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Legislator > Amy Roeder
State Representative
Amy Roeder
(D) - Maine
Maine House District 023
In Office - Started: 12/07/2022
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Capitol Office
House Democratic Office
2 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0002
2 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0002
Phone: 800-423-2900
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| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| LD522 | Resolve, Directing the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women to Study the Extent of Workforce Gender Segregation in the State | This resolve directs the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women to study the extent of occupational and workforce segregation by gender in the State and assess any disparities in safety or compensation related to that segregation. The commission is required to submit a report based on its findings by January 15, 2026 to the Secretary of State and the Joint Standing Committee on Labor. | Passed |
| LD61 | An Act to Regulate Employer Surveillance to Protect Workers | This bill specifies that an employer may use employer surveillance only if the employer informs the employee before beginning employer surveillance. It prohibits an employer from using audiovisual monitoring in an employee's residence or personal vehicle or on the employee's property and provides that an employee can decline a request by an employer to install data collection or transmission applications on the employee's personal electronic devices for the purposes of employer surveillance. It requires that an employer notify a prospective employee during the interview process that the employer engages in employer surveillance. It gives rule-making authority to the Department of Labor. It also creates a private right of action for persons aggrieved by a violation by an employer. | Passed |
| LD1164 | An Act to Create Economic Opportunity for the Wabanaki Nations Through Internet Gaming | This bill authorizes each federally recognized Indian nation, tribe or band in this State to operate Internet gaming pursuant to a license from the Gambling Control Unit within the Department of Public Safety. Only a federally recognized Indian nation, tribe or band in this State is eligible to obtain a license and operate Internet gaming. The licensing structure follows the law governing sports wagering. | Passed |
| 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 |
| LD1500 | An Act to Establish the Maine Community Development Financial Institution Fund to Support Small Businesses, Rural Economic Development and Affordable Housing | This bill establishes the Maine Community Development Financial Institution Fund and the Maine Community Development Financial Institution Program within the Department of Economic and Community Development. The program will provide loans and grants to community development financial institutions to provide financing to underserved communities in Maine. The bill also requires a $500,000 transfer from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund to the fund. | Passed |
| LD1615 | Resolve, to Expand Access to Oral Health Care by Studying Alternative Pathways for Obtaining a License to Practice Dentistry | Resolve, to Expand Access to Oral Health Care by Studying Alternative Pathways for Obtaining a License to Practice Dentistry | Passed |
| LD698 | An Act to Sustain Emergency Homeless Shelters in Maine | An Act to Sustain Emergency Homeless Shelters in Maine | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD802 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Design a Mentoring Program for Youth Who Have Extended Care and Support Agreements with the Department | Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services to Design a Mentoring Program for Youth Who Have Extended Care and Support Agreements with the Department | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD396 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Education to Develop a Grant Program to Encourage Secondary Schools to Adopt Later Start Times | Resolve, Directing the Department of Education to Develop a Grant Program to Encourage Secondary Schools to Adopt Later Start Times | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD588 | An Act to Enact the Agricultural Employees Concerted Activity Protection Act | This bill enacts the Agricultural Employees Concerted Activity Protection Act, which gives agricultural employees of agricultural employers the right to engage in certain concerted activity. | Vetoed |
| LD137 | An Act to Expand the 1998 Special Retirement Plan to Include Employees Who Work for the Office of Chief Medical Examiner | This bill provides that the 1998 Special Retirement Plan of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System applies to employees in the employment of the Office of Chief Medical Examiner within the Department of the Attorney General. Under that plan, a person may retire at 55 years of age with 10 years of creditable service or may retire before 55 years of age with 25 years of creditable service. It also provides that the service retirement benefit for an employee in the office must be computed on the basis of all of the member's creditable service, regardless of when that service was earned. | Passed |
| LD60 | An Act to Allow Employees to Request Flexible Work Schedules | This bill does the following. 1. It allows an employee to request in writing, including by electronic means, a flexible work schedule. 2. It requires an employer, which may be a private employer or public employer, to consider an employee's request for a flexible work schedule and whether the request may be granted in a manner that is not inconsistent with employer operations. 3. It specifies that an employer and an employee must mutually agree on the duration of time and terms of a flexible work schedule. 4. It allows an employer to rescind a flexible work schedule with as much notice to an employee as is practicable. 5. It prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee for exercising rights given by the bill. 6. It specifies that a collective bargaining agreement may provide an employee with rights more expansive than rights established by the bill. | Passed |
| LD52 | Resolve, Requiring the Department of Health and Human Services to Study Options for Allowing Children in the Department's Custody to Receive Federal Benefits | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to review whether a child in the custody of the department may be eligible for a benefit administered by the United States Social Security Administration or the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. If the department determines the child may be eligible for a federal benefit, the department is required to apply for the federal benefit on behalf of the child. It also requires the department to provide training to children receiving a federal benefit, department staff and representative payees who receive the federal benefit on behalf of a child. | Passed |
| LD140 | An Act to Incrementally Increase the Homestead Property Tax Exemption | This bill, for property tax years beginning on or after April 1, 2026, increases the homestead property tax exemption by $10,000 of the just value of the homestead each property tax year until the total exemption reaches $95,000. In subsequent property tax years, the exemption amount is adjusted annually for inflation. | Passed |
| LD229 | An Act to Bring Fairness in Income Taxes to Maine Families by Adjusting the Tax Brackets and Tax Rates | This bill changes, beginning in 2026, the current income tax brackets by increasing the threshold amount of income subject to the current tax rates of 5.8%, 6.75% and 7.15%. The bill adds 3 new income tax brackets and imposes tax rates of 7.52%, 7.15% and 8.2% in those new brackets. As under current law, the income tax brackets are indexed to the Chained Consumer Price Index as published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. | Passed |
| LD273 | An Act Related to the Issuance of Subpoena Power to Entities Created by Executive Order | This bill amends the laws governing legislative investigating committees to provide that when the Legislature delegates to a committee the power to administer oaths, issue subpoenas and take depositions, the Legislature has the sole authority to determine the membership and scope of that committee. | Passed |
| LD260 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Establish That All Maine Residents Have Equal Rights Under the Law | This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to prohibit the denial or abridgment by the State or any political subdivision of the State of equal rights based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, physical or mental disability, ancestry or national origin of an individual. | Passed |
| LD799 | An Act to Report Gender Wage Gaps | This bill requires employers with at least one employee within the State and at least 250 employees in the United States to annually report for a one-week period between October 1st and December 31st of the preceding year the number of male, female and nonbinary employees in the employer's employ, the median hourly equivalent rates of pay of all male, female and nonbinary employees in the employer's employ and the gender wage gap calculated by dividing the median hourly equivalent rate of pay of all the male employees by the median hourly equivalent rate of pay of all the female employees. | Passed |
| LD653 | An Act to Allow Teachers to Qualify for Overtime Pay | This bill provides that an employee whose primary duty consists of work as a teacher in the activity of imparting knowledge is not exempt from the laws governing minimum wage and overtime. | In Committee |
| LD669 | An Act Regarding Labor | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to change certain labor laws. | In Committee |
| LD54 | An Act to Require Employers to Disclose Pay Ranges and Maintain Records of Employees' Pay Histories | This bill requires an employer with 10 or more employees to include on a job posting a statement that lists the prospective range of pay the employer will offer to a successful applicant. The bill also requires an employer, upon request of an employee, to disclose the range of pay it offers for the position the employee holds and requires the employer to maintain a record of each position held by an employee and the employee's pay history during the employee's employment and for 3 years after the employee's termination of employment. | Passed |
| LD599 | An Act to Raise the Salary Threshold for Overtime Pay | This bill codifies the federal paid overtime salary threshold for a salaried employee by adding the salary level of $58,656 per year and the 35th percentile of weekly earnings for full-time salary workers in the lowest-wage census region as published by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, or its successor agency, to the existing provision that details the compensation amounts in order for a salaried employee to be exempt from the laws governing minimum wage and overtime pay. | Passed |
| LD1247 | An Act to Restrict Municipal Ordinance Requirements Regarding Housing Developments | This bill provides restrictions on municipal ordinance requirements related to minimum lot size in areas where water and sewer infrastructure are available. For a housing development that is served by a public, special district or other centrally managed water system and a public, special district or other comparable sewer system and that is located in an area in which dwelling units are allowed, a municipality must allow a dwelling unit on a lot with a minimum size of 5,000 square feet. The bill also provides limits to ordinance provisions relating to lot coverage, road frontage and setback requirements. | In Committee |
| LD1356 | An Act to Change the State's Method of Allocating Electoral Votes from a Congressional District Method to a Winner-take-all Method Contingent on the State of Nebraska Changing its Method of Allocating Electoral Votes | This bill requires the State's presidential electors to cast their ballots for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates who received the highest number of votes in the State according to the ranked-choice voting process contingent on the State of Nebraska changing that state's system of allocation of electoral votes from a congressional district method to a winner-take-all method of electoral vote allocation. | In Committee |
| LD598 | An Act to Require Minimum Pay for Reporting to Work | An Act to Require Minimum Pay for Reporting to Work | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD579 | An Act to Include Certain Mental Health Workers Under the 1998 Special Plan for Retirement | This bill adds employees of the Department of Health and Human Services employed on October 1, 2025 or hired thereafter who provide direct care to persons in need of mental health services in a community-based or residential setting or to residents or patients of mental health institutions in this State or have responsibility for providing crisis outreach and crisis services to adults with developmental disabilities or intellectual disabilities in a community-based or residential setting to the 1998 Special Plan for certain Maine Public Employees Retirement System members. | Passed |
| LD1281 | An Act to Address the Safety of Nurses and Improve Patient Care by Enacting the Maine Quality Care Act | This bill establishes the Maine Quality Care Act to ensure adequate direct care registered nurse staffing assignments in health care facilities, including hospitals, freestanding emergency departments and ambulatory surgical facilities, and critical access hospitals to provide safe and effective patient care. It establishes minimum staffing requirements for direct care registered nurses based on patient care unit and patient needs, specifies the method to calculate a health care facility's compliance with the staffing requirements, protects direct care registered nurses from retaliation and includes notice, record-keeping and enforcement requirements. The bill also directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a process for critical access hospitals to request flexibility regarding the minimum staffing requirements. | In Committee |
| LD1236 | An Act to Address Employee Retention of State Employees Who Are Firefighters at Bangor International Airport | This bill establishes a new special retirement plan for firefighters employed by the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management at Bangor International Airport that allows those employees to retire after 25 years of service regardless of age. | Passed |
| LD840 | An Act to Modernize the State Supplement to Supplemental Security Income by Removing Marriage Disincentives | This bill amends the 1974 State Supplemental Income Act in the following ways. 1. It replaces provisions of law that currently provide that payments to couples, both of whom receive the supplement, are 150% of the benefit for an individual with provisions of law providing that payments to the couples are 200% of the benefit for an individual. 2. It requires that the standard used to determine need is the current annual budget at the lower level of living for an individual as most recently determined by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for Portland, Maine, or budgets consistent with such a budget taking into account budget variances by living arrangements permitted pursuant to Title XVI of the United States Social Security Act. 3. It establishes that, in determining any increase according to the United States Consumer Price Index, consideration must be given to the goal of reaching, within a reasonable time, a benefit level equal to or consistent with the current budget at the lower level of living for an individual, rather than a retired couple, established by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for Portland, Maine. | Passed |
| LD834 | An Act to Update the State Supplement to Supplemental Security Income | This bill amends the 1974 State Supplemental Income Act in the following ways. 1. It changes the minimum state supplemental income benefit from $8 per month for an individual and $12 per month for a couple to $65 per month for an individual and an amount per couple that is consistent with the amount provided to an individual and to a couple under current law, which requires benefits for a couple to be 150% of the benefit for an individual, making the new amount $97.50 per month for a couple. 2. It provides that, starting October 1, 2026, the state supplemental income benefit must be annually increased by the cost-of-living adjustment to the federal payment standard. 3. It provides that, in the priority sequence by which the Department of Health and Human Services must budget and authorize for expenditure appropriations available for benefits, the cost-of-living adjustment must have priority immediately after the minimum payment. 4. It updates the declared intent of the Act to provide that, if it is proposed that benefits provided are to be increased on any future date, cost-of-living adjustments be included in the benefits to be increased rather than increasing the benefits provided to a beneficiary who resides in certain living arrangements. 5. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that eligible individuals residing in nursing homes have a monthly amount for personal needs equal to at least 3 times the amount of the state supplemental income benefit. | Passed |
| 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 |
| LD877 | An Act to Require Transportation Network Companies to Provide Fair Wages to Drivers | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would require transportation companies to provide fair wages to drivers. | In Committee |
| LD943 | An Act to Require the ASPIRE-TANF Program to Be Administered by State Employees | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to administer the Additional Support for People in Retraining and Employment - Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, also known as the ASPIRE-TANF program, with department employees and provides for the phasing out of contracted public and private agencies providing program services by December 31, 2026, except for certain service delivery functions including job training and education, employment support, child care assistance and transportation assistance. The bill also requires the department to submit an annual report to the Legislature detailing the staffing and participant outcomes of the program and the challenges and successes of administering the program. | In Committee |
| LD1003 | An Act Establishing the Retirement Benefit Improvement Fund | This bill requires that an amount of surplus General Fund revenue be transferred annually to a nonlapsing fund to be used to pay for retirement benefit improvements for retired state employees and teachers and their beneficiaries. | Passed |
| LD1040 | An Act to Raise the Cap on Retirement Benefits for Certain State Employees and Teachers to Which a Cost-of-living Adjustment Is Made | This bill provides that, effective July 1, 2026, the cost-of-living adjustment applies to $40,000 of the retirement benefit being paid to retired state employees and retired teachers who retired on or before June 30, 2011 or their beneficiaries. | Passed |
| LD1219 | An Act to Increase State Funding for the Campuses of the University of Maine System | This bill requires that, beginning July 1, 2026, each campus of the University of Maine System be funded at no less than 95% of the funding that the campus's peer institution receives on a per student basis. Beginning July 1, 2027, each campus of the University of Maine System must be funded at no less than 100% of the funding that the campus's peer institution receives on a per student basis. For the purposes of these provisions, the bill provides that peer institutions are determined by the trustees for each campus of the University of Maine System. The bill also requires that, beginning July 1, 2025, the minimum hourly wage at the University of Maine System be equal to 125% of the State's minimum hourly wage. The bill also provides ongoing funds to support a 6% increase in funding for fiscal year 2025-26 and an additional 4% increase in funding for fiscal year 2026-27 to support the continuation of current University of Maine System operations. | Passed |
| LD1720 | Resolve, Regarding Certified Nursing Assistant Examinations | This bill: 1. Provides access to the Maine Public Employees Retirement System for long-term care workers including nurses, certified nursing assistants, direct care workers and housekeeping and dietary staff; 2. Provides access to the state group health plan for long-term care workers including nurses, certified nursing assistants, direct care workers and housekeeping and dietary staff; 3. Provides nursing homes and long-term care facilities with direct MaineCare reimbursement for training for staff, including a certified nursing assistant training program, a direct care worker training program and English as a second language training for a staff member who is a nonnative English speaker; 4. Provides nursing homes and long-term care facilities with direct MaineCare reimbursement for actual costs of interpreter services for staff and residents who require language assistance, including expenses for on-site interpreters, remote interpreting services and interpreter-related administrative costs; and 5. Directs the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation to provide translations of certified nursing assistant written examinations in French, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin and Filipino. | Passed |
| LD1624 | An Act to Provide Funding for Summer School Programming | This bill provides ongoing funding to school administrative units for summer school programs and related credit recovery activities that will help high school students meet the academic standards required to earn course credits and to graduate on time. It also allows funding to be used to support summer enrichment and intervention programs for elementary and middle school students to strengthen foundational skills and prevent learning loss. Priority will be given to school administrative units with student poverty rates of 25% or higher, with additional consideration for students from asset-limited and income- constrained households. | Passed |
| LD1626 | An Act to Improve Professional Development for Educational Technicians and School Support Staff | This bill establishes requirements for annual training and professional development opportunities that a school administrative unit must provide to educational technicians and other school support staff. School administrative units must provide specific training opportunities for educational technicians and other school support staff, including training on emergency procedures and policies, confidentiality, reporting obligations, roles and responsibilities of school employees, discipline policies and school facilities. A school administrative unit must additionally provide training opportunities for educational technicians on disabilities and behavioral needs of the students the educational technicians work with, following lesson plans, the individual needs of each student and paid time or time during the school day to review or be briefed on a student's individualized education program. | Passed |
| LD1587 | An Act to Establish Greater Alignment of Penalties for Certain Labor Law Violations | This bill codifies into the Maine Revised Statutes provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and creates a criminal penalty for any person who intentionally or knowingly violates the employment practices laws or the laws governing preference to Maine works and contractors. A person convicted of a willful violation is subject to a fine of not more than $10,000 or to imprisonment of not more than 6 months, or both, except that a person may not be imprisoned unless that person has been previously found guilty of willfully violating these laws. The Director of Labor Standards within the Department of Labor may refer these violations to the Attorney General for prosecution. The Attorney General must respond to the director within 30 days of receiving the referral, indicating whether the Attorney General will prosecute the case. If the Attorney General declines to prosecute, the Attorney General must provide to the director the reasons for the denial. This bill also requires that any information related to these willful violations must be included in the department's annual report, including any fines sought or collected by the department, the number of referrals made by the director and the number of referrals declined by the Attorney General, including the reasons for the denials. | In Committee |
| LD1771 | An Act to Strengthen Oversight of Kennels by Changing the Licensing Authority from Municipalities to the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry | An Act to Strengthen Oversight of Kennels by Changing the Licensing Authority from Municipalities to the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1774 | An Act to Protect Domestic Workers | This bill establishes occupational health and safety standards for domestic workers by directing the Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Standards to adopt rules regulating the employment of domestic workers, requiring employers and employees to sign an employment contract and stipulating the rest breaks required for domestic workers and limitations on work hours. The bill also establishes penalties and enforcement for violations of these provisions. | In Committee |
| LD1806 | An Act to Create a Residential Rental Unit Registry | This bill creates a residential rental unit registry administered by the Secretary of State in which all residential rental property owners in the State must register all residential rental units except for units provided as subsidized housing or registered on a municipal registry. A municipality may receive data from the registry regarding rental units in that municipality. A residential landlord may not terminate a tenant's lease for nonpayment of rent if the tenant's unit is not registered as required and may not serve the tenant with a notice of termination for nonpayment of rent less than 120 days after registering; in either case, the residential landlord commits a civil violation for which a fine in the amount of 3 times the rent of the unit must be adjudged. The landlord must attach a statement describing the prohibition in any service of process for entry and detainer being served on a tenant. | In Committee |
| 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 |
| LD1872 | An Act to Reinvest in the Pension Funds of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System | This bill requires that, for fiscal years 2028-29, 2029-30, 2030-31 and 2031-32, General Fund revenue be transferred annually to a nonlapsing fund to be used to pay for retirement benefit improvements for retired state employees and teachers and their beneficiaries. | In Committee |
| LD1915 | An Act to Regulate Earned Wage Access Services Providers | This bill enacts the Maine Earned Wage Access Services Act, which does the following: 1. It establishes requirements and fees for the registration and reregistration of earned wage access services providers, which are businesses, unregulated under current law, that advance earned by unpaid income to consumers; 2. It establishes bond requirements for earned wage access services providers; 3. It establishes certain operating requirements for earned wage access services providers, including requirements regarding consumer disclosures, cancellation, privacy and information security and reimbursements to consumers; 4. It establishes prohibitions on certain actions by earned wage access services providers, including prohibitions regarding delivery fees, revenue sharing, requesting credit reports or scores, credit reporting and debt collection and payments by credit cards; 5. It requires an earned wage access services provider to maintain books and records for each consumer for whom the provider provides earned wage access services; 6. It provides the Superintendent of Consumer Credit Protection within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation with certain authority to investigate complaints, adopt rules, appropriate funds and examine certain books and records of earned wage access services providers; 7. It establishes certain requirements related to advertising; and 8. It establishes enforcement mechanisms for the provisions of the Act. | In Committee |
| LD1926 | An Act to Require Increased Housing Density or Lower Minimum Lot Sizes for Workforce Housing | This bill requires municipalities to allow for increased housing density or lower minimum lot sizes for housing developments rented or sold to households earning less than 220% of the median income for the area as defined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The bill requires that the owner of a housing development with a housing density or minimum lot size adjustment under the bill file in the appropriate registry of deeds a declaration of restrictive covenant that requires the units in the development to be rented or sold in accordance with the income limitations in the bill for a period of 30 years. The bill requires a municipality to determine compliance with requirements applicable to the structure or number of lots or units based on the size of the structure or number of lots or units prior to a dwelling unit increase or an alternative minimum lot size allowance. It provides that a workforce housing development that receives a density increase is in compliance with any state or local requirement that a certain number or percentage of units be affordable housing units as defined by the state or local requirement. | In Committee |
| LD1957 | An Act to Promote Film Production in Maine | This bill repeals the law governing the certified visual media production tax credit. It increases reimbursements under the laws governing the visual media production reimbursement and places limits on those reimbursements. It changes the definition of "visual media production expense" and requires an applicant for a visual media production certificate to agree to withhold a percentage of payments made to an entity created to hire out the services of one individual. | In Committee |
| LD1843 | An Act to Provide Peer Respite for Individuals with Mental Health Care Needs | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide peer respite services and establish a peer respite center. The center must provide 24-hour peer respite services to individuals 18 years of age or older in need of voluntary, short-term mental health services. | Passed |
| LD1959 | An Act to Prohibit the Department of Health and Human Services from Reducing General Assistance Reimbursement Maximums for Payment of Costs of Providing Emergency Shelter | This bill provides that, retroactive to July 1, 2023, the maximum level of municipal general assistance for emergency shelter is the actual cost of providing emergency shelter services. It prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services from adopting any rule reducing or otherwise restricting maximum levels of municipal general assistance for providing emergency shelter or any rule establishing maximum time periods for eligibility for emergency housing assistance that are more restrictive than limits established in the laws governing municipal general assistance. | In Committee |
| LD1970 | An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding Consent for HIV Testing and Disclosure of Related Medical Information for Insurance Purposes | This bill provides that an HIV test may be undertaken with a patient's general consent. The bill defines "general consent" to mean consent obtained without undue inducement or any element of compulsion, fraud, deceit, duress or any other form of constraint or coercion and that is obtained after providing instruction to a patient that, as part of a medical procedure or test, the patient may receive an HIV test and that receiving an HIV test is voluntary and the patient may choose not to submit to an HIV test. The bill also provides that disclosure of information in a medical record for the purpose of seeking insurance reimbursement for HIV testing is not precluded. The bill removes the requirement that an HIV test may be undertaken only with a patient's informed consent. | In Committee |
| LD1539 | An Act to Create a State Employee Compensation Stabilization Fund | This bill creates the State Employee Compensation Stabilization Fund within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services. Funds must be used to augment the salaries of state employees to provide parity between the salaries of state employees and the salaries of comparable positions in the public and private sectors as determined by a market pay study. Unexpended balances in the fund at the end of the fiscal year do not lapse and are carried forward to the next fiscal year. "State employees," as used in the bill, refers to employees of the executive branch. The bill amends provisions governing the allocation of excess General Fund revenues to fund the State Employee Compensation Stabilization Fund. The bill reduces the percentage of funds received by the Highway and Bridge Capital program from 20% to 19% and directs to the State Employee Compensation Stabilization Fund 1% of the excess General Fund revenues left over after certain transfers are made. | Passed |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| LD1327 | Resolve, Directing the University of Maine System to Study Student Teacher Compensation | Resolve, Directing the University of Maine System to Study Student Teacher Compensation | | Passed |
| LD427 | An Act to Regulate Municipal Parking Space Minimums | An Act to Regulate Municipal Parking Space Minimums | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD670 | An Act to Address Coercive Control in Domestic Abuse Cases | An Act to Address Coercive Control in Domestic Abuse Cases | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1956 | An Act to Amend the Law Governing the Competitive Skills Scholarship Program and Establish the Community Workforce Connections Program | An Act to Amend the Law Governing the Competitive Skills Scholarship Program and Establish the Community Workforce Connections Program | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1748 | An Act to Enhance Businesses' Understanding of Labor Standards and Grow Maine's Energy Economy Through Project Development Information Resources | An Act to Enhance Businesses' Understanding of Labor Standards and Grow Maine's Energy Economy Through Project Development Information Resources | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1895 | An Act to Require the Removal from a Property Tax Lien the Name of a Previous Owner Who Paid Prorated Property Taxes | An Act to Require the Removal from a Property Tax Lien the Name of a Previous Owner Who Paid Prorated Property Taxes | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HP1338 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING JUNE 2025 AS PRIDE MONTH | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING JUNE 2025 AS PRIDE MONTH | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1246 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Economic and Community Development to Convene a Working Group to Review the Process of Setting Impact Fees | Resolve, Directing the Department of Economic and Community Development to Convene a Working Group to Review the Process of Setting Impact Fees | Passed |
| LD901 | Resolve, Directing the Maine Redevelopment Land Bank Authority to Take Appropriate Actions to Identify Opportunities for the Beneficial Reuse of the Buildings and Land Commonly Known as the Bangor Mall | Resolve, Directing the Maine Redevelopment Land Bank Authority to Take Appropriate Actions to Identify Opportunities for the Beneficial Reuse of the Buildings and Land Commonly Known as the Bangor Mall | | Passed |
| LD931 | An Act to Amend the Law Allowing Individuals Subject to Pretrial or Presentence Incarceration to Be Credited Time for Participation in Work Projects Within a Jail | An Act to Amend the Law Allowing Individuals Subject to Pretrial or Presentence Incarceration to Be Credited Time for Participation in Work Projects Within a Jail | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD414 | An Act to Prohibit Deceptive Pricing in the Rental of Short-term Lodging and in the Sale of Tickets | An Act to Prohibit Deceptive Pricing in the Rental of Short-term Lodging and in the Sale of Tickets | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1393 | An Act to Require Continuing Education for Licensed Architects | An Act to Require Continuing Education for Licensed Architects | 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 |
| LD1120 | An Act to Promote the Secure Storage of Firearms | Under current law, it is a Class D crime to negligently store a loaded firearm in a manner that allows a child under 16 years of age to gain access to the loaded firearm without the permission of the child's parent. This bill repeals that law and makes it a Class D crime to negligently store a firearm so that a minor or person who is prohibited from possessing a firearm may gain access to the firearm and either use it in the commission of a crime or display it in a threatening manner. The bill also makes it a Class C crime to negligently store a firearm in a way so that a minor or prohibited person may gain access to the firearm and use it to cause the death of or serious bodily injury to any person. The bill also requires licensed firearms dealers to post a notice in any area where sales or transfers occur informing purchasers that access to a firearm in the home significantly increases the risk of suicide, death during domestic violence disputes and unintentional death of children. | Dead |
| LD1638 | An Act Regarding Disability Retirement Benefits Under the Maine Public Employees Retirement System | An Act Regarding Disability Retirement Benefits Under the Maine Public Employees Retirement System | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| 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 |
| LD1206 | An Act to Control Property Taxes by Increasing the Percentage of the Business Equipment Tax Exemption That Municipalities May Recover | This bill amends provisions governing the business equipment tax exemption. Current law allows municipalities to recover from the State 50% of the tax revenue lost as the result of a valid business equipment tax exemption. The bill increases the percentage that a municipality may recover for property tax years beginning April 1, 2026 to 60%. Under the bill, the percentage recoverable increases each property tax year until the percentage recoverable is 80% for property tax years beginning on or after April 1, 2030. | Dead |
| LD1947 | An Act to Amend the Laws Pertaining to the Maine Public Employees Retirement System | An Act to Amend the Laws Pertaining to the Maine Public Employees Retirement System | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1585 | Resolve, to Direct the Maine State Housing Authority to Amend Its Rules Governing the Fuel Assistance Program Regarding Benefit Payments for Wood Fuel | This resolve directs the Maine State Housing Authority to amend its rules governing the fuel assistance program to require that benefit payments for wood fuel be made directly to vendors prior to delivery. | 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 |
| LD1128 | An Act to Modernize the Formulary for Naturopathic Doctors | An Act to Modernize the Formulary for Naturopathic Doctors Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legislature do not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and Whereas, the rule designating the formulary for naturopathic doctors has not been updated since 1996; and Whereas, there is a statutory inconsistency that restricts the authority of the Board of Complementary Health Care Providers to amend the formulary by rule; and Whereas, this legislation corrects that inconsistency and must take effect immediately so that the process to update the formulary can begin; 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 |
| LD87 | An Act Regarding the State Workforce Board | An Act Regarding the State Workforce Board | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1360 | An Act to Preserve Traditional Driver's Licenses and Nondriver Identification Cards | An Act to Preserve Traditional Driver's Licenses and Nondriver Identification Cards | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1839 | An Act to Strengthen the So-called Maine Hire-a-Vet Program | This bill establishes the Fundraising and Advisory Commission to Support the Hiring of Veterans in order to support a program to help veterans and members of their families find jobs, promote the hiring of veterans and members of their families by employers in this State and provide information to veterans and members of their families regarding the services to which they are entitled. The bill also establishes the Fund to Support the Hiring of Veterans, to be administered by the advisory commission to support the program. | Dead |
| LD1807 | An Act to Expand the Sales Tax to Luxury Services and Adjust the Sales Tax on Rental Cars | This bill increases the sales tax rate on short-term automobile rentals from 10% to 15% and eliminates the exemption for short-term automobile rentals associated with car dealership-initiated loaner vehicles. The bill also creates new categories of luxury services subject to sales tax. | Dead |
| LD1742 | An Act to Prohibit a State Social Media Platform Account from Restricting User Comments | This bill prohibits an account holder or administrator of a social media platform account of a state, county or municipal department, agency, board or commission or a state, county or municipal official operating in that individual's official capacity from restricting a user of that social media platform from commenting on content shared by the holder or the administrator of the social media platform account. | Dead |
| LD1688 | An Act to Encourage Continuing Education Relating to Certain Infection-associated Chronic Conditions for Physicians and Nurses | This bill requires the Board of Osteopathic Licensure, the Board of Licensure in Medicine and the State Board of Nursing to encourage licensees and applicants for relicensure to attend continuing education relating to infection-associated chronic conditions, including long COVID, chronic Lyme disease, myalgic encephalomyelitis, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and dysautonomia. | Dead |
| LD1047 | An Act to Impose an Additional Tax on Certain Unearned Income | This bill imposes an additional tax of 4% on capital gains above $250,000, $375,000 or $500,000, depending on filing status. | Dead |
| LD853 | An Act to Replace the Minimum Hourly Wage with a Regionally Based Living Wage | This bill replaces the minimum wage for the State with a regional living wage beginning January 1, 2026, according to data provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Living Wage Calculator, or its successor organization. The bill divides the State into regions based on counties for the purposes of a regional living wage. The bill provides that, until December 31, 2025, the minimum hourly wage is $14.65, which is the minimum hourly wage as of January 1, 2025. | Dead |
| LD1304 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Limit Property Tax Increases for Individuals 65 Years of Age or Older and Shift the Tax Burden to State Gaming Revenues | This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to authorize the Legislature to require taxes on property owned and occupied by a permanent resident of this State for at least 12 months as that person's primary residence to be capped at 2% each year if that person is at least 65 years of age. Upon transfer of the property to someone other than a family member of the owner, the property would assume the just value at the time of transfer. The State is required to reimburse municipalities for revenue lost due to the 2% cap on taxes using revenue from a 2% tax imposed on the sale of lottery tickets and sports betting. | Dead |
| LD501 | An Act to Fairly Fund School Administrative Units for Economically Disadvantaged Students | This bill increases the weighted count in the school funding formula for economically disadvantaged students under the Essential Programs and Services Funding Act from 0.15 to 0.25 effective beginning fiscal year 2026-27. | Dead |
| LD1518 | An Act to Clarify the Amount and Use of Unallocated Balances in a School Administrative Unit Budget | This bill amends the laws governing unexpended balances and unallocated general operating fund balances of school administrative units in the following ways. 1. It changes the current requirement that the unexpended balance of all money raised by a school administrative unit received for school purposes be carried forward and credited to the unit for educational programs in the ensuing year, to instead require that the unexpended balance be carried forward and spent by the unit in the ensuing year. 2. It changes the current requirement that unallocated general operating fund balances in excess of 5% of the previous fiscal year's school budget be used to reduce the state and local share of the total allocation for the purpose of computing state subsidy, to instead require that the unallocated balances in excess of 5% be used to fund educational programs. It authorizes school boards to carry forward unallocated balances in excess of 5% of the previous year's school budget and spend those funds for educational programs in the next year or over a period not to exceed 3 years. 3. It strikes language that applies only to fiscal years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25. | 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 |
| LD1567 | An Act to Require Labeling of Radiation Treatment and Ozonation of Adult Use Cannabis and Inspection and Registration of Associated Equipment | This bill requires that adult use cannabis or adult use cannabis products be labeled with information on any radiation treatment or ozonation applied to the cannabis or cannabis product. The bill also requires equipment used for radiation treatment or ozonation of adult use cannabis or an adult use cannabis product to be inspected and registered by the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Office of Cannabis Policy. | 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 |
| LD575 | An Act to Ensure Equitable Access to the Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits Program by Removing the Requirement That Leave Must Be Scheduled to Prevent Undue Hardship on the Employer | This bill amends the law governing paid family and medical leave to remove the provision that the leave must be scheduled to prevent undue hardship on the employer. | 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 |
| LD664 | An Act to Improve Unemployment Insurance | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to amend provisions of law as necessary to improve unemployment insurance in this State. | Dead |
| LD661 | An Act to Amend Motor Vehicle Inspection Requirements | This bill provides that a new motor vehicle that a holder of a Class C license is authorized to operate is not required to have an inspection until 3 years from the last day of the month in which it was manufactured. The bill stipulates that a new motor vehicle purchased by a holder of a Class C license is required to be inspected if parts of the motor vehicle required to be inspected are damaged in a motor vehicle collision or natural disaster or if the ownership of the motor vehicle changes. | Dead |
| LD1600 | An Act to Provide Regional Support Funding for Municipal Police Departments to Support Special Response Teams | This bill creates the Special Response Team Fund to reimburse municipalities that maintain and operate special response teams, which are elite tactical law enforcement teams certified by the Maine Criminal Justice Academy that rapidly respond to high-risk law enforcement operations and conduct criminal investigations that exceed the capabilities of standard law enforcement agencies and require specialized training, equipment and tactics. The bill requires each county to contribute annually a pro rata share based upon population of an amount equal to refund 10% of the previous calendar year's expenses that each municipality spent to maintain and operate a special response team. | Dead |
| LD1613 | An Act to Establish Maine's Care Force to Address the State's Health Care Crisis | This bill establishes Maine's Care Force, a program within the Department of Health and Human Services to place individuals trained as essential support workers by the department in private homes, facilities and community-based settings. It provides for ongoing annual appropriations of $32,000,000 to support the program. | Dead |
| LD1465 | An Act to Create the Office of Workforce Advancement Within the Department of Economic and Community Development and Establish Statewide Workforce Advancement Goals | This bill creates the Office of Workforce Advancement within the Department of Economic and Community Development and directs the department to establish statewide workforce advancement goals in coordination with the Department of Labor and other stakeholders to grow the State's workforce and economy. | Dead |
| LD1533 | An Act to Ensure the Retention of R1 Research Institution Status by the University of Maine | This bill provides ongoing funds to support an additional 25 graduate students per year in research graduate programs until each student completes the student's program. | Dead |
| HP1242 | JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE MEMORY OF POPE FRANCIS | JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE MEMORY OF POPE FRANCIS | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD217 | An Act to Require Schools to Provide Access to Free Condoms for Students in Grades 9 to 12 in the School Nurse's Office | This bill requires that schools provide access to condoms free of charge to all students enrolled in grades 9 to 12. A school is subject to this provision if the school serves students in grades 9 to 12 and is a public school or a private school approved for receipt of public funds for tuition purposes and at least 60% of the students it serves are publicly funded students. Condoms may be administered only in the nurse's office by the school nurse. Before administering condoms to students, a school is required to plan for the contingency of a student with an allergy to latex. | Dead |
| LD1267 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Labor to Convene a Task Force to Examine and Study Issues Relating to the Gap Between the Economic Output and Wages of Workers in the State | This resolve directs the Department of Labor to convene a task force to examine and study the gap between the economic output of workers in the State and the wages those workers receive in return and report on the task force's findings to the Joint Standing Committee on Labor by December 3, 2025. The joint standing committee is authorized to report out legislation based on the subject matter of the report to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. | Dead |
| LD891 | An Act to Exclude Poverty as a Factor When Determining Instances of Willful Neglect or Abuse of a Child | This bill amends certain definitions under the Child and Family Services and Child Protection Act and excludes poverty as a factor in a determination of willful neglect or abuse of a child. The bill also amends the laws governing preliminary protection order requests and reasonable efforts to prevent the removal of a child from a home to require the consideration of specific efforts made, the duration of those efforts and the outcome of those efforts. | Dead |
| LD1178 | An Act to Expedite the Process Involving Municipalities That Illegally Move a Person to Avoid Responsibility for General Assistance Support | This bill decreases from 30 to 15 working days the period for the Department of Health and Human Services to determine if a municipality has illegally moved an individual to avoid responsibility for general assistance support. The bill reduces the appeals period from 30 to 15 days after the determination is made. The bill also provides for interest on unreimbursed amounts to be paid by the offending municipality and a penalty of up to $10,000 for a repeat violation within a 12-month period and creates the rebuttable presumption that if a municipality moves a person to another municipality, the municipality did so to avoid paying general assistance to that person. | Dead |
| LD824 | An Act Regarding Pet Fees in Rental Housing | This bill prohibits a landlord, agent, contractor, designee or other entity from charging or collecting a fee as a condition of keeping a pet within a rented dwelling unit, except that a fee for pet rent not to exceed 1% of the monthly rental charge and a pet security deposit not to exceed $300 may be charged. The bill also prohibits a landlord, agent, contractor, designee or other entity from charging or collecting a fee for a service animal or an assistance animal. | Dead |
| LD431 | An Act Regarding Driver's Licenses for Individuals in Foster Care | This bill does the following. 1. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Child and Family Services to establish a program to pay for or reimburse the fees and costs incurred by a person who is in the department's custody pursuant to the Child and Family Services and Child Protection Act, who is engaged in the department's extended care program or who is engaged in the department's transition grant program that are related to obtaining a driver's license and motor vehicle insurance and additional costs related to obtaining a driver's license. The department may adopt rules to implement the provisions. 2. It directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a program to ensure that a minor who is 15 years of age or older and is in the department's custody is provided with the opportunity to obtain: assistance in obtaining a driver's license or learner's permit or enrolling in a driver education course; skills training for safe driving; required hours of driving under a learner's permit; and information on how to obtain motor vehicle insurance. The department may adopt rules related to the program. 3. It provides that a licensed motor vehicle dealer is required to allow a person who is a minor 15 years and 6 months of age or older who is or has been placed in the care of someone other than the person's parents by the Department of Health and Human Services, or who is a minor living independently, and who has a valid driver's license to contract for the purchase of a motor vehicle. 4. It directs the Secretary of State to waive all fees assessed by the Department of the Secretary of State, Bureau of Motor Vehicles related to obtaining a license for a person who has not attained 27 years of age and who is or has been placed in the care of someone other than the person's parents by the department or who is a minor living independently. 5. It allows a minor who does not have a parent, guardian or spouse who has attained 18 years of age to have the minor's driver's license application signed by a person who is 19 years of age or older and is the minor's employer, the minor's grandparent, the minor's sibling, the minor's parent's sibling or that sibling's spouse or the minor's foster parent or by an employee designated by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Child and Family Services and limits the liability of the person who signed the application. 6. It clarifies cross-references in the section of law related to learner's permits to reflect the changes to the section of law related to driver's licenses. 7. It requires rating bureaus or independent insurers as recognized by the Superintendent of Insurance to allow certain minors who are driver education school graduates to contract for an automobile insurance policy. | Dead |
| LD1235 | An Act to Establish Transparency in Opioid Settlement Funds Allocated to Municipalities or Counties | This bill requires that a direct share subdivision that receives opioid settlement funds in accordance with the Maine State-Subdivision Memorandum of Understanding and Agreement Regarding Use of Settlement Funds, dated and signed on January 26, 2022, and the Maine State-Subdivision Memorandum of Understanding and Agreement Regarding Use of Settlement Funds-2023, dated and signed on May 2, 2023, collectively defined in the bill as "Memoranda of Understanding," must submit an annual report to the Attorney General detailing the amount of such funds received and expended in the prior calendar year and including a description of each such expenditure. The first annual report must be submitted by January 15, 2026. "Direct share subdivision" is defined in the bill as a municipality or county that is a plaintiff subdivision identified in Exhibit 3 of the Memoranda of Understanding. | Dead |
| LD1380 | Resolve, Establishing the Study Group on Solutions to Address Maine's Behavioral Health Workforce Shortage | This resolve establishes the Study Group on Solutions to Address Maine's Behavioral Health Workforce Shortage, which is directed to review the State's behavioral health workforce needs and assess the feasibility of strategies and initiatives for recommended changes. The study group is required to submit a report and suggested legislation by December 3, 2025 to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services, which is authorized to report out legislation based on the report to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. | Dead |
| LD1300 | An Act to Strengthen Maine's Implied Warranty Laws | This bill requires the Office of the Attorney General to notify online sellers doing business in the State, who remit $10,000 or more in sales tax, of the implied warranty laws. The bill also requires the Attorney General to make available an online complaint form for residents to use if they believe the seller is not adhering to the implied warranty laws. | Dead |
| LD1350 | An Act to Ban Corporate Contributions to Candidates | This bill amends the campaign finance laws to prohibit a business entity from making contributions to candidates and defines "business entity." | Dead |
| LD652 | An Act to Provide Qualifying Downtown Businesses and Developments with Assistance Paying Flood Insurance Premiums | This bill authorizes municipalities or plantations with established downtown tax increment financing districts to use funds related to tax increment financing for flood insurance assistance. | Dead |
| LD627 | An Act to Require Insurance Coverage for Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonist Medication | This bill requires carriers offering health plans in this State to provide coverage for glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist medication approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration and prescribed by a health care provider. It also requires the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Bureau of Insurance to initiate an education campaign regarding the coverage requirements and the health benefits associated with the use of the medication. The requirements of the bill apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026. | Dead |
| LD1362 | An Act to Establish Parity in Funding Between Recovery Community Centers and Peer-run Recovery Centers | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to maintain funding parity, within a 10% margin, between peer-run recovery centers and recovery community centers. It requires the department to submit an annual report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters and requires the department to include in the report an explanation for any variance exceeding the 10% threshold and a plan to achieve compliance with that threshold in the subsequent fiscal year. | Dead |
| LD941 | An Act Requiring Employers to Disclose Wage Ranges in Job Postings | This bill requires an employer that employs 10 or more employees to include a wage range in any job posting for a position of employment in the State. An employer acting in good faith may pay an employee a wage different than the wage range based upon factors such as market conditions or the experience or education of the employee. | 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 |
| Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LD70 | An Act to Fund Free Health Clinics | Enactment RC #601 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD70 | An Act to Fund Free Health Clinics | Recede And Concur RC #588 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD109 | Resolve, Directing the Maine Arts Commission to Study Federal and National Efforts to Protect Artists from Copyright Infringement by Artificial Intelligence Companies and Users and to Monitor Educational Use | Recede And Concur RC #589 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD143 | An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services | Enactment RC #602 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD143 | An Act to Improve Women's Health and Economic Security by Funding Family Planning Services | Recede RC #599 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD166 | An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Tobacco Products in Pharmacies and Retail Establishments Containing Pharmacies | Recede And Concur RC #590 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD698 | An Act to Sustain Emergency Homeless Shelters in Maine | Recede And Concur RC #591 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD747 | An Act to Provide Funds to Reduce Student Homelessness | Recede And Concur RC #592 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD874 | An Act to Provide Relief to Federal or State Employees Affected by a Federal Government or State Government Shutdown | Recede And Concur RC #593 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD958 | An Act to Prohibit Eminent Domain on Existing Tribal Trust Lands | Reconsideration - Veto RC #586 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1023 | Resolve, to Reestablish the Blue Economy Task Force to Support Maine's Emergence as a Center for Blue Economy Innovation and Opportunity in the 21st Century | Recede And Concur RC #594 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1126 | An Act Requiring Serial Numbers on Firearms and Prohibiting Undetectable Firearms | Recede And Concur RC #595 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1184 | An Act to Require Municipal Reporting on Residential Building Permits, Dwelling Units Permitted and Demolished and Certificates of Occupancy Issued | Recede And Concur RC #596 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1328 | An Act to Create Culturally Appropriate and Trauma-informed Housing and Recovery Services | Reconsideration - Veto RC #587 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1738 | An Act to Establish the Biohazard Waste Disposal Grant Program to Support Public Health Efforts in the State | Recede And Concur RC #597 | 06/25/2025 | Yea |
| LD1951 | An Act to Promote Food Processing and Manufacturing Facility Expansion and Create Jobs | Recede And Concur RC #598 | 06/25/2025 | Nay |
| LD210 | An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations from the General Fund and Other Funds for the Expenditures of State Government and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2025, June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027 | Enactment RC #583 | 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 | Recede And Concur RC #579 | 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 | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #571 | 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 | Enactment RC #582 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD893 | An Act to Exempt Nonprofit Agricultural Membership Organizations from Insurance Requirements | Passage To Be Engrossed RC #578 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD1088 | An Act to Enact the Maine Consumer Data Privacy Act | Acc Report "a" Ontp RC #584 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD1211 | An Act Regarding Certain Definitions in the Sales and Use Tax Laws Affecting Rental Equipment | Acc Report "a" Otp-am RC #575 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD1298 | An Act Establishing Alternative Pathways to Social Worker Licensing | Recede And Concur RC #580 | 06/18/2025 | Nay |
| LD1666 | An Act to Include in the Ranked-choice Election Method for General and Special Elections the Offices of Governor, State Senator and State Representative and to Make Other Related Changes | Enactment RC #576 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD1940 | An Act to Revise the Growth Management Program Laws | Recede And Concur RC #581 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD1960 | An Act to Exempt Electronic Smoking Devices or Other Tobacco Products Containing Ingestible Hemp from the Tax Imposed on Tobacco Products | Recede And Concur RC #572 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD1963 | An Act to Protect and Compensate Public Utility Whistleblowers | Recede And Concur RC #573 | 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 #574 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| HP1338 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING JUNE 2025 AS PRIDE MONTH | Adoption RC #577 | 06/18/2025 | Yea |
| LD93 | An Act to Reduce Cost and Increase Access to Disease Prevention by Expanding the Universal Childhood Immunization Program to Include Adults | Enactment RC #556 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD184 | Resolve, Establishing the Commission to Study the Foreclosure Process | Recede And Concur RC #548 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD252 | An Act to Withdraw from the National Popular Vote Compact | Recede And Concur RC #546 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Acc Maj Ought To Pass Rep RC #553 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD532 | An Act to Protect Health Care Workers by Addressing Assaults in Health Care Settings | Acc Min Otp As Amended Rep RC #567 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD532 | An Act to Protect Health Care Workers by Addressing Assaults in Health Care Settings | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #566 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD746 | An Act to Authorize a Local Option Sales Tax on Short-term Lodging to Fund Municipalities and Affordable Housing | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #568 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD953 | An Act to Change the Definition of "Machine Gun" in the Maine Criminal Code | Acc Report "b" Ontp RC #547 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD978 | An Act to Increase General Assistance Reimbursement for Municipalities and Indian Tribes | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #545 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1077 | An Act to Exempt Drinking Water from Sales and Use Tax | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #537 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1126 | An Act Requiring Serial Numbers on Firearms and Prohibiting Undetectable Firearms | Enactment RC #557 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1217 | An Act Regarding the New Markets Tax Credit and the Maine New Markets Capital Investment Program | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #558 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1189 | An Act to Allow an Attorney for the State to Determine Whether to Charge Certain Class E Crimes as Civil Violations | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #539 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1164 | An Act to Create Economic Opportunity for the Wabanaki Nations Through Internet Gaming | Enactment RC #550 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1270 | An Act to Establish the Department of Energy Resources | Adopt Hah-771 To Cah-746 RC #561 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1270 | An Act to Establish the Department of Energy Resources | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #536 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1228 | An Act to Clarify Certain Terms in and to Make Other Changes to the Automotive Right to Repair Laws | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #565 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1386 | An Act to Provide Emergency One-time Relief from the Wild Blueberry Tax for Sellers in Maine and Partial Relief for Processors and Shippers | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #538 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1423 | An Act to Improve Recycling by Updating the Stewardship Program for Packaging | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #554 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1656 | An Act to Facilitate Compliance with Federal Immigration Law by State and Local Government Entities | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #540 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1667 | Resolve, to Allow Hemphill Farms, Inc. to Sue the State | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #563 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1715 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Amend the Appointment and Confirmation Process for Certain Judicial, Civil and Military Officers | Recede And Concur RC #549 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1710 | An Act Regarding the Authority to Transport Prisoners Confined in Jail and the Use of Physical Force with Respect to Prisoners and Persons Who Have Been Arrested | Enactment RC #552 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1710 | An Act Regarding the Authority to Transport Prisoners Confined in Jail and the Use of Physical Force with Respect to Prisoners and Persons Who Have Been Arrested | Table Until Later RC #551 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1749 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Corrections to Study Achieving Gender Equality | Acc Maj Ought To Pass Rep RC #564 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1751 | An Act to Improve the Growth Management Program Laws | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #570 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1849 | An Act to Establish a Minimum Age at Which Conduct Constitutes a Juvenile Crime and to Confer Jurisdiction to the Juvenile Courts Over Any Criminal Offense Under Maine Law Committed by a Juvenile | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #562 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1867 | An Act to Prohibit Financial Institutions from Using Merchant Category Codes to Identify or Track Firearm Purchases or Disclose Firearm Purchase Records | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #560 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1871 | An Act to Permit Sealing Criminal History Record Information of Victims of Sex Trafficking or Sexual Exploitation | Enactment RC #542 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1937 | An Act to Require Hospitals and Hospital-affiliated Providers to Provide Financial Assistance Programs for Medical Care | Adopt Hah-707 To Cas-346 RC #544 | 06/17/2025 | Nay |
| LD1937 | An Act to Require Hospitals and Hospital-affiliated Providers to Provide Financial Assistance Programs for Medical Care | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #543 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1940 | An Act to Revise the Growth Management Program Laws | Acc Report "a" Otp-am RC #569 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1963 | An Act to Protect and Compensate Public Utility Whistleblowers | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #559 | 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 | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #541 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD1987 | An Act to Fund Collective Bargaining Agreements with Executive Branch Employees and Continue the Voluntary Employee Incentive Program | Recede And Concur RC #555 | 06/17/2025 | Yea |
| LD93 | An Act to Reduce Cost and Increase Access to Disease Prevention by Expanding the Universal Childhood Immunization Program to Include Adults | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #526 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD184 | Resolve, Establishing the Commission to Study the Foreclosure Process | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #517 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD264 | An Act to Remove the 12-month Waiting Period for the Maine Resident Homestead Property Tax Exemption | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #527 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD297 | An Act Regarding the Management of Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludge at the State-owned Landfill | Recede RC #511 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD291 | An Act to Eliminate the Lodging Tax on Campground Sites and Revert to Using the Current Sales Tax | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #528 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD372 | An Act to Protect Maine People from Inflation by Exempting Gold and Silver Coins and Bullion from the State Sales and Use Tax | Recede And Concur RC #507 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD427 | An Act to Regulate Municipal Parking Space Minimums | Recede And Concur RC #534 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD427 | An Act to Regulate Municipal Parking Space Minimums | Enactment RC #514 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD515 | An Act to Reverse Recent Changes Made to the Law Governing Net Energy Billing and Distributed Generation | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #531 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD525 | An Act to Strengthen Maine Citizens' Second Amendment Rights by Allowing the Discharge of Firearms on Private Property That Is Within 500 Feet of School Property in Certain Circumstances | Recede And Concur RC #505 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD670 | An Act to Address Coercive Control in Domestic Abuse Cases | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #518 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD613 | An Act to Amend the Maine Death with Dignity Act to Ensure Access by Qualified Patients | Recede And Concur RC #508 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD738 | An Act to Remove Barriers to Becoming a Lawyer by Establishing a Law Office Study Program | Insist RC #523 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD879 | An Act to Increase Maximum Small Claim Limits for Home Construction Contracts | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #512 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD958 | An Act to Prohibit Eminent Domain on Existing Tribal Trust Lands | Enactment RC #513 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1138 | An Act to Reduce Pollution Associated with Transportation in Alignment with the State's Climate Action Plan | Recede And Concur RC #510 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1299 | An Act to Prohibit the Unsecured Storage of Handguns in Motor Vehicles | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #516 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1266 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Behavioral Health to Convene a Working Group to Propose a Plan for Expanding the Reach of Treatment Courts | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #519 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1318 | An Act to Enhance Data Collection Requirements Related to Immigration Status and Asylum Seekers to Safeguard Services for Legal Residents | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #532 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1517 | An Act to Replace Participation Thresholds with Approval Thresholds in Certain School, Municipal and County Measures | Recede And Concur RC #506 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1672 | An Act to Allow Participation in the Adult Use Cannabis Tracking System to Be Voluntary | Insist RC #524 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1715 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Amend the Appointment and Confirmation Process for Certain Judicial, Civil and Military Officers | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #533 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1710 | An Act Regarding the Authority to Transport Prisoners Confined in Jail and the Use of Physical Force with Respect to Prisoners and Persons Who Have Been Arrested | Acc Min Otp As Amended Rep RC #530 | 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 #509 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1815 | An Act to Require a Blood Test for Drugs for Drivers Involved in a Motor Vehicle Accident That Results in Serious Bodily Injury or Death | Recede And Concur RC #535 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1853 | An Act to Establish an Educational Tax Credit Program to Help Parents Pay for Nonpublic School Tuition and Fees | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #529 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1868 | An Act to Advance a Clean Energy Economy by Updating Renewable and Clean Resource Procurement Laws | Enactment RC #515 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1873 | An Act to Require Age Verification for Online Obscene Matter | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #522 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1897 | An Act Regarding Outdoor Cultivation in the Medical Use Cannabis and Adult Use Cannabis Industries | Acc Min Otp As Amended Rep RC #521 | 06/16/2025 | Yea |
| LD1897 | An Act Regarding Outdoor Cultivation in the Medical Use Cannabis and Adult Use Cannabis Industries | Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #520 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD1968 | An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding Legislative Reimbursement | Recede RC #525 | 06/16/2025 | Nay |
| LD179 | An Act to Amend the Maine Bail Code to Eliminate the Class E Crime of Violation of Condition of Release | Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #484 | 06/13/2025 | Nay |
| LD165 | An Act to Allow School Boards to Expel or Suspend Students Regardless of Grade Level | Acc Report "a" Ontp RC #473 | 06/13/2025 | Yea |
| LD182 | An Act to Provide Per Diem Payments for MaineCare Residents of the Maine Veterans' Homes | Acc Ought To Pass As Amend Rep RC #487 | 06/13/2025 | Yea |
| LD233 | An Act to Prohibit Biological Males from Participating in School Athletic Programs and Activities Designated for Females When State Funding Is Provided to the School | Acc Report "b" Ontp RC #492 | 06/13/2025 | Yea |
| Committee | Position | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detail | Maine Joint Labor Committee | Chair | 1 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ME | Maine House District 023 | House | Democrat | In Office | 12/07/2022 | |
| ME | Maine House District 125 | House | Democrat | Out of Office | 12/02/2020 | 01/22/2024 |