
| LD360 | An Act Supporting the Dirigo Reads Literacy Program | This bill provides one-time funds in fiscal year 2025-26 and fiscal year 2026-27 only to support the Dirigo Reads literacy program. | Dead |
| LD196 | An Act Regarding Documents Obtained by Subpoena by the Government Oversight Committee | This bill provides that the Government Oversight Committee has access to papers or records received as a result of a subpoena issued by the committee and that those papers or records are confidential and exempt from public disclosure. | Dead |
| LD118 | An Act to Allow Candidates for Sheriff and District Attorney to Participate in the Maine Clean Election Act | This bill allows candidates for the office of sheriff and for the office of district attorney to participate in the Maine Clean Election Act beginning with the 2028 election cycle. | Dead |
| SP0173 | JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPLICATION TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES CALLING AN ARTICLE V CONVENTION TO PROPOSE AN AMENDMENT ADDRESSING CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM | JOINT RESOLUTION MAKING AN APPLICATION TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES CALLING AN ARTICLE V CONVENTION TO PROPOSE AN AMENDMENT ADDRESSING CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM | Dead |
| LD207 | An Act to Amend the Laws Governing Qualifying Contributions of Cash Under the Maine Clean Election Act | This bill eliminates the requirement that contributors making qualifying contributions in the form of cash to a participating candidate in the Maine Clean Election Act sign a form affirming that the contributor made the contribution with personal funds. | Dead |
| SP0099 | Joint Order, to Amend Joint Rule 214 to Require Approval of Memorials if Submitted After Cloture | Joint Order, to Amend Joint Rule 214 to Require Approval of Memorials if Submitted After Cloture | Dead |
| SP0098 | Joint Order, to Amend Joint Rule 208 to Eliminate Most Concept Drafts | Joint Order, to Amend Joint Rule 208 to Eliminate Most Concept Drafts | Dead |
| SP0100 | Joint Order, to Amend Joint Rule 215 to Remove the Requirement for a 2/3 Vote | Joint Order, to Amend Joint Rule 215 to Remove the Requirement for a 2/3 Vote | Dead |
| SP0102 | Joint Order, to Amend Joint Rule 308 to Allow Referencing of Bills by the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House at All Times | Joint Order, to Amend Joint Rule 308 to Allow Referencing of Bills by the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House at All Times | Dead |
| SP0101 | Joint Order, to Amend Joint Rule 215 to Clarify the Language of That Rule | Joint Order, to Amend Joint Rule 215 to Clarify the Language of That Rule | Dead |
| Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LD143 | An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services | Enactment RC #651 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD143 | An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services | Recede And Concur RC #649 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD143 | An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services | Suspend Rules (2/3) RC #640 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD166 | An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Tobacco Products in Pharmacies and Retail Establishments Containing Pharmacies | Enactment RC #650 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD182 | An Act to Provide Per Diem Payments for MaineCare Residents of the Maine Veterans' Homes | Suspend Rules (2/3) RC #656 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Reconsider RC #647 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Enactment RC #646 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD549 | An Act to Establish a Statewide Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kit Tracking System and Update Certain Requirements Regarding Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kits | Suspend Rules (2/3) RC #653 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD588 | An Act to Enact the Agricultural Employees Concerted Activity Protection Act | Veto Override (2/3) RC #642 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD698 | An Act to Sustain Emergency Homeless Shelters in Maine | Enactment RC #652 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD893 | An Act to Exempt Nonprofit Agricultural Membership Organizations from Insurance Requirements | Enactment RC #648 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1088 | An Act to Enact the Maine Consumer Data Privacy Act | Accept Report 'a' Ought Not To Pass RC #645 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1126 | An Act Requiring Serial Numbers on Firearms and Prohibiting Undetectable Firearms | Enactment RC #654 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1126 | An Act Requiring Serial Numbers on Firearms and Prohibiting Undetectable Firearms | Adopt Senate Amendment (sbs-468) To Committee Amendment RC #638 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1217 | An Act Regarding the New Markets Tax Credit and the Maine New Markets Capital Investment Program | Reconsider RC #659 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1217 | An Act Regarding the New Markets Tax Credit and the Maine New Markets Capital Investment Program | Commit RC #657 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD1731 | An Act to Increase the Influence of the Maine State Ferry Advisory Board on the Funding and Operations of the Maine State Ferry Service | Veto Override (2/3) RC #643 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1802 | An Act to Implement the Recommendations of the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services to Clarify When an Indigent Criminal Defendant Is Entitled to Counsel at State Expense | Veto Override (2/3) RC #641 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1816 | An Act to Establish a Statewide Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kit Tracking System and Conduct an Inventory of Existing Forensic Examination Kits in the Possession of Law Enforcement | Suspend Rules (2/3) RC #655 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1968 | An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding Legislative Reimbursement | Enactment RC #658 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| SP0799 | Joint Order, to Require the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs to Report Out 2 Bills to the Senate | Passage RC #644 | 06/25/2025 | 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 #635 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD210 | An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations from the General Fund and Other Funds for the Expenditures of State Government and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027 | Indefinitely Postpone Senate Amendment (scs-436) RC #631 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD210 | An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations from the General Fund and Other Funds for the Expenditures of State Government and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027 | Indefinitely Postpone Senate Amendment (sbs-434) RC #630 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD210 | An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations from the General Fund and Other Funds for the Expenditures of State Government and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027 | Indefinitely Postpone Senate Amendment (sas-433) RC #629 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD210 | An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations from the General Fund and Other Funds for the Expenditures of State Government and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027 | Indefinitely Postpone RC #628 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD210 | An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations from the General Fund and Other Funds for the Expenditures of State Government and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027 | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #627 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD442 | An Act to Amend the Automotive Repair Statute | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #621 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Recede And Concur RC #620 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD532 | An Act to Protect Health Care Workers by Addressing Assaults in Health Care Settings | Recede And Concur RC #632 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD746 | An Act to Authorize a Local Option Sales Tax on Short-term Lodging to Fund Municipalities and Affordable Housing | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #624 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD1227 | An Act to Repeal the Requirement That Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Equip Vehicles with a Standardized Data Access Platform | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #622 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD1270 | An Act to Establish the Department of Energy Resources | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #626 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD1394 | An Act to Support Maine's Electric Vehicle Adoption Goals by Providing an Exclusion for Electric Vehicles from Certain Requirements of the Right to Repair Law | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #623 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD1666 | An Act to Include in the Ranked-choice Election Method for General and Special Elections the Offices of Governor, State Senator and State Representative and to Make Other Related Changes | Enactment RC #637 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD1777 | An Act to Reduce Costs and Increase Customer Protections for the State's Net Energy Billing Programs | Adopt Senate Amendment (s-439) To Committee Amendment RC #633 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD1940 | An Act to Revise the Growth Management Program Laws | Accept Report 'c' Ought To Pass As Amended RC #625 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD1971 | An Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities | Enactment RC #634 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| HP1338 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING JUNE 2025 AS PRIDE MONTH | Adoption RC #636 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD93 | An Act to Reduce Cost and Increase Access to Disease Prevention by Expanding the Universal Childhood Immunization Program to Include Adults | Adopt Senate Amendment (s-426) To Committee Amendment RC #600 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD93 | An Act to Reduce Cost and Increase Access to Disease Prevention by Expanding the Universal Childhood Immunization Program to Include Adults | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #599 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD252 | An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact | Commit RC #608 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD252 | An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact | Recede And Concur RC #607 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD532 | An Act to Protect Health Care Workers by Addressing Assaults in Health Care Settings | Indefinitely Postpone RC #619 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1077 | An Act to Exempt Drinking Water from Sales and Use Tax | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #601 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1126 | An Act Requiring Serial Numbers on Firearms and Prohibiting Undetectable Firearms | Adopt Cah-660 RC #596 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1126 | An Act Requiring Serial Numbers on Firearms and Prohibiting Undetectable Firearms | Adopt Senate Amendment (s-403) To Committee Amendment RC #595 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1211 | An Act Regarding Certain Definitions in the Sales and Use Tax Laws Affecting Rental Equipment | Accept Report 'a' Ought To Pass As Amended RC #613 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1189 | An Act to Allow an Attorney for the State to Determine Whether to Charge Certain Class E Crimes as Civil Violations | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #603 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1270 | An Act to Establish the Department of Energy Resources | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #616 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1228 | An Act to Clarify Certain Terms in and to Make Other Changes to the Automotive Right to Repair Laws | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #618 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1386 | An Act to Provide Emergency One-time Relief from the Wild Blueberry Tax for Sellers in Maine and Partial Relief for Processors and Shippers | Recede And Concur RC #609 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1386 | An Act to Provide Emergency One-time Relief from the Wild Blueberry Tax for Sellers in Maine and Partial Relief for Processors and Shippers | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #602 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1656 | An Act to Facilitate Compliance with Federal Immigration Law by State and Local Government Entities | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #604 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1667 | Resolve, to Allow Hemphill Farms, Inc. to Sue the State | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #597 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1749 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Corrections to Study Achieving Gender Equality | Accept Majority Ought To Pass Report RC #617 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1849 | An Act to Establish a Minimum Age at Which Conduct Constitutes a Juvenile Crime and to Confer Jurisdiction to the Juvenile Courts Over Any Criminal Offense Under Maine Law Committed by a Juvenile | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #615 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1868 | An Act to Advance a Clean Energy Economy by Updating Renewable and Clean Resource Procurement Laws | Enactment RC #612 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1868 | An Act to Advance a Clean Energy Economy by Updating Renewable and Clean Resource Procurement Laws | Enactment RC #610 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1868 | An Act to Advance a Clean Energy Economy by Updating Renewable and Clean Resource Procurement Laws | Commit RC #598 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1873 | An Act to Require Age Verification for Online Obscene Matter | Recede RC #611 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1963 | An Act to Protect and Compensate Public Utility Whistleblowers | Recede And Concur RC #614 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1971 | An Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities | Passage To Be Engrossed As Amended RC #606 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1971 | An Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #605 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD93 | An Act to Reduce Cost and Increase Access to Disease Prevention by Expanding the Universal Childhood Immunization Program to Include Adults | Table Until Later RC #587 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD184 | Resolve, Establishing the Commission to Study the Foreclosure Process | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #578 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD233 | An Act to Prohibit Biological Males from Participating in School Athletic Programs and Activities Designated for Females When State Funding Is Provided to the School | Recede And Concur RC #586 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD233 | An Act to Prohibit Biological Males from Participating in School Athletic Programs and Activities Designated for Females When State Funding Is Provided to the School | Accept Report 'b' Ought Not To Pass RC #556 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD244 | Resolve, to Provide Safe, Short-term Housing to Individuals Recently Released from Correctional Facilities | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #564 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD252 | An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact | Reconsider RC #577 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD252 | An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact | Accept Majority Ought To Pass Report RC #567 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD297 | An Act Regarding the Management of Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludge at the State-owned Landfill | Enactment RC #571 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD291 | An Act to Eliminate the Lodging Tax on Campground Sites and Revert to Using the Current Sales Tax | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #588 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD515 | An Act to Reverse Recent Changes Made to the Law Governing Net Energy Billing and Distributed Generation | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #590 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Reconsider RC #576 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Table Until Later RC #566 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Accept Majority Ought To Pass Report RC #565 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD670 | An Act to Address Coercive Control in Domestic Abuse Cases | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #563 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD738 | An Act to Remove Barriers to Becoming a Lawyer by Establishing a Law Office Study Program | Accept Minority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #550 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD868 | An Act to Ensure Equity and Safety in Athletics, Restrooms, Changing Rooms and Housing at Elementary, Secondary and Postsecondary Schools | Accept Report 'b' Ought Not To Pass RC #557 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD953 | An Act to Change the Definition of "Machine Gun" in the Maine Criminal Code | Indefinitely Postpone RC #569 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1089 | An Act to Permanently Fund 55 Percent of the State's Share of Education by Establishing a Tax on Incomes of More than $1,000,000 | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #593 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1089 | An Act to Permanently Fund 55 Percent of the State's Share of Education by Establishing a Tax on Incomes of More than $1,000,000 | Accept Minority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #592 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1107 | An Act to Amend the Tax Expenditure Review Process and Centralize Incentive Data Collection | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #555 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1217 | An Act Regarding the New Markets Tax Credit and the Maine New Markets Capital Investment Program | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #583 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1164 | An Act to Create Economic Opportunity for the Wabanaki Nations Through Internet Gaming | Reconsider RC #575 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1164 | An Act to Create Economic Opportunity for the Wabanaki Nations Through Internet Gaming | Indefinitely Postpone RC #574 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1164 | An Act to Create Economic Opportunity for the Wabanaki Nations Through Internet Gaming | Accept Minority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #573 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1164 | An Act to Create Economic Opportunity for the Wabanaki Nations Through Internet Gaming | Reconsider RC #570 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1298 | An Act Establishing Alternative Pathways to Social Worker Licensing | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #572 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1337 | An Act to Amend the Maine Human Rights Act Regarding Female Athletes and Safety in Women's Single-sex Shelters | Accept Report 'b' Ought Not To Pass RC #558 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1318 | An Act to Enhance Data Collection Requirements Related to Immigration Status and Asylum Seekers to Safeguard Services for Legal Residents | Accept Majority Ought Not To Pass Report RC #559 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1488 | An Act Regarding Cannabis Testing | Adopt Cas-320 RC #568 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1498 | An Act to Address Maine's Housing Crisis by Limiting Municipal Impact Fees on Housing Development | Accept Report RC #579 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1665 | An Act to Provide Property Tax Relief to Maine Families | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #584 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1672 | An Act to Allow Participation in the Adult Use Cannabis Tracking System to Be Voluntary | Accept Report 'a' Ought To Pass As Amended RC #552 | 06/16/2025 | 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 | Accept Minority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #589 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1748 | An Act to Enhance Businesses' Understanding of Labor Standards and Grow Maine's Energy Economy Through Project Development Information Resources | Accept Majority Ought To Pass As Amended Report RC #549 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1731 | An Act to Increase the Influence of the Maine State Ferry Advisory Board on the Funding and Operations of the Maine State Ferry Service | Enactment RC #553 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1743 | An Act to Allow Municipalities to Prohibit Firearms Within Their Municipal Buildings and Voting Places and at Their Municipal Public Proceedings | Recede And Concur RC #562 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ME | Maine Senate District 18 | Senate | Independent | In Office | 06/24/2025 | |
| ME | Maine Senate District 18 | Senate | Republican | Out of Office | 12/07/2022 | 09/26/2025 |
| ME | Maine Senate District 19 | Senate | Republican | Out of Office | 12/02/2020 | 02/05/2024 |
| ME | District 19 | Senate | Republican | Out of Office | 01/01/1996 | 02/05/2024 |