Representative Matthea Daughtry [Democrat]
Brunswick ~ District 49
Towns in District: part of Brunswick
Joint Committees:
♦ Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business (Chair)
✉ Mattie.Daughtry@legislature.maine.gov
☎ 1-800-423-2900
✉ 40 Federal Street
Brunswick, Maine 04011
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Organization | Score | Source |
Maine People's Alliance (MPA), 2019 | 9 of 10, 1 unexcused absence | Maine People's Alliance, 2019 |
Maine People's Alliance, Will of the Voters, 2018 | 91% | Maine People's Alliance Will of the Voters, 2018 |
Maine People's Alliance, 2018 | 92% | Maine People's Alliance, 2018 |
Maine Conservation Voters (MCV), 2019 | 5 of 7, 2 unexcused absences | Maine Conservation Voters, 2019 |
Maine Conservation Voters, 2018 | 8 of 8 | Maine Conservation Voters, 2018 |
Maine Conservation Voters, 2017 | 7 of 7 | Maine Conservation Voters, 2017 |
Maine AFL-CIO, 2019 | 7 of 10, 3 unexcused absences | AFL-CIO, 2019 |
Maine AFL-CIO, 2017 | 100% | No longer available online |
Maine Women's Lobby, 2019 | 4 of 7, 3 unexcused absences | Maine Women's Lobby, 2019 |
Planned Parenthood Maine Action Fund, 2019 | 6 of 6 | Planned Parenthood ME Action Fund, 2019 |
Planned Parenthood Maine Action Fund, 2017 | 100% | Planned Parenthood Maine Action Fund, 2017 |
Firearms Control, 2019 | 6 of 7, 1 unexcused absence | This website, see below for roll calls included. |
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For a listing of the votes included on scorecards prior to 2019, see the hyperlinked sources given in the table above or the "Explanations, Legislative Scorecards" tab on this site. For 2019 scorecards, see the hyperlinked site given in the table above or the vote detail below, "Roll Call Vote Detail for 2019 Scorecards."The graphs below are frequency histograms that show this representative's score relative to the scores of all representatives by placing an "X" over this representative's score. In all graphs, D is Democrat (blue), R is Republican (red) and Ind is Independent (black). For graphs prior to 2019, additional parties include Common Sense Independent (goldenrod) and Green Independent (green).Roll Call | Bill | Motion | MPA vote | Representative's vote |
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16 | LD 179 An Act to Change the Name of Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass | Yea | Yea |
250 | LD 255 Resolution, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine to Require that Signatures on a Direct Initiative Come from Each Congressional District | Final Passage as a Constitutional Amendment (requires 2/3 of membership) | Nay | Nay |
272 | LD 308 An Act to Increase Notification Time Periods for Rent Increases and Terminations of Tenancies at Will | Reconsider passage after Governor's veto | Yea | Yea |
75 | LD 369 An Act to Support Healthy Workplaces and Healthy Families by Providing Paid Sick Leave to Certain Employees | Accept Committee Report A, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment S-79 | Yea | Absent |
278 | LD 420 An Act to Amend the Maine Exclusion Amount in the Estate Tax | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment H-610 | Yea | Yea |
70 | LD 820 An Act to Prevent Discrimination in Public and Private Insurance Coverage for Pregnant Women in Maine | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment H-210 | Yea | Yea |
237 | LD 949 An Act to Prevent Overdose Deaths | Accept Majority Report, Ought Not to Pass | Nay | Nay |
306 | LD 1177 An Act to Improve Public Sector Labor Relations | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment S-308 | Yea | Yea |
182 | LD 1282 An Act to Establish a Green New Deal for Maine | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment H-413 | Yea | Yea |
307 | LD 1317 An Act to Restore Services to Help Certain Noncitizens Meet Their Basic Needs | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment H-248 | Yea | Yea |
Total for Representative Daughtry: | Present for 9 votes, agreed on 9 votes, 100 percent agreement |
Roll Call | Bill | Motion | MCV vote | Representative's vote |
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37 | LD 289 An Act to Prohibit the Use of Certain Disposable Food Service Containers | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment H-49 | Yea | Yea |
293 | LD 1494 An Act to Reform Maine’s Renewable Portfolio Standard | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment H-49 | Yea | Yea |
157 | LD 1532 An Act to Eliminate Single-use Plastic Carry-out Bags | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment H-392 | Yea | Yea |
209 | LD 1679 An Act to Promote Clean Energy Jobs and to Establish the Maine Climate Council | Enact as an Emergency measure (2/3 of members required) | Yea | Absent |
282 | LD 1711 An Act to Promote Solar Energy Projects and Distributed Generation Resources in Maine | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment S-295 | Yea | Yea |
208 | LD 1775 An Act to Protect Sustenance Fishing | Enact | Yea | Absent |
329 | LD 1851 An Act to Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for Land Conservation, Water Access, Outdoor Recreation, Wildlife and Fish Habitats and Farmland and Working Waterfront Preservation | Enact as a bond issue (requires 2/3 present) | Yea | Yea |
Total for Representative Daughtry: | Present for 5 votes, agreed on 5 votes, 100 percent agreement |
Roll Call | Bill | Motion | AFL-CIO vote | Representative's vote |
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227 | LD 240 An Act To Allow Public Employers of Teachers to Negotiate Regarding Educational Policies | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as amended by Committee amendment H-518 | Yea | Yea |
75 | LD 369 An Act To Support Healthy Workplaces and Healthy Families by Providing Earned Paid Sick Leave to Certain Employees | Accept Committee Report A, Ought to Pass as amended by Commitee amendment S-79 | Yea | Absent |
306 | LD 1177 An Act To Improve Public Sector Labor Relations | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as amended by Committee amendment S-308 | Yea | Yea |
111 | LD 1232 An Act To Ensure the Right To Work without Payment of Dues or Fees to a Labor Union as a Condition of Employment | Accept Majority Report, Ought Not to Pass | Yea | Absent |
182 | LD 1282 An Act To Establish a Green New Deal for Maine | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as amended by Committee amendment H-413 | Yea | Yea |
120 | LD 1459 An Act To Expand Application of the Maine Agricultural Marketing and Bargaining Act of 1973 to Harvesters and Haulers of Forest Products | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass | Yea | Yea |
206 | LD 1524 An Act To Prevent Wage Theft and Promote Employer Accountability | Enact LD 1524 as amended by Commitee amendment S-203 | Yea | Absent |
195 | LD 1560 An Act Regarding Utility Reorganizations | Enact LD 1560 as amended by Committee amendment S-192 as an emergency measure | Yea | Yea |
156 | LD 1564 An Act To Authorize Project Labor Agreements for Public Works Projects | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as amended by Committee amendment S-158 | Yea | Yea |
190 | LD 1658 An Act To Clarify Prevailing Wage Rates on State Projects Using Federal Funds | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as amended by Committee amendment S-200 | Yea | Yea |
Total for Representative Daughtry: | Present for 7 votes, agreed on 7 votes, 100 percent agreement |
Roll Call | Bill | Motion | Vote to agree | Representative's vote |
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199 | LD 37 An Act To Allow for the Sale of Nonprescription Drugs through Vending Machines | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment H-466 | Yea | Yea |
28 | LD 278 An Act Regarding Pay Equality | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment S-28 | Yea | Absent |
75 | LD 369 An Act To Support Healthy Workplaces and Healthy Families by Providing Earned Paid Sick Leave to Certain Employees | Accept Report A, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment S-79 | Yea | Absent |
246 | LD 820 An Act To Prevent Discrimination in Public and Private Insurance Coverage for Pregnant Women in Maine | Enact LD 820 as amended by Committee amendment H-210 | Yea | Yea |
80 | LD 1025 An Act To Prohibit the Provision of Conversion Therapy to Minors by Certain Licensed Professionals | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment H-213 | Yea | Absent |
114 | LD 1261 An Act To Authorize Certain Health Care Professionals To Perform Abortions | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass | Yea | Yea |
307 | LD 1317 An Act To Restore Services To Help Certain Noncitizens Meet Their Basic Needs | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment H-248 | Yea | Yea |
Total for Representative Daughtry: | Present for 4 votes, agreed on 4 votes, 100 percent agreement |
Roll Call | Bill | Motion | Vote to agree | Representative's vote |
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199 | LD 37 An Act To Allow for the Sale of Nonprescription Drugs through Vending Machines | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as amended by Committee amendment H-466 | Yea | Yea |
No roll call; passed under gavel | LD 78 An Act To Facilitate Access to the MaineCare Family Planning Benefit | Enact LD 78 as amended by Committee amendment H-132 | Yea | Yea assumed (i.e., no objection) |
153 | LD 494 An Act To Update the Family Planning Statutes | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as amended by Committee amendment S-151 | Yea | Yea |
246 | LD 820 An Act To Prevent Discrimination in Public and Private Insurance Coverage for Pregnant Women in Maine | Enact LD 820 as amended by Committee amendment H-210 and amended by Senate amendment S-275 | Yea | Yea |
114 | LD 1261 An Act To Authorize Certain Health Care Professionals To Perform Abortions | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass | Yea | Yea |
No roll call; passed under gavel | LD 1580 An Act To Protect Licensing Information of Medical Professionals | Enact LD 1580 as amended by Committee amendment H-631 | Yea | Yea assumed (i.e., no objection) |
Total for Representative Daughtry: | Present for 4 votes, agreed on 4 votes, 100 percent agreement |
Roll Call | Bill | Motion | Vote to agree | Representative's vote |
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204 | LD 379 An Act To Protect Children by Requiring the Safe Storage of Loaded Firearms | Accept Majority Report, Ought Not to Pass | Nay | Nay |
211 | LD 533 An Act To Eliminate the Statutory Duty To Retreat and Affirm the Right of Self-defense | Accept Majority Report, Ought Not to Pass | Yea | Absent |
252 | LD 1099 An Act To Reduce Suicides and Violent Crimes by Requiring a 72-hour Waiting Period after the Sale of a Firearm | Accept Majority Report, Ought Not to Pass | Nay | Nay |
253 | LD 1276 An Act To Better Enforce the Prohibition against Dangerous Persons Possessing Firearms | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment S-274 | Yea | Yea |
296 | LD 1312 An Act Regarding Access to Firearms by Extremely Dangerous and Suicidal Individuals | Accept Report A, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment S-285 | Yea | Yea |
235 | LD 1470 An Act To Allow the Prohibition of Weapons at Public Proceedings and Voting Places | Accept Majority Report, Ought Not to Pass | Nay | Nay |
315 | LD 1811 An Act To Enhance Personal and Public Safety by Requiring Evaluations of and Judicial Hearings for Persons in Protective Custody Regarding Risk of Harm and Restricting Access to Dangerous Weapons | Accept Majority Report, Ought to Pass as Amended by Committee amendment S-357 | Yea | Yea |
Total for Representative Daughtry: | Present for 6 votes, agreed on 6 votes, 100 percent agreement |
LD 461 | An Act To Improve the Affordability of Higher Education | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, June 6, 2019 | |
LD 461 This bill provides additional funding to the Maine State Grant Program in the 2020-2021 biennium. It requires the Finance Authority of Maine to expand the Maine State Grant Program to enable more low-income residents of the State to attend an institution of higher education within the State. It also requires the Finance Authority of Maine and the Department of Health and Human Services to jointly examine ways to maximize the delivery of federally funded support services to postsecondary students, including, but not limited to, the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program. |
LD 470 | An Act To Provide Traffic Safety Education in Schools | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment H-83, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate April 30, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 470 The purpose of this bill is to provide students in Maine with traffic safety education from an early age with the goal of teaching students safe practices and respect for all users of the road in order to reduce the unacceptable number of pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities and make Maine's roadways safer and more enjoyable for all users. This bill requires all school administrative units to provide at least one hour annually of age-appropriate traffic safety education to students in grades 2 to 12. The traffic safety education program must provide, at a minimum, instruction on the use of public and private ways by pedestrians, bicyclists and motor vehicle operators and on the laws and rules regarding that use. A school administrative unit may contract with a 3rd party to provide the traffic safety education. |
LD 624 | An Act To Facilitate the Purchase of Textbooks for Low-income College Students | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, May 21, 2019 | |
LD 624 This bill amends the Maine State Grant Program, which is a grant program administered by the Finance Authority of Maine to award grants to Maine residents who are students at postsecondary institutions of higher education in this State based on financial need. Under the program, the minimum grant is $1,000 per year. This bill allows the authority, using the same need and residency criteria as for the grants, to award up to an additional $500 grant for textbooks per year. |
LD 770 | An Act To Provide for a Later Starting Time for High Schools | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Dead, Concurrence in Ought Not to Pass, April 30, 2019 | |
LD 770 This bill requires that, by September 1, 2020, each school administrative unit ensure that its secondary schools' school days start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. |
LD 771 | An Act Regarding the Cancellation of Subscription Services | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-143 and Senate amendment S-99, Enacted, Signed into law May 30, 2019 | |
LD 771 This bill requires a business that makes an automatic renewal subscription offer of an online magazine, journal or periodical, online media player, mobile app, social networking service or Internet game service to present a consumer in this State with an easily accessible disclosure of the methods that consumer may use to cancel the subscription, which must include online cancellation. The bill applies only to agreements entered into or renewed after January 1, 2020 and does not apply to an entity that provides the host platform on the website of an Internet game service. |
LD 772 | An Act To Encourage Continued Learning | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Work session held May 9, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 772 This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to enact measures designed to encourage continued learning by Maine residents, including, but not limited to, creating incentives and implementing strategies to enable so-called stranded learners who have some college credit but no degree to complete degree and certificate programs and graduate from college. |
LD 773 | An Act Regarding Secondary School Education Concerning Sexual Activity and Sexual Assault | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-266, Enacted, Signed into law June 5, 2019 | |
LD 773 This bill requires the Commissioner of Education to review the content standards and performance indicators for the content area of health, physical education and wellness, including instruction on affirmative consent, communication and decision making regarding sexual activity and the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics on the ability to give affirmative consent, communicate and make appropriate decisions, beginning in the 2019-2020 school year as part of the commissioner's 5-year review cycle of the content standards and performance indicators required under the system of learning results. Amendment H-266 This amendment adds a mandate preamble. LD 773 Chaptered Law LD 773 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 869 | An Act Regarding Gun Control (By request) | Status: Referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, May 28, 2019 | |
LD 869 This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to amend the laws governing gun control. |
LD 883 | An Act To Establish the Opt-in Maine Paid Family Leave Insurance Program | Status: Referred to Labor and Housing Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, June 5, 2019 | |
LD 883 This bill creates the Maine Paid Family Leave Insurance Program to provide wage-replacement benefits to persons who qualify for family medical leave. The program is funded by employee contributions and provides 2/3 of a person's average weekly wage or 100% of the state average weekly wage, whichever is lower, for up to 6 weeks in any 12-month period. Employee contributions are collected on a sliding scale based on wages. |
LD 905 | An Act To Exempt Long-term Capital Gains from Income Tax for Certain Income Levels | Status: Referred to Taxation Committee, Dead, Concurrence in Ought Not to Pass, May 14, 2019 | |
LD 905 This bill exempts from Maine income tax net capital gains on the sale of securities held for 10 years or longer and that are subject to federal income tax for individuals with federal adjusted gross income of $300,000 or less if filing married joint returns and $150,000 or less for all other individuals. |
LD 906 | An Act Concerning Pavement Sealing Products | Status: Referred to Environment and Natural Resources Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-166 and House amendment H-225, Enacted, Signed into law June 27, 2019 | |
LD 906 This bill prohibits the sale of coal tar sealant products beginning October 1, 2020 and prohibits the application of coal tar sealant products on driveways or parking areas beginning October 1, 2021. The Commissioner of Environmental Protection may grant an exemption from the prohibitions for research or development purposes. Amendment H-166 This amendment, which is the majority report of the committee, amends the bill as follows.
Amendment H-225 This amendment delays for 3 years the prohibitions regarding coal tar sealant products. LD 906 Chaptered Law LD 906 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 907 | An Act To Ensure That Defendants in Foreclosure Proceedings Receive Proper Notification | Status: Referred to Judiciary Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-543, Enacted, Signed into law June 18, 2019 | |
LD 907 This bill requires a mortgagee to send a mortgagor in a foreclosure action the right to cure notice by both certified mail, return receipt requested, and ordinary mail. The time the notice is given to the mortgagor or cosigner is the sooner of:
Amendment H-543 This amendment restructures the subsection governing notice by a mortgagee to clarify that the date of notice is the date of the delivery or attempted delivery of the notice by certified mail or the date of receipt by ordinary first-class mail, whichever is sooner. LD 907 Chaptered Law LD 907 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 908 | An Act To Require Schools To Submit Pest Management Activity Logs and Inspection Results to the Board of Pesticides Control for the Purpose of Providing Information to the Public | Status: Referred to Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment H-302, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate May 29, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 908 This bill establishes in law certain requirements of the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Board of Pesticides Control related to pest management on school property. It requires a school to maintain a pest management activity log related to the application of pesticides. It requires this information to be provided annually to the board and requires the board to post the information on its publicly accessible website. It also requires that the board post on its publicly accessible website a list of all board inspections of a school's use of pesticides and the results of those inspections. Amendment H-302 This amendment incorporates a fiscal note. The fiscal note on the amendment, which is a fiscal note only amendment, identifies certain requirements in the bill as a potential state mandate. In order to be a mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, a provision must require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue. The committee finds the provisions identified as a potential mandate do not require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue. The requirement in the bill that a local school administrative unit submit a pest management activity log to the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Board of Pesticides Control by January 15th of each year for the previous calendar year does not require an expansion or modification of activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue. Local school administrative units currently prepare pest management activity logs with the required data pursuant to rules established by the Board of Pesticides Control. The committee finds that the act of submitting a pest management activity log that is already required to be maintained does not necessitate additional expenditures from local revenue.LD 908 fiscal note LD 908 Amendment H-302 fiscal note |
LD 939 | An Act Regarding the Regulation of Rabbit Production for Local Consumption | Status: Referred to Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-88, Enacted, Signed into law April 30, 2019 | |
LD 939 This bill permits a rabbit producer to sell whole rabbit carcasses without inspection at the farm on which the rabbits were raised, at farmers' markets, by delivery to consumers' homes, to members of community supported agriculture farms with which the rabbit producer has a direct marketing relationship, to locally owned grocery stores and to locally owned restaurants as long as the rabbit producer slaughters fewer than 1,000 rabbits annually and the rabbit producer is registered. Amendment H-88 This amendment provides that rules adopted by the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to establish requirements for the physical facilities and sanitary processes used by rabbit producers whose rabbit products are exempt from inspection are routine technical rules rather than major substantive rules as in the bill. LD 939 Chaptered Law LD 939 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 982 | Resolve, To Expand the Use of the Women, Infants and Children Special Supplemental Food Program at Farmers' Markets | Status: Referred to Health and Human Services Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-427, Finally passed, Signed into law June 20, 2019 | |
LD 982 This resolve directs the Commissioner of Health and Human Services to amend the rules regarding the use of the Women, Infants and Children Special Supplemental Food Program at farmers' markets by expanding the program from seasonal to include all 12 months of the calendar year and by expanding the scope of food products that may be purchased through the program at a farmers' market from only fresh fruits and vegetables to all food products allowed to be purchased through the program in general. Amendment H-427 This amendment adds an appropriations and allocations section. LD 982 Chaptered Law LD 982 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 1045 | An Act Regarding Bad Faith Assertions of Patent Infringement | Status: Referred to Judiciary Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, May 2, 2019 | |
LD 1045 Current law prohibits a person from making a bad faith assertion of patent infringement against another person. A person who does make a bad faith assertion may have to pay remedies awarded by the court, including equitable relief, damages, costs and fees and punitive damages; however, the law exempts persons seeking relief pursuant to 35 United States Code, Section 271(e)(2) or 42 United States Code, Section 262 from the law prohibiting bad faith assertions of patent infringement, which may include businesses such as pharmaceutical companies. This bill removes the exemption. |
LD 1342 | An Act To Establish the Maine Workforce, Research, Development and Student Achievement Institute | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Enacted in both chambers as amended by Committee amendment H-467 and Senate amendment S-341, June 20, 2019, Governor placed on hold, July 2, 2019, recalled from the Governor's desk January 8, 2020 via the Joint Order HP 1423, Committed to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Work session held March 12, 2020, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 1342 This bill establishes the Maine Workforce, Research, Development and Student Achievement Institute and a related steering committee to advise the Legislature on matters related to workforce training, research and development, student debt and economic advancement in the State. The bill directs the Legislature, through the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over innovation, development, economic advancement and business matters, to contract with the University of Maine System to establish the steering committee. The bill describes the 8 required steering committee members and establishes that each member serves a 2-year term and that the steering committee will meet at least 4 times per year. Amendment H-467 This amendment strikes and replaces the bill to reallocate the language establishing the Maine Workforce, Research, Development and Student Achievement Institute from the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 20-A to Title 5. It changes the membership of the Maine Workforce, Research, Development and Student Achievement Institute Steering Committee. It also adds an appropriations and allocations section. Amendment S-341 This amendment removes the requirement that the Legislature contract with the University of Maine System for the establishment and maintenance of the institute and removes the appropriation of associated funding. The amendment also revises the process of appointing steering committee members. LD 1342 fiscal note LD 1342 Amendment H-467 fiscal note |
LD 1343 | An Act To Improve Health Education and Physical Education in Schools | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, May 21, 2019 | |
LD 1343 This bill requires instruction in elementary, junior high and secondary schools to include at least 1/2 hour per day of instruction in health education and one hour per day of instruction in physical education. |
LD 1344 | An Act To Improve Nutrition in Maine Schools | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, May 21, 2019 | |
LD 1344 This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to codify in Maine law the provisions of the federal Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. |
LD 1538 | Resolve, Directing the Public Higher Education Systems Coordinating Committee To Study Compensation Equity among Public Higher Education Institutions | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-324, Finally passed, Signed into law June 6, 2019 | |
LD 1538 This bill requires that the rate of compensation for comparable positions in the Maine Community College System for employees of comparable qualifications, including positions in the occupational groups of faculty and instructors, administrative staff, supervisory, support services, institutional services and police, be the same at every community college in the system. The bill directs the bargaining units of the occupational groups of the system to collectively bargain with the system, its agent or its representative to amend the agreed terms and conditions of employment for employees within the occupational groups to implement the provisions of this bill by January 1, 2020. Amendment H-324 This amendment strikes and replaces the bill with a resolve to direct the Public Higher Education Systems Coordinating Committee to study the use of adjunct professors across the State, and examine the equity of pay rates and pay scales across the University of Maine System, the Maine Community College System and each campus of those systems. The study must include an examination of market forces on pay rates and pay scales, how each system's pay rates and pay scales compare nationally and what changes would be necessary to implement a so-called living wage. The Public Higher Education Systems Coordinating Committee is directed to report to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs no later than January 2, 2020 on the results of the study, including, but not limited to, the issues raised, best practices for compensation equity, recommendations and any suggested legislation. The Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs may submit a bill to the Second Regular Session of the 129th Legislature related to the report. LD 1538 Chaptered Law LD 1538 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 1768 | An Act To Amend the Barbering and Cosmetology Licensing Laws | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-533, Enacted, Signed into law June 18, 2019 | |
LD 1768 This bill makes changes to the laws governing barbering and cosmetology. It eliminates the demonstrator license. It eliminates the barber license and renames the "limited barbering " license the "barber hair styling " license. It clarifies provisions regarding establishment owners and booth owners by creating level 1 establishments and level 2 establishments and providing that leased space is considered an establishment. It replaces references to "shop" with "establishment. " It clarifies that the cosmetology scope of practice includes shaving. It exempts certain cosmetology-associated activities from licensure requirements. It allows the practice of cosmetology, barber hair styling, aesthetics and nail technology on inmates of institutions of the Department of Corrections. It changes the 7-day reporting requirement for the change of ownership or location of an establishment to a 10-day reporting requirement for consistency with general reporting requirements of the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 10, section 8003-G. Where applicable, the bill adds the word "calendar" to other reporting requirements. The bill eliminates the necessity of submitting a new application and fee for an establishment location change and makes a location change of a level 1 establishment or level 2 establishment a reporting requirement. The new location is still subject to meeting all current laws and rules and inspection requirements. It repeals provisions regarding the age and minimum education requirements for initial practice licenses. It clarifies reporting requirements for trainees for a change in employer or qualified supervisor and also clarifies the number of trainees per establishment that may be trained at one time. It authorizes the Director of the Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation to issue a license to a person who holds a valid license in another jurisdiction of the United States. Current law requires that a student enrolling in a course of study be at least 16 years of age. The bill adjusts the minimum school enrollment age to 15 years of age with the stipulation that the student turns 16 years of age at some point during the student's course of study. It exempts career and technical education centers that do not collect student tuition for a course of study from surety bond and financial audit requirements. |
LD 1813 | Resolve, To Ensure Safe and Inclusive Learning Environments (Emergency) | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322, both chambers accepted unanimous Committee report, Ought to Pass as amended by Committee amendment H-702, and engrossed, House enacted as an emergency measure, Senate tabled to Special Appropriations, March 12, 2020 | |
LD 1813 This resolve directs the Commissioner of Education to convene a working group to review and develop recommendations to ensure safe and inclusive learning environments for LGBTQ students and educators in Maine schools. The commissioner is required to submit the working group's report to the Legislature by December 1, 2019. The Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs may report out legislation to the Second Regular Session of the 129th Legislature based on the recommendations. For purposes of this resolve, "LGBTQ" includes but is not limited to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual. Amendment H-702 This amendment provides that the members of the Department of Education included in the working group must include members with expertise in school safety and security. The amendment also changes the reporting date to require that the report be submitted no later than December 1, 2020 for presentation to the First Regular Session of the 130th Legislature and provides that the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over education and cultural affairs may report out legislation to the First Regular Session of the 130th Legislature. This amendment also adds an appropriations and allocations section. LD 1813 Amendment H-702 fiscal note |
LD 2014 | An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Maine State Grant Program (Emergency) | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-737, Enacted as an emergency measure, Signed into law March 18, 2020 | |
LD 2014 This bill allows an adult learner benefiting from a grant under the Maine State Grant Program to receive up to 12 semesters' worth of grant funding. Amendment H-737 This amendment incorporates a fiscal note. LD 2014 Chaptered Law LD 2014 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 2015 | An Act To Provide for Leave from Work for Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault or Stalking | Status: Referred to Labor and Housing Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, March 3, 2020 | |
LD 2015 This bill allows an employee to take reasonable leave from work, with or without pay, including by reducing the employee's usual number of hours per work day or workweek:
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LD 50 | An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Government Oversight Committee To Improve the Development of a Long-range Strategic Plan for Economic Improvement in the State | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, June 6, 2019 | |
LD 50 This bill provides additional clarity, requirements and resources for the Maine Economic Growth Council's efforts to fulfill its current statutory mandate to develop, monitor and maintain a long-range strategic economic improvement plan for the State. It also includes provisions to support the State's achievement of the goals and objectives in that plan by establishing requirements for the Governor, Legislature and agencies with relevant programs and activities to consider the long-range strategic economic improvement plan and provide information to the Maine Economic Growth Council at the request of the council. |
LD 69 | An Act To Provide Economic Security to Maine Families through the Creation of a Paid Family Medical Leave System | Status: Referred to Labor and Housing Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, March 21, 2019 | |
LD 69 This bill creates a paid family medical leave program, patterned after the unpaid family medical leave program existing in current law but requiring a contribution from an eligible employee, or a self-employed person on a voluntary basis, of no more than 0.5% of the employee's or self-employed person's wages or earnings. The program requires employers to deduct the contributions from employee paychecks and requires the employers and self-employed persons to submit contributions to the Department of Labor, Bureau of Unemployment Compensation, which is charged with administering the program. The program pays benefits of up to 66% of an employee's wages or self-employed person's earnings, capped at the same maximum amount as unemployment benefits for leave taken by the employee or self-employed person for various family-related medical issues. The bill makes participation optional for employers that employ fewer than 15 employees. The bill also directs the Department of Labor to develop an implementation plan dealing with staffing, technology, start-up expenses, rulemaking and scheduling to begin the program on its effective date of October 1, 2020. |
LD 126 | An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Acquire Significant Historic Properties for Resale and Rehabilitation | Status: Referred to Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee, Public hearing held February 12, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 126 The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $2,000,000, will be used to provide funds to the Maine Historic Preservation Commission to capitalize the Historic Preservation Revolving Fund for the purpose of acquiring significant historic properties for resale and rehabilitation. |
LD 138 | An Act To Provide Funding for the Maine Coworking Development Fund | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment H-146, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate May 7, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 138 This bill provides one-time funds for the expansion of existing collaborative workspace businesses and gives preference to applicants with projects in towns and counties in which the unemployment rate exceeds the State's unemployment rate. Amendment H-146 This amendment requires the Department of Economic and Community Development, when determining grants from the Maine Coworking Development Fund, to solicit applications through a competitive bid process, instead of a request for proposal process. The amendment allows for funds to be provided to entities to establish new collaborative workspaces and directs the department to prioritize development of new workspaces in the competitive application process. The amendment replaces the requirement for an annual report by the department to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives with a report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over innovation, development, economic advancement and business matters. The amendment directs the department to engage in at least 2 rounds of competitive applications and also directs that the 2019-20 appropriation be carried over into 2020-21. LD 138 fiscal note LD 138 Amendment H-146 fiscal note |
LD 139 | An Act To Address the Unmet Workforce Needs of Employers and To Improve the Economic Future of Workers | Status: Referred to Labor and Housing Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-82, Enacted, Signed into law April 30, 2019 | |
LD 139 This bill makes a number of changes to the Competitive Skills Scholarship Program administered by the Department of Labor, including the following.
This bill also amends the laws governing the employment of minors 16 and 17 years of age, providing that such a minor may be employed in an otherwise hazardous occupation for which the minor has been trained or certified from a vocational, career and technical or cooperative education program approved by the Department of Education only if the minor has graduated from the program and has graduated from high school.
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LD 149 | An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Provide Student Debt Forgiveness To Support Workforce Attraction and Retention | Status: Referred to Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee, Work session held May 16, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 149 This bill:
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LD 160 | An Act To Add Instruction in Personal Finance to the Statewide System of Learning Results | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Dead, Concurrence in Ought Not to Pass, March 26, 2019 | |
LD 160 This bill requires the Department of Education to add instruction in personal finance to the statewide system of learning results and to adopt rules accordingly. |
LD 183 | An Act To Increase the Number of Teachers in Maine | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, May 28, 2019 | |
LD 183 Currently, under the Educators for Maine Program, an eligible undergraduate may receive a loan of up to $3,000 per academic year or $12,000 total. This bill increases those loan amounts to $9,000 per academic year and $36,000 total. It also increases from $20,000 to $44,000 the total loan amount under the program a student may receive in undergraduate and postbaccalaureate loans. |
LD 288 | Resolve, Establishing the Commission To Create a Statewide Economic Development Plan (Emergency) | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, February 21, 2019 | |
LD 288 This resolve establishes the Commission To Create a Statewide Economic Development Plan to study economic development issues and create a strategic, regionally focused economic development plan. |
LD 296 | An Act Regarding Student Privacy with Respect to Video Recordings | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, May 30, 2019 | |
LD 296 This bill requires an elementary or secondary school to keep confidential a video recording in which a student is present, including a video recording taken in a bus or other means of student transportation used by the school, and prohibits the school from disseminating or publishing the video recording without the written permission of a parent of the student. |
LD 302 | An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Post-conviction Review in Order To Facilitate the Fair Hearing of All Evidence in Each Case Involving a Claim of Innocence | Status: Referred to Judiciary Committee, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 302 This bill amends the statutory provisions regarding criminal post-conviction review to allow the filing of a petition for post-conviction review claiming actual innocence at any time during the period of direct impediment, except that it may not be filed within one year of a judgment on a prior petition for post-conviction review on the same conviction. This bill requires that a petition for post-conviction review claiming actual innocence receive at least one evidentiary hearing in which the petitioner may submit new evidence and evidence submitted in prior proceedings on the same matter. |
LD 332 | An Act To Remove the Statute of Limitations for Certain Sex Crimes | Status: Referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, March 28, 2019 | |
LD 332 This bill amends the portions of the Maine Criminal Code pertaining to statutes of limitations to remove statutes of limitations governing the prosecution of Class A, Class B or Class C crimes involving incest; unlawful sexual contact; sexual abuse of a minor; or rape or gross sexual assault, formerly denominated as gross sexual misconduct. These changes apply only to those sexual crimes committed on or after the effective date of this legislation or for which the prosecution has not yet been barred by the statute of limitations in force immediately prior to the effective date of this legislation. |
LD 346 | An Act To Amend the Brunswick Sewer District Charter | Status: Referred to Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee, Enacted, Signed into law March 25, 2019 | |
LD 346 This bill amends the Brunswick Sewer District Charter to allow the district to charge readiness to serve rates consistent with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, section 1048. The bill also amends the charter to allow the treasurer of the district, when authorized by the trustees, to waive the district's right to foreclose on a lien mortgage established by the district on an individual's property, consistent with Title 38, section 1049. The bill provides the form that must be followed for filing the waiver. LD 346 Chaptered Law LD 346 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 371 | An Act To Create the Small Communities Tourism Fund | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, May 21, 2019 | |
LD 371 This bill establishes the Small Communities Tourism Fund in the Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of Tourism to issue grants to small communities to promote tourism and events. |
LD 372 | An Act To Increase the Safety of Municipal Residents by Allowing Municipalities To Address Downed Wires in Extended Power Outages | Status: Referred to Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-171, Enacted, Signed into law May 16, 2019 | |
LD 372 This bill allows a municipality, in the event of a power outage of 5 or more days, to hire appropriately licensed professionals to address power, telephone and similar lines that have been felled by weather events and that are preventing access to roadways within the municipality. It allows a municipality to apply to receive compensation from the local electric utility, the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, Maine Emergency Management Agency, the United States Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency or another funding source. Amendment H-171 This amendment replaces the bill. The amendment establishes requirements for an investor-owned transmission and distribution utility to establish emergency response plans for recovery and restoration in response to an event where widespread outages have occurred due to weather events or other causes beyond the utility's control. It requires that the prioritization process under the plan follow the statewide comprehensive emergency management plan and include consideration of steps to ensure safety of electric facilities, road opening and service restoration. The amendment requires the plan to detail a coordinated approach that includes: priorities for emergency response and service restoration, staffing, communication and coordination with emergency management agencies, customer communications, resource deployment and safety. br>The amendment requires each investor-owned transmission and distribution utility to file the plan with the Public Utilities Commission on a biannual basis and to provide a copy of the plan to the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, Maine Emergency Management Agency. The amendment allows the commission to designate portions of the emergency response plan as confidential through the issuance of a protective order. The amendment also authorizes the commission to open an investigation to review the emergency response performance of an investor-owned transmission and distribution utility after an emergency event. If the commission, through investigation, finds that the utility failed to implement its emergency response plan in a prudent manner, the commission is required to take action to remedy the failure, which may include denying the recovery through rates of the costs of emergency response and service restoration. Finally, the amendment requires the commission to include in its annual report to the Legislature information regarding its activities and the performance of investor-owned transmission and distribution utilities in relation to emergency response plans. LD 372 Chaptered Law LD 372 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 404 | An Act To Fund the School Revolving Renovation Fund | Status: Dead, Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment H-9, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate March 28, 2019, in the Senate when the Senate adjourned sine die, June 20, 2019 | |
LD 404 This bill provides one-time funds to be deposited in the School Revolving Renovation Fund to be used for the purposes specified in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 30-A, section 6006-F, subsection 3. Amendment H-9 This amendment, which is the majority report of the committee, incorporates a fiscal note. LD 404 fiscal note LD 404 Amendment H-9 fiscal note |
LD 405 | An Act To Increase the Statewide Minimum Salary for Teachers | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, June 12, 2019 | |
LD 405 This bill increases the minimum salary for certified teachers, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year. This bill also requires the Commissioner of Education to increase the state share of the total allocation to a qualifying school administrative unit to achieve the minimum salary for certified teachers. |
LD 406 | An Act To Establish Regional School Leadership Academies | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-84, Enacted, Signed into law April 30, 2019 | |
LD 406 This bill allows school administrative units to enter into collaborative agreements to establish regional school leadership academies that combine state and local programs and resources, including the preparation, licensure, certification, professional development and training for educational leadership, into a coherent system that can significantly improve the recruitment and preparation of prospective candidates for school principalship and other school leadership positions, as well as the induction, mentoring and retention of principals and school leaders during the first 2 years of employment in their school leadership positions. The bill repeals provisions in current law regarding regional school leadership academies. Amendment H-84 This amendment, which is the majority report of the committee, clarifies that regional school leadership academy programs are for teachers, principals and other school leaders. LD 406 Chaptered Law LD 406 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 421 | Resolve, To Amend the State Plan Regarding the Processing of Vouchers under the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children by Farmers' Markets | Status: Referred to Health and Human Services Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, May 21, 2019 | |
LD 421 This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to amend its state plan to authorize farmers' markets to redeem coupons from the federal Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children. |
LD 423 | An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Preserve Historic Properties for Maine's Bicentennial | Status: Referred to Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee, Public hearing held February 12, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 423 The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $5,000,000, will be used to undertake a program as part of the commemoration of the State's bicentennial to preserve historic properties listed or eligible to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places. |
LD 433 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Explicitly Prohibit Discrimination Based on the Sex of an Individual | Status: Referred to Judiciary Committee, both chambers accepted Majority Committee report, Ought to Pass as amended by Committee amendment H-230 and engrossed, May 23, 2019, Tabled in the House pending final passage, May 28, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 433 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 sex of an individual. Amendment H-230 This amendment is the majority report of the committee. This amendment incorporates a fiscal note. LD 433 Amendment H-230 fiscal note |
LD 434 | An Act To Price Carbon Pollution in Maine | Status: Referred to Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, May 2, 2019 | |
LD 434 This bill requires an assessment on the carbon content of fuels sold by a distributor in the State. The bill defines "distributor" and requires a distributor to submit on a monthly basis the required assessment to the Public Utilities Commission. The commission is required to transfer any assessment it receives to the Carbon Content Assessment Fund, which the bill establishes. The bill requires the commission at the end of each fiscal year to transfer funds from the fund to transmission and distribution utilities in the State. The funds are to be used to reduce the rates of those utilities' customers in a manner that is equitable and that provides maximum benefit to the economy of the State. The bill gives the commission the authority to review the books and records of a distributor and to impose an administrative penalty if necessary. It requires the commission to adopt routine technical rules. |
LD 435 | An Act To Provide for the 2019 and 2020 Allocations of the State Ceiling on Private Activity Bonds (Emergency) | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Amended by Committee amendment S-8, Enacted as an emergency measure, Signed into law April 5, 2019 | |
LD 435 This bill establishes the allocations of the state ceiling on issuance of tax-exempt private activity bonds for calendar years 2019 and 2020 among the state-level issuers of tax-exempt bonds. Amendment S-8 This amendment incorporates a fiscal note. LD 435 Chaptered Law LD 435 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 462 | An Act To Provide Paid Family Leave to Public School Employees | Status: Referred to Labor and Housing Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, April 11, 2019 | |
LD 462 This bill provides that a full-time employee of a school administrative unit is entitled to up to 12 weeks of paid family medical leave and may not be required to use sick or other kinds of leave for the birth of the employee's child or the employee's domestic partner's child or for the placement of a child 16 years of age or less with the employee or the employee's domestic partner in connection with the adoption of the child by the employee or the employee's domestic partner. The bill also provides that the employer and employee may negotiate whether leave is taken intermittently or on a reduced leave schedule. |
LD 464 | An Act To Change the Period To Request a Due Process Hearing for Costs Related to a Unilateral Private School Placement from a Public School | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, March 7, 2019 | |
LD 464 This bill removes a requirement that rules adopted by the Commissioner of Education governing due process hearings include a maximum period within which due process hearings and appeals may be requested. It provides that an action against a school administrative unit to recover the costs of a unilateral special education placement in a private school may be commenced only by requesting a due process hearing within 90 days of the placement. It also provides that rules adopted by the Commissioner of Education governing the procedures for conducting due process hearings must include procedures for discovery, including rules for the production of documents. |
LD 502 | An Act To Establish the Summer Success Pilot Program Fund | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment H-200, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate May 14, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 502 This bill establishes the Summer Success Program Fund, a dedicated fund to be directed and administered by the Commissioner of Education and held by the Treasurer of State, to encourage the facilitation of high-quality summer success programs in school administrative units throughout the State. The bill accomplishes the following.
Amendment H-200 This amendment strikes and replaces the title and the bill. The amendment establishes the Summer Success Pilot Program and corresponding fund to encourage the facilitation of high-quality summer success pilot programs in school administrative units throughout the State and does the following:
LD 502 Amendment H-200 fiscal note |
LD 503 | An Act To Provide Additional Funding for the Maine Bicentennial Commission | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, March 21, 2019 | |
LD 503 This bill provides funding for the Maine Bicentennial Commission, which was enacted in Resolve 2017, chapter 25. The bill provides one-time funds to the Maine State Cultural Affairs Council in fiscal year 2019-20 for the expenses associated with the planning of the State of Maine bicentennial celebration. |
LD 509 | An Act To Increase the Minimum Grant Amount under the Maine State Grant Program | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment H-468, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate June 10, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 509 This bill provides that the minimum grant amount under the Maine State Grant Program may not be less than $2,500 if sufficient funds are appropriated for this purpose, subject to the current grant amount modifications under the program. Amendment H-468 This amendment provides that, of the $9,450,000 appropriated in each fiscal year, $1,000,000 in each fiscal year must be dedicated to assistance of adult learners in returning to school and completing their credentials. LD 509 fiscal note LD 509 Amendment H-468 fiscal note |
LD 626 | An Act To Provide Funding for the Naval Museum and Gardens in Brunswick | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment H-64, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate April 23, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 626 This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to provide funding for the Brunswick Naval Museum and Memorial Gardens in Brunswick. |
LD 643 | An Act To Provide Funding to Municipalities Severely Affected by Pest Infestations | Status: Referred to Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, May 28, 2019 | |
LD 643 This bill authorizes the Commissioner of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the State Entomologist, to identify pests, such as browntail moths and ticks, in this State that pose a risk of significant harm to human health, and to undertake measures to manage those pests. The bill also establishes the Maine Harmful Pest Management Fund to provide funds to municipalities severely infested with harmful pests, to be used in mitigating the infestations. It also provides $500,000 to the fund. |
LD 666 | An Act To Protect Pregnant Workers | Status: Referred to Judiciary Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-639, Enacted, Signed into law June 27, 2019 | |
LD 666 This bill provides that it is unlawful employment discrimination for an employer to fail to provide a reasonable accommodation for an employee's pregnancy-related condition, unless provision of an accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the employer. Amendment H-639 This amendment clarifies the definition of "pregnancy-related condition" to provide that the limitation on the pregnant employee's ability to perform the functions of a job due to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, including lactation, must be known. The amendment revises the description of unlawful employment discrimination to apply to an employer's failure to provide a reasonable accommodation after it has been requested. An exception to the reasonable accommodation requirement is based on the employer's demonstration that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the business of the employer. The amendment provides examples of reasonable accommodations.LD 666 Chaptered Law LD 666 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 680 | An Act To Clarify the Intent of the Federal Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980 To Ensure the Federal Principle of Inherent Tribal Sovereignty | Status: Referred to Judiciary Committee, Work session held May 28, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 680 This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to clarify the intent of the federal Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980 to ensure the federal principle of inherent tribal sovereignty. |
LD 696 | An Act To Protect Public Employees from Identity Theft | Status: Referred to State and Local Government Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment S-77, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate May 21, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 696 This bill requires a public employer, if the public employer determines or suspects there has been a breach of confidentiality or theft of an employee's personal information due to cyber activity or other means, to notify the employee within 24 hours of being notified of or discovering the breach or theft and to provide the employee financial counseling. Amendment S-77 This amendment replaces the bill. It amends the Notice of Risk to Personal Data Act to add municipalities and school administrative units to the definition of "person" to make the Act applicable to these entities. It also exempts these entities from the civil violations provision of the Notice of Risk to Personal Data Act. The amendment specifies that notice to residents of the State of a security breach must be given no later than 30 days after the information broker or person maintaining computerized data that includes personal information becomes aware of a security breach. LD 696 Amendment S-77 fiscal note |
LD 732 | An Act To Provide a Sales Tax Exemption for Nonprofit Career and Technical Student Organizations | Status: Referred to Taxation Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment H-391, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate June 6, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 732 This bill provides a sales tax exemption to nonprofit career and technical education student organizations recognized by the Department of Education. Amendment H-391 This amendment adds an appropriations and allocations section. LD 732 fiscal note LD 732 Amendment H-391 fiscal note |
LD 753 | An Act To Allow Voters To Choose Ongoing Absentee Voter Status | Status: Referred to Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, April 23, 2019 | |
LD 753 This bill provides a process for a voter to request ongoing absentee voter status in a municipality that has approved the use of ongoing absentee voter status, which allows the voter to automatically receive an absentee ballot for each statewide and municipal election until the status is terminated. |
LD 762 | An Act Regarding Consent by a Motor Vehicle Operator to a Blood Test | Status: Referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, Dead, Non-concurrence, June 17, 2019 | |
LD 762 This bill brings the implied consent provisions concerning operating under the influence into compliance with recent case law from the United States Supreme Court that requires a search warrant before taking a sample of blood or urine from a person suspected of operating under the influence. Amendment H-284 This amendment replaces the bill and provides a new title. The amendment amends the criminal operating under the influence statutes for motor vehicle operators to:
Amendment S-198 This amendment removes from the committee amendment wording regarding the admissibility of evidence at trial, correcting a drafting error in the committee amendment. LD 762 Amendment H-284 fiscal note LD 762 Amendment S-198 fiscal note |
LD 764 | Resolve, To Create the Criminal Records Review Committee | Status: Referred to Judiciary Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-614, Finally passed as an emergency measure, Signed into law June 20, 2019 | |
LD 764 This bill amends the Criminal History Record Information Act in the following ways:
Amendment H-614 This amendment strikes the bill and replaces it with a resolve that establishes the Criminal Records Review Committee, consisting of 15 members, including a member representing the judicial branch if one is designated by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court. The review committee is directed to look at all issues concerning limiting public availability of criminal records and to provide recommendations to the Joint Standing Committee on Judiciary by December 4, 2019. The review committee's funding must come from outside sources. The amendment also adds an appropriations and allocations section. LD 764 Chaptered Law LD 764 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 769 | Resolve, To Direct the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation To Create a Working Group To Study Credentialing Skilled Individuals with Foreign Credentials | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, June 6, 2019 | |
LD 769 This resolve directs the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation to create a working group to study credentialing skilled individuals with foreign credentials in the State. The working group consists of 8 to 10 members representing licensing boards and professional organizations served by the licensing boards in professions for which there is a need for and an opportunity to credential skilled individuals with foreign credentials. The working group is required to submit its report along with any recommendations and suggested legislation to the Governor and the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation. The commissioner is required to submit the report with any recommendations and suggested legislation to the Joint Standing Committee on Labor and Housing. The committee is permitted to report out a bill relating to the subject matter of the report to the First Regular Session of the 130th Legislature. |
LD 795 | RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Establish a Right to Food | Status: Referred to Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee, both chambers accepted Majority Committee report, Ought to Pass as amended by Committee amendment H-430, adopted House amendment H-541, and engrossed LD 795 with amendments H-430 and H-541. Under suspension of the rules, the House reconsidered adoption of amendment H-541, indefinitely postponed amendment H-541, adopted House amendment H-675, and engrossed LD 795 with amendments H-430 and H-675. The Senate receded and concurred in engrossing LD 795 with amendments H-430 and H-675, tabled in the House pending final passage, March 17, 2020, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 795 This constitutional resolution declares that all individuals have a natural, inherent and unalienable right to acquire, produce, process, prepare, preserve and consume and to barter, trade and purchase the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being. Amendment H-430 This amendment, which is the majority report, incorporates a fiscal note. Amendment H-675 This amendment amends the bill by:
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LD 820 | An Act To Prevent Discrimination in Public and Private Insurance Coverage for Pregnant Women in Maine | Status: Referred to Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-210 and Senate amendment S-275, Enacted, Signed into law June 13, 2019 | |
LD 820 This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide coverage to a MaineCare member for abortion services. The bill provides that abortion services that are not approved Medicaid services must be funded by the State. The bill also directs the Department of Health and Human Services to adopt rules no later than March 1, 2020. The bill also requires that health insurance carriers that provide coverage for maternity services also provide coverage for abortion services. The bill applies this requirement to all health insurance policies and contracts issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2020, except for those religious employers granted an exclusion of coverage. The bill authorizes the Superintendent of Insurance to grant an exemption from the requirements if enforcement of the requirements would adversely affect the allocation of federal funds to the State. |
LD 859 | An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Fund Equipment for Career and Technical Education Centers and Regions | Status: Referred to Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322, Work session March 12, 2020, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 859 The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $40,000,000, will be used to provide funds to make capital improvements to and purchase equipment for career and technical education centers and regions for high school students. |
LD 863 | An Act To Exempt Diapering Products from Sales Tax | Status: Referred to Taxation Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment H-212, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate May 16, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 863 This bill provides a sales tax exemption for disposable and reusable diapers for children, including diaper covers, wraps and diaper pins that are used with reusable diapers. Amendment H-212 This amendment incorporates a fiscal note. LD 863 fiscal note LD 863 Amendment H-212 fiscal note |
LD 872 | An Act To Forgive Education Debt for Certain Health Care Professionals Who Work in the State | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, May 28, 2019 | |
LD 872 This bill creates the Health Care Professional Education Loan Repayment Program administered by the Finance Authority of Maine to repay the education debt of certain health care professionals who agree to live and work in the State for a minimum of 5 years. Under the program, the authority will pay 20% of the education debt or $25,000, whichever is lower, for each year of participation in the program up to a total of $125,000 for a health care professional who is not employed in a federally designated health professional shortage area and 20% of the education debt or $30,000, whichever is lower, for each year of participation in the program up to a total of $150,000 for a health care professional who is employed in a federally designated health professional shortage area. The program is contingent on funding from the proceeds from the renewal of the contract for the operations of the State's wholesale spirits business. |
LD 874 | An Act To Conform the Clean Election Financing Laws to the Judicially Determined Procedures | Status: Referred to Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, March 14, 2019 | |
LD 874 This bill codifies the decision of the Superior Court in Maine Citizens for Clean Elections v. LePage, No. CV-18-112, 2018 (Me. Super. Ct., Ken. Cty., August 2, 2018). The bill authorizes the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices to expend existing revenues from the Maine Clean Election Fund in excess of the current year allocations without first obtaining a financial order approved by the Governor, solely for the purpose of making distributions required by the Maine Clean Election Act to certified candidates. |
LD 890 | An Act To Expand Workforce Access by Creating Apprenticeship Programs To Increase Access to Licensure in Certain Occupations | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, June 6, 2019 | |
LD 890 This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to enact the Expanded Workforce Access Act of 2019, which will authorize the use of apprenticeships as an alternative means of obtaining licenses to perform certain occupations. Occupations included under this Act may include, but are not limited to, barbering or limited barbering and nail technology. This bill will expand access to the workforce by allowing individuals to fulfill licensing requirements through participation in apprenticeship programs, thus allowing participants to earn a paycheck at the same time as they acquire hands-on training and experience. Under this bill:
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LD 910 | An Act To Establish as a Priority the Interests of Maine Farmers, Growers and Food Producers | Status: Referred to Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, April 23, 2019 | |
LD 910 This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to require that when the State makes decisions regarding its purchasing of food, the State must consider as a priority in its decision making the interests of Maine farmers, growers and food producers. |
LD 911 | An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Promote Land Conservation, Working Waterfronts, Water Access and Outdoor Recreation | Status: Referred to Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322, Work session March 12, 2020, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 911 The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $95,000,000, will be used to provide funds for the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, Bureau of Parks and Lands and the Land for Maine's Future Board. |
LD 955 | An Act To Prohibit Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Drilling and Exploration | Status: Referred to Environment and Natural Resources Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-425, Enacted, Signed into law June 13, 2019 | |
LD 955 This bill prohibits a person from performing or causing to be performed any oil or natural gas exploration, development or production in, on or under the waters of the State or that may adversely affect the waters of the State. The bill also prohibits the Department of Environmental Protection and the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry from permitting, approving or otherwise authorizing any oil or natural gas exploration, development or production in, on or under the submerged and intertidal land owned by the State. It is the intent of this legislation to generally prohibit activities relating to offshore oil and natural gas exploration, development and production within the boundaries and jurisdiction of the State, which place the State's coastal communities at economic and ecological risk from oil spills, and from the pollution caused by routine drilling operations and onshore industrialization, and threaten the quality of life and livelihoods of Maine citizens and economically significant industries, including tourism, recreation and commercial and recreational fishing, and small businesses that rely on a clean and healthy ocean and clean and healthy beaches.
LD 955 Chaptered Law LD 955 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 977 | An Act To Restore the Super Credit for Substantially Increased Research and Development | Status: Referred to Taxation Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment H-621, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate June 18, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 977 Under a tax credit that expired January 1, 2014, a taxpayer that qualified for a research expense tax credit was allowed a so-called super credit for qualified research expenses for research conducted in this State. A taxpayer who had unused credits may carry over any unused credit for the next succeeding 10 years, except that the credit is limited to no more than 25% of the taxpayer's tax due after the allowance of other tax credits. This bill restores the availability of the super credit, retroactive to January 1, 2014, and resets the base amount to the average annual amount spent by the taxpayer on qualified research expenses during the 3 years before the credit is taken or during the 3 years before the effective date of this legislation, whichever is greater. |
LD 979 | An Act To Provide Consistent Data Regarding Education Funding | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, April 11, 2019 | |
LD 979 This bill directs the Commissioner of Education to annually post on the Department of Education's publicly accessible website statewide historical financial data on education funding for a period of no less than 10 years. |
LD 1025 | An Act To Prohibit the Provision of Conversion Therapy to Minors by Certain Licensed Professionals | Status: Referred to Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-213, Enacted, Signed into law May 29, 2019 | |
LD 1025 This bill does the following.
Amendment H-213 This amendment is the majority report of the committee. The amendment clarifies the definition of "conversion therapy." The bill provides that evidence that a certified school psychologist or guidance counselor has advertised, offered or administered conversion therapy to a child within the last 5 years is grounds for discipline; the amendment retains this provision but removes the 5-year limitation. The amendment also removes a similar 5-year limitation added by the bill to the current law that provides that evidence that an applicant for such a certification has injured the health or welfare of a child through abuse or exploitation is grounds for a denial of the certification. The amendment also adds an additional finding and makes other clarifying changes to the legislative findings and intent section. LD 1025 Chaptered Law LD 1025 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 1036 | Resolve, Establishing a Task Force To Study the Creation of a Comprehensive Career and Technical Education System and Increased Crosswalks for Academic Credit between Secondary Schools and Career and Technical Education Programs (Emergency) | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-506 and Senate amendment S-311, Finally passed, Governor placed on hold, July 2, 2019, Became law without the Governor's signature, January 11, 2020 | |
LD 1036 This resolve establishes the Task Force To Study the Creation of a Comprehensive Career and Technical Education System to examine the feasibility of establishing a comprehensive 4-year high school career and technical education program to provide a technical high school setting for middle school students to attend at the completion of the 8th grade. Amendment H-506 This amendment expands the membership of the task force to include a principal of a secondary school, a superintendent of a school administrative unit, an administrator at the University of Maine System and the Commissioner of Education or the commissioner's designee and requires that the member from a community college be an administrator. This amendment also expands the duties of the task force to require that the task force examine the advantages and disadvantages of a comprehensive 4-year career and technical education high school, obstacles to implementation and other models of comprehensive 4-year career and technical education high schools around the State and on a national level. The task force is also required to examine increasing crosswalks and intersections between technical and occupational knowledge and curricula and academic standards in order to promote multiple pathways for awarding content area credit to students enrolled in career and technical education programs. This amendment also requires the task force to seek funding contributions to fully fund the costs of the task force. If sufficient funding is not received within 30 days after the effective date of the resolve, no meetings are authorized and no expenses of any kind may be incurred or reimbursed.Amendment S-311 This amendment increases the membership of the task force from 14 to 16 members by adding one additional member of the House of Representatives and one additional member of the Senate and specifies that the House and Senate appointments must include a member from each of the 2 parties holding the largest number of seats in the Legislature, which conforms with Joint Rule 353. LD 1036 Chaptered Law LD 1036 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 1037 | An Act To Address the Browntail Moth Infestation | Status: Referred to Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment H-449, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate June 10, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 1037 This bill provides funding to the University of Maine System to support a 3-year study of the browntail moth infestation. This bill specifies that funds appropriated for this purpose do not lapse but must be carried forward into the next fiscal year to be used only to support the cost of the study. Amendment H-449 This amendment, which is the majority report, requires the University of Maine System to submit an annual report on the progress of the 3-year browntail moth infestation study to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over agricultural matters and the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry no later than March 1st for the duration of the 3-year study. LD 1037 fiscal note LD 1037 Amendment H-449 fiscal note |
LD 1043 | An Act To Establish Universal Public Preschool Programs | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment H-256, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate May 28, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 1043 This bill specifies that it is the goal of the State to ensure that public preschool programs for children 4 years of age are offered by all school administrative units by the 2020-2021 school year. In order to achieve that goal, this bill requires the Department of Education to develop recommendations and report back to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs by January 1, 2020. Recommendations must include:
Amendment H-256 This amendment provides that it is the goal of the State to provide adequate start-up funding to ensure that public preschool programs for children 4 years of age are offered by all school administrative units by the 2023-2024 school year and requires the Department of Education to include in its funding recommendations funding options to encourage more public preschool programs. LD 1043 Amendment H-256 fiscal note |
LD 1051 | An Act To Create the Maine Family First Employer Program | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Work session held April 30, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 1051 This bill creates the Maine Family First Employer Program under the Department of Labor to award employers that create family-friendly workplaces by providing, for all full-time employees, advancement and leadership opportunities; the same pay rates for similar work; stipends or assistance for child care; paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child and medical care for employees or family members of employees; flexible work accommodations for other family obligations; and health insurance and retirement plan options. The awards are presented by the Governor and come with a logo that a designated employer may use for promotional purposes. |
LD 1056 | An Act To Update and Amend the Finance Authority of Maine Act | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-224, Enacted, Signed into law May 28, 2019 | |
LD 1056 This bill amends the Finance Authority of Maine Act by removing various references to bond financing for major business expansion projects and eliminating that financing. It also reallocates the bonding authority for securing the Finance Authority of Maine's capital reserve funds supporting other programs. It also removes definitions pertaining to the Clean Fuel Vehicle Fund, which was repealed in 2013. Amendment H-224 This amendment increases the maximum amount of insurance the Finance Authority of Maine may provide to related entities from $7,000,000 to $7,500,000. LD 1056 Chaptered Law LD 1056 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 1107 | An Act To Promote Workforce Development and Community Integration | Status: Referred to Labor and Housing Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, April 11, 2019 | |
LD 1107 This bill directs the Department of Labor to establish an immigrant workforce development council and, after consultation with the council, to distribute funds through a competitive process to entities that promote integration of immigrants into the workforce and community. The bill also provides funds to support integration of immigrants into the workforce and community. |
LD 1139 | An Act To Eliminate Restrictions on Capacity and the Number of Accounts for Net Energy Billing | Status: Referred to Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, April 23, 2019 | |
LD 1139 This bill provides that the Public Utilities Commission may not limit the installed capacity of an eligible facility or the number of accounts or meters a customer or shared ownership customer may designate for net energy billing. Current commission rules limit the capacity to 660 kilowatts and the number of meters or accounts to 10. |
LD 1148 | An Act Regarding the Costs Incurred by Municipalities in the Administration of Aquaculture Lease and License Applications | Status: Referred to Marine Resources Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-123, Enacted, Became law without the Governor's signature May 15, 2019 | |
LD 1148 This bill allows a municipality to charge a reasonable fee to a person granted a Department of Marine Resources aquaculture lease on or under coastal waters to pay for the municipality's administrative costs associated with the lease. Amendment H-123 This amendment changes the title and replaces the bill. The amendment specifies that a municipality may not charge a person applying for an aquaculture lease or license a fee of more than $50 for the municipality's administrative costs associated with the lease or license application. LD 1148 Chaptered Law LD 1148 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 1164 | An Act To Improve the Educational Opportunity Tax Credit | Status: Referred to Taxation Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment S-229, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate June 14, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 1164 This bill makes the current income tax credit for educational opportunity inapplicable to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2020, and creates a new simplified tax credit for student loan repayment applicable to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2020.
Amendment S-229 This amendment removes the requirement that a taxpayer's degree was received after 2007 to receive a credit for student loan repayment and provides that taxpayers who were eligible for a refundable credit under the credit for educational opportunity may continue to receive a refundable credit for tax years beginning before January 1, 2022. The amendment also increases from $50,000 per year to $75,000 per year the funds provided to market the Job Creation Through Educational Opportunity Program. LD 1164 Amendment S-229 fiscal note |
LD 1171 | An Act To Prevent Sexual and Domestic Violence and To Support Survivors | Status: Referred to Health and Human Services Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment S-86, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate May 16, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 1171 This bill provides funding for sexual assault and domestic violence prevention and victim services. Amendment S-86 This amendment incorporates a fiscal note. LD 1171 Amendment S-86 fiscal note |
LD 1216 | An Act To Support Community Schools | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Amended by Committee amendment S-128, Enacted, Signed into law June 20, 2019 | |
LD 1216 This bill makes the Department of Education's community school pilot project permanent. The department is authorized to designate 5 community schools in the 2020-2021 school year and 10 additional schools biannually beginning in the 2021-2022 school year. The Commissioner of Education is required to apply for available federal funds in support of community school implementation and expansion. Amendment S-128 The amendment adds an appropriations and allocations section. LD 1216 Chaptered Law LD 1216 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 1222 | An Act Regarding Electric Bicycles | Status: Referred to Transportation Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-511, Enacted, Signed into law June 17, 2019 | |
LD 1222 This bill defines and regulates the use of electric bicycles, which are bicycles with a motor and which fall into one of 3 classes, depending on the top speed attainable and whether the operator needs to pedal while the motor is propelling the electric bicycle. The bill provides that an operator of an electric bicycle has generally the same rights and obligations as the operator of a bicycle, except that the use of an electric bicycle on bicycle paths and bikeways may be restricted by the entity having jurisdiction over the bicycle path or bikeway. An electric bicycle is considered a vehicle for purposes of the State's so-called open container law and, as with bicycles, any person under 16 years of age who is operating or riding as a passenger on an electric bicycle must wear a helmet. Amendment H-511 This amendment makes minor technical edits to the bill, including to the definitions of Class 1, Class 2 and Class 3 electric bicycles, and clarifies the label requirement to apply only to a manufacturer, distributor or seller in the State. The amendment also makes changes to the age restrictions in the bill. LD 1222 Chaptered Law LD 1222 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 1248 | Resolve, To Direct the ConnectME Authority To Report on the Progress of the Detailed 2019-2021 Strategic Plan for Broadband Service in Maine | Status: Referred to Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-168, Finally passed, Became law without the Governor's signature May 21, 2019 | |
LD 1248 This resolve directs the ConnectME Authority to report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over energy, utilities and technology matters by January 19th in 2020, 2021 and 2022 outlining the progress of the authority in meeting the goals of its Detailed 2019-2021 Strategic Plan for Broadband Service in Maine. Amendment H-168 This amendment incorporates and aligns the reporting requirement in the resolve with the ConnectME Authority annual report, instead of requiring a separate report to the Legislature on the progress on the strategic plan. LD 1248 Chaptered Law LD 1248 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 1250 | An Act To Prohibit Sexual Harassment as a Subject Matter of Mandatory Arbitration in Employment Contracts | Status: Referred to Labor and Housing Committee, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, March 3, 2020 | |
LD 1250 This bill prohibits an employment contract entered into after the effective date of this legislation from including a clause that requires arbitration of a sexual harassment allegation or claim and makes any such clause void. The bill does not affect the ability of an employer to include any other arbitration clause in a contract or to enforce the provisions of a contract other than the prohibited clause. |
LD 1267 | An Act To Allow the Awarding of Graduation Credits by Career and Technical Education Centers and Regions | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, May 21, 2019 | |
LD 1267 This bill allows career and technical education centers and regions to award credit toward graduation requirements for courses and programs that are approved by the Commissioner of Education. The commissioner is required to establish the credit to be awarded and the content area toward which the school administrative unit must apply the credit. Finally, the commissioner must adopt routine technical rules that develop a procedure for career and technical education centers and regions to submit courses and programs for approval and criteria in each content area that the course or program must meet to be approved. |
LD 1334 | An Act To Rename the Maine International Trade Center the Maine Trade Center and To Establish within the Center International and Domestic Export Branches | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, May 21, 2019 | |
LD 1334 This bill changes the name of the Maine International Trade Center to the Maine Trade Center and directs the center to establish international and domestic export branches within the center. |
LD 1368 | An Act To Require Postsecondary Institutions To Meet the Expected Family Contribution without Additional Loan Burdens for Students | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Dead, Concurrence in Ought Not to Pass, June 12, 2019 | |
LD 1368 This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to require postsecondary institutions to meet the expected family contribution without additional loan burdens on students. The expected family contribution is an index number that postsecondary institutions use to determine how much financial aid a student would receive annually if the student were to attend that postsecondary institution. Included in financial aid packages are federal Stafford loans, which are fixed-rate student loans originated by the Federal Government. This bill is designed to limit exposure of a student's loan burden to federal Stafford loans only. |
LD 1418 | An Act To Address Maine's Shortage of Behavioral Health Services for Minors | Status: Referred to Health and Human Services Committee, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322, Work session held January 15, 2020, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
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LD 1420 | Resolve, To Establish a Task Force To Study the Current Status and Future Sustainability of Aquaculture in the State (Emergency) | Status: Referred to Marine Resources Committee, Dead, Concurrence in Ought Not to Pass, May 29, 2019 | |
LD 1420 This resolve establishes the Task Force To Study the Current Status and Future Sustainability of Aquaculture in the State. The task force membership consists of Legislators, representatives of entities knowledgeable about or involved in aquaculture and representatives of state agencies, associations and commercial fisheries. The task force's duties include a review of the report from the Governor's Task Force on the Planning and Development of Marine Aquaculture in Maine dated January 30, 2004 and an assessment of the current status of aquaculture in the State, current production levels and production capacity and environmental effects and the carrying capacity of the coastal marine environment, as well as an examination of aquaculture best practices, relationships with other fisheries, current economic and workforce effects, future opportunities and current and proposed community outreach and education. The task force is required to submit an interim report no later than September 1, 2019 and a final report no later than December 11, 2019 to the Joint Standing Committee on Marine Resources and the Joint Standing Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, which may each submit legislation based on the report to the Second Regular Session of the 129th Legislature. |
LD 1422 | An Act Regarding Conditions in Correctional Facilities for Female Prisoners | Status: Referred to Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322, Work session held March 11, 2020, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 1422 This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to enact measures designed to ensure the fair treatment of women who are incarcerated. |
LD 1520 | An Act To Create and Sustain Jobs and Encourage Affordable Housing through Development of Cooperatives and Employee-owned Businesses | Status: Referred to Taxation Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment S-260, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate June 12, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 1520 This bill supports employee-owned businesses and cooperatives in the following ways.
Amendment S-260 This amendment requires the Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of Business Development to contract with a nonprofit development organization with relevant expertise to develop and manage the Maine Employee Ownership Center to provide information and programs to assist businesses in the transition to employee or cooperative ownership, rather than requiring the office to provide those services. The amendment removes requirements that the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Maine Revenue Services collect specified data and report annually to the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability and that the Maine Public Employees Retirement System study investment of funds in employee-owned businesses. The amendment also makes changes to facilitate the administration and evaluation of the deductions provided in the bill. The amendment also adds an appropriations and allocations section. LD 1520 Amendment S-260 fiscal note |
LD 1570 | An Act To Allow Residents To Register Online To Vote | Status: Referred to Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, May 7, 2019 | |
LD 1570 This bill allows online application for voter registration by an eligible resident of the State through the Secretary of State's publicly accessible website. |
LD 1584 | An Act To Attract, Build and Retain an Early Childhood Education Workforce through Increased Training, Education and Career Pathways | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Enacted in the House as amended by Committee amendment H-464, tabled to Special Appropriations in the Senate June 10, 2019, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322 | |
LD 1584 This bill requires the Commissioner of Health and Human Services, the Commissioner of Education and the Commissioner of Labor jointly to develop and implement an early childhood educators workforce support program to recruit and retain early childhood educators working with children up to 5 years of age. Components of the program include:
Amendment H-464 This amendment requires the Commissioner of Health and Human Services to collect and review early childhood educators workforce data and, on a biennial basis, conduct a review of the adequacy of the pathways to early childhood education careers. It requires the Commissioner of Health and Human Services, the Commissioner of Education and the Commissioner of Labor to collaborate with local adult education providers of school administrative units, apprenticeship sponsors, career and technical education programs, the Maine Community College System and the University of Maine System to create articulation agreements between these entities for the transfer of credits for course work related to early childhood education and to facilitate enrollment in courses that lead to the issuance of a postsecondary degree by a degree-granting institution. It also requires the commissioners to collaborate with these same entities to provide support for individuals, including immigrants and other populations lacking experience in Maine's workforce, who require foundational skills development to enter and succeed in early childhood education courses, including but not limited to English as a second language, literacy, numeracy and employability skills. LD 1584 fiscal note LD 1584 Amendment H-464 fiscal note |
LD 1601 | An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Educators for Maine Program | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-417, Enacted, Signed into law June 14, 2019 | |
LD 1601 This bill amends the laws governing the Educators for Maine Program by expanding certain definitions to include home-schooled students and educator service at publicly supported secondary schools and special education facilities; adding service in underserved geographic areas as an eligibility criterion; adding a loan repayment provision to the program; removing the provision whereby the Governor announces selected recipients annually; authorizing the Finance Authority of Maine to increase maximum loan amounts based on available funding; establishing limits on the duration a recipient may benefit under the program; removing the preference for loans to undergraduate students enrolled in a course of study related to underserved subject areas; and increasing from 5 to 10 years the amount of time a recipient has to complete the return service requirement. Amendment H-417 This amendment removes the word "completes" as it references home instruction programs. LD 1601 Chaptered Law LD 1601 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 1634 | An Act To Create the Maine Clean Energy Fund and To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Capitalize the Fund | Status: Referred to Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee, carried over to any regular or special session per Joint Order HP 1322, House tabled pending acceptance of Majority Committee report, Ought to Pass as amended by Committee amendment H-730 March 12, 2020, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 1634 This bill creates the Maine Clean Energy Fund within and with oversight from the Efficiency Maine Trust to support the development of renewable and clean energy technologies and infrastructure through providing financing support including loans, loan guarantees and other financial and risk mitigation products. The fund is administered by a 9-member board of directors consisting of certain government officials and members of the public appointed by the Governor. This bill also provides for a bond issue in the amount of $100,000,000 to be used to capitalize the Maine Clean Energy Fund. Amendment 730 This amendment replaces the bill with a resolve. The amendment directs the Maine Climate Council, established in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 38, section 577-A, directly or through one of its working groups to:
LD 1634 Amendment 730 fiscal note |
LD 1640 | An Act To Exempt Auctioneers from Certain Record-keeping Requirements | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Enacted, Signed into law June 13, 2019 | |
LD 1640 This bill exempts auctioneers from the requirement to record the date of purchase, the seller's name and address and a brief description of the property, including any identification numbers, before completing the purchase of any used personal property. LD 1640 Chaptered Law LD 1640 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 1641 | Resolve, To Examine Issues Relating to the School Transportation Workforce | Status: Referred to Education and Cultural Affairs Committee, Amended by Committee amendment S-172, Finally passed, Signed into law June 7, 2019 | |
LD 1641 This bill allows public school bus drivers to collect unemployment benefits over the summer. It also creates a nonlapsing fund to award grants to school administrative units for training for school bus drivers between academic years. Amendment S-172 This amendment replaces the bill with a resolve that directs the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Labor, to comprehensively examine issues associated with the school transportation workforce, including, but not limited to, determining the best strategies for hiring, training and retaining school transportation personnel. The department is required to submit a report with findings and recommendations to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs and the Joint Standing Committee on Labor and Housing. Each committee is authorized to report out a bill on the subject matter of the report to the Second Regular Session of the 129th Legislature. LD 1641 Chaptered Law LD 1641 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 1685 | An Act To Facilitate Entry of Immigrants into the Workforce | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-416, Enacted, Signed into law June 20, 2019 | |
LD 1685 This bill establishes and provides funding for the Foreign Credentialing and Skills Recognition Revolving Loan Program to be administered by the Finance Authority of Maine. Under the program, the authority may provide interest-free loans to foreign-educated or foreign-trained, experienced immigrants who need assistance while awaiting federal employment authorization to pay the costs of certain actions and activities that will improve their work-readiness once they receive their work permits. Amendment H-416 The amendment clarifies language regarding applications for work permits and makes technical edits to the bill. LD 1685 Chaptered Law LD 1685 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 1985 | Resolve, Directing the Board of Speech, Audiology and Hearing To Adopt Rules To Facilitate Speech-Language Therapy | Status: Referred to Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Committee, Dead, Joint rule 310.3, January 30, 2020 | |
LD 1985 This resolve directs the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Board of Speech, Audiology and Hearing to adopt rules to permit speech-language pathology assistants serving children in school districts to practice under the supervision of more than one speech-language pathologist and to allow speech-language pathologists to supervise up to 3 speech-language pathology assistants on their license. |
LD 2009 | An Act To Permit the Expansion of Municipal Membership of the Greater Portland Transit District (Emergency) | Status: Referred to Transportation Committee, Enacted as an emergency measure, Signed into law February 4, 2020 | |
LD 2009 This bill authorizes the board of directors of the Greater Portland Transit District to accept applications for membership from municipalities that are contiguous to, as well as those located wholly or partially within, the Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation System. LD 2009 Chaptered Law LD 2009 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 2045 | An Act Relating to the Valuation of Certain Retail Property | Status: Referred to Taxation Committee, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 2045 This bill provides that, for property tax purposes, retail sales facilities in excess of 20,000 square feet must be valued based on their current use compared to similar properties in their retail market segment or, if vacant, according to their highest and best use. |
LD 2065 | An Act To Address Decibel Level Limits for Airboats | Status: Referred to Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-752, Enacted, Signed into law March 18, 2020 | |
LD 2065 This bill exempts airboats, which are defined as flat-bottomed watercraft propelled by an aircraft-type propeller and powered by either an aircraft engine or an automotive engine, from the noise level limits imposed on other watercraft. Instead, this bill allows the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to establish noise level limits for airboats by routine technical rules. This bill also requires the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and the Department of Marine Resources to jointly solicit and collect information regarding airboats, including uses of airboats, noise levels and complaints and suggestions for reducing complaints regarding the use of airboats, from interested parties, such as harbor masters, town clerks and residents of coastal towns and airboat users and sellers. Based on the suggestions, the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and the Commissioner of Marine Resources are authorized to submit legislation to the First Regular Session of the 130th Legislature to implement whatever suggestions the commissioners determine are necessary. Amendment H-752 This amendment clarifies that the rules adopted by the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife regarding noise level limits are routine technical rules. The amendment also requires the commissioner and the Commissioner of Marine Resources to submit recommended legislation based on the suggestions solicited. LD 2065 Chaptered Law LD 2065 Chaptered Law fiscal note |
LD 2092 | Resolve, To Establish the Maine Spaceport Complex Leadership Council | Status: Referred to Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee, Work session held March 12, 2020, carried over in the same posture to any special session of the 129th Legislature pursuant to Joint Order SP 788 | |
LD 2092 This resolve establishes the Maine Spaceport Complex Leadership Council, a public-private partnership of private space flight commercial interests and local, state and federal government and academic entities, to lead the development and implementation of a spaceport complex in the State and to orchestrate engagement with external stakeholders and investors. The resolve requires the council to create a strategic plan and, by December 31, 2021, to present the plan to the Governor and to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over economic development matters. |
LD 2096 | An Act To Save Lives by Capping the Out-of-pocket Cost of Certain Medications | Status: Referred to Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Committee, Amended by Committee amendment H-772 and House amendment H-778, Enacted as an emergency measure, Signed into law March 18, 2020 | |
LD 2096 This bill provides that a health insurance carrier that provides coverage for prescription insulin drugs may not impose a cost-sharing requirement on the enrollee that results in out-of-pocket costs to the enrollee in excess of $100 per 30-day supply of insulin. Amendment H-772 This amendment replaces the bill. Part A provides that a health insurance carrier that provides coverage for prescription insulin drugs may not impose a cost-sharing requirement on an enrollee that results in out-of-pocket costs to the enrollee in excess of $35 per prescription for a 30-day supply of insulin. The requirements apply to all health insurance policies issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2021. Part B authorizes a pharmacist to dispense emergency refills of insulin and associated insulin-related supplies. The amendment requires that the insulin dispensed be in a quantity that is the lesser of a 30-day supply and the smallest available package. The amendment also requires the Maine Board of Pharmacy to adopt rules to establish adequate training requirements and protocols for dispensing insulin. Amendment H-778 This amendment adds an emergency preamble and an emergency clause. LD 2096 Chaptered Law LD 2096 Chaptered Law fiscal note |