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Legislator > Rafael Macias
State Representative
Rafael Macias
(D) - Maine
Maine House District 051
In Office - Started: 12/03/2024
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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
Phone 2: 207-287-1430
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| LD1749 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Corrections to Study Achieving Gender Equality | This resolve directs the Department of Corrections to study the extent of gender inequality present in the programs, services, facilities and policies administered or overseen by the department and recommend potential solutions to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety for eliminating gender inequality in those areas by December 3, 2025. | Passed |
| LD1971 | An Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities | This bill enacts provisions to clarify the relationship of state and local law enforcement agencies, including correctional facilities, and state employees with federal immigration authorities. The bill: 1. Prohibits a law enforcement agency from stopping, investigating, interrogating, arresting or detaining a person for immigration enforcement purposes, including in response to a hold request, immigration detainer or administrative warrant issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security, or allowing the United States Department of Homeland Security access to inmates or inmate information or providing law enforcement agency resources or personnel to assist immigration enforcement activities; 2. Clarifies that a law enforcement agency upon a request from the United States Department of Homeland Security may arrest and detain a person and perform other law enforcement duties due to suspected criminal activity or other reasons not solely based on the person's immigration status; 3. Establishes the permissible scope of collaboration of a law enforcement agency with a joint law enforcement task force; 4. Requires a law enforcement agency to release as soon as possible and detain no longer than 48 hours a person determined to be held solely for immigration enforcement purposes; 5. Establishes duties and prohibitions for law enforcement agencies regarding immigration issues of inmates, including requiring the agency to inform an inmate of the inmate's rights prior to interview by an immigration authority and whether the agency intends to comply with a hold request and prohibiting an agency from restricting access to educational programming and good conduct credits or determining an inmate's custodial status based upon the inmate's immigration status; and 6. Prohibits state employees other than law enforcement officers from inquiring into immigration status unless the inquiry is required by law or necessary to provide the service sought by the resident. | 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 |
| 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 |
| LD1383 | An Act to Require State Divestment from Perpetrators of International Human Rights Violations | This bill prohibits the State from investing public funds or entering into procurement contracts with companies, entities, persons or financial institutions that operate in, directly benefit from or are associated with perpetrator states, countries or governing bodies that have been determined by independent and credible international bodies to have committed the crime of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide or a war crime. The bill directs the Office of the Treasurer of State to create a commission to monitor human rights reports to identify potential perpetrator states, countries or governing bodies and to report the activities and findings regarding compliance with the provisions of this bill annually to the Governor and the Legislature. The bill creates exceptions for humanitarian aid and allows for a waiver related to an investment, procurement or divestment by the Governor in cases of significant harm to the residents of this State or that undermine national security interests. | In Committee |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| LD598 | An Act to Require Minimum Pay for Reporting to Work | An Act to Require Minimum Pay for Reporting to Work | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| 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 |
| LD620 | An Act to Provide Support Services for Military Members Transitioning to Civilian Life in Maine | This bill provides ongoing appropriations to organizations in the State conducting outreach and providing support services to active duty military members and their families who are transitioning to civilian life. | Dead |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HP1334 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING JUNE 20, 2025 AS WORLD REFUGEE DAY IN MAINE | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING JUNE 20, 2025 AS WORLD REFUGEE DAY IN MAINE | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1179 | An Act Regarding Safety from Fire for Recreational Vehicles | An Act Regarding Safety from Fire for Recreational Vehicles | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1268 | An Act to Address Employee Recruitment and Retention Issues Within the Maine State Ferry Service by Providing a Yearly Stipend | This bill directs the Department of Transportation, beginning January 1, 2026, to provide an annual stipend to all employees of the Maine State Ferry Service calculated in an amount equal to $5.00 per hour multiplied by the total hours worked the previous year for each employee and prohibits the department from raising ferry tolls to pay for the stipend. | Dead |
| LD702 | An Act to Designate January 6th as A Day to Remember | An Act to Designate January 6th as A Day to Remember | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HP1323 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 2025 AS ASIAN AMERICAN, NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER MONTH | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 2025 AS ASIAN AMERICAN, NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER MONTH | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SP0785 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 18, 2025 AS ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER DAY AGAINST BULLYING AND HATE | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 18, 2025 AS ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER DAY AGAINST BULLYING AND HATE | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1617 | An Act to Lower the Exclusion Amount for the Estate Tax and Create an Exclusion for Family Farms and Aquaculture, Fishing and Wood Harvesting Businesses | This bill lowers the exclusion amount, below which the Maine estate tax does not apply, to $1,000,000 from the $5,600,000 in current law for estates of decedents dying on or after January 1, 2026. The bill also creates an additional exclusion amount from the estate tax for family farms and aquaculture, fishing and wood harvesting businesses of up to $3,800,000. This additional exclusion applies to farmland or depreciable machinery and equipment used in commercial agriculture, aquaculture, fishing or wood harvesting that is inherited by a family member and remains in commercial use for 5 years following transfer. | Dead |
| LD1499 | An Act to Revoke the Tax-exempt Status of an Organization That Fails to Report Sexual Assaults Committed by Employees, Board Members, Volunteers or Affiliates | This bill requires an organization that is tax exempt pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code, Section 501(c), including a religious, charitable, educational or nonprofit entity, to report all allegations of sexual assault involving that organization's employees, board members, volunteers or affiliates to law enforcement authorities. "Sexual assault" is defined as any criminal act that constitutes a sexual offense under state or federal law. If a tax-exempt organization fails to report at least 2 separate allegations of sexual assault within a 10-year period, as determined by a court or fact finder in an administrative hearing, that must be reported to the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Revenue Services, which is required to revoke the organization's tax-exempt status for all activities conducted within the State and provide the organization with the opportunity to appeal that revocation. An organization may apply for reinstatement of tax-exempt status after 5 years by demonstrating full compliance with reporting laws, implementation of child protection policies and training programs and cooperation with law enforcement investigations related to prior failures to report. | 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 |
| LD724 | An Act to Recognize Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as State Holidays | This bill establishes Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as state holidays and requires the Governor to designate each year the specific date of each holiday. | Dead |
| LD782 | An Act to Amend MaineCare Financial Eligibility Requirements | This bill makes the following changes to financial eligibility for the MaineCare program. 1. It changes the family income limit for qualified elderly or disabled persons from 100% to 138% of the nonfarm income official poverty line. 2. It changes the family income limit for parents and caretaker relatives from 100% to 138% of the nonfarm income official poverty line. 3. It raises the age of eligibility for a person otherwise eligible who is a noncitizen legally admitted to the United States to the extent that coverage is allowable by federal law from under 21 years of age to under 23 years of age. 4. It raises the maximum asset limits for members subject to an asset test from $8,000 for an individual to $15,000 and from $12,000 for a household of more than one person to $25,000. 5. It directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish by rule that the maximum asset limits for those who are working with a disabling condition is $15,000 for an individual and $25,000 for a household of more than one person. | Dead |
| LD1238 | An Act to Establish a Small-cap Loan Guarantee Program for Affordable Housing Investments | This bill creates the Small-cap Loan Guarantee Program, through which the State provides loan guarantees to investors and developers for small-cap projects. A small-cap project is an affordable housing or low-income housing construction or rehabilitation project with a value of $1,000,000 or less. Under the bill, affordable housing is housing that is affordable to a household with an income at or below 80% of the area median income, as defined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and low-income housing is housing specifically designed to serve a household with an income at or below 60% of the area median income, as defined by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The program is administered by the Maine State Housing Authority or an organization contracted by the Maine State Housing Authority to administer the program and funded by application fees based upon the amount and risk assessed of each loan guaranteed by the program. | Dead |
| LD1651 | An Act to Remove the Term "Alleged" When Referring to Victims of Sexual Assault in the Provisions of the Maine Revised Statutes Pertaining to Forensic Examinations | An Act to Remove the Term "Alleged" When Referring to Victims of Sexual Assault in the Provisions of the Maine Revised Statutes Pertaining to Forensic Examinations | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD407 | Resolve, to Ensure the Removal of Aqueous Film-forming Foam from the Former Brunswick Naval Air Station | Resolve, to Ensure the Removal of Aqueous Film-forming Foam from the Former Brunswick Naval Air Station | | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| LD1475 | Resolve, to Establish the Commission to Study the Taxation of Digital Assets | This resolve establishes the Commission on the Taxation of Digital Assets. The commission is composed of 10 members, including Legislators, members with experience in taxation and members representing the business community. The commission must review and evaluate tax policies in other states and recommend possible policy approaches for the taxation of digital assets in this State, including cryptocurrency and nonfungible tokens. The commission must report its findings and recommendations to the Joint Standing Committee on Taxation by December 3, 2025. The joint standing committee has authority to report out legislation related to the report to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. | Dead |
| LD1693 | An Act to Establish a Sustainable Housing Development Prison Work Program | This bill requires the Department of Corrections to establish and administer a sustainable housing development work program in consultation with the Department of Labor and the Maine State Housing Authority. The program must be designed to train residents of the Department of Corrections in home construction techniques with an emphasis on green and renewable construction methods. It must also establish partnerships with community colleges and trade organizations to offer home construction-related certification programs to participating residents. Lastly, it must facilitate the construction of homes by the residents and other individuals participating in the program. The homes must be constructed to meet or exceed applicable energy efficiency standards under the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code and have at least 50% of their energy consumption provided by renewable energy sources. The program must give priority to construction materials sourced from within the State, and construction waste must be minimized by using recycling programs. Constructed homes must be owned by the Maine State Housing Authority or other state agency determined appropriate by the Commissioner of Corrections. Participating residents are eligible for a sentence reduction of one day for every 40 hours of work completed under the program. Residents must also maintain a custody classification of minimum or lower during their participation in the program, and all work completed through the program must meet safety and quality standards as determined by the commissioner. Sentence reductions may not exceed 25% of a resident’s total term of imprisonment. The bill establishes a nonlapsing fund within the Department of Corrections for the purposes of supporting the program. The bill also requires the commissioner to establish an oversight committee, which must monitor the implementation of the program and the program’s adherence to the provisions of the bill and any rules the commissioner establishes related to the program. The department is required to submit an annual report regarding the program starting January 1, 2026 to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters. The report must include how many homes have been built under the program, the adherence to renewable standards as required by the program, recidivism rates of residents participating in the program, the amount of sentence reductions applied and the cost of the program. The bill also directs the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Revenue Services to develop a proposal for implementation of a refundable tax credit for persons donating materials or services to the program. By December 3, 2025, the bureau must submit a report setting forth the tax credit proposal, including necessary implementing legislation, along with any recommendations to the Joint Standing Committee on Taxation. | 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 |
| LD1779 | An Act to Make the Possession of Under 2 Grams of Certain Schedule W Drugs a Class D Crime | Current law provides that intentional or knowing possession of certain schedule W drugs is a Class C crime. This bill makes possession of under 2 grams of those schedule W drugs a Class D crime. | 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 |
| 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 |
| LD1262 | An Act to Improve Government Transparency and Accountability by Establishing a Process to Allow a Person to Require the State to Enforce Certain Laws and Rules | This bill amends the Maine Administrative Procedure Act to authorize a person to petition an agency or the Attorney General, as applicable, to enforce an existing law or rule. It also establishes the Fund for Administrative Oversight within the Office of the Attorney General, to be overseen and administered by a fund administrator, appointed by the Governor. Revenue credited to that fund must be distributed to support: 1. Actions by persons seeking to petition or that have petitioned an agency for adoption or modification of rules; 2. Actions by persons seeking to petition or that have petitioned an agency or the Attorney General to initiate a proceeding to enforce an existing law or rule; and 3. Actions by persons seeking to intervene or otherwise participate in an agency rulemaking conducted, in an adjudicatory proceeding or in a licensing action. In distributing funds to such persons, the fund administrator must give priority to persons that are not commercial entities or entities that are otherwise subject to regulation under law or rule; whose interest or position, as determined by the fund administrator, is not otherwise adequately represented in the rulemaking, proceeding or licensing action; and whose interest or position, as determined by the fund administrator, is primarily focused on protecting or conserving the State's natural resources or environment, protecting the public health or safety or ensuring freedom of access to public information and government transparency. The bill also directs the Office of the Attorney General to consult with each state agency that issues licenses, permits or other approvals to persons to engage in regulated activities relating to the environment, natural resources, public health and safety and freedom of information and government transparency to identify a mechanism for imposing an additional fee amount for the issuance of those licenses, permits or approvals to support activities under the Fund for Administrative Oversight, in a manner designed to satisfy the anticipated annual demand for distributions from that fund for the agency. The fee amounts identified must be reasonable, must not unreasonably impede the activities of the regulated entity and must be designed to reflect the anticipated cost to the agency of oversight of the regulated entity and addressing any potential violations by the regulated entity, including any costs of corrective action or remediation undertaken by the agency. By January 1, 2026, the office must submit a report to the Joint Standing Committee on State and Local Government outlining its recommendations for imposing such additional fee amounts, including necessary proposed legislation, and the committee may report out related legislation. The recommendations and proposed legislation must be designed to provide for assessment and collection of the additional fee amounts beginning July 1, 2026 and must provide that of those fee amounts collected, 1/2 must be retained by the state agency assessing the fee to support its oversight and enforcement activities and 1/2 must be transferred to the Fund for Administrative Oversight to support activities under that fund. | 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 |
| 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 |
| LD1384 | Resolve, Directing the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Transportation to Examine Motor Vehicle Accidents Involving Pedestrians | This resolve directs the Department of Public Safety to review motor vehicle accidents that have occurred over the past 5 years involving pedestrians. | Dead |
| 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 |
| LD734 | An Act to Promote Voter Registration for Students in Maine's High Schools | This bill requires secondary schools to annually organize and facilitate voter education and registration activities beginning in the 2026-2027 school year. A secondary school must designate a school employee or a 3rd party as a voter registration drive coordinator who will be responsible for organizing the activities. The voter registration drive coordinator must coordinate the distribution and collection of voter registration applications from the Secretary of State and deliver or mail completed voter registration applications to the appropriate town clerk or to the Secretary of State within 5 days of the conclusion of the drive and no later than the close of business on the 21st day before election day. The secondary school must notify the Secretary of State of the name and title of the voter registration drive coordinator. The bill also requires that voter education and registration activities be offered during social studies classes, homerooms or assemblies and that a student must be at least 16 years of age to participate in a voter registration drive. Voter registration applications must be offered in both online and paper registration formats, and a voter registration drive must have information about voter eligibility available to students at the time of the drive. Prior to and following a voter registration drive, a secondary school must keep voter registration applications and information about voter eligibility in a location easily accessible to students. | 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 |
| SP0324 | JOINT RESOLUTION TO RECOGNIZE THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE POEM "LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING" BY JAMES WELDON JOHNSON | JOINT RESOLUTION TO RECOGNIZE THE 125TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE POEM "LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING" BY JAMES WELDON JOHNSON | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SP0183 | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING FEBRUARY 2025 AS BLACK HISTORY MONTH | JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING FEBRUARY 2025 AS BLACK HISTORY MONTH | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| SP0121 | JOINT RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY | JOINT RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| 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 | Nay |
| LD556 | An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor | Enactment RC #582 | 06/18/2025 | 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 | Yea |
| LD1666 | An Act to Include in the Ranked-choice Election Method for General and Special Elections the Offices of Governor, State Senator and State Representative and to Make Other Related Changes | Enactment RC #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 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Yea |
| LD165 | An Act to Allow School Boards to Expel or Suspend Students Regardless of Grade Level | Acc Report "a" Ontp RC #473 | 06/13/2025 | 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 | 8 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ME | Maine House District 051 | House | Democrat | In Office | 12/03/2024 |