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State Representative
Kelly Noonan Murphy
(D) - Maine
Maine House District 125
In Office - Started: 12/07/2022

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Augusta, ME 04333-0002
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Scarborough, ME 04074

Bill Bill Name Summary Progress
LD1044 An Act to Clarify the Qualifying Use of Tax Increment Financing for Extension of a Development District This bill clarifies that to be eligible for a 20-year extension, a tax increment financing district may use the tax increment financing revenue for one or both of the permitted uses of affordable housing and transit-oriented development. The bill also amends the definition of "transit-oriented development" to provide that such a development does not have to be located in a transit-oriented development district, area or corridor or a transit-served node. Passed
LD1099 An Act to Exempt Diapers from Sales Tax This bill provides a sales tax exemption for disposable and reusable diapers, including diaper covers, wraps and diaper fasteners, that are marketed to be worn by adults or children. Passed
LD1069 Resolve, Directing the Department of Education to Review Personal Finance Course Offerings in Maine Schools and Implement a Teacher Training Program This bill requires high school students to complete a stand-alone course in personal finance to meet the minimum requirements for a high school diploma. Passed
LD1202 An Act to Establish the African American Studies Advisory Council and Provide Funding to Support African American Studies This bill does the following. 1. It establishes the African American Studies Advisory Council to serve as a resource to educators, schools and the Department of Education to ensure the implementation of African American studies in accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 4706. Appointments to the advisory council must be made within 30 days of the effective date of the legislation by the appointing authorities. The duties of the advisory council include: A. Assisting school administrative units and educators in the exploration of a wide range of educational materials and resources relating to African American studies; B. Identifying materials and resources for implementing African American studies; C. Making recommendations to the Department of Education regarding African American studies curricula, revisions to the system of learning results, funding and opportunities for professional development, training and technical assistance; and D. Using data gathered pursuant to the representative statewide sampling conducted by the Department of Education of African American studies curricula in school administrative units to establish a baseline measure of the implementation of African American studies in school administrative units. The advisory council is directed to submit an annual report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education matters beginning January 15, 2027. 2. It directs the Department of Education to develop professional development opportunities for educators in African American studies. 3. It directs the State Board of Education to convene a stakeholder group to study the development of an endorsement in African American studies on an educator credential or the inclusion of a requirement for an African American studies course as a requirement for an educator credential in this State and report to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs no later than January 15, 2026. 4. It provides an appropriations and allocations section to: A. Establish in the Department of Education a content specialist position in African American studies and to provide outreach to school administrative units with support and technical assistance in curriculum development and implementation of African American studies; and B. Provide $1,000,000 in one-time, nonlapsing funds in fiscal year 2025-26 to the Department of Education to support the work of the African American Studies Advisory Council and administer and provide grants to school administrative units to expand or implement African American studies curricula. Passed
LD1138 An Act to Reduce Pollution Associated with Transportation in Alignment with the State's Climate Action Plan This bill implements the following provisions designed to limit greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. 1. It amends the law regulating state monitoring of, reporting on and compliance with the requirements for gross and net annual greenhouse gas emissions reductions levels to require the Department of Transportation to adopt rules necessary to ensure compliance with those reductions levels. Under current law, the Department of Transportation is authorized but not required to adopt such rules. 2. It requires the Department of Environmental Protection, by December 31, 2025, to adopt rules establishing greenhouse gas emissions limits specific to different source categories within the transportation sector that are designed to be achieved through biennial targets imposed over a 10-year period and to ensure compliance with established gross and net annual greenhouse gas emissions levels and with the transportation-specific greenhouse gas emissions reductions projections established in the climate action plan under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, section 577, subsection 5-A. The Department of Transportation is required to adopt rules necessary to ensure compliance with those greenhouse gas emissions limits established by the Department of Environmental Protection by rule. 3. It requires the Department of Transportation to develop and, by July 1, 2026, publish a plan that, at a minimum, sets forth strategies for reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector necessary to achieve the greenhouse gas emissions reductions and limits under Title 38, section 576-A and strategies for reduction of statewide vehicle miles traveled in accordance with the targets identified in the climate action plan. 4. It provides that, beginning July 1, 2026, prior to inclusion of a capacity expansion project in a Department of Transportation or Maine Turnpike Authority transportation improvement program, work plan or long-range transportation plan, the department or the authority, as applicable, must complete an impact assessment of the project. The bill defines "capacity expansion project" as a transportation project that results in modifications or other changes to a transportation facility and that is designed to improve vehicle travel time or increase maximum throughput. The impact assessment process is to be used by the department or the authority to determine whether a capacity expansion project is consistent with the transportation greenhouse gas emissions reductions plan under Title 23, section 4209-C, the transportation-related targets in the climate action plan and the transportation sector greenhouse gas emissions limits. The impact assessment must, at a minimum, include projections for greenhouse gas emissions associated with the capacity expansion project over a 20-year period, net change in vehicle miles traveled for the affected transportation network as a result of the capacity expansion project and the direct impacts and induced demand impacts of the capacity expansion project on vehicle miles traveled for the affected transportation network as a result of the project. If, through the impact assessment, the department or the authority determines that the project is not consistent with the plan, targets and limits, the department or the authority must alter the scope or design of the project to ensure greater consistency with the plan, target or limits, incorporate sufficient mitigation measures into the project or halt project development. The bill describes the types of mitigation measures that may be incorporated into a capacity expansion project and sets forth the criteria for determining whether such mitigation measures will be considered sufficient to allow the project to proceed. 5. It establishes the Transportation Climate Technical Committee to assist in the development and review of the transportation greenhouse gas emissions reductions plan to assist the Department of Transportation and the Maine Turnpike Authority in the implementation of the requirements and processes for evaluating the greenhouse gas emissions associated with capacity expansion projects under Title 23, section 710, and to otherwise advise the Department of Transportation, the Maine Turnpike Authority and the Legislature regarding achievement of the transportation sector targets identified in the transportation greenhouse gas emissions reductions plan, the climate action plan and the greenhouse gas emissions reductions levels and limits. Passed
LD1517 An Act to Replace Participation Thresholds with Approval Thresholds in Certain School, Municipal and County Measures Current law requires the total number of votes cast for certain school, municipal or county measures to be at least equal to or exceed a percentage of votes cast in the municipality or county, as relevant, in the last gubernatorial election in order for the result of the vote to be valid. This bill reduces the needed percentage of votes cast in the last gubernatorial election for the result to be considered valid but requires that percentage to be in favor of the measure being considered. Crossed Over
LD1558 Resolve, Establishing the Commission to Update Maine's Public Policy on Higher Education This resolve establishes the Commission to Update Maine's Public Policy on Higher Education to review all related laws and rules addressing the State's public policy on higher education and make recommendations for potential legislative changes. The commission is directed to submit a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs no later than December 3, 2025 with findings and recommendations, including suggested legislation. Passed
LD787 An Act to Clarify Residency Requirements for and Provide Funding to the Maine School of Science and Mathematics Current law requires that state funding for a student who applies to the Maine School of Science and Mathematics is available only if the student resided in Maine for at least 6 months prior to applying to the school. This bill instead requires that the student reside in Maine at the start of the academic year for which state funds are appropriated. This bill also provides ongoing funds to the Maine School of Science and Mathematics to support administrative operations and allow the administration to give financial support to in-state students who demonstrate a financial need related to paying room and board expenses. Passed
LD1657 An Act to Expand the Use of Tax Increment Revenue for Affordable Housing by Adding Authorized Project Costs This bill expands the use of tax increment revenue for affordable housing by adding authorized project costs, including costs for the development, sale, purchase, financial support and operation of affordable housing and for the creation, maintenance and administration of a municipal loan or grant program to provide assistance to qualifying purchasers of affordable housing. Crossed Over
LD1705 An Act Regarding Adult Education Funding and Oversight This bill establishes the Career Advancement and Navigation Program within the Department of Education in collaboration with the Maine Community College System. The program requires the department to employ one college and career success coordinator at each community college campus to provide students with academic support, advisory services and referrals to community services. The bill also requires the Department of Education to annually assess adult education needs in the State relative to funding appropriated by the Legislature and requires the department to annually submit a report to the Legislature detailing its assessment and recommendations. The bill also requires the department to submit to the Legislature a detailed written explanation for any funding for adult education that is not disbursed in accordance with the reimbursement procedures described in the laws governing adult education. The department is also required to adopt guidelines for the use of state funds for adult education programs and to convene a stakeholder group to provide input on statewide goals for adult education, funding priorities and statewide program improvements. The bill requires the Legislature to appropriate from the General Fund an amount equal to 100% of the state obligation for adult education funding in accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A, section 8606-A, subsection 4. Passed
LD1543 An Act to Establish the Maine Green Schools Network This bill establishes the Maine Green Schools Network within the Department of Education to support environmental education and initiatives in public schools. Under the bill, the department must administer the network and invite several individuals and entities to participate in the network, including the director of green schools within the department; education specialists within the department; educators; students; representatives from climate education nonprofit organizations; a representative from a career and technical school; a representative from the Governor's Office of Policy Innovation and the Future; and a representative from the Department of Environmental Protection. The bill requires the network to do the following: support professional development; support school projects that incorporate traditional ecological knowledge and best practices for waste management and recycling, energy conservation, water conservation, schoolyard habitat, outdoor classrooms, transportation or health; increase the number of educators in the State who provide training for green schools and develop common resources, trainings and metrics to support educators. Under the bill, the department is authorized to develop a grant program to be administered through the network in furtherance of fulfilling the network's duties. The bill requires the network to report back to the Legislature by November 4, 2026 with findings and recommendations. Passed
LD1754 An Act to Provide for the Direct Shipment of Spirits to Consumers This bill allows distilleries, small distilleries, rectifiers and out-of-state spirits manufacturers to ship their spirits to recipients in the State in a manner similar to that presently allowed for wineries to ship their wine products. The bill authorizes a direct shipper of spirits to use a fulfillment provider for the direct shipment of spirits. The bill provides that fulfillment providers must be registered with the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations in order to ship spirits on behalf of a direct shipper to recipients in this State. The bill establishes reporting and record retention requirements for direct shippers, fulfillment providers and common carriers. The bill establishes shipment restrictions and limitations for direct shippers of spirits and procedures for establishing spirits pricing and for payments to the bureau for spirits shipped directly to recipients in the State, rather than going through the State's warehouse. The bill also establishes an effective date of July 1, 2026. Dead
LD1691 An Act to Expand Access to Justice in Rural Maine by Incentivizing Attorneys to Practice in Underserved Areas This bill establishes the Access to Justice Loan Program and Access to Justice Loan Program Revolving Fund under the Finance Authority of Maine for the purpose of awarding loans to and entering into loan repayment agreements with eligible Maine residents. Eligibility is limited to Maine residents who demonstrate an interest in or commitment to providing legal services in an underserved area of the State and who are enrolled or intend to enroll in an accredited law school and demonstrate financial need or have graduated from an accredited law school within the prior 5 years, are licensed or eligible to be licensed to practice law in the State and have outstanding law school loans. The maximum amount of a loan to or loan repayment agreement with a program participant is $25,000 per year for a period of up to 4 years. The bill also directs the University of Maine System, to the extent sufficient funding is available, to establish at the University of Maine School of Law a rural practice track to support the practice of law in underserved areas in the State. Among other things, the rural practice track must be designed to: 1. Provide, in each academic year, a housing stipend sufficient to cover the cost of dormitory housing at the University of Southern Maine for up to 6 first-year or 2nd-year law school students who reside in underserved areas in the State or who have demonstrated a commitment to and aptitude for practicing law in those areas upon graduation; and 2. Provide, in each semester of the academic year and over the summer, internship, externship or other professional opportunities with organizations and other entities that provide legal services to individuals in underserved areas in the State for up to 6 2nd-year or 3rd-year law school students who reside in underserved areas in the State or who have demonstrated a commitment to and aptitude for practicing law in those areas upon graduation. No later than January 1, 2026, the University of Maine System is required to submit a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs and to the Joint Standing Committee on Judiciary outlining its plan for implementation of the rural practice track at the University of Maine School of Law, including any recommendations for legislative or other action. After reviewing the report, either committee may report out legislation related to the report to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. Crossed Over
LD1719 An Act Regarding Superintendent Agreements for Transfer Students This bill modifies the provisions of law governing requests to transfer a student from one school administrative unit to another school administrative unit. The bill clarifies when during the school year a student's parent may request a transfer for the current school year or for the following school year. The bill clarifies that a transfer request is initiated with the superintendent of the school administrative unit where the student resides and that the superintendent must consult with the superintendent of the school to which the student's parent is requesting the student be transferred before approving or denying the transfer. The bill also clarifies that both superintendents must approve the transfer and if one denies the transfer request, the transfer request is denied. The bill modifies the existing processes for reviewing transfer request determinations. In current law, a parent may request that the Commissioner of Education review a transfer decision, and the commissioner must review the superintendents' decisions, communicate with the parties and either approve or deny the request. In current law, a parent may also request the commissioner's decision be reviewed by the State Board of Education, which must either approve or deny the transfer request. The bill modifies this process by establishing different standards of review for a case where a request is denied by only one of the superintendents versus a case where both superintendents have denied the request. The bill specifies that only requests that have been denied by one but not both superintendents may be referred to the state board for an additional review after the commissioner has reviewed the superintendents' determinations. The bill also provides that, for the determinations of the commissioner that may be referred to the state board, the superintendents involved and the student's parent are authorized to request that the state board review the commissioner's decision. The bill provides additional details concerning the subject matter of the reviews conducted by the commissioner and the state board, the materials that must be reviewed, with whom the commissioner may confer and the effect of the commissioner's and state board's determinations on the status of the transfer request. In Committee
LD1858 An Act to Promote Local Seafood in Schools This bill establishes the Local Seafood Fund to be used to match $1 for every $3 a school administrative unit pays for seafood purchased directly from a person who fishes commercially, a cooperative of persons who fish commercially, an aquaculture farmer, an aquaculture farmer's cooperative, a local food hub, a local food processor or a food service distributor in the State, to a maximum state contribution of $5,000 per school administrative unit in fiscal year 2025-26 and subsequent years or $5,500 per school administrative unit if funding is received and the school administrative unit sends a food service employee to a local seafood training program established and administered by the Department of Education pursuant to the bill. Passed
LD1783 An Act to Clarify Municipal Affordable Housing Tax Increment Financing This bill makes changes to the laws governing municipal affordable housing development districts, including the following. 1. It amends the law regarding the duration of affordable housing development programs. 2. It changes the costs related to public safety improvements that are considered authorized project costs. 3. It provides for the retention or return of tax increment revenues remaining in an affordable housing development fund on the date a development district ends. 4. It authorizes a legislative body of a municipality to delegate to a municipal officer a reporting requirement. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
LD587 An Act to Require School Boards to Adopt a Policy on Automated External Defibrillator Access at School-sponsored Athletic Events This bill requires school administrative units, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, to develop cardiac emergency response plans, which must address the appropriate use of school personnel to respond to incidents involving an individual experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening emergency on school grounds. A cardiac emergency response plan must include the establishment of a cardiac emergency response team, the activation of the team in an incident of sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening emergency, placement of automated external defibrillators in school buildings, distribution of the plan to school personnel, organization of personnel training on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of automated external defibrillators and annual practice drills of each and a process for annual review and evaluation of the plan. The bill also requires that a school board approve an athletic emergency action plan that addresses the appropriate use of school personnel in response to an individual experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening emergency at a school- sponsored athletic event and requires that each school athletic venue be equipped with an automated external defibrillator. The bill requires the Department of Education to provide funding for the implementation of cardiac emergency response plans and athletic emergency action plans with priority to schools in which at least 50% of the students are economically disadvantaged. Passed
LD470 Resolve, Directing the Department of Education to Review Teacher Mentoring Programs in Maine Public Schools This bill requires the Department of Education to develop peer support and teacher mentoring programs to be adopted by school administrative units. A school administrative unit may develop its own peer support and teacher mentoring program and submit the program to the department for approval. A peer support and teacher mentoring program must include a $5,000 stipend per school year for mentoring teachers for each teacher they mentor, plans to train mentoring teachers and to provide support for and regular engagement with teachers required to be mentored and regular professional development for mentoring teachers to improve their mentoring abilities. Mentoring teachers must be selected from a list provided by or in consultation with a local teacher's association and must have held a teacher certificate in the State for at least 5 years. All peer support and teacher mentoring programs must be reviewed by the department every 7 years. The Commissioner of Education may waive the requirement for a teacher to be mentored for no more than one year if the school administrative unit has demonstrated that the requirements of the peer support and teacher mentoring program would result in the school administrative unit being unable to operate. School administrative units without a peer support and teacher mentoring program may not hire conditionally certified teachers or teachers holding emergency teacher certificates. The legislation goes into effect July 1, 2026. Passed
LD1098 Resolve, Directing the Department of Education to Review the Use of Abbreviated School Days This bill establishes requirements regarding abbreviated school days, including criteria for when a school administrative unit may place a student in an abbreviated school day program and requirements for documentation, parental consent and instruction hours. It excludes from the requirements students who have been removed from school pursuant to disciplinary procedures while the program is being provided during the period of removal. Passed
LD1332 An Act to Establish the Community Schools Success Fund to Ensure the Implementation and Success of Community Schools Programs This bill establishes the Community Schools Success Fund, a nonlapsing fund within the Department of Education, to provide grants to community schools, local education providers and nonprofit organizations to support community school programs. Passed
LD1163 Resolve, Directing the State Board of Education to Amend Its Educator Credentialing Rules to Create a Pathway for an Industrial Arts Endorsement This bill creates a pathway for a teacher to obtain an endorsement on a teacher certificate for a component of industrial arts with experiential, laboratory-based instruction. For a teacher to be eligible for an endorsement, the teacher must have: completed an apprenticeship program; completed a 2-year degree or certificate from a technical institution; completed a minimum number of hours of paid applied employment or teaching in the component area for which the endorsement is sought; and completed a minimum number of hours of experience learning the trade or craft for which the endorsement is sought. Passed
LD396 Resolve, Directing the Department of Education to Develop a Grant Program to Encourage School Start Time Coordination This bill requires that, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, each school administrative unit ensure that its secondary schools' school days start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Passed
LD46 An Act to Establish a Grant Program to Increase Postsecondary Educational Opportunities for Students with Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities or Autism Spectrum Disorder This bill establishes a grant program in the Department of Education to increase postsecondary educational opportunities and support employability for students with intellectual or developmental disabilities or autism spectrum disorder. Under the grant program, the department awards competitive grants to institutions of higher education in the State to develop and implement program plans that offer students with intellectual or developmental disabilities or autism spectrum disorder, to the greatest extent possible, the same rights, privileges, experiences, benefits and outcomes in a higher education experience as students without disabilities. The bill requires that, in order to receive funding under the grant program, program plans developed by institutions of higher education must meet the requirements of a comprehensive transition and postsecondary program under the federal Higher Education Act of 1965 so that students enrolled in the program plan may be eligible for certain federal grants and work-study programs. The bill requires institutions of higher education to use 25% of the funds received through the grant program for scholarships for students participating in the program plan. Finally, the bill requires institutions of higher education that have been awarded grants to make periodic reports to the department concerning the progress and sustainability of their program plans and requires the department to annually report to the Legislature on the effectiveness of the grant program. Passed
LD1327 Resolve, Directing the University of Maine System to Study Student Teacher Compensation This bill requires a postsecondary educational institution in the State to provide stipends to student teachers and the teachers who supervise them, referred to in the bill as cooperating teachers, in addition to mileage or travel reimbursement for student teachers. The bill also requires a school administrative unit to compensate a student teacher or cooperating teacher who serves as a substitute teacher for a partial or full school day in addition to the stipend. If a student teacher becomes employed as a teacher at a private school or at a school outside of the State upon graduation, the student teacher is responsible for reimbursing the State the total amount the student teacher received as a stipend. The bill provides that the State must provide funding to the University of Maine System for the cost of student teacher and cooperating teacher stipends. Passed
LD974 Resolve, Directing the Department of Education to Convene a Stakeholder Group to Improve High School Graduation Rates and Review Policies Related to Graduation Rate Data This resolve directs the Department of Education to create a program to be known as the Maine Promise Initiative. The primary goal of the initiative is to have, by 2030, at least 95% of the State's secondary school students graduate from high school in either a 4-year or a 6-year time period. The initiative must include additional 2030 graduation rate goals, including increasing graduation rates for identified populations that are below the 2025 graduation rates of the general population of secondary school students. The department is directed to report to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs by December 3, 2025. The joint standing committee is authorized to report out a bill to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. The resolve includes a one-time appropriation of $100,000 in fiscal year 2025-26 to support the creation of the initiative. Passed
LD1021 An Act to Remove Certain Cost-of-living Adjustment Restrictions for Retired Members of the Law Enforcement Bargaining Unit Who Are 65 Years of Age or Older This bill provides that, for certain law enforcement officers and certain retired state employees who retire at 65 years of age or older, the cost-of-living increases apply to that retiree’s entire retirement benefit instead of only to the amount specified under current law. 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
LD1701 Resolve, Directing the Department of Education to Establish a Working Group to Study the Maine Learning Results This bill creates the Learning Results Implementation Advisory Committee within the Department of Education to make recommendations on curricula, resources and staff training related to the study of racial and ethnic studies, financial literacy, civics and health care and to make recommendations on topics to be measured by learning indicators or to adjust learning indicators to reflect best practices. The bill appropriates $500,000 in fiscal year 2026-27 to provide grants to school administrative units and nonprofits to implement programs and learning activities based upon the committee's recommendation and appropriates funds for an Interdisciplinary Instruction Specialist position. The bill also directs the committee to include in the committee's recommendations the use of the department's online, open-source education platform that provides optional resources at no cost to educators in the State on topic areas and themes identified as areas of need by educators. Passed
LD339 Resolve, to Provide Funds to the Maine Indian Education School District to Develop a Wabanaki-centered Curriculum This resolve provides $100,000 for each year in the 2026-2027 biennium to the Maine Indian Education school district to develop and implement a Wabanaki-centered curriculum for Native American high school students. It requires the Maine Indian Education school district to administer a pilot program in coordination with state-approved high schools throughout the State. The funds will be used for curriculum development, staff, transportation and support services. The resolve also directs the Department of Education to coordinate with the Maine Indian Education school district to make available and disseminate, as appropriate, any Wabanaki-centered curriculum for Native American high school students to state-approved schools throughout the State. It requires the department and the superintendent to report to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs on the dissemination of the curriculum and use of funds. Dead
LD896 An Act to Provide Young Children Stable Access to Health Care This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to apply, by December 31, 2025, to the federal Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a waiver or demonstration project or to amend a pending or current waiver or demonstration project to provide continuous eligibility to a child from birth through 5 years of age who is eligible for and enrolls in the Medicaid program. Upon the approval of such a waiver or demonstration project, it requires the department to adopt rules to establish the continuous eligibility of a child from birth through 5 years of age who is eligible for and enrolls in the Medicaid program, regardless of the child's family's change in income. Continuous eligibility must be maintained through the end of the month in which the child attains 6 years of age, but a child's eligibility to receive continuous coverage must be redetermined or terminated if the child is no longer a resident of the State, the child's parent or legal guardian requests termination of the child's eligibility, the child dies or the department determines that the child's eligibility was erroneously granted at the most recent determination, redetermination or renewal of eligibility because of agency error, fraud, abuse or perjury. Passed
LD823 An Act to Establish a Grant Program to Provide for Statewide and Equitable Access to Experiential Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Competition Programs This bill authorizes the Maine Technology Institute to provide grants for statewide experiential science, technology, engineering and mathematics competition programs. Passed
LD651 An Act to Codify the Maine Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Pilot Program An Act to Codify the Maine Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Pilot Program Signed/Enacted/Adopted
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
LD1653 An Act to Develop Maine's Credentialed Workforce This bill establishes within the Finance Authority of Maine the Maine Credentialed Workforce Program to support the credentialing needs of current and future participants in the State's workforce through student loan repayments to eligible persons who are employed in occupations identified by the authority as needing skilled workers. Passed
LD1979 Resolve, Directing the Department of Corrections to Convene a Working Group to Examine the Establishment of a Program to Award Earned Time Credit for Educational Achievement to Persons Who Are Incarcerated This resolve directs the Department of Corrections to convene a working group to examine the establishment of a program to award earned time credit for educational achievement to persons who are incarcerated and report the working group's findings to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety no later than 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. Passed
LD1097 An Act to Provide De-escalation and Behavior Intervention Training for School Personnel This bill directs a school administrative unit to provide, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year and every 3rd year thereafter, at least 4 hours of training to each of its school administrators, teachers and education technicians in topics related to de-escalation and behavior intervention. It directs the Department of Education to maintain a list of trainings and a list of experts who can help school administrative units provide training. It requires school administrative units to offer, beginning in the 2027-2028 school year, training to all new school administrators, teachers and education technicians within 60 days of hiring. It requires the department to convene teachers and other educators and experts to develop best practices for trainings and distribute the best practices to all school administrative units in the State no later than September 1, 2026. Passed
LD1389 An Act to Create the Building Opportunity Through Out-of-school Time Program This bill establishes the Building Opportunity Through Out-of-school Time Program within the Department of Health and Human Services as a competitive grant program to expand out-of-school programming opportunities for school-age youth by increasing or enhancing current programming, reducing barriers for access to out-of-school programming and creating new programming. It directs the department to issue by December 1, 2026 program grant awards to eligible community nonprofit organizations or libraries and monitor grantee performance and, no later than February 1, 2027 and annually thereafter, submit a report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters summarizing the operation of the program for the immediately preceding fiscal year. The bill appropriates $5,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for the 2026-27 fiscal year to carry out the requirements of the program. Passed
LD1079 An Act to Provide Comprehensive Perimenopause and Menopause Education This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to enter into partnerships with health care providers, including obstetricians and gynecologists, and community-based health care programs and hospitals to create informational materials to educate menstruating persons on the symptoms and processes of and other issues surrounding perimenopause and menopause. Passed
LD211 Resolve, Directing the Department of Education to Communicate to School Administrative Units and Private Schools the Importance of Adopting Seizure Action Plans This bill requires school administrative units and approved private schools to employ at least one individual who has met the training requirements necessary to administer or assist in the self-administration of a seizure rescue medication or a medication prescribed to treat seizure disorder symptoms beginning July 1, 2026. The bill also requires that, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, all school employees subject to professional development must, for a minimum of one hour of self-directed study, review seizure disorder materials. The bill also requires that a student's parent or guardian must provide written authorization for a seizure medication to be administered at school by a school employee or self-administered at school with a school employee's assistance, a written statement from a physician licensed in this State and the prescribed medication in its unopened, sealed package with the label affixed by the dispensing pharmacy intact. A student's parent or guardian must also collaborate with the school to develop a seizure action plan, which must be kept on file in the office of the school nurse or a school administrator and be distributed to a school employee responsible for the supervision or care of the student. The bill also requires a school administrative unit and approved private school to provide age-appropriate seizure education programming to all students beginning in the 2026-2027 school year. Passed
LD384 An Act to Prevent Student Homelessness This bill establishes the Student Homelessness Prevention Program within the Department of Education. The purpose of the program is to provide direct financial assistance to prevent student homelessness and support students and their families in maintaining stable permanent housing. Passed
LD628 An Act Regarding Eligibility to Apply for a Department of Education Diploma This bill provides that a student is eligible to apply for a Department of Education diploma if that student is a 4th year secondary school student and is unable to satisfy the requirements for a diploma from a school administrative unit because of a significant interruption to the student's education conditions as approved by the Commissioner of Education during the student's secondary school education history. Passed
LD858 An Act to Ensure Behavioral and Mental Health Services Are Available to Students by Providing Grants to Schools That Contract for Those 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 population and provides ongoing funding for the grants starting in fiscal year 2025-26. Passed
LD1129 An Act to Clarify Standards for Defendants' Post-judgment Motions for Relief from Protection from Abuse Orders An Act to Clarify Standards for Defendants' Post-judgment Motions for Relief from Protection from Abuse Orders Signed/Enacted/Adopted
LD1404 Resolve, to Create a Working Group on the Status of School Libraries and on Public Libraries in Maine This resolve directs the State Librarian to convene a working group on the status of school libraries and public libraries in the State. The working group is required to study: 1. Library services for specific segments of the Maine population; 2. The role that libraries play in emergency preparedness; cultural diversity and inclusion; public health and safety; community identity and resiliency; economic development; and 3. Access to public services and resources; and the current overall status of school and public libraries in the State, including information on partnerships, resources, facilities, technology and staffing. The State Librarian is required to submit a report of the working group's findings and recommendations by November 1, 2027 to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education and cultural affairs, which is authorized to report out legislation based on the report to the Second Regular Session of the 133rd Legislature. Passed
LD747 An Act to Provide Funds to Reduce Student Homelessness This bill changes the name of the subsidy program for homeless students to the rental assistance program for homeless students. It removes the requirement that, in developing the program, the Maine State Housing Authority must incorporate elements to provide rental assistance to homeless students who have not attained 18 years of age who do not have adult family members or guardians to secure housing on their behalf. It provides ongoing funds for rental assistance for homeless students in elementary school and secondary school. Passed
LD323 An Act to Fund Staff Support for the State Board of Education This bill provides ongoing funds for the State Board of Education to contract for staffing services. Passed
LD696 An Act to Bolster the Maine Teacher Residency Program This bill provides one-time funds to support the Maine Teacher Residency Program at the University of Southern Maine. Passed
LD973 An Act to Establish the Community Partnerships with Public School Systems Grant Program This bill establishes the Community Partnerships with Public School Systems Grant Program in the Department of Education to encourage the creation of partnerships between public and private colleges and universities, community action agencies or equivalent agencies and public school systems. It requires the program to provide grants for the purpose of offering services and addressing issues related to mental health, public health, staff development or other issues identified by the community or schools. It also makes a one-time appropriation of $500,000 in fiscal year 2025-26 to support the program. 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 This bill establishes the Working Waterfront Infrastructure Engineer Corps Pilot Program. The Maine Sea Grant at the University of Maine is directed to oversee the program and consult with Volunteer Maine and the Maine College of Engineering and Computing at the University of Maine. Program participants may be graduate or undergraduate students. Program participants are required to conduct vulnerability assessments and other analyses of the State's working waterfronts. Program participants are required to engage with municipalities and be exposed to careers in municipal government. The bill requires the Maine Sea Grant to report on the program's status to the Legislature. The bill also directs the Maine Commission for Community Service to study the feasibility of developing a higher education service corps program. The feasibility study is due to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs and the Joint Standing Committee on State and Local Government by December 3, 2025. Each joint standing committee may report out legislation related to the contents of the report. Passed
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
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
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
LD432 RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Allow Municipalities to Apportion Real and Personal Property Taxes on the Basis of Property Classification This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to authorize municipalities to apportion property taxes based on the property's classification as defined by and according to the process enacted by the Legislature in statute. Dead
LD111 An Act to Increase the State's Share of Retired Teacher Health Insurance This bill requires the State to pay 65% of a retired teacher's share of the premium for group accident and sickness or health insurance from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026 and 70% after July 1, 2026. Passed
LD1398 An Act Regarding Behavioral Health Support for Students in Public Schools This bill sets student-to-clinical mental health provider and student-to-school counselor ratios for the purpose of the calculation of salary and benefit costs in the essential programs and services school funding formula. Dead
LD1689 An Act to Implement the Recommendations of the Commission to Study Expansion of Public Preschool and Early Care and Education This bill implements the recommendations of the Commission to Study Expansion of Public Preschool and Early Care and Education, which was established pursuant to Public Law 2023, chapter 477. It provides that a public elementary school constructed after October 1, 2025 must include an area that may be used for preschool instruction or child care. It directs the Department of Education to revise the essential programs and services funding formula regarding the method it uses to fund preschool instruction to use a method similar to that used for funding kindergarten instruction in order to provide incentives to school administrative units to provide full-day preschool instruction. It directs the Department of Education to study early childhood educator and provider credentialing procedures and policies as they relate to nursery school teachers, preschool teachers, kindergarten teachers and elementary school teachers. The department is required to identify barriers to the expansion of preschool programs in this State and recommend improvements to early childhood educator and provider credentialing procedures and policies that would provide greater flexibility in credentialing and facilitate the expansion of preschool programs by school administrative units. It directs the Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the Department of Education and stakeholders, to study the standards and rules for early childhood educators and providers in order to better align standards and rules across early childhood educators and providers and reduce barriers to the expansion of preschool programs and the provision of early childhood education services. It requires the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services to each report their findings, including any suggested legislation, to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs and the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services no later than December 3, 2025. The Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs and the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services each may report out legislation based on the reports to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. The bill provides funding to establish 4 regional coordinator positions in the Department of Education to work with schools and potential partners in different regions of the State that are looking to start or expand public preschool programs. The bill also provides a total of $4,000,000 for fiscal years 2025-26 and 2026-27 for a preschool expansion grant program. 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
LD1015 An Act to Require a Minimum of 2 Persons on a Crew for the Operation of Freight Trains This bill requires that a freight train be operated by at least 2 persons. Dead
LD354 An Act to Improve Education in Maine This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to enact measures to improve education. In Committee
LD471 Resolve, to Establish a Pilot Program to Expand Intensive English Language Learner Programs This bill requires the Department of Education, the Department of Labor and the University of Maine System to establish a 2-year pilot program to expand the intensive English language learner programs at the University of Maine and the University of Southern Maine. The pilot program must provide stipends to enrolled students for the cost of child care and transportation and certain living expenses. The pilot program must include funding for 2 positions to assist students enrolled in the pilot program with accessing funds through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. The pilot program specifies that a student enrolled in the pilot program meets the municipal general assistance work requirement under the municipal general assistance laws. The bill requires the University of Maine System to award full scholarships or tuition waivers for students to attend the University of Southern Maine's Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages online accelerated master's degree program. The University of Maine System and the Department of Education must require that a recipient of a full scholarship or tuition waiver must teach in an intensive English language learner program in the State for a length of time determined by the department after completion of the degree program. The bill also requires the University of Maine System to report to the Legislature on the progress of the pilot program. In Committee
LD295 An Act Regarding Education This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to enact measures regarding education. In Committee
LD1923 An Act to Repurpose Long Creek Youth Development Center and Build a Community System of Support This bill requires that, no later than January 1, 2027, the Long Creek Youth Development Center physical plant be repurposed into a secure residential treatment facility to provide services for juveniles involved in the juvenile justice system and at-risk youth, including, but not limited to, services for housing, behavioral health, education, substance use disorder prevention and treatment, wraparound case management and diversion and other services. The State must contract with community-based organizations to provide these services in conjunction with staff of the Department of Corrections. The bill also requires that, no later than January 1, 2027, the State must direct funds from the Department of Corrections' juvenile corrections and juvenile services budgets to fund community-based services for youth. The bill requires the Department of Corrections and the Department of Health and Human Services to convene a working group to study options and best practices for repurposing Long Creek Youth Development Center and reinvesting corrections funds currently designated for youth incarceration into community-based services. The working group must submit a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety and the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services by January 15, 2026. The joint standing committees each may report out legislation based on the report to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. The bill authorizes the Maine Governmental Facilities Authority to issue securities in an amount not to exceed $10,000,000 outstanding at any one time to pay for capital construction, repairs and improvements to the Long Creek Youth Development Center to repurpose it into a secure residential treatment facility to provide services for juveniles and to be used to establish 2 community-based residential programs, one that supports youth leaving Long Creek Youth Development Center and one that provides an alternative to commitment at Long Creek Youth Development Center. The bill requires the Department of Corrections to develop and publish each month on its publicly accessible website data regarding the number of juveniles involved in the juvenile justice system. In Committee
LD1892 An Act to Establish Procedures for School Construction Projects This bill establishes procedures for school construction projects, beginning July 1, 2026. The bill establishes a debt service fund that is funded by gaming activity revenue, cannabis tax revenue, lapsed balances in the General Fund, tobacco tax revenue and federal funds. The bill requires a school administrative unit to pay 25% of the total cost of a school construction project. The Commissioner of Education may adjust this percentage based on the school administrative unit's ability to pay. The bill requires all school construction projects to be green-certified and use the most cost-effective, energy-efficient and low- emission standards possible. The bill also establishes the Maine Public School Financing Authority, which is responsible for the sale of bond issues for school administrative units and, when feasible, offering zero-interest financing or cash allotments for school construction projects. In Committee
LD1566 An Act to Provide Compensation to Individuals with Lived Experience Serving on Advisory Boards, Commissions, Councils and Similar Groups This bill amends the law governing compensation and reimbursement for expenses for board members serving on advisory boards and boards with minimal authority established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, section 12004-I. The bill provides an exception for boards that are not currently authorized to receive compensation or reimbursement for expenses to allow board members who have lived experience regarding the subject matter of the board to receive lived experience compensation if they are not otherwise compensated for their time serving on the board by their employer or the entity they represent. The bill allows board members to be compensated in an amount not to exceed the legislative per diem for their time and be reimbursed for expenses, including but not limited to meals and refreshments provided during the meeting of the board, child care and travel, to the extent that the department or agency of State Government with which the board is associated has sufficient money in the budget of the department or agency to provide the compensation and reimburse the expenses. The associated department or agency must determine the amount and manner of compensation provided to members of the board. In Committee
LD1579 An Act to Abolish School Budget Referenda This bill eliminates the requirement for the voters to validate a regional school unit budget at a referendum. Dead
LD1446 RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Lower the Voting Age to 16 Years of Age This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to reduce the voting age qualification by 2 years, from 18 years of age or older to 16 years of age or older, subject to approval at referendum. 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
LD808 An Act to Require School Boards and Governing Bodies of Approved Private Schools to Implement Wearable Panic Alert Systems This bill requires, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, a school board or a governing body of an approved private school to implement at each school building a wearable panic alert system that is capable of integrating with local public safety answering point infrastructure to transmit a 9-1-1 call and initiating a campuswide lockdown notification. It directs a school board or a governing body of an approved private school to provide each staff person in a school building with a wearable panic alert device and training on the use of the device. It requires each school board and approved private school governing body to ensure that all security data within a school building are accessible by a local law enforcement agency. It stipulates that records related to physical security or fire safety are not public records pursuant to the Freedom of Access Act but does provide for certain disclosures. Dead
LD643 Resolve, to Study the Effects of Artificial Intelligence, Cellular Telephones and Social Media on Public Education This resolve directs the Department of Education to establish a working group to study and make recommendations regarding the use of artificial intelligence, cellular telephones and social media within public school settings. The Commissioner of Education is directed to select members of the working group and include relevant stakeholders. The working group is required, no later than December 3, 2025, to submit a report that includes its findings and recommendations, including suggested legislation, for presentation to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs. The joint standing committee is authorized to report out a bill related to the report to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. Dead
LD322 An Act to Promote Student Attendance in Schools by Requiring the Commissioner of Education to Implement School Attendance Best Practices This bill repeals laws related to truancy. The bill instead requires the Commissioner of Education to adopt major substantive rules to implement best practices to increase school attendance. The sections of this bill that repeal the laws related to truancy do not go into effect until the Commissioner of Education finally adopts the rules to implement best practices to increase school attendance. Dead
LD347 An Act to Provide Qualifying Municipalities a Percentage of Adult Use Cannabis Sales Tax and Excise Tax Revenue This bill establishes the Local Government Cannabis Revenue Fund and requires the transfer to the fund of 12% of the revenue from the sales tax on adult use cannabis and adult use cannabis products and from the cannabis excise tax. The fund must be distributed to municipalities where cannabis establishments are operating. 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
LD1020 An Act to Repeal the Laws Providing for the Construction of a Connector to Gorham and to Resell Land Taken Under Those Laws to Previous Property Owners This bill repeals the laws that authorize the Maine Turnpike Authority to construct a connector to Gorham. It requires the Maine Turnpike Authority to resell the land purchased for the construction of the connector to the previous property owner or the previous property owner's heirs, assigns or successors. If the previous property owner or the heirs, assigns or successors of the previous property owner do not want the land, the bill requires the Maine Turnpike Authority to transfer the land at no cost to the municipality in which the property is located. The bill stipulates the municipality must donate the land to a local land trust if the municipality does not want the land. If the local land trust does not want the land, the municipality may offer the land for sale at a public auction. In Committee
HP1242 JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE MEMORY OF POPE FRANCIS JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE MEMORY OF POPE FRANCIS Signed/Enacted/Adopted
LD1118 An Act to Establish a Permanent Free Community College Program for Maine This bill establishes the Maine Free Community College Program, which directs the Maine Community College System to issue a waiver for the payment of tuition and mandatory fees for students who are eligible for the program. The bill also establishes eligibility criteria and directs the Maine Community College System to submit an annual report to the Governor and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education matters and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over appropriations and financial affairs. Dead
LD1256 An Act to Support Healthy Meal Programs in Maine Schools by Allowing the School Revolving Renovation Fund to Make Loans to Repair and Renovate School Kitchens and Cafeterias This bill adds renovating school kitchens and cafeterias and replacing or adding kitchen equipment to facilitate the serving of meals to students to the purposes of the School Revolving Renovation Fund. The bill also removes from the School Meal Equipment and Program Improvement Fund reimbursement for food costs related to medically necessary dietary restrictions of students from the approved uses of grants provided by that fund. The bill also provides appropriations and allocations to the School Meal Equipment and Program Improvement Fund. Dead
LD1225 An Act to Amend the Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program This bill modifies the nursing education loan repayment program by amending the criteria to add an outstanding education loan relating to an associate or bachelor's degree of any kind to the list of debts that qualify for the program, whether or not the otherwise qualifying nurse has outstanding debts related to a master's or doctoral nursing degree. Under the bill, the Finance Authority of Maine must repay the loan for an associate or bachelor's degree up to $20,000 for a qualifying full-time nurse and up to $10,000 for a qualifying part-time nurse. Dead
LD1399 An Act to Allow Action Against a Person Violating the Confidentiality of an Executive Session of a Public Body or Agency This bill allows a body or agency subject to the provisions of the law regarding public records to prohibit a member of the body or agency or other person attending an executive session from attending future executive sessions or having access to confidential or other certain information if that member or other person has been found after a hearing by the body or agency that the member or other person violated the confidentiality of the executive session or otherwise disclosed information regarding an executive session without approval by the body or agency. Dead
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
LD1185 An Act to Prohibit Persons Under 18 Years of Age from Marrying An Act to Prohibit Persons Under 18 Years of Age from Marrying Signed/Enacted/Adopted
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
LD862 Resolve, to Honor Scarborough Veterans by Renaming the Pine Point Crossing Bridge the Scarborough Veterans Memorial Bridge Resolve, to Honor Scarborough Veterans by Renaming the Pine Point Crossing Bridge the Scarborough Veterans Memorial Bridge | 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
LD826 An Act to Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue to Establish the School Energy Savings Revolving Loan Fund This bill provides for a bond issue, in the amount of $10,000,000, to capitalize the School Energy Savings Revolving Loan Fund, which the bill establishes to support energy and energy efficiency projects in Maine schools to be administered by the Department of Education. In Committee
LD1053 An Act to Ensure That Rebates from Prescription Drug Manufacturers Are Passed on to Patients at Pharmacies This bill removes a provision that requires that compensation remitted by or on behalf of a pharmaceutical manufacturer, developer or labeler to a pharmacy benefits manager be remitted to the carrier if it is not remitted to the covered person. It retains the provision that requires that the compensation be remitted to the covered person to reduce the out-of- pocket costs associated with a prescription drug. It requires pharmacy benefits managers to annually report compliance with this requirement to the Superintendent of Insurance. It authorizes the superintendent to impose civil penalties and take enforcement action for noncompliance by a carrier or pharmacy benefits manager. It designates the information provided as confidential. Dead
LD99 An Act to Clarify Information Sharing Between the Department of Health and Human Services and Schools with Respect to Investigations of Child Abuse or Neglect This bill clarifies that an investigation team of the Department of Health and Human Services may share information with the superintendent of a school administrative unit, the chief administrator of a private school or a public school not in a school administrative unit when there is an indicated or substantiated finding of out-of-home child abuse or neglect against an employee of or a student registered in that school administrative unit, public school not in a school administrative unit or private school. In Committee
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
LD817 An Act to Remove Restrictions That Prohibit School Administrative Units from Making Purchases Through Cooperatives This bill amends the provisions of law related to competitive bids and cooperative purchases made through the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of General Services to allow school administrative units to participate in cooperative purchasing for the purpose of the purchase, repair or alteration of nonbuilding real property, including, but not limited to, an athletic field. Dead
LD225 An Act to Reduce Property Taxes and Finance Public School Construction and Education Through a 3 Percent Sales Tax on Hotel and Lodging Place Rentals This bill creates an additional 3% sales tax on the value of rental of living quarters in a hotel or lodging place. The revenue from this tax must be credited to the Department of Education to be used to fund school construction and kindergarten to grade 12 education. Dead
LD155 An Act to Make Menstrual Products Available in Certain Schools This bill requires school administrative units to require their schools that serve students in any of grades 6 to 12 to make available menstrual products to students at no cost in all school bathrooms. Dead
HP0900 JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING APRIL 6, 2025 TO APRIL 12, 2025 AS NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING APRIL 6, 2025 TO APRIL 12, 2025 AS NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HP0950 JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE LATE HONORABLE LOIS GALGAY RECKITT ON THE OCCASION OF THE BOSTON RED SOX OPENING HOME GAME ON APRIL 4, 2025 JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE LATE HONORABLE LOIS GALGAY RECKITT ON THE OCCASION OF THE BOSTON RED SOX OPENING HOME GAME ON APRIL 4, 2025 Signed/Enacted/Adopted
SP0478 JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE ROLE OF IRISH IMMIGRANTS AND IRISH-AMERICANS IN THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THE ROLE OF IRISH IMMIGRANTS AND IRISH-AMERICANS IN THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE Signed/Enacted/Adopted
LD81 An Act to Foster Innovation in Maine Schools by Updating the Requirements of School Innovation Waivers This bill updates the school innovation statutes by eliminating certain requirements that school units must fulfill to obtain school innovation waivers. The bill also updates language to reflect current practice and currently appropriate terminology. Dead
Bill Bill Name Motion Vote Date Vote
LD424 An Act Concerning the Concealed Carrying of a Handgun by an Individual Who Is 18 Years of Age but Under 21 Years of Age Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #454 06/12/2025 Yea
LD215 An Act Regarding Large Recovery Residences Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #447 06/11/2025 Yea
LD229 An Act to Bring Fairness in Income Taxes to Maine Families by Adjusting the Tax Brackets and Tax Rates Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #441 06/11/2025 Yea
LD297 An Act Regarding the Management of Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludge at the State-owned Landfill Enactment - Emer RC #440 06/11/2025 Nay
LD508 RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Require Constitutional Officers to Be Elected by Popular Election Adopt Hah-640 RC #433 06/11/2025 Yea
LD508 RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Require Constitutional Officers to Be Elected by Popular Election Ipp Hah-640 RC #432 06/11/2025 Nay
LD508 RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Require Constitutional Officers to Be Elected by Popular Election Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #431 06/11/2025 Nay
LD648 An Act to Expand the Supervised Community Confinement Program Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #446 06/11/2025 Yea
LD1044 An Act to Clarify the Qualifying Use of Tax Increment Financing for Extension of a Development District Acc Maj Ought To Pass Rep RC #442 06/11/2025 Yea
LD1089 An Act to Permanently Fund 55 Percent of the State's Share of Education by Establishing a Tax on Incomes of More than $1,000,000 Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #443 06/11/2025 Yea
LD1138 An Act to Reduce Pollution Associated with Transportation in Alignment with the State's Climate Action Plan Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #449 06/11/2025 Yea
LD1131 An Act to Reform the Process by Which a Person May Petition an Agency to Adopt or Modify Rules Under the Maine Administrative Procedure Act Report "b" Ontp RC #448 06/11/2025 Yea
LD1200 An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Items Intended to Be Used to Inhale Nitrous Oxide for Recreational Purposes Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #437 06/11/2025 Nay
LD1187 An Act to Require Certain Mental Health Data to Be Included in Uniform Crime Reports Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #435 06/11/2025 Yea
LD1330 An Act to Clarify That a Business's License or Subscription to Use Software Is Not Considered a Lease for the Purposes of Sales and Use Tax Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #436 06/11/2025 Yea
LD1364 Resolve, Authorizing a Study on the Impacts and Risks of Lead-based Ammunition Recede And Concur RC #426 06/11/2025 Nay
LD1657 An Act to Expand the Use of Tax Increment Revenue for Affordable Housing by Adding Authorized Project Costs Recede And Concur RC #445 06/11/2025 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 Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #434 06/11/2025 Yea
LD1705 An Act Regarding Adult Education Funding and Oversight Final Enactment RC #439 06/11/2025 Yea
LD1754 An Act to Provide for the Direct Shipment of Spirits to Consumers Reconsider RC #429 06/11/2025 Yea
LD1754 An Act to Provide for the Direct Shipment of Spirits to Consumers Reconsider RC #428 06/11/2025 Yea
LD1754 An Act to Provide for the Direct Shipment of Spirits to Consumers Recede And Concur RC #427 06/11/2025 Yea
LD1731 An Act to Increase the Influence of the Maine State Ferry Advisory Board on the Funding and Operations of the Maine State Ferry Service Acc Report "a" Ontp RC #438 06/11/2025 Nay
LD1879 An Act to Support Maine's Agricultural Economy by Increasing Revenue from the Corporate Income Tax and Providing Property Tax Exemptions Recede And Concur RC #430 06/11/2025 Nay
LD1934 An Act to Promote Responsible Outdoor Lighting Recede And Concur RC #444 06/11/2025 Yea
LD96 An Act to Amend the Motor Vehicles and Traffic Law Governing Mandatory Driver's License Suspension for Refusing Testing for Drugs or a Combination of Drugs and Alcohol Acc Report "a" Ontp RC #410 06/10/2025 Yea
LD259 An Act to Establish the Criminal Records Review Commission in Statute Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #402 06/10/2025 Yea
LD371 An Act to Expand Hydroelectric Development by Removing the 100-megawatt Cap Recede And Concur RC #398 06/10/2025 Nay
LD419 An Act to Increase the Transparency and Accountability of the Maine Information and Analysis Center Acc Report "a" Otp-am RC #416 06/10/2025 Yea
LD427 An Act to Prohibit Mandatory Parking Space Minimums in State and Municipal Building Codes Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #414 06/10/2025 Yea
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 Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #403 06/10/2025 Nay
LD497 An Act Regarding the Regulation of Significant Vernal Pools Under the Natural Resources Protection Act Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #405 06/10/2025 Yea
LD537 An Act to Prohibit the Doxing of a Minor and to Authorize a Related Civil Action Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #406 06/10/2025 Yea
LD598 An Act to Require Minimum Pay for Reporting to Work Recede And Concur RC #395 06/10/2025 Yea
LD682 An Act to Amend Certain Laws Regarding Abortions Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #422 06/10/2025 Yea
LD613 An Act to Amend the Maine Death with Dignity Act to Ensure Access by Qualified Patients Recede And Concur RC #396 06/10/2025 Nay
LD810 An Act Regarding the Approval of Transmission Lines Enactment RC #419 06/10/2025 Yea
LD787 An Act to Clarify Residency Requirements for and Provide Funding to the Maine School of Science and Mathematics Adopt Sas-226 RC #413 06/10/2025 Nay
LD856 An Act to Phase Out the Income Tax Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #417 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1016 An Act to Establish the Manufactured Housing Community and Mobile Home Park Preservation and Assistance Fund Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #425 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1202 An Act to Establish the African American Studies Advisory Council and Provide Funding to Support African American Studies Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #399 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1283 An Act to Allow Employees Covered Under the Maine Retirement Savings Program to Elect to Enroll and Unenroll in a Payroll Deduction for an Individual Retirement Account Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #401 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1328 An Act to Create Culturally Appropriate and Trauma-informed Housing and Recovery Services Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #424 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1474 An Act to Strengthen the Teaching of Wabanaki Studies in Maine Schools Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #404 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1517 An Act to Replace Participation Thresholds with Approval Thresholds in Certain School, Municipal and County Measures Acc Report "a" Otp-am RC #411 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1519 An Act to Create a Stewardship Program for Electronic Smoking Devices and Related Products Recede And Concur RC #393 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1543 An Act to Establish the Maine Green Schools Network Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #400 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1620 An Act to Amend the Laws Regulating the Testing of Adult Use Cannabis and Adult Use Cannabis Products Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #409 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1657 An Act to Expand the Use of Tax Increment Revenue for Affordable Housing by Adding Authorized Project Costs Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #418 06/10/2025 Nay
LD1668 An Act Regarding the Voting Requirement to Extend the Date for Adjournment of the Legislature Enactment RC #420 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1672 An Act to Allow Participation in the Adult Use Cannabis Tracking System to Be Voluntary Acc Report "a" Otp-am RC #412 06/10/2025 Nay
LD1750 An Act to Require the Attorney General to Create and Update Biennially a Model Residential Lease Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #407 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1879 An Act to Support Maine's Agricultural Economy by Increasing Revenue from the Corporate Income Tax and Providing Property Tax Exemptions Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #408 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1928 An Act to Prohibit Lodging Establishments from Providing Single-use Plastic Containers Recede And Concur RC #397 06/10/2025 Nay
LD1920 An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Potentially Intoxicating Hemp Products to a Person Under 21 Years of Age Enactment - Emer RC #423 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1934 An Act to Promote Responsible Outdoor Lighting Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #394 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1956 An Act to Amend the Law Governing the Competitive Skills Scholarship Program and Establish the Community Workforce Connections Program Enactment RC #415 06/10/2025 Yea
LD1967 Resolve, to Design a Maine Home Energy Navigator and Coaching Pilot Program Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #421 06/10/2025 Yea
LD125 An Act to Increase the Total Amount of Credits Authorized Under the Maine Seed Capital Tax Credit Program Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #383 06/09/2025 Nay
LD147 RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Provide for the Popular Election of the Secretary of State Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #374 06/09/2025 Nay
LD152 An Act to Amend the Freedom of Access Act to Require a Specific Time Frame for Agencies to Comply with Requests for Public Records Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #360 06/09/2025 Yea
LD150 RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Provide for the Popular Election of the Treasurer of State Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #377 06/09/2025 Nay
LD149 RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Provide for the Popular Election of the Attorney General Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #375 06/09/2025 Nay
LD253 An Act to Prevent the MaineCare Program from Covering Abortion Services Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #384 06/09/2025 Yea
LD297 An Act Regarding the Management of Wastewater Treatment Plant Sludge at the State-owned Landfill Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #356 06/09/2025 Yea
LD371 An Act to Expand Hydroelectric Development by Removing the 100-megawatt Cap Acc Report "a" Ontp RC #369 06/09/2025 Yea
LD810 An Act Regarding the Approval of Transmission Lines Recede And Concur RC #363 06/09/2025 Yea
LD886 An Act to Regulate Medication Abortions Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #385 06/09/2025 Yea
LD887 An Act to Make Manufacturers Responsible for Proper Disposal of Abortion Drugs and Require a Health Care Provider to Be Physically Present During a Chemical Abortion Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #386 06/09/2025 Yea
LD894 An Act to Amend the Laws Governing Paid Family and Medical Leave Enactment RC #362 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1007 An Act to Update the State's Informed Consent Laws Regarding Drug-induced Abortion Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #387 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1034 An Act to Decriminalize Personal Possession of Therapeutic Amounts of Psilocybin for Adults Enactment RC #381 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1048 An Act to Require Certain Notice Requirements for Whistleblower Protections Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #355 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1113 An Act Regarding Fairness in Sentencing for Persons Based on Age Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #372 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1145 An Act to Protect Residents Living in Mobile Home Parks Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #366 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1154 An Act to Require That Informed Consent for Abortion Include Information on Perinatal Hospice Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #388 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1277 An Act Regarding Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Activities Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #357 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1263 An Act Regarding Penalties for Fentanyl Trafficking When That Trafficking Results in an Overdose Causing Serious Bodily Injury of a Person Recede And Concur RC #354 06/09/2025 Nay
LD1376 An Act to Increase the Acceptable Level of Alcohol in a Low-alcohol Spirits Product and to Increase Availability of Those Products Insist RC #353 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1364 Resolve, Authorizing a Study on the Impacts and Risks of Lead-based Ammunition Acc Min Otp As Amended Rep RC #359 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1505 An Act to Phase out the Sales and Use Tax Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #378 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1539 An Act to Create a State Employee Compensation Stabilization Fund Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #367 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1522 An Act to Establish the Maine Eviction Prevention Program Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #358 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1563 An Act to Establish Content Standards for Legislation Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #370 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1593 An Act to Require Certain Public Entities to Define Their Use of the Term "Equity" Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #371 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1668 An Act Regarding the Voting Requirement to Extend the Date for Adjournment of the Legislature Passage To Be Engrossed RC #380 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1754 An Act to Provide for the Direct Shipment of Spirits to Consumers Enactment RC #382 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1734 An Act to Exempt Over-the-counter Medicines from the Sales and Use Tax Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #368 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1776 An Act to Establish the Interdisciplinary Advisory Board for the State House Complex Recede RC #364 06/09/2025 Nay
LD1858 An Act to Promote Local Seafood in Schools Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #365 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1899 An Act to Eliminate Taxation on Health Care Spending Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #379 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1894 Resolve, to Establish the Commission to Study Consumer Grocery Pricing Fairness Final Passage - Emer RC #361 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1930 An Act Regarding Acts of Violence Committed Against a Pregnant Woman Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #389 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1974 An Act to Affirm Parental Rights Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #373 06/09/2025 Yea
LD1968 An Act to Amend the Laws Regarding Legislative Reimbursement Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #376 06/09/2025 Yea
LD59 An Act to Ban the Drug Tianeptine Acc Report "b" Ontp RC #351 06/05/2025 Yea
LD38 An Act Requiring Photographic Identification for Voting Acc Maj Ought Not To Pass Rep RC #337 06/05/2025 Yea
LD195 An Act to Create the Small Business Capital Savings Account Program Acc Report "b" Ontp RC #339 06/05/2025 Yea
LD166 An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Tobacco Products in Pharmacies and Retail Establishments Containing Pharmacies Acc Maj Otp As Amended Rep RC #343 06/05/2025 Yea
LD246 An Act to Establish the Option of Sentencing Alternatives for Primary Caregivers Acc Report "a" Otp-am RC #338 06/05/2025 Yea
  Committee Position Rank
Detail Maine House Bills in the Second Reading Committee 4
Detail Maine Joint Education and Cultural Affairs Committee Chair 1
State District Chamber Party Status Start Date End Date
ME Maine House District 125 House Democrat In Office 12/07/2022