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Track 1,887 bills from the Maine 2009 legislative session. 500 bills have passed. View Maine House of Representatives and Senate legislation, sponsors, and voting records.
Bills (1887)
An Act To Increase Judicial Salaries
Sponsor: Douglas Thomas
An Act Regarding Energy Infrastructure Development
An Act To Expand Eligibility of Certain Municipal Landfills To Participate in the State's Remediation and Closure Program
Sponsor: Herbert Clark
Resolve, To Transfer the Ownership of the Fort Kent Armory from the Military Bureau to the University of Maine at Fort Kent
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Improve the Seed Capital Investment Tax Credit Program
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Correct Errors and Inconsistencies in the Laws of Maine
An Act To Authorize Bond Issues for Ratification by the Voters for the June 2010 Election and November 2010 Election
Sponsor: Michael Willette
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Create Access to Dental Care throughout the State
Sponsor: Thomas Wright
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing County Jail Budgeting for York County
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Waive Certain Penalties Imposed against School Administrative Units if the State Has Not Fulfilled Its Goal of Paying 55% of Costs
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Include Independent Practice Dental Hygienists in MaineCare
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Improve the Delivery of Community Corrections Services
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Ensure Fairness in Penalties for Administrative Errors in the Long-term Care Assessment Process
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Prohibit Furnishing a Place for Minors To Use Illegal Drugs
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Amend the Unemployment Compensation Laws Regarding Vacation Pay
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Establish a Residential Wood Stove Replacement Fund
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act Concerning Certain MaineCare Rules Regarding Services Provided through the Child Development Services System and School Administrative Units
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Improve Employment Opportunities for Maine Workers in the Forest Industry
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, Regarding Biofuel in Number 2 Heating Oil
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Protect Retirement Income
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act Regarding Mental Health Treatment
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Amend the Tax Laws
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Reduce the Sales Tax on Certain Watercraft
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Protect Maine Workers
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Legislative Youth Advisory Council
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Distribute Funds Received from the Racino in Bangor to the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Substance Abuse
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO SUPPORT THE FISCAL YEAR 2011 FEDERAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE NORTHEAST GREAT WATERS RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION INITIATIVE
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Reform Insurance Coverage To Include Diagnosis and Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorders
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Improve Tribal-State Relations
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Provide Predictable Benefits to Maine Communities That Host Wind Energy Developments
Sponsor: Peter Mills
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE TRAGIC EXPULSION OF THE RESIDENTS OF MALAGA ISLAND, MAINE IN 1912 AND REDEDICATING OURSELVES TO THE MAINE IDEALS OF TOLERANCE, INDEPENDENCE AND EQUALITY FOR ALL PEOPLES
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Amend Licensing, Certification and Registration Requirements for Health Care Providers and Other Facilities
Sponsor: Patricia Jones
An Act To Amend the Maine Medical Marijuana Act
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Require Private Insurance Coverage for Certain Services for Children with Disabilities
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO ADOPT LEGISLATION THAT STRENGTHENS ENFORCEMENT OF DOMESTIC SOURCING LAWS AND PROHIBITS PURCHASING FROM NONDOMESTIC SWEATSHOPS
Sponsor: Leila Percy
JOINT RESOLUTION HONORING THOSE MAINE FISHERMEN LOST AT SEA
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act To Stimulate Capital Investment for Innovative Businesses in Maine
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Fund the Maine Downtown Center
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Enhance the Redevelopment of the Brunswick Naval Air Station
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act To Create Jobs and Stimulate Economic Development by Making Captive Insurers Eligible for Pine Tree Development Zone Benefits
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
Resolve, Directing the Joint Standing Committee on State and Local Government To Study the Rule-making Process under the Maine Administrative Procedure Act
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Increase Maine's High School Graduation Rates
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding Authority over and Oversight of Certified Nursing Assistant Educational Programs
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, Authorizing Certain Land Transactions by the Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands and the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and Directing the Initiation of Negotiations Regarding Easements on Certain Land
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act Relating to Road Noise
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act Pertaining to Sales Tax Exemptions for Products Purchased for Agricultural Use
An Act To Decriminalize Violations of Rules or Permit Conditions of the Baxter State Park Authority
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Make Administrative Changes to Tax Laws To Maintain a Balanced Budget
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Improve Water Quality through the Phaseout of Overboard Discharges and the Improvement of the Boat Pump-out Laws
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Misclassification of Construction Workers
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Election of Androscoggin County Commissioner District Budget Committee Members
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Adopt the Common Core State Standards Initiative
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Encourage the Use of Models in the Collection and Use of Student Achievement Data
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
Resolve, To Review the Waste Motor Oil Disposal Site Remediation Program
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Establish a New Method of Determining the State Budget
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO SUPPORT THE PRESERVATION OF THE TRADITION IN MAINE OF LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS' SELECTING THE EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS TO BE USED BY THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Replace the Maine Limited Liability Company Act
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Reduce Income Tax to 4.5% and Remove Low-income Families from Taxation
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
Resolve, Directing the Department of Corrections To Coordinate Review of Due Process Procedures and To Ensure Transparency in Policies Regarding the Placement of Special Management Prisoners
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Section 10: Stream Crossings within Chapter 305 Permit by Rule Standards, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Environmental Protection
An Act Concerning Statewide Communications Interoperability
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Working Group Concerning Domestic Violence and Firearms
Resolve, Authorizing the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services To Sell or Lease the Interests of the State in Certain Real Property Located at 187-189 State Street, Augusta, Known as the Smith-Merrill House, and at 159 Hogan Road, Bangor, known as the Elizabeth Levinson Center
Sponsor: William Diamond
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO INCREASE FLEXIBILITY REGARDING PAYMENTS TO MAINE VETERANS' HOMES
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act To Restore Longevity Pay
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Amend the Standards by Which Game Wardens May Stop All-terrain Vehicles when Operating on Private Property
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Purchase and Upgrade Trackage of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Create a New Electronic Medical Records Infrastructure
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND THE UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION TO ENSURE THAT OUR TRADE LAWS ARE ENFORCED
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Allow the Town of Wells and the Town of Ogunquit To Amend the Terms of Their Cost-sharing Agreement for Their Community School District and To Provide Each Town the Ability To Withdraw from the Wells-Ogunquit Community School District
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Reduce Noise Caused by Motorcycles and Improve Public Health
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Governor's Ocean Energy Task Force
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Stimulate the Maine Economy and Promote the Development of Maine's Priority Transportation Infrastructure Needs
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Authorize a Bond Issue for Ratification by the Voters for the June 2010 Election To Create Jobs in the State
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Amend the Laws Pertaining to High-stakes Beano
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized Territory Services To Be Rendered in Fiscal Year 2010-11 and To Make Certain Changes in the Laws Governing Tax Increment Financing Payments in the Unorganized Territories
Resolve, To Develop Practices for Developments of State and Regional Significance in Order To Reduce Dependency on Fossil Fuels and Meet the State's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Goals
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act Relating to the Recommendations of the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability Regarding Emergency Communications Services
An Act To Promote the Establishment of Innovative Schools
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Align the Duties of School Boards Concerning Student Safety with the Requirements of the Federal Gun-Free Schools Act and To Prohibit the Discharge of Firearms within 500 Feet of Public and Private School Properties
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Enable the Installation of Broadband Infrastructure
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Clarify Maine's Phaseout of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act Concerning the Allocation of Power Generated by GNE, LLC
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Index the State Minimum Wage to Inflation
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING PARKINSON'S DISEASE AWARENESS MONTH
Sponsor: Leila Percy
Resolve, To Define High-risk Populations for the Purposes of Hospital Surveillance for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus and To Implement Public Law 2009, chapter 346
Sponsor: Herbert Clark
Resolve, To Implement the Recommendations of the Juvenile Justice Task Force
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Establish the Universal Childhood Immunization Program
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Direct the Commissioner of Education To Review the Essential Programs and Services Funding Formula
Sponsor: Edward Finch
An Act To Strengthen the Ballot Initiative Process
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Repeal the Fee Increase for Copies of Vital Records
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Revise Notification Requirements for Pesticides Applications Using Aircraft or Air-carrier Equipment
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Allow Electronic Filing of Vital Records and Closing of Records To Guard against Fraud and Make Other Changes to the Vital Records Laws
Sponsor: Anne Perry
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Maine Health Data Processing Center and the Maine Health Data Organization
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Make Maine's Laws Consistent with the Federal Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Clarify Safety Requirements in Acadia National Park
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Prohibit Surcharges on the Use of Debit Cards
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act Relating to the Membership of the Workers' Compensation Board
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 101: Maine Unified Special Education Regulation, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education
JOINT RESOLUTION IN HONOR OF THE MAINE FARMER AND MAINE AGRICULTURE
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE UNITED STATES NAVY TO NAME A NEW BATH IRON WORKS ARLEIGH BURKE DESTROYER THE USS BELKNAP
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act To Make Supplemental Allocations from the Highway Fund and Other Funds for the Expenditures of State Government and To Change Certain Provisions of State Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Further Amend the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act of 1999
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Advisory Council on Health Systems Development Relating to Payment Reform
An Act To Establish a Broadband Policy for Maine
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Require Insurance Companies To Cover the Cost of Prosthetics Containing Microprocessors
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
Resolve, To Increase Transparency and Accountability and Assess the Impact of Tax Expenditure Programs
Sponsor: John Martin
Resolve, To Continue Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation Options for the State
Resolve, Directing the Right To Know Advisory Committee To Examine Issues Related to Private Information Contained in the Communications of Public Officials
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Update the Laws Affecting the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Sponsor: John Martin
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Amend the Requirements Governing Direct Initiatives
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Review Sales of Dairy Products
An Act To Improve the Laws Governing the Consolidation of School Administrative Units
Sponsor: Edward Finch
JOINT RESOLUTION SUPPORTING FEDERAL FUNDING FOR MARKETING AND PROMOTING SEAFOOD PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
Resolve, Directing the Right To Know Advisory Committee To Further Examine Requirements That Public Bodies Keep Records of Public Proceedings
Resolve, To Prevent the Spread of Invasive Plants and Protect Maine's Lakes
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
JOINT RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE CREATION OF A MAINE BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act To License Home Building and Improvement Contractors
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
Resolve, To Review and Update the Telecommunications Taxation Laws
An Act To Make Corrections to the Life Settlement Laws
Sponsor: Charles Priest
Resolve, Regarding Emergency Communications Services
An Act To Clarify and Amend Laws Pertaining to Licenses Issued by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act Making Supplemental Appropriations and Allocations for the Expenditures of State Government, General Fund and Other Funds, and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011
Sponsor: William Diamond
Resolve, To Direct the Public Utilities Commission and the Public Advocate To Account for Certain Resource Expenditures
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Support the Dairy Industry
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Allow a Maine-chartered Financial Institution To Conduct a Savings Promotion Raffle
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Conform the Maine Tax Laws for 2009 to the United States Internal Revenue Code
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Amend the Motor Vehicle Laws
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
Resolve, Directing the Commissioner of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources To Examine the Collection of the Milk Handling Fee on Packaged Milk for Out-of-state Sales
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 270: Uniform Reporting System for Quality Data Sets, a Major Substantive Rule of the Maine Health Data Organization
An Act To Regulate the Use of Automated License Plate Recognition Systems
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Prevent the Spread of H1N1
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, Regarding the Dispensing of Antiepileptic Drugs
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Increase the Affordability of Clean Energy for Homeowners and Businesses
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Amend the Rights and Liabilities of the Supervising Physician of a Physician Assistant
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Exempt the Town of Hermon from the School Administrative Unit Consolidation Law
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 881: Fees; Chemical Use in Children's Products, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Environmental Protection
An Act To Protect Health Care Consumers from Catastrophic Debt
Sponsor: Thomas Wright
Resolve, To Clarify the Reporting of Debt Service Costs and the Allowance of Minor Capital School Improvement Projects Costs under Essential Programs and Services
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 348: Poultry Slaughter and Processing with Grower/Producer Exemption, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources
Resolve, Regarding Commercial Electricity Customers Whose Bills Increased after a Decrease in Electricity Use
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act To Allow the Electronic Registration of Big Game Animals
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAINE'S CREDIT UNIONS
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Strengthen Collection of Unredeemed Beverage Container Deposits
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Support Collection and Proper Disposal of Unwanted Drugs
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Promote Efficiency and To Streamline Access to the Circuitbreaker Program Application Process
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Implement Recommendations Concerning Domestic Violence and Parental Rights and Responsibilities
An Act To Avoid Unnecessary Removal of Land from the Maine Tree Growth Tax Law Program
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 37: Voluntary Municipal Farm Support Program, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Right To Know Advisory Committee Concerning Public Records Exceptions
An Act To Create the Children's Wireless Protection Act
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act Regarding Community-based Renewable Energy
Sponsor: Herbert Adams
An Act To Clarify the Enforcement Role of the Mixed Martial Arts Authority of Maine
Sponsor: Matthew Peterson
An Act To Update the Laws Affecting the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Licensing and Regulatory Services
Sponsor: Elizabeth Miller
An Act Regarding the Laws Governing Data Collection and Marketing Practices Directed at Minors
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Exempt Certain Necessary School Auxiliary Buildings for New Heating Systems from Referendum Requirements
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Improve Oversight of Pharmaceutical Purchasing
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Expand the Opportunity for Persons To Acquire Health Care Coverage under the State's "Mini-COBRA" Program
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Create a Saltwater Recreational Fishing Registry
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Somerset County Budget Procedure
Sponsor: Philip Curtis
Resolve, Directing the Maine Human Rights Commission To Report on Improvements
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, To Create a Working Group To Review the Property Tax Exemption for Veterans
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Strengthen the Laws against Cruelty to Animals
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 2: Standards for Qualifications of Assigned Counsel, a Major Substantive Rule of the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services
An Act To Regulate the Transportation of Firewood
Sponsor: John Martin
Resolve, Directing the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation To Study the Complaint Resolution Process
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act Regarding Document Fees at County Registries of Deeds
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act Containing the Recommendations of the Criminal Law Advisory Commission
An Act To Improve Dental Insurance Coverage for Maine Children
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Working Group To Study Landlord and Tenant Issues
An Act To Improve Maine's Air Quality and Reduce Regional Haze at Acadia National Park and Other Federally Designated Class I Areas
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, Regarding a Report on the Status of Federal Ship Ballast Water Discharge Rules
Sponsor: Herbert Adams
An Act To Provide Protections for Consumers Subject to Mandatory Arbitration Clauses
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Establish the Silver Alert Program
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
JOINT RESOLUTION ENDORSING TAIWAN'S PARTICIPATION AS AN OBSERVER IN THE MEETINGS AND ACTIVITIES OF THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIZATION AND THE UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Expand Options in Child Protection Proceedings for Children in Foster Care
Sponsor: Mark Bryant
An Act To Clarify the Construction Subcontractor Status of the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992
An Act To Amend the Maine Certificate of Need Act of 2002 Concerning Right of Entry and Investigation
Sponsor: Elizabeth Miller
An Act To Improve Toxics Use Reduction and Reduce Energy Costs by Maine Businesses
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Extend Access to Federal Health Insurance Premium Assistance
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Establish a Duty To Report Serious Injuries
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
JOINT RESOLUTION COMMEMORATING THE HOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS CENTER OF MAINE'S LEGISLATIVE AWARENESS DAY AND YOM HASHOAH, THE DAY OF REMEMBRANCE
Sponsor: Leila Percy
JOINT RESOLUTION TO RECOGNIZE APRIL AS DONATE LIFE MONTH IN MAINE
Sponsor: Ann Peoples
An Act To Amend Provisions of Certain Laws Relating to Fish and Wildlife
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Facilitate Voting by Uniformed Service and Overseas Voters
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Strengthen Protection from Abuse and Protection from Harassment Laws
Sponsor: Deborah Pelletier-Simpson
Resolve, Regarding Energy Conservation through Voltage Regulation
Sponsor: Deborah Pelletier-Simpson
An Act To Improve Access to Data in the Central Voter Registration System
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Strengthen the Job Creation Through Educational Opportunity Program
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING ROBERT L. WOODBURY, THE LATE CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MAINE SYSTEM
Sponsor: Leila Percy
Resolve, Concerning the Proper Disposal of Motor Fuels Containing Ethanol
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Provide for Legislative Review of Recently Proposed Revisions to Certain Rules Adopted Pursuant to the Site Location of Development Laws and the Storm Water Management Laws
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
Resolve, Directing the Right To Know Advisory Committee To Examine Issues Related to Communications of Members of Public Bodies
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Facilitate Communication between the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Revenue Services and the Department of Conservation, Bureau of Forestry
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Kennebec Water District
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Amend the Electric Utility Industry Laws as They Relate to Renewable Resources
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 285: Adjustment of Non-bank Mortgage Lender Fees To Fund Investigative and Legal Compliance Personnel, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation
An Act To Correct Errors and Inconsistencies in Marine Resources Laws
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Create a Smart Grid Policy in the State
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Establish Emergency Zones on Public Ways To Minimize Accidents
Sponsor: Earle Mccormick
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 15: Batterer Intervention Program Certification, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Corrections
An Act Concerning Litigation Brought by the Attorney General To Enforce Provisions of the Forest Practices Laws
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Protect Universal Service
Sponsor: Stacey Fitts
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Taste Testing of Alcoholic Beverages by Retail Licensees
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Streamline Collections for Consumer-owned Consolidated Water and Wastewater Utilities
Sponsor: Stacey Fitts
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 21, Allowances for Home and Community Benefits for Members with Mental Retardation or Autistic Disorder, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 11: Rules Governing the Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Substance Abuse
An Act To Include All Children in the Conditions of Education Report
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 28: Notification Provisions for Outdoor Pesticide Applications, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, Board of Pesticides Control
Resolve, Directing the Public Utilities Commission To Address Public Safety Issues Relating to Disconnection of Certain Utilities
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
Resolve, Directing the Department of Transportation To Place Signs at the Interstate Exits in Pittsfield Directing Motorists to Maine Central Institute
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Amend the Animal Welfare Laws
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Clarify the Child Abuse or Neglect Substantiation Process
Sponsor: David Hastings
An Act To Clarify the Informed Growth Act
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Amend the Law Pertaining to Smoke Detectors and Carbon Monoxide Detectors
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Stimulate the Economy by Expanding Opportunities for Direct Support Aides
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Amend the Sex Offender Registration Laws
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Authorize an Alternative Calculation of the Property Growth Factor for Municipalities with Exempt Personal Property
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Improve Disclosure of Campaign Finance Information and the Operation of the Maine Clean Election Act
An Act To Clarify the Marine Resources Laws To Provide for the Protection of Public Safety and Welfare
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO ENACT A STRONG FEDERAL CLEAN ENERGY AND CLIMATE BILL
Sponsor: Charles Harlow
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO ENACT THE LYME AND TICK-BORNE DISEASE PREVENTION, EDUCATION, AND RESEARCH ACT OF 2009
Sponsor: Thomas Wright
Resolve, Directing the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife To Adopt Rules Clarifying Fish Stocking Decisions
Sponsor: Robert Duchesne
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING SUNSHINE WEEK
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act Regarding the Law Governing Recreational Vehicle Manufacturers, Distributors and Dealers
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Amend the Election Laws and Other Related Laws
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Create a Commercial Pelagic and Anadromous Fishing License and Establish the Pelagic and Anadromous Fisheries Fund
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING FRANCO-AMERICAN DAY
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act To Protect Maine Citizens' Credit
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Stabilize Funding for Hazardous Material Emergency Response by the Department of Environmental Protection and Enhance Response Efforts of the Maine Emergency Management Agency
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Protect Confidential Consumer Records in Self-service Storage Facilities
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 97, Private Non-Medical Institution Services, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Regarding Review of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources under the State Government Evaluation Act
JOINT RESOLUTION IN HONOR OF ST. PATRICK'S DAY AND IN RECOGNITION OF THE IRISH CONTRIBUTION TO MAINE AND TO THE UNITED STATES
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act To Ensure Search and Rescue Dogs Are Afforded Access to Public Accommodations without an Extra Charge
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO MAKE EXEMPTIONS FROM THE ETHANOL FUEL PROVISIONS OF THE FEDERAL CLEAN AIR ACT OF 1990
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act Regarding Planning for the Management of Solid Waste
An Act To Exempt from the Sales Tax Meals Provided at Retirement Facilities
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act Concerning the National Animal Identification System
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
An Act To Amend Mercury Stack Testing Requirements for Certain Air Emission Sources
An Act Regarding Solid Waste Facilities
Resolve, To Ensure Consistency in the Scheduled Expiration of Terms of the Board Members of the Finance Authority of Maine
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Close Loopholes in Environmental Laws
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Promote Opportunity for Workers in the Maine Woods
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Gardiner Water District
Sponsor: Earle Mccormick
An Act To Extend the Temporary Reduction in High-stakes Beano License Fees
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act Enabling Expedited Partner Therapy
Sponsor: Anne Haskell
An Act To Update and Modernize Maine's Floodplain Mapping
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Amend the Definition of "Farmers' Market"
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act Regarding the Maternal and Infant Death Review Panel
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 9: Rule Requiring Best Management Practices for Growing Crops To Minimize Cross Contamination, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources
An Act To Facilitate Recovery Zone Facility Bonds, Recovery Zone Economic Development Bonds and Qualified Energy Conservation Bonds
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Clarify the Status of Prisoners
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Section 16 Activities in Coastal Sand Dunes, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Environmental Protection
An Act To Establish a Policy of Communication and Consultation on Issues Affecting Tribal Communities of the Passamaquoddy Tribe
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 2: Change of Use, Downsizing, or Closure of Correctional Facilities, a Major Substantive Rule of the State Board of Corrections
An Act To Ensure That Maine's Energy Corridor Policy Does Not Harm Maine's Renewable Power Development
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Adopt a Drug Benefit Equity Law
Sponsor: Peter Mills
Resolve, Regarding Waste-to-energy Power
Sponsor: Sheryl Briggs
Resolve, Naming the Bridge over Pattagumpus Stream the Nicatou Bridge
Sponsor: Douglas Smith
An Act To Base the Excise Tax on Vehicles on a Percentage of the Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
Sponsor: Douglas Smith
An Act To Modernize the Bingo Laws
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act Regarding Accidental Death Benefits for Beneficiaries of Deceased Firefighters
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Display the Homeland Security Advisory System at Public Transportation Facilities
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Provide Leadership Regarding the Responsible Recycling of Consumer Products
Sponsor: John Martin
Resolve, To Allow for the Proper Disposal of Medical Supplies
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Amend the Lobster Meat Laws and Expand Economic Opportunity for Maine's Lobster Industry
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Promote Geothermal Energy
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Create the Buckfield Water District
Sponsor: Terry Hayes
An Act To Amend the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992 Regarding Coordination of Benefits
An Act To Enhance Cooperation between the Workers' Compensation Board's Abuse Investigation Unit and Other State Agencies and To Ensure Equal Application of the Requirement To Obtain Coverage
An Act Regarding Liquor Licenses for Qualified Catering Services
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act Regarding Maine Public Employees Retirement System Life Insurance Policies
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Dexter Utility District
Sponsor: Douglas Thomas
An Act To Bolster Maine's Social Safety Net through Voluntary Sales Tax Contributions
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Amend the Laws Relating to Government Records
Sponsor: Deborah Pelletier-Simpson
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Taste Testing of Alcoholic Beverages
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Maintain Compliance of Maine's Insurance Laws with National Standards
Sponsor: Sharon Treat
An Act To Enhance Newborn Blood Spot Screening To Conform to Federal Newborn Screening Standards
Sponsor: Patricia Jones
An Act To Align Education Laws with Certain Federal Laws
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 232: Well Drillers and Pump Installers Rules, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
Sponsor: Anne Perry
An Act To Facilitate Establishment of Watershed Districts
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Expedite Rulemaking Concerning Agronomic Utilization of Sludge
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Streamline the Renewal Process for a Permit To Carry a Firearm
Sponsor: Gary Connor
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of the Repeal of Chapter 182: Formula for Distribution of Funds to Child Development Services Regional Sites, a Major Substantive Rule That Has Been Provisionally Repealed by the Department of Education
An Act To Require the State To Pay the Costs of School Administration Consolidation
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Require That a Utility Company Notify the Owner of Property prior to Disconnecting Services
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Allow the Secretary of State to Issue a State Commercial Driver's License to the Holder of a Military Commercial Driver's License
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Clarify the Laws Governing Instant Redeemable Coupons Included with a Spirits Product
Sponsor: Stacey Fitts
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of the Repeal of Chapter 181: Child Development Services System: Regional Provider Advisory Boards, a Major Substantive Rule That Has Been Provisionally Repealed by the Department of Education
An Act To Prevent Predatory Signature Gathering and Ensure a Clean Citizen Initiative and People's Veto Process
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Enhance Public Awareness of Lyme Disease
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Provide the Finance Authority of Maine with Flexible Health Care Options
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Eliminate the 3-trap Limit in the Waters of the State
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Encourage Veterinary Practice in Maine and Make Revisions to Related Medical Education Programs Administered by the Finance Authority of Maine
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
Resolve, To Increase the Financial Stability of Low-income Families in Maine
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Protect Elderly Residents from Losing Their Homes Due to Taxes or Foreclosure
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act To Make Allocations from Maine Turnpike Authority Funds for the Maine Turnpike Authority for the Calendar Year Ending December 31, 2011
An Act Concerning Technical Changes to the Tax Laws
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Amend the Laws That Provide an Exemption for Agricultural Guard Dogs from Municipal Ordinances Governing Barking Dogs
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Protect Consumers from Charges after a Free Trial Period
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
JOINT RESOLUTION DECLARING FEBRUARY 25, 2010 SPAY DAY MAINE 2010
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
Resolve, To Enhance Protection of Maine Farms and Nurseries
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Provide Funding To Educate Homeowners in Integrated Pest Management
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Assist in Reviewing Wind Energy Applications
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Reallocate Funds for a Position at the Public Utilities Commission
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO ISSUE THE $250 ONE-TIME PAYMENT TO SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS
Sponsor: Walter Wheeler
An Act To Protect Information Maintained by Registers of Deeds
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Remove the Age Limit Governing When a Court Must Consider the Wishes of a Child in a Proceeding for the Termination of Parental Rights
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Provide for the 2010 and 2011 Allocations of the State Ceiling on Private Activity Bonds
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Amend Laws Administered by the Department of Environmental Protection
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
JOINT RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE ANNUAL WASHINGTON JUNETEENTH NATIONAL HOLIDAY OBSERVANCE
Sponsor: Charles Theriault
An Act To Facilitate Uniformity Regarding Exemption from Registration of Certain Securities Offerings
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Amend the Loan Originator Registration Laws
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
Resolve, To Develop Model Academic Year Calendars
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Change the Requirements for the Sales Tax Exemption for Snowmobile Trail Grooming Equipment
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
Resolve, To Direct the Department of Conservation To Seek To Acquire Public Access to the Dead River
Sponsor: Peter Mills
Resolve, Directing the Department of Transportation To Review the Fiscal Impact on the State of the Closure of the Railroad Track between Madawaska and Millinocket
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act Regarding Gaming by Charitable Organizations
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Authorize Sanitary Districts, Water Utilities and Sewer Districts To Waive an Automatic Lien Foreclosure
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act To Change the Penalties for Writing Bad Checks
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Facilitate the Involvement of the Office of the Public Advocate in the FairPoint Communications Bankruptcy Case
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding the Unlawful Use of License or Identification Card
Sponsor: Anne Haskell
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 26: Producer Margins, a Major Substantive Rule of the Maine Milk Commission
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Caribou Utilities District
Sponsor: Peter Edgecomb
An Act To Provide for the Safety of Maine Athletes
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Improve the Ability of the Commissioner of Corrections To Respond in Special Situations
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Update the Laws Concerning the Maine School of Science and Mathematics
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Create the Lincolnville Sewer District
Sponsor: Carol Weston
An Act Relating to the Maine Aeronautical Advisory Board
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Create Regional Quality of Place Investment Strategies for High-value Jobs, Products and Services in Maine
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
Resolve, To Review Certification Requirements for Installation of Solar Photovoltaic Systems
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Encourage Extended Stays in Maine Waters
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Reimburse Pharmacies under the MaineCare Program Based on Wholesale Acquisition Costs
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Form a Western Maine Regional School Unit
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Require the Bureau of Motor Vehicles To Accept Certification of Disability from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Establish a Local Option Sales Tax
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act Concerning the Establishment of Water Levels
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Require the Department of Education To Calculate Subsidy on the Basis of Membership in a Regional School Unit or an Alternative Organizational Structure and as if the School Administrative Unit Had Not Reorganized as of 2009
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Require the Department of Education To Provide an Accounting of School Subsidy Based on Individual Members in a Regional School Unit or Alternative Organizational Structure
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Create Fair Education Funding for Regional School Units
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Ensure the Availability of Alcohol-free Motor Fuels
Sponsor: Michael Willette
An Act To Facilitate an Increase in Sales of Motor Vehicles
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Allow a Municipality To Withdraw from a Regional School Unit
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Provide More Information to the Public Advocate
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Improve the Availability, Efficiency and Cost of Services for Infants, Young Children and Their Families
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Enhance the Small Enterprise Growth Fund
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Expand the Use of Ignition Interlock Devices
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO FULFILL THE INTENT TO FUND 40% OF THE COSTS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND TO END UNFUNDED MANDATES
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Support the Development of Maine's Economic Future by Promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education
An Act To Require That Marine Resources Dealers Purchase Only from Licensed Harvesters
Sponsor: Robert Eaton
An Act To Direct Funds from the Highway Fund to the Highway and Bridge Light Capital Program
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the We Support Our Troops Registration Plates
Sponsor: Donald Pilon
An Act To Update Laws Regulating the Maine Emergency Management Agency
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
Resolve, Authorizing the State Tax Assessor To Convey the Interest of the State in Certain Real Estate in the Unorganized Territory
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Provide Continued Protection of Benefits for Retirees of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Make Technical Changes to the Laws Governing the Practice of Law
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Clarify the Application of Certain Statutory Requirements to Foreclosures
Sponsor: Sharon Treat
An Act To Bring the Laws of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System into Compliance with the Federal Internal Revenue Code
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
JOINT RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF THE NEW ENGLAND SECONDARY SCHOOL CONSORTIUM
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Provide a Sales Tax Exemption for Commemorative Items Honoring Veterans
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Amend the Law Governing Sales Tax Exemptions for Certain Nonprofit Youth Organizations
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
Resolve, Directing the Department of Labor To Research and Analyze the Methods Other States Utilize To Assess Benefit Charges When a Worker Becomes Unemployed and Receives Benefits
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Allow Deer Hunting in Owls Head during Firearms Season with Shotguns Only
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Expand Tax Incentives for Visual Media Productions
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Ensure the Perpetual Care of Maine Veterans' Cemeteries
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Increase Financial Assets of Maine Citizens by Allowing Split Tax Refunds
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Modernize the Laws Governing the State's Cultural Agencies
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Prohibit the Use of Personal Watercraft on Wilson Pond
Sponsor: Robert Duchesne
An Act To Encourage Tourism by Ensuring the Safety, Accessibility and Availability of Highway Rest Stops and Scenic Overlooks
Sponsor: Douglas Thomas
An Act To Increase Payments to Agents Who Provide Tags for Wild Game
Sponsor: Herbert Clark
An Act To Authorize Municipal Officers To Resolve Road-naming Disputes
Sponsor: Veronica Magnan
An Act Regarding Mobile Service Bars at Municipal Golf Courses
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Prevent the Spread of Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Sponsor: Gary Connor
An Act To Dedicate Surplus Transportation Funds to Highway Maintenance and Paving
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Exempt from Penalties School Administrative Units That Would Lose Subsidy as a Result of Reorganization
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Ensure Rights to Children for Caretaker Relatives
Sponsor: Anne Haskell
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF THE NAVY TO TRANSFER THE USS JOHN F. KENNEDY TO THE NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION "JFK FOR ME" FOR THE PURPOSE OF LOCATING THE SHIP IN PORTLAND HARBOR
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act To Permit Video Gaming for Money Conducted by Nonprofit Organizations
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE MAINE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TO OPPOSE LOW-LEVEL FLIGHTS IN WESTERN MAINE
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Provide Constitutional Protection to the Funds Generated by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAINE ADULT EDUCATION
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act To Improve Safety on Maine's Primary and Secondary Roads, Reduce Road Maintenance Costs and Improve the Environment and the Economy by Allowing Certain Heavy Commercial Vehicles on the Interstate Highway System in Maine
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act Pertaining to Educational Benefits for Veterans and Their Dependents
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Raise the Indebtedness Limit of the Eagle Lake Water and Sewer District
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 700: Wellhead Protection: Siting of Facilities That Pose a Significant Threat to Drinking Water, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Environmental Protection
An Act To Amend the Current Moose Permit System and Preference Point System in Maine
Sponsor: John Piotti
An Act To Make Maine Laws Consistent with Recent Amendments to the United States Trade Act of 1974
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Correct Errors in the Laws Relating to Unlicensed Practice and Other Provisions of the Professional and Occupational Licensing Laws
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
Resolve, To Name Route 16/27 in the Town of Stratton the Caleb Dalton Stevens Memorial Highway
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Allow the Board of Dental Examiners To Grant Permits to Qualified Individuals To Practice as Dental Residents
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 692: Siting of Oil Storage Facilities, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Environmental Protection
Resolve, To Authorize the Placement of a Sign at Saddleback Mountain
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Improve Health Insurance Security
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Impose Service Requirements on Railroads That Receive Funds from the Department of Transportation
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
Resolve, To Study Expenditures for Oral Health Care in the MaineCare Program
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Create a Position at the Public Utilities Commission
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Clarify the Educational Requirements for Eligibility for Examination for Licensure as a Certified Public Accountant
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Adjust the Milk Handling Fee
An Act To Update and Clarify Polygraph Examiner and Private Investigator Licensing Laws Administered by the Department of Public Safety
Sponsor: Anne Haskell
An Act To Streamline Wine Registration Requirements
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Task Force on the Sustainability of the Dairy Industry in Maine
An Act To Join the Interstate Compact on the National Popular Vote
Sponsor: John Martin
Resolve, To Name a Bridge in North Berwick the North Berwick Veterans Memorial Bridge
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act To Clarify the State's Initiative Involving the Federal Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008
Sponsor: Alexander du Houx
An Act Regarding Saltwater Recreational Fishing
Sponsor: Leila Percy
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Increase the Required Number of Signatures for a Direct Initiative or a People's Veto and To Limit a Direct Initiative to One Subject
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Fund the Screening and Early Detection Elements of the Statewide Cancer Plan
Sponsor: Joan Welsh
Resolve, To Reclaim Past Unredeemed Beverage Container Deposits
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Aid Municipalities and the Unorganized Territory in the Reduction of Property Taxes
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act To Enact the Uniform Debt Management Services Act
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Establish Area Management of Maine's Scallop Fishery
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Increase Consumer Choice Regarding Service Contracts
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, To Transfer the Ownership of the Bath Armory to the City of Bath
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Require Internet Service Providers To Retain Records
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Preserve the "We Support Our Troops" Registration Plate
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Remove the Requirement That the Annual Budget of a Regional School Unit Must Be Approved at a Budget Validation Referendum
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Ensure That Substantial State Contracts Receive Adequate Legal Review
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Implement a Maine Unemployment Insurance Work-sharing Program
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Authorize Maine Media College To Confer the Degree of Master of Fine Arts
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Exempt Certain Mobile Homes from the Radon Testing Requirement
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Increase the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Licensing Behavioral Health Care Providers
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Phase Out the Distribution of the Disproportionate Tax Burden Fund under the State-municipal Revenue Sharing Program over a 5-year Period
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Allocate Prospective Federal Funding To Support Maine's Dairy Industry
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Simplify the Application for Benefits under the Circuitbreaker Program
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Fund Energy Efficiency Investments for Maine's Future
An Act To Adopt Portions of the Uniform Mediation Act
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Strengthen Maine's Financial Future in Perpetuity
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Create a Traffic Court
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Establish a Single-payer Health Care System
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Improve the Transparency of Certain Hospitals
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Amend the Excise Tax on Motor Vehicles To Reflect Depreciation
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Ensure Services for Adults with Developmental Disabilities
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Improve and Promote Maine's Landlocked Salmon Resources
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Prevent Price Gouging in the Sale of Milk
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Establish the Health Technology Clinical Committee
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
Resolve, To Enhance Health Care for Direct Care Workers
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
Resolve, To Establish the Blue Ribbon Commission To Study the Functions and Operations of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, Authorizing the Transfer of State Land to the Natural Resource Education Center of Greenville
Sponsor: Peter Johnson
An Act To Establish the Maine Transmission Mitigation Trust Fund
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Sustain Nursing Education in Lincoln County
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Clarify Public Sector Employee Fair Choice in Collective Bargaining
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Ensure Electric Capacity To Serve Maine Consumers
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Alter the Distribution of Maine Clean Election Act Funding to Gubernatorial Candidates
Sponsor: Michael Carey
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Initiative To Streamline State Government and To Make Other Necessary Changes to Law
Resolve, To Name the New Bridge over Gilman Stream in New Portland the Joshua Bernard Memorial Bridge
Sponsor: Wright Pinkham
An Act To Increase the Minimum Wage
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Restrict Gifts to Health Care Practitioners from Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Manufacturers
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Expand the Economic Development Benefit of Tax Increment Financing in Counties That Include Unorganized Territories
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Enhance Maine's Clean Energy Opportunities
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Protect Residential Consumers of Home Heating Fuel
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Commission To Study the Protection of Farms and Farmland Pertaining to Taxation
Sponsor: Thomas Saviello
An Act To Provide an Exception to the Pine Tree Development Zone Requirements for Seafood Processing Businesses
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Capitalize the Municipal Investment Trust Fund with Municipal Revenue-sharing Resources
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Reimburse Debra Bilodeau for Her Expenses Incurred in Connection with Her Petition for Appointment as a Foster Parent
Sponsor: Patsy Crockett
An Act To Provide a Sales Tax Refund for Fuel Used in Commercial Agricultural Production
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Authorize Bond Issues for Ratification by the Voters for the November 2009 and June and November 2010 Elections
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Provide Assistance to Family Members, Friends and Neighbors Who Provide Home Health Care for Senior Citizens
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Protect Family Caregivers
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Exempt Fuel Used by Commercial Fishing Vessels from the Sales Tax
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Restore the Historical Town Boundary between Harpswell and Brunswick
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act To Allow the Town of Baldwin Eligibility for Full Pine Tree Development Zone Benefits
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Increase the Safety of Maine State Troopers
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Suspend the Cost-of-living Adjustment for Legislators' Salaries for the First Regular Session of the 124th Legislature
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Promote Forest Certification and Long-term Forest Management
Sponsor: Thomas Watson
An Act To Encourage the Production of Liquid Biofuels
Sponsor: Steven Butterfield
An Act To Fund Fully the Purchase of Military Time
Sponsor: Paul Davis
An Act To Require the State To Provide Bonita Rogan with Health Insurance Benefits
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act Regarding Bail Defaults and the Extradition Account
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act To Increase the Percentage of Retired Teachers' Health Insurance Paid by the State
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Provide Tax Relief to Workers Who Lose Their Jobs Due to Business Closure
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
Resolve, To Promote Partnerships between the University of Maine System and the Maine Business Community
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Encourage Clean Fuel Vehicle Economic and Infrastructure Development by Extending the Tax Credit
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
Resolve, To Ensure Appropriate Personal Needs Allowances for Persons Residing in Long-term Care Facilities
Sponsor: Charles Theriault
An Act To Clarify the Role of the Public Advocate
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
An Act Regarding the Payment of Medicare Part B Premiums for Employees Eligible for Medicare
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Provide Free Admission to State Parks to All Maine Veterans
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Reaffirm Maine's Commitment to Business by Amending the Pine Tree Development Zone Laws
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Bring Equity to the Sea Urchin License Fees
Sponsor: David Trahan
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Bottle Redemption
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Protect Maine Citizens and Franchised New Car and Truck Dealers
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act Regarding Alcoholic Beverage Tastings
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Amend the Certificate of Need Act of 2002 for Nursing Facility Projects
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
Resolve, To Establish the Study Commission Regarding Teachers' Compensation
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Add Combat Action Badges and Ribbons to the Special Commemorative Decals for Veterans License Plates
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
Resolve, Regarding Building Energy Efficiency and Carbon Performance Ratings
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
Resolve, To Expand Access to Renewable Energy Programs
Sponsor: Herbert Adams
An Act To Allow a Court To Award Attorney's Fees in Successful Freedom of Access Appeals
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Amend the Time Frame for Towns To Certify Citizen Initiative Signatures
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Establish the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Task Force on the Use of Deadly Force by Law Enforcement Officers Against Individuals Suffering From Mental Illness
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act To Modernize the Tax Laws and Provide over $50,000,000 to Residents of the State in Tax Relief
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Clarify Land Use Regulation in Unorganized and Deorganized Townships
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
Resolve, To Establish the Task Force on Kinship Families
Sponsor: Richard Rosen
An Act To Promote Youth Hunting License Sales
Sponsor: Deborah Pelletier-Simpson
An Act To Amend the Tax Exemption Regarding Leased Property
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
Resolve, To Conduct an Updated Study of the Feasibility of Establishing a Single-payor Health Care System in the State and the Impact of Any Federal Health Care Reform
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Increase the Jurisdictional Limit for Small Claims
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Amend the Motor Vehicle Laws
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Include Commercial Silvicultural Crop Production in the Sales Tax Exemption for Certain Products Used in Commercial Agricultural Crop Production Activities
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Track the Prevalence of Childhood Obesity in Maine
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Extend the Exception to Axle Fines during the Midwinter Season
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Amend the Laws Pertaining to Refusing To Submit to Arrest or Detention
Sponsor: Earle Mccormick
Resolve, Directing the Department of Transportation To Secure Funding To Complete the Aroostook North-South Highway Project
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act Concerning Technical Changes to the Tax Laws
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Provide a Waiver of the Tuition Remaining after the Application of Federal Department of Veterans Affairs Payments to Veterans Eligible for Benefits under the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act Making Unified Highway Fund and Other Funds Allocations for the Expenditures of State Government and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2009, June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Allow the Licensing of Minibars in Hotel Rooms
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Authorize the Social Work Education Loan Repayment Program
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Provide Placards to Drivers Who for Medical Reasons Are Not Required To Wear Seat Belts
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Direct Fines Derived from Tribal Law Enforcement Activities to the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Establish a Health Care Bill of Rights
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING CERTAIN NATIONAL PRIVATE ENTITIES TO HONOR MAINE BASEBALL GREAT LOUIS SOCKALEXIS AND TO AFFORD APPROPRIATE RESPECT TO NATIVE AMERICAN ATHLETES
Sponsor: Peter Edgecomb
An Act To Allow Military Personnel Living in Maine To Benefit under the Maine Resident Homestead Property Tax Exemption
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Improve Opportunity in the Maine Woods
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Amend the Surcharge for the E-9-1-1 System
Sponsor: Richard Cleary
An Act Clarifying the Manner in Which a Person's Alcohol Level Is Determined under Maine Law
Sponsor: William Diamond
Resolve, To Review Changing the Duties of the State Board of Education
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine Regarding Early Voting
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission To Study Long-term Home-based and Community-based Care
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Provide Funding for the Highway Fund Biennial Budget
Sponsor: Charles Theriault
An Act To Clarify the Application of the Public Works Minimum Wage Laws
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Ensure that Replacement Culverts Permit Fish Passage
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act Regarding Violations of Lobster Conservation Laws
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Create a Working Group To Study Landlord and Tenant Issues
Sponsor: John Tuttle
An Act To Encourage Maine Residents To Attend Medical School and Practice in Maine
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Promote Fairness and Protect Economic Development in Transportation Projects Undertaken by the State
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act Relating to Death Benefits for Certain Law Enforcement Officers and Amending the Definition of Emergency Vehicles
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Correct Errors and Inconsistencies in the Laws of Maine
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Axle Weights
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Improve the Ability of the Department of Education To Conduct Longitudinal Data Studies
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Enhance Motorcycle Safety
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act Regarding the Pay of Tribal Representatives
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Clarify the Rights of Bondholders and Noteholders in the Event a School Administrative Unit with Outstanding Bonds or Notes Is Dissolved or Is No Longer Authorized by Law
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Tournament Games
Sponsor: Richard Blanchard
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 61: State Board of Education Rules for Major Capital School Construction Projects, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education
Sponsor: Robert Hunt
An Act To Amend the Maine Certificate of Need Act of 2002 To Change Nursing Facilities Review Thresholds for Energy Efficiency Projects and for Replacement Equipment
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Establish a Distracted Driver Law
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Protect Benefits for State Retirees
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Limestone Water and Sewer District
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act Allowing Workers' Compensation Benefits for Firefighters Who Contract Cancer
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Prohibit the Delivery of Tobacco Products to Minors
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Update Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management Laws
Sponsor: Debra Plowman
An Act Regarding the Transfer of Patient Health Care Information through an Electronic Health Information Exchange
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Maine Children's Growth Council
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Continue the Position of Director of Recreational Access and Landowner Relations
Sponsor: Thomas Watson
An Act To Implement Tax Relief and Tax Reform
Sponsor: Thomas Watson
An Act To Encourage Renewable Energy Investment
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Stimulate the Maine Economy by Allowing the Federal First-time Home Buyer Tax Credit To Be Used at Closing of a Real Estate Transaction
Sponsor: Richard Cleary
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Reduce the Size of the Legislature
Sponsor: Bruce Bickford
An Act To Enact the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Increase Access to Nutrition Information
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act Regarding Maine's Energy Future
An Act Pertaining to the Breeding and Selling of Dogs and Cats and Equitable Funding of Animal Welfare
Sponsor: Thomas Saviello
JOINT RESOLUTION TO HONOR ANDREW SOCKALEXIS
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, Authorizing the Joint Standing Committee on Legal and Veterans Affairs To Report Out Legislation Regarding the Expansion of Slot Machine and Casino-style Gambling
Sponsor: Thomas Watson
An Act To Enhance Maine's Electronic Waste Recycling Law
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Improve Landfill Capacity
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Preserve Home Ownership and Stabilize the Economy by Preventing Unnecessary Foreclosures
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, Relating to a Review of International Trade Agreements and the Management of Groundwater Resources
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Simplify the Assessment of E-9-1-1 Surcharges on Prepaid Wireless Telecommunications Service
Sponsor: Stacey Fitts
An Act To Amend the 1980 Maine Implementing Act To Authorize the Establishment of a Tribal Court for the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians and Related Matters
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Amend the Maine Clean Election Laws Governing Gubernatorial Candidates
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Adopt the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act Making Supplemental Appropriations and Allocations for the Expenditures of State Government, General Fund and Other Funds, and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2009, June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Ensure That Construction Workers Are Protected by Workers' Compensation Insurance
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Establish a Unicameral Legislature
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Make Certain Changes to the Laws Regarding E-9-1-1 Surcharge Collection from Prepaid Wireless and Voice over Internet Protocol Providers
Sponsor: Sean Flaherty
An Act To Require Legislative Consultation and Approval Prior to Committing the State to Binding International Trade Agreements
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Amend the Review and Approval Process of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan
Sponsor: Charles Theriault
An Act To Amend the Law Regarding Littering on Public Lands
Sponsor: Thomas Watson
An Act To Amend Certain Laws Related to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Alter the Mechanism by which a Political Party is a Qualified Party
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Allow for a Dual Liquor License
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Provide a Sales Tax Holiday Pilot Project
Sponsor: Windol Weaver
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO SUPPORT NATIONAL GUARD FACILITIES
Sponsor: Thomas Wright
An Act To Require Citizen Notification of Pesticide Applications Using Aerial Spray or Air-carrier Application Equipment
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Amend the Maine Certificate of Need Act of 2002
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Consolidation of School Administrative Units To Delay All Penalties for One Year
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
An Act Regarding the Transfer of Licenses for Energy Recovery Facilities
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Renovate Classrooms, Laboratories and Other Essential Teaching and Learning Facilities in the University of Maine System and the Maine Community College System
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Fund Energy Investments for Maine's Future
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Improve State Parks
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for School Construction and Renovation Projects That Demonstrate Cost Savings
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Weatherize and Upgrade the Energy Efficiency of Maine Homes and Businesses and To Provide a Trained Workforce
Sponsor: John Martin
Resolve, Relating To Review of Certain Changes in the Application of the Sales and Use Tax Law
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Assist the University of Maine System in the Conversion of the Educational Broadband Spectrum from Analog to Digital
Sponsor: Charles Theriault
An Act To Permit Charter Schools in Maine
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Enhance Funding for Stem Cell Research in Maine
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Allow Smelt Fishing in Metallak Brook, Upper Richardson Lake
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Establish the Maine Farmland Fund and Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Support Maine's Traditional Industries
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Establish the Maine Fuel Board
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for Affordable Housing
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Conform State Mortgage Laws with Federal Laws
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for Economic Recovery
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for Energy Conservation
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Support Small Businesses' Access to Capital
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for the Land for Maine's Future Board
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Stabilize Funding and Enable DirigoChoice To Reach More Uninsured
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for Repairs to Traditional Meetinghouses
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for Research and Development
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Rebuild a Bulkhead and Wharf at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Create a New Health Care Internet Infrastructure
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Ensure a Uniform Comprehensive State Policy Regarding Residency Restrictions for Sex Offenders
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for the Construction of a Multiuse Arena in Bangor
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
Resolve, To Establish a Transition Adjustment for Fiscal Year 2009-10
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for the Land for Maine's Future Board
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Fund Research and Development for Cancer
Sponsor: Thomas Wright
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for Wastewater Treatment Facilities and Drinking Water Programs
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for the Purchase and Protection of Traditional Hunting Grounds
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for Research and Development To Stimulate Maine's Innovation Economy
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue for Capital Projects for Hospitals
Sponsor: Seth Berry
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Promote Sustainable Green Housing
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Amend the Animal Welfare Laws
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Finance the Acquisition of Land and Interest in Land for Public Land and Water Access, Conservation, Wildlife and Fish Habitats, Outdoor Recreation Including Hunting and Fishing and Farmland Preservation and To Access Matching Contributions from Public and Private Sources
Sponsor: Mark Eves
Resolve, To Reduce Funding to Maine Clean Election Act Candidates
Sponsor: Earle Mccormick
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Maintain Train Quiet Zone Status in Millinocket
Sponsor: Herbert Clark
An Act To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Fund the Communities for Maine's Future Program
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Facilitate Disclosure of Information to Taxpayer Representatives
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Clarify the Beano and Bingo Laws as They Apply to Federally Recognized Indian Tribes
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act Regarding the Operation of County Jails and the State Board of Corrections
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Expand Representation on the Animal Welfare Advisory Council
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Alien Big Game and Turkey Hunters and Nonresident Hunters
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
Resolve, To Further Regulate the Use of Tanning Booths by Minors
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 22: Standards for Outdoor Application of Pesticides by Powered Equipment in Order To Minimize Off-target Deposition, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, Board of Pesticides Control
Sponsor: Thomas Saviello
Resolve, To Examine Concepts and Competencies from Family and Consumer Science for Achieving Educational Goals
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Promote Economic Development and Reduce Reliance on Automobiles through Transit-oriented Tax Increment Financing Districts
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Improve the Maine Clean Election Act
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act Regarding Curriculum Requirements and Standards for Awarding a High School Diploma
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
Resolve, Directing a Study of Domestic Violence and Parental Rights and Responsibilities
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act Relating to the TransCap Trust Fund
Sponsor: William Diamond
Resolve, To Examine Environmental Effects of the Resource Recovery System
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act To Increase Consumer Choice for Wine
Sponsor: Emily Cain
An Act Regarding the Central Voter Registration System
An Act To Eliminate Penalties for Nonconforming School Administrative Units
Sponsor: Tyler Clark
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 131: The Maine Federal, State, and Local Accountability Standards, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education
An Act To Amend the Maine Condominium Act Regarding Escrow of Assessments
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
Resolve, To Encourage Alternative Compensation Models for Teachers and School Administrators
Sponsor: Carol Weston
An Act Regarding Requirements for Approval of a Transmission Line
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Require That the 3 Branches of Government Be Listed Separately in Budget Documents and Budget Bills
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Amend the Statute of Limitations for Actions against the Estate of a Decedent
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Make Minor Substantive Changes to the Tax Laws
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Protect the Environment through Promoting the Use of Clean Fuel Vehicles
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Allow Youth To Fish for Smelt on Worthley Pond
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Regulate Mixed Martial Arts Competitions, Exhibitions and Events
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Repeal the Laws Governing Consolidation of School Administrative Units
Sponsor: David Trahan
An Act To Create the Advisory Committee on Bias-based Profiling by Law Enforcement Officers and Law Enforcement Agencies
Sponsor: David Van Wie
An Act Regarding Screening for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Create a Funding Structure for Sustainable Investment in Public Water and Wastewater Infrastructure in the State
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Authorize the Administration of Epinephrine Autoinjectors and Asthma Inhalers in Emergencies
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act Regarding the Evaluation of Economic Development Programs
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Provide for a Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Protect Maine Citizens and Franchised New Motor Vehicle Dealers
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
Resolve, To Examine Data Discrepancies and Adequately Identify and Serve Children with Brain Injuries
Sponsor: Steven Butterfield
An Act To Amend Certain Provisions of Fish and Wildlife Laws
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Require Review by the Joint Standing Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs of Transfers of MaineCare Funds
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
Resolve, To Improve the Continuity of Care for Individuals with Behavioral Issues in Long-term Care
Sponsor: John Martin
Resolve, To Recognize Women Veterans in the State House Hall of Flags
Sponsor: Walter Wheeler
An Act To Improve Teacher Confidentiality Laws
Sponsor: Peter Mills
Resolve, Directing the Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources To Convene a Work Group To Strengthen Farm-to-school Efforts in the State
Sponsor: Joseph Wagner
An Act To Create the Maine Online Learning Program
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act Regarding Asbestos Abatement Work
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Increase the Evidentiary Standard Required To Establish a Guardianship
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, To Review Statutes, Rules and Policies Regarding Mental Retardation, Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Other Cognitive and Developmental Disorders
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Amend Certain Laws Affecting Transportation
Sponsor: George Hogan
An Act To Provide More Transparency and Protection for Public Employees in the Laws Governing the Maine Public Employees Retirement System
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
Resolve, Regarding Continuity of Care in the Child Development Services System
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Reduce Maine's Debt by Applying Year-end Departmental Balances to the Debt Service
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Commission To Study the Protection of Farms and Farmland
Sponsor: Thomas Saviello
An Act To Increase Access to Farm Fresh Poultry
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Protect Consumers and Small Business Owners from Rising Health Care Costs
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Authorize a Court To Appoint a Parenting Coordinator To Assist in Domestic Relations Actions
Sponsor: Terry Hayes
An Act To Promote Small Business in Rural Maine by Expanding Game Hunting Opportunities
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Require Interscholastic Athletic Organizations To Comply with the Public Proceedings Provisions of the Freedom of Access Laws for Certain Meetings
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act Regarding the Use of Genetically Engineered Plants
Sponsor: Peter Kent
An Act To Establish the Community-based Renewable Energy Pilot Program
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Allow Pharmacists To Administer Certain Immunizations
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Increase the Number of Members of the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission Who Reside in the Commission's Jurisdiction
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Create a Duty To Report Serious Injuries
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Modify Child Support Enforcement Procedures and Requirements
Sponsor: Deborah Pelletier-Simpson
An Act To Amend the Maine Clean Election Act and the Enforcement Procedures of the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices
Sponsor: Thomas Saviello
An Act Concerning Debarment from Contracts with the Department of Environmental Protection
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Establish and Promote Statewide Collaboration and Coordination in Public Health Activities and To Enact a Universal Wellness Initiative
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Provide Fiscal Information for Citizen Initiatives
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Improve the Use of Information Regarding Sex Offenders
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act To Amend the Laws Concerning Licensure Qualifications of Independent Practice Dental Hygienists
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Allow a Resort Casino in Oxford County
Sponsor: Richard Rosen
An Act To Provide Greater Access to ATVs by Lowering the Minimum Operating Age
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 3: Maine Clean Election Act and Related Provisions - Increase of Seed Money to $150,000, a Major Substantive Rule of the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices
An Act To Enact a 5-point Welfare Reform Program
Sponsor: Debra Plowman
An Act To Make Permanent the Allowance of Certain Commercial Vehicles between the United States-Canada Border and Certain Points in Maine
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Require State-owned Solid Waste Disposal Facilities To Demonstrate a Public Benefit
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Authorize the Annexation of a Portion of Redington Township in Franklin County to the Town of Carrabassett Valley
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Improve Transportation for Veterans
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Update and Clarify Statutes Related to or Administered by the Department of Public Safety
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act To Amend Provisions of the Submerged Lands Law
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Amend Sentinel Events Reporting Laws To Reduce Medical Errors and Improve Patient Safety
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Require the Collection of DNA from a Person under Certain Circumstances
Sponsor: Bruce Bickford
Resolve, Authorizing the Finance Authority of Maine To Oversee an Obligation Owed to the State by Lincoln Paper and Tissue, LLC
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Repeal Inactive Boards and Commissions
An Act To Clarify the Municipal Jurisdiction of a Portion of Saco Bay
Sponsor: George Hogan
An Act To Prevent and Treat Cancer in Maine by Implementing Critical Portions of the Comprehensive Cancer Program
Sponsor: Michael Willette
Resolve, To Authorize a Pilot Project on Ranked Choice Voting
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Expand Access to Oral Health Care
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act Relating to Industrial Hemp
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Create a Moratorium on the Open-air Production of Genetically Engineered Pharmaceutical Crops in Maine
Sponsor: Seth Berry
An Act To Enact the Maine Uniform Power of Attorney Act
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
Resolve, Directing the ConnectME Authority To Create the Broadband Strategy Council
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Require That Prior OUI Convictions Committed with a Motor Vehicle, Watercraft, Snowmobile or All-terrain Vehicle Are Treated as Previous OUI Convictions for Purposes of Sentencing
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Enhance Fund-raising Opportunities by Certain Nonprofit Organizations
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
An Act To Transfer the Seed Potato Board to the Maine Potato Board
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Protect the Right To Use Solar Energy
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
Resolve, Related to the Maine Estate Tax
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Provide Consumer Disclosures and Protect Consumer Options in Life Insurance
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act Regarding Construction and Excavation near Burial Sites
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
Resolve, Directing the Secretary of State To Conduct a Pilot Program for Ongoing Absentee Voter Status
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 182: Formula for Distribution of Funds to Child Development Services Regional Sites, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education
Sponsor: James Martin
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Confidentiality of Correctional Facility Plans
Sponsor: Deborah Pelletier-Simpson
Resolve, To Reform Public Retirement Benefits and Eliminate Social Security Offsets
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Support the Center of Excellence for At-risk Students
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Provide for the Long-term Funding of Programs of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Clarify Standards by Which All-terrain Vehicles May Be Stopped
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
Resolve, Regarding the Sale of Certain Real Property in the City of Hallowell
Sponsor: Earle Mccormick
An Act To Implement Respectful Language Amendments
Sponsor: David Webster
An Act To Clarify Apportionment of Benefits for Multiple Work Injuries
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Exempt from Taxation Biodiesel Fuel Produced for Personal Use
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Continue Coverage of Oil Clean-up Costs and Improve Administration of the Ground Water Oil Clean-up Fund
Sponsor: John Martin
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 41: Special Restrictions on Pesticide Use, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, Board of Pesticides Control
An Act To Provide for the Safe Collection and Recycling of Mercury-containing Lighting
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Reform the Land Use and Planning Authority within the Unorganized Territories of the State
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Establish Annual Reporting for Genetically Engineered Crops
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 3: Maine Clean Election Act and Related Provisions - Matching Funds and Property and Equipment, a Major Substantive Rule of the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices
An Act To Implement the Updates to Article 7 of the Uniform Commercial Code Suggested by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Allow Efficient Health Insurance Coverage
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Reverse the Effects of Grant v. Central Maine Power, Inc. on Workers' Compensation
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Facilitate Testing and Demonstration of Renewable Ocean Energy Technology
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Update Terms and Make Changes in Child Care and Transportation Benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program
Sponsor: Sawin Millett
An Act To Reduce Lung Cancer Rates in Maine
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
Resolve, To Study Implementation of Shared Decision Making To Improve Quality of Care and Reduce Unnecessary Use of Medical Services
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act Regarding Indirect Lobbying
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act to Amend Mercury Standards for Air Emission Sources
An Act Relating to Biomass Gasification
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Ensure Fair Calculation of Severance Pay for Maine Workers
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Create Economic Development in the State by Modernizing the State's Captive Insurance Laws
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
Resolve, To Implement Select Recommendations of the Joint Select Committee on Future Maine Prosperity
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Assess the Physical Education Capacity of Elementary Schools in Maine and To Establish the Obesity and Chronic Disease Fund within the Department of Education
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Regulate the Rockweed Harvest in Cobscook Bay
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Implement the Uniform Law Conference Suggested Updates to Article 1 of the Uniform Commercial Code
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Amend the Law Concerning Adverse Possession
Sponsor: David Hastings
An Act To Ensure the Effectiveness of Critical Incident Stress Management Teams
Sponsor: David C. Burns
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Clinton Water District
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act to Regulate Swim Areas on Inland Waters
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
Resolve, Directing the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services To Establish a Work Group To Clarify the Working Status of Respite Care and Shared Living Residential Service Providers for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Clarify the Laws Regarding Significant Groundwater Wells
Sponsor: Deborah Pelletier-Simpson
An Act To Amend Operating After Suspension Laws by Creating an Infraction Alternative for Certain Kinds of Operating After Suspension
Sponsor: Anne Haskell
An Act To Protect the Long-term Viability of Island Lobster Fishing Communities
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act Pertaining to Response Costs Incurred by the Department of Environmental Protection under the Waste Motor Oil Disposal Site Remediation Program
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Streamline the Regulatory Process for Commercial Building Construction Projects
Sponsor: Anne Haskell
An Act Regarding Parents' Rights
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
Resolve, To Direct Action on Health Disparities of the Passamaquoddy Tribe and Washington County
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Establish a Wellness Tax Credit
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Fund the Dirigo Health Program through a High-risk Pool
Sponsor: Earle Mccormick
An Act To Amend the Education Laws Regarding the State Board of Education's Degree-granting Authority, the Telecommunications Education Access Fund and Certain Definitions and Programs
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Regulate Foreclosure Negotiators
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Limit the Scope of Miscellaneous Costs within the General Purpose Aid for Local Schools Appropriation
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Reduce Income Tax Rates
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
Resolve, To Realign Maine's Natural Resource Agencies
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Streamline the Process for Court-ordered Mental Health Examinations in Criminal Cases
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
Resolve, Regarding the Classification of Wildlife Management District 2
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Involuntary Hospitalization Procedures
Sponsor: Peter Mills
Resolve, To Facilitate Training and Education on Dating Violence Prevention
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Preserve Government Documents
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized Territory Services To Be Rendered in Fiscal Year 2009-10 and To Make Other Changes Related to the Municipal Cost Components
Sponsor: Herbert Clark
Resolve, To Review the Adjustments in the School Funding Formula Related to School Administrative Units That Are Eligible for the Minimum State Share of Their Total Allocation
Sponsor: Jarrod Crockett
An Act To Create a Post-judgment Mechanism To Provide Relief for a Person Whose Identity Has Been Stolen and Falsely Used in Court Proceedings
Sponsor: Matthew Peterson
An Act To Allow the Award of Court Costs or Attorney's Fees in Protection from Harassment Actions
Sponsor: Richard Cleary
An Act To Protect Electricity Consumers in Northern Maine
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Allow the Sale and Use of Consumer Fireworks
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Continue To Reduce Mercury Use and Emissions
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Allow a Municipality To Grant a Variance for the Construction of a Parking Structure for a Person with a Permanent Disability
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
Resolve, To Understand and Assist in Efforts To Promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Promote Economic Development in the Greater Portland Region
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 28: Notification Provisions for Outdoor Pesticide Applications, a Major Substantive Rule of the Board of Pesticides Control
Sponsor: Herbert Clark
An Act To Create the Probate and Trust Law Advisory Commission
Sponsor: David Hastings
An Act To Promote Transparency and Accountability in Campaigns and Governmental Ethics
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
Resolve, To Provide a Program Model for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Criminal Law Advisory Commission
Sponsor: Peter Kent
An Act To Update the Site Location of Development Laws
Sponsor: Robert Duchesne
An Act To Amend the Department of Health and Human Services' Progressive Treatment Program
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
Resolve, Regarding Low-profit Limited Liability Companies
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act Regarding Emergency Involuntary Admission of a Participant in the Department of Health and Human Services' Progressive Treatment Program to a State Mental Institute
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Strengthen Sustainable Long-term Supportive Services for Maine Citizens
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Consolidate and Modernize Maine's Courts
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Suspend the Cost-of-living Adjustment for Legislators' Salaries for the Second Regular Session of the 124th Legislature
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Require a Vacancy in the Office of United States Senator To Be Filled by Election
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Clarify the Taxability of Promotional Credits in the State Gaming Laws
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Base the Value of Eminent Domain Takings on Going Concern Value
Sponsor: Jayne Giles
An Act To Clarify When the Rental of a Car Is Exempt from Sales and Use Tax
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Improve Maine's Ethics Laws
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act Regarding Agency Liquor Stores
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Provide for 2 Veteran Service Officer Positions
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Reduce Regulatory Costs for Maine Businesses
Sponsor: David Hastings
An Act To Conform the Maine Tax Laws for 2008 to the United States Internal Revenue Code
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Provide Additional Time to Certain School Administrative Units To Comply with School Administrative Unit Reorganization Laws
Sponsor: David Webster
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Change the Schedule for Redistricting
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Amend the Law Pertaining to Permanently Restricted Funds of Municipal Public Libraries
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act Concerning Water Quality in Watersheds
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Improve Worksite Accountability for Public Construction Projects by Requiring Subcontractor Identification
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act Regarding the Regulation of Agricultural Composting Operations
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Clarify the Status and Benefits of Employees of the Child Development Services System
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, Establishing a Blue Ribbon Panel To Address Disparities in Economic Development between the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the State and the United States
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Limit Membership by School Administrative Units in Certain Interscholastic Organizations
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Create a Unified Board of Higher Education
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, Directing the State Tax Assessor To Adjust the State Valuation for the Town of Topsham
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Eliminate Schools' Responsibility for Transportation of Preschool Students
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Eliminate Maine Clean Election Act Funding for Gubernatorial Candidates
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Amend and Clarify the Application of the Laws Regarding Severance Pay
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Enhance the Shielding of Journalists' Sources
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Allow Eleven Large Game Shooting Areas in the State
Sponsor: Douglas Smith
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Require a Supermajority Approval of the Legislature for Tax Increases
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Amend the Private Way Laws with Regard to Road Associations
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Increase Funding for Higher Education
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Allow Hunting on Sundays on Certain Land
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
Resolve, Directing the State Planning Office To Prepare a Reorganization Plan
Sponsor: David Trahan
Resolve, Directing the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices To Develop Recommendations for Ethical Standards for the Executive Branch
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
Resolve, To Direct the Commissioner of Health and Human Services To Establish a Blue Ribbon Task Force To Examine the Attorney General's Report Regarding Police Shootings as It Relates to Deaths of Persons with Mental Illness
Sponsor: Dale Crafts
An Act To Simplify Maine's Accountancy Laws
Sponsor: Nancy Smith
An Act To Compensate Maine Residents for the Impacts of High-voltage Transmission Lines
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Streamline Ratemaking for Consumer-owned Water Utilities
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
An Act To Strengthen the Workplace Smoking Laws and Other Laws Governing Smoking
Sponsor: Peter Mills
Resolve, Regarding the Maine State Cultural Building in Augusta
An Act To Improve the Process for Recovering Personal Property and for Filing Actions Involving Consumer Credit
Sponsor: David Hastings
An Act To Fully Implement the Legislative Intent in Prohibiting Offensive Place Names
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Clarify the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code
Sponsor: Jayne Giles
An Act To Streamline Health Care Services in Maine by Allowing Certified Nurse Practitioners and Certified Nurse Midwives To Verify Medical Papers and Records
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Allow Noncitizen Residents To Vote in Municipal Elections
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Establish the Maine Science Advisory Board
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
An Act Regarding Volunteer Lobbyists
Sponsor: Michael Carey
An Act To Amend the Election Laws
Sponsor: Michael Beaulieu
An Act To Exempt Military Pensions from Income Tax
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
Resolve, To Develop a Watercraft Safety Education Plan
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
Resolve, To Establish a Working Group Concerning Domestic Violence and Firearms
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
Resolve, To Create a Working Group on the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Concussive Head Injuries in Student-athletes
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Modify the Informed Growth Act
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Establish the Maine Emergency Services Institute
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Generate Savings by Changing Public Notice Requirements
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Correct Inequities for Certain Maine Community College System Employees in the Maine Public Employees Retirement System
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Require State Employees To Pay 15% of Their Health Insurance Costs
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Require a State Agency To Reference the Livable Wage in Information Published by That Agency
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Right To Know Advisory Committee
An Act To Reform Maine's Motor Fuel Tax Laws
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Restore Game Sanctuary Status for Certain Lands in the Town of Orrington
Sponsor: Charles Theriault
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Recycling of Televisions
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Control Property Tax Increases
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Emergency Management
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act To Allow the Importation of Wine into the State for Individuals through Specific Ports of Entry
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Address an Inequity in the Judicial Retirement System
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Clarify the Purpose of the Notice Requirement of Land Taking by the Department of Transportation
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Permit the Use of a Common Flue for Oil and Solid Fuel Burning Equipment
Sponsor: John Martin
Resolve, To Reduce Childhood Obesity in Schools by Adding to the Physical Education Curriculum
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Provide for an Expiration Date for Certain Harassment Notices
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Create the Hancock Pond Water District
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Amend the Laws To Ensure Equity in the Judicial Retirement Program
Sponsor: Mark Bryant
An Act To Assist Maine Workers and Businesses in Succeeding in a Changing Economy
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Improve the Use of Data from the Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program
Sponsor: Peter Mills
Resolve, To Promote Cogeneration of Energy at Maine Sawmills
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Exempt School Administrative District 12, School Union 37 and School Union 60 from the Laws Requiring School Administration Consolidation
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
Resolve, To Encourage Regional Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Initiatives
Sponsor: Stephen Beaudette
An Act Regarding the Licensing Fees for Certain Professional Programs
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Liquor Liability and Licensing
Sponsor: Seth Berry
Resolve, To Direct the Maine Children's Growth Council To Study the Connections between Higher Education and Early Childhood Education
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Require a Municipality To Quiet Title to Certain Roads Acquired by Adverse Possession
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Promote Consumer Fairness in Tax Refund Anticipation Loans
Sponsor: Benjamin Pratt
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Licensed Financial Service Providers
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act Relating to Self-insurance
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Addison Point Water District
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Ensure Public Access to Records Relating to Public Contracts for Personal Services
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Public Hearing Process for the Board of Pesticides Control
Sponsor: Seth Berry
An Act To Establish the Maine Fire Protection Services Commission Length of Service Award Program
An Act To Reform Natural Resources Agencies and Establish the Department of Natural Resources
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Amend the Aquaculture Laws
Sponsor: Robert Eaton
An Act To Make Technical and Supervisory Amendments to the Laws Governing Banking and Consumer Credit
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Clarify and Strengthen the State's Motor Vehicle Laws
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 21, Home and Community Benefits for Members with Mental Retardation or Autistic Disorder, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of MaineCare Services
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 120: Release of Data to the Public, a Major Substantive Rule of the Maine Health Data Organization
An Act To Provide Limited Immunity for Road Association Directors, Commissioners and Volunteers
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Allow Barrier Fences To Be Erected To Protect Homes from Coastal Storms
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act To Clarify and Update the Laws Related to Life and Health Insurance
Sponsor: Leslie Fossel
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 101: Establishment of the Capital Investment Fund, a Major Substantive Rule of the Governor's Office of Health Policy and Finance
An Act To Prevent Predatory Marketing Practices against Minors
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Amend the Statute of Limitations under the Maine Human Rights Act
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
Resolve, To Require the Office of Employee Health and Benefits To Report on Its Demonstration Project To Provide Access to Fitness Programs for State Employees
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
Resolve, To Assist Artists, Art Galleries and Art Dealers
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, Requiring Rulemaking by the Maine Health Data Organization in Consultation with the Maine Quality Forum Regarding Clostridium Difficile and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Amend the Composition of the Maine Commission on Domestic and Sexual Abuse
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Transfer the Operation of the Fort Knox State Historic Site to the Friends of Fort Knox
Sponsor: Richard Rosen
An Act To Amend Notification Procedures of the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
Resolve, Directing the Study of a Potato Variety Demonstrating Resistance to the Colorado Potato Beetle
Sponsor: Charles Theriault
An Act To Clarify Land Planning in the Unorganized and Deorganized Townships
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act Making Unified Appropriations and Allocations for the Expenditures of State Government, General Fund and Other Funds, and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2009, June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Repeal the Informed Growth Act
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Require the Teaching of Acadian History as Part of Maine History
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Fund State Drug Prosecutors
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act Pertaining to the Possession of Animal Fighting Paraphernalia
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Prohibit Mandatory Binding Arbitration
Sponsor: Cynthia Dill
An Act Regarding the Purchase of Fish for Stocking Inland Waters
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Create a Scholarship Granting Organization Tax Credit
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
An Act To Recouple Maine Estate Tax with the Federal Estate Tax
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
Resolve, To Establish a Study Commission To Examine the Issue of Eminent Domain
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Strengthen Landowner Rights in Certain Eminent Domain Situations
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Exempt Sales of Heating Oil and Kerosene to Maine Businesses from Sales Tax
Sponsor: Peter Johnson
Resolve, To Establish a Schoolchildren's Well-being Stakeholder Group
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Allow Qualified, Licensed Denturists To Practice to the Level of Their Educational Training
Sponsor: David Trahan
An Act To Enable Municipal Assistance for Purposes of Protecting or Restoring Public Waters
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
Resolve, Directing the Bureau of Maine Veterans' Services To Report on Homeless Veterans
Sponsor: Dale Crafts
An Act Regarding Subrogation of Medical Payments Coverage
Sponsor: Henry Beck
An Act To Enhance the Safety of Forestry Workers and Contracted Farm Workers
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Provide an Additional Source of Revenue for the Tax Relief Fund for Maine Residents
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act To Protect Student Privacy while Complying with Federal Law
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Increase Snowmobile Registration Fees
Sponsor: Herbert Clark
An Act To Add Unlicensed Assistive Persons with Notations to the Maine Registry of Certified Nursing Assistants
Sponsor: Anne Perry
Resolve, Directing the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation To Conduct a Sunrise Review Regarding the Proposal To License Certain Mechanical Trades
Sponsor: Brian Bolduc
An Act To Revise the Charter of the Portland Water District
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Promote Public Safety Answering Point Efficiency
Sponsor: Earle Mccormick
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Restrict Property Revaluations
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
Resolve, Directing the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability To Perform a Performance Evaluation and Cost-benefit Analysis of the Dirigo Health Program
Sponsor: Windol Weaver
An Act To Allow the Direct Sale of Shellfish to Retailers
Sponsor: Richard Rosen
An Act To Require Motorcyclists To Wear Helmets
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Provide Free Admission to State Parks to Veterans and Military Personnel
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Amend the Retail Tobacco and Liquor Licensing Laws
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Games of Chance
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Enhance Municipal Home Rule Statutes
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Require Cause for Employment Termination
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Regulate the Use of Traffic Surveillance Cameras
Sponsor: Susan Austin
An Act To Require Health Insurers To Provide Coverage for Nutritional Wellness and Prevention Measures and Products
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Legislative Ethics
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
Resolve, To Study Safety Measures Relating to Open Trenches and Excavations
Sponsor: Gary Connor
An Act To Designate July 12th as Wyeth Day
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Direct the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services To Implement Strategies To Increase the Provision of Oral Health Screenings to Preschool Children and Children Entering School
Sponsor: Richard Cleary
An Act To Exempt Residential Electricity from Sales Tax
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act Relating to Sales Tax on Certain Trailers
Sponsor: Donald Pilon
An Act To Increase Participation in Funding the Activities of the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Protect School Children from Dangerous or Abusive Restraint and Seclusion
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Establish the Middle School of Science and Mathematics
Sponsor: Seth Berry
An Act To Establish the Renewable Energy Resources Program
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Education To Enter into a Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Early Childhood Intervention
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Change the Maine HIV Advisory Committee
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Increase Child Support Collection by Expanding the New Hire Reporting Requirements
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
Resolve, Directing the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation To Conduct a Sunrise Review Regarding a Proposal To License Wetland Scientists
Sponsor: David Trahan
Resolve, Regarding New Utility Line Extension Construction
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Require United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration Training for Government Construction Contracts
Sponsor: Steven Butterfield
An Act To Amend the Laws Concerning Child Abuse and Neglect Councils
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Make Health Insurance More Affordable
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Empower Anglers in Fish Stocking Decisions
Sponsor: Dean Cray
Resolve, To Review the Maine Registry of Certified Nursing Assistants
Sponsor: Gary Connor
An Act To Require a Guide License for Certain Outdoor Activities
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Improve Children's Safety in Public Swimming Pools
Sponsor: Seth Berry
An Act To Exempt Clean Fuel Vehicles from Sales Tax
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act Relating to the Carrabassett Valley Sanitary District
Sponsor: Jarrod Crockett
An Act To Lower the Cost of State Government in the Departments under the Purview of the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Clarify the Law Regarding the Passing of School Buses by Bicyclists
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Allow Maine Residents To Purchase Health Insurance from Out-of-state Insurers
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Designate a Specialty State Lottery Ticket To Benefit Cancer Education and Awareness
Sponsor: Windol Weaver
An Act To Protect the Privacy of Consumer Financial Information
Sponsor: David Webster
Resolve, Directing the Commissioner of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources To Develop Best Management Practices for Poultry Production
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act Regarding Political Signs
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
Resolve, To Provide Grants to Public Educational and Municipal Entities for Feasibility Studies of Renewable Energy Projects
Sponsor: Herbert Adams
An Act To Amend the Legislative Term Limit Laws
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Outdoor Wood Boilers
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Exempt Snowmobiles and All-terrain Vehicles Operated at Demonstration Events from the Requirement of a Maine Registration
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Exempt Protection from Abuse Orders from the Notification and 30-day Waiting Period Requirements under the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Allow Law Enforcement Officers To Obtain a Personal Recognizance Bond in Certain Cases
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Allow Smelting on Mud Brook on Long Lake in Aroostook County
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Facilitate the Marketing of Power Produced by Small Generators
Sponsor: David Van Wie
An Act To Promote Cost-effective and Broad-based Vision Care for Maine Citizens by Clarifying the Scope of Prescription Authority by an Optometrist
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Ensure Adequate Insurance Coverage for Family Child Care Providers
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Recognize Maine Youth Camps
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
Resolve, To Require a Study of Economic Development Incentives in the Unorganized Territory
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Campaign Finance Reports and the Maine Clean Election Act
Sponsor: Sarah Lewin
An Act To Alter MaineCare Benefits as Allowed by the Federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Allow Authorized Agents to Process Moose Hunting Lottery Applications and Antlerless Deer Permit Applications
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Simplify and Consolidate Maine's Fishing Laws and Rules
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Allow Lobster License Exemptions to Persons with Certain Medical Criteria
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Protect the Integrity of the State's Carbon Dioxide Budget Trading Program and Auction Process and To Provide Allocations to the Energy and Carbon Savings Trust Fund
Sponsor: John Martin
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Change the Terms for State Senators and Members of the House of Representatives to 4 Years
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act Pertaining to the Retirement of Certain Oil and Hazardous Material Specialists
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Establish the Civil Violation of Motor Vehicle Violation Resulting in Death
Sponsor: William Diamond
Resolve, To Create a Working Group To Provide Transparency Concerning Operating Expenses for Hospitals
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Require the Disclosure of Insurance Policy Limits to an Injured Party
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act Regarding Claims for Civil Perjury
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Eliminate the Repeal Date on Nonhospital Expenditures in the Capital Investment Fund
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Protect Tenants during Foreclosure
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act To Provide Legislative Oversight of Changes to Policies and Practices of the Bureau of Revenue Services
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Authorize the Operation of Slot Machines on the Passamaquoddy Reservation
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Clarify the Laws on Licensing for Charitable and Fraternal Organizations and Games of Chance
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Ensure the Integrity of Organic Agricultural Crops
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Consolidate the Department of Marine Resources and the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife into a New Department of Fish, Wildlife and Marine Resources
Sponsor: Thomas Watson
An Act To Notify Municipal Assessors of Foreclosure Actions
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Provide the Office of Chief Medical Examiner Access to Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program Data for the Purpose of Conducting Cause of Death Investigations
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Allow the Spouse of a Retired Public Employee a Second Chance To Be Enrolled under the Retiree's Insurance Plan
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Modify Maine's Fishway Laws
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Provide for Equality before the Law
Sponsor: Debra Plowman
An Act To Add a Member to the Advisory Council on Health Systems Development
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
Resolve, To Allow the Secretary of State and the InforME Board To Facilitate the Payment of Outstanding Parking Tickets When Registering a Motor Vehicle
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
Resolve, To Transfer Ownership of the Reed Center on the Stevens Campus in the City of Hallowell to School Administrative District No. 16
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
Resolve, Directing the Department of Environmental Protection To Submit a Report and Recommendations Concerning Oil from Tar Sands, Coal from Mountaintop Removal Mining and Other High-polluting Energy Sources
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Provide Equitable Property Tax Relief To Maintain Traditional Communities
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act To Increase Efficiency through Regionalization
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Increase Opportunities for Commercial Tracks and Agricultural Fairs
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Provide Notice of Foreclosures to Tenants
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Exclude Business and Capital Losses from Consideration as Income under the Circuitbreaker Program
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Ensure That the Maine Turnpike Authority Conducts Public Hearings for Construction and Reconstruction Projects and That All Public Records of the Maine Turnpike Authority Are Open for Inspection
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act Regarding the Creation of Capitated Behavioral Health Pilot Programs
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Require Snowmobile Safety Training
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act To Streamline the Fingerprinting Process
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Establish a Gold Star Family Member License Plate
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Rename the Division of Deafness within the Department of Labor
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act Regarding Salary Information for Public Employees
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Require Reporting on Medical Services or Treatment Provided to Minors without Parental Consent
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act To Amend the Procedure for Foreclosure Regarding Timing and Sale
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Amend the Laws Concerning Wrongful Death
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Promote Personal Financial Responsibility by Allowing a Person To Make Good on Dishonored Checks Prior to the Imposition of Criminal Penalties
Sponsor: Terry Hayes
An Act To Discourage the Misuse of the Process for Obtaining Protection from Abuse
Sponsor: Richard Cleary
An Act To Designate Cumberland County as a Pine Tree Development Zone
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act Concerning Advanced Directives To Give Effect to a Person's End-of-life Health Care Decisions
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Protect the Safety of Maine Children by Requiring the Express Consent of a Legal Guardian To Dispense Prescription Medication to a Minor
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Deter Initiation of Tobacco Use by Increasing the Tax on Tobacco Products
Sponsor: Anne Perry
An Act To Impose an Excise Tax on the Extraction of Water for Bottling
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Allow Mixed Martial Arts Competitions in Maine
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
Resolve, To Increase Transparency in the Long-term Care Planning and Delivery Process To Ensure Maine's Elderly Can Make Informed Choices
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Encourage Transparency in the Oversight of Interscholastic Activities
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Ensure That High-quality Services Are Provided to Behavioral Health Clients
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Local and Regional Services
Sponsor: Terry Hayes
An Act To Create Incentives for the Consolidation of Municipal Services
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Protect Homeowners in Foreclosure Proceedings
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Establish the Permanent Commission on the Status of Women
Sponsor: Joan Welsh
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Maine Economic Improvement Fund
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Restore Funding for a Fish Hatchery in Northern Maine
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Protect Recreational Trails on Private Land by Exempting Certain Information on Recreational Trails from the Definition of "Public Records"
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Amend Certain Laws Related to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, Division of Quality Assurance and Regulation
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Improve the Home Foreclosure Process
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Provide Support to Municipal Government by Imposing a Municipal Surcharge on Traffic Violations
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Amend State Dog Licensing Laws
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding the Taxation of Private and Public Pensions
Sponsor: Patsy Crockett
An Act To Allow Limited Information Sharing in Domestic Violence Cases
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, Establishing the Committee To Study the Feasibility of Instituting Testing for Sports-related Head Injuries
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Increase the Homestead Property Tax Exemption
Sponsor: David Hastings
An Act To Clarify the Duties of Municipal Treasurers, Clerks and Tax Collectors
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Deter Graffiti
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Allow Licensed Kennel Owners To Vaccinate Their Own Dogs
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Broaden and Increase the Sales Tax, Increase the Earned Income Tax Credit and Amend the Application Process for the Circuitbreaker Program.
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
Resolve, Establishing a Committee To Study the Legislative Confirmation Process
Sponsor: Anne Haskell
An Act To Clarify the Role of Public Comment in the Agency Decision-making Process
Sponsor: Seth Berry
An Act To Protect Maine Residents from Home Fires and Carbon Monoxide
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act Regarding Payment to Municipal and Quasi-municipal Entities for Emergency Response to Hazardous Materials Incidents
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Exempt Volunteer Lobbyists from State Disclosure Requirements
Sponsor: David Webster
An Act To Promote Responsible Sales of Alcoholic Beverages
Sponsor: Paulette Beaudoin
An Act To Allow Counties To Provide Property Tax Relief by Enacting a County Option Meals and Lodging Tax
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Amend the Maine Clean Election Act as It Relates to Independent Expenditures
Sponsor: Debra Plowman
An Act To Lower the Cost of State Government in the Departments under the Purview of the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Reform and Lower Maine Taxes
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Authorize Municipalities To Impose Service Charges to Tax-exempt Property Owned by Certain Organizations Whose Primary Activities Are Not Charitable
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Allow Municipalities To Impose a Local Option Lodging or Meals Tax
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 15TH AS FIBROMYALGIA AWARENESS DAY
Sponsor: Mark Eves
An Act To Amend the Law Authorizing the Application of Service Charges to the Owners of Certain Real Property Exempt from Property Taxation
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Broaden the Use of the Land for Maine's Future Fund for Investments To Promote Public Access and Use of Conserved Lands and To Improve the Productivity of Conserved Farmlands
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Ensure Protection from Harassment for Purchasers of Real Property through Auction
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act Relating to Political Action Committees
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Ensure That Money from the Surcharge on Registration of Pet Food for the Sterilization of Animals is Received in a Timely Manner
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
Resolve, Directing the Secretary of State To Report on the Accuracy of Election Results
Sponsor: Pamela Trinward
An Act To Permit Brew Pubs To Sell Half-gallon Containers of Malt Liquor
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding Overnight Parking of Recreational Vehicles
Sponsor: Howard Mcfadden
An Act To Clarify the Rights of Public Employee Unions and Public Employers To Agree through Collective Bargaining To Permit Payroll Deductions for Union Dues or Other Funds
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of the Proposed Plan Dated March 19, 2009 Submitted by the Maine State Housing Authority for the Use of Federal Energy Stimulus Funds
An Act To Amend the Special Education, School Health and School Nutrition Laws Regarding Scoliosis Screening, the School Lunch Program, Transitional Services, Gifted and Talented Education Programs and the Maine Mentoring Partnership Grant Program
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Change the Classification of Certain Waters of the State
Sponsor: Deborah Pelletier-Simpson
An Act Authorizing a Scratch Ticket with Proceeds To Benefit Native American Boys and Girls Clubs
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Approval of the Public Utilities Commission's Plan for the Use of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Funds
An Act To Define Services for Maine Runaway and Homeless Youth
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Require Businesses To Make Toilet Facilities Available to Individuals with Certain Medical Conditions
Sponsor: Wesley Richardson
An Act Relating to Geothermal Heat Exchange Wells
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
Resolve, To Facilitate the Creation and Expansion of an Identified Business Sector
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
Resolve, To Establish Uniform Protocols for the Use of Controlled Substances
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Clarify Expenditures and the Use of Department-generated Revenues within the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsor: Charles Theriault
Resolve, Directing the Board of Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy To Amend Its Minimum Standards for the Law Enforcement Use of Force Policy
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Establish a Working Group To Increase Child Support Collections
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act Concerning Dispute Resolution in Home Construction Contracts
Sponsor: Peter Mills
Resolve, To Require the Department of Environmental Protection To Review Emerging Technologies and the Laws Regarding Incinerators
Sponsor: Gary Connor
An Act To Require the Convening of the Professional Standards Board
Sponsor: Emily Cain
Resolve, To Name the Bridge in Orland the Ralston C. Gray Bridge
Sponsor: Richard Rosen
Resolve, To Convene a Work Group To Design and Implement a Statewide Disposable Checkout Bag Reduction Campaign, with Benchmarks
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Allow Limited Partnerships between Brewers and Wholesalers
Sponsor: Debra Plowman
An Act To Clarify the Use of Instant Redeemable Coupons with Alcoholic Beverages
Sponsor: Stacey Fitts
Resolve, To Study Aging and Outdated Long-term Care Facilities
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
Resolve, To Direct the Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife To Explore Opportunities and Issues Surrounding Wild Turkey Hunting
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Limit Liability for Certain Noncommercial Aviation Activities
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act To Make Allocations from Maine Turnpike Authority Funds for the Maine Turnpike Authority for the Calendar Year Ending December 31, 2010
Sponsor: Carol Weston
Resolve, Regarding Maine’s Renewable Resource Portfolio Requirements
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Provide Support for Children with Special Needs in Adoptive Families
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
Resolve, Authorizing Certain Land Transactions by the Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Require a Referee of a Land Dispute To Render a Decision within One Year
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Ensure Access to Public Information
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
Resolve, To Improve Continuity of Coverage for Participants in Medicare Advantage Plans
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Improve Child Support Collection Procedures by Changing the Process of Modifying a Support Order
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Amend the Licensing Requirements for Marriage and Family Therapists
Sponsor: Peter Mills
Resolve, To Provide Assistance to Private Sellers of Firearms
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Authorize an Active Retired Justice or Judge To Conduct Arbitration and Chair Medical Malpractice Screening Panels
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
Resolve, Regarding On-bill Financing Programs for Energy Efficiency
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Amend the Laws Concerning Campaign Report Exemptions
Sponsor: Michael Beaulieu
An Act To Clarify a Municipality's Authority To Contract with an Animal Shelter for Services
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing MaineCare Estate Recovery Undertaken by the Department of Health and Human Services
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Amend the Limited Liability Company Laws Concerning Management Standards
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Allow Noninvasive Testing of Infants for the Presence of Drugs without a Parent's Consent
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Require Lobbyists To Wear Name Tags
Sponsor: Michael Carey
An Act To Allow the Donation of Certain Perishable Food Products to Nonprofit Organizations
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Require the Development of Plans To Achieve the Payment of Livable Wages by State and Local Government Employers
Sponsor: Seth Berry
JOINT RESOLUTION ON THE SPENDING OF FEDERAL ECONOMIC RENEWAL GRANTS BY THE STATE OF MAINE
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Encourage Cooperation among School Administrative Units
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Provide for Insurance Coverage of Telemedicine Services
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Governor's Interagency Transportation Coordinating Committee
Sponsor: Charles Theriault
An Act To Improve Alternative Organizational Structures by Requiring the Department of Education To Provide Them with Estimated Allocations
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Amend the Landlord and Tenant Laws as They Pertain to Interest Paid on Mobile Home Park Tenant Security Deposits
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act Authorizing Statewide Mutual Aid among First Responder Agencies
Sponsor: Edward Mazurek
An Act To Protect Maine's Groundwater
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Amend the Forcible Entry and Detainer Laws
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Ensure That Maine's Electronic Waste Collection and Recycling System Is Self-funded
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Notification after a Security Breach Involving Personal Information
Sponsor: Adam Goode
An Act To Add a Member from Castine to the Board of Trustees of the Maine Maritime Academy
Sponsor: Richard Rosen
An Act To Prohibit Smoking in Outdoor Eating Areas
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Expand Rights for Maine Families
Sponsor: Bruce Bickford
An Act To Streamline the Evaluation of Economic Development Programs
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
Resolve, Directing the Department of Transportation To Study Ways To Reduce Energy Use and Promote Efficiency along Major Transportation Corridors
Sponsor: Charles Theriault
An Act To Allow a Tax Credit for Tuition Paid to Private Schools
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act To Provide an Income Tax Credit for Property Tax Relief
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
Resolve, Pertaining to Vacation Leave Earned by Seasonal Employees of the Baxter State Park Authority
Sponsor: Herbert Adams
An Act To Change the Definition of "Domestic Partner" in the Laws Governing Custody of Remains
Sponsor: Benjamin Pratt
An Act Relating to Disability Plates and Placards
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Provide for Treble Damages for Injuries Caused by a Person under the Influence of Alcohol or Drugs
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
Resolve, To Direct the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife To Conduct an Evaluation of Its Sport Fishing Program
Sponsor: David Trahan
An Act To Establish a Groundwater Withdrawal Program and To Recognize Groundwater as a Public Trust Resource
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Protect and Enhance Maine Marine Fisheries
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Create the Maine Fishery Infrastructure Tax Credit
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
Resolve, To Establish a Working Group To Increase Protection for Victims of Domestic Violence
Sponsor: Richard Rosen
An Act To Amend the Marine Resources Suspension Laws
Sponsor: Windol Weaver
Resolve, To Establish a Working Group of Stakeholders To Review the Current and Future Needs of Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals and To Establish Long-term Solutions To Fund Those Needs
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Permit Efficient School Districts To Opt Out of Consolidation
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act Regarding the Computation of Workers' Compensation Rates Based on Past Claims
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
Resolve, Requiring the Department of Education To Amend Rules Relating to School Construction
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Change the Statute of Limitations for Health Care Practitioners
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act Regarding the Consent of Minors To Receive Substance Abuse and Mental Health Treatment
Sponsor: David Trahan
An Act To Create Recreational Access to the Unorganized Territories
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Public Safety Answering Points
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Clarify the So-called Dig Safe Law
Sponsor: Richard Sykes
An Act To Expand the Membership of the Maine Elder Death Analysis Review Team
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Strengthen the Kinship Preference in Child Welfare Residential Placement
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Conserve Energy in Residential Leasehold Tenancies
Sponsor: John Tuttle
An Act To Modify the Regional Economic Development Revolving Loan Program
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Amend the Employment Practices Law Regarding Substance Abuse Testing
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act Regarding the Maximum Fee for Processing an Environmental License Application
Sponsor: Herbert Clark
An Act To Preserve School Choice Rights
Sponsor: Carol Weston
An Act To Clarify Child Protection Proceedings
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
Resolve, Directing the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife To Conduct a Study To Enhance Maine's Recreational Fishing Economy
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 10: Definitions and Terms, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, Board of Pesticides Control
Sponsor: John Tuttle
An Act To Create an Energy Conservation Measures Tax Credit
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act Authorizing Colleges and Universities To Regulate Public Safety on Their Campuses
Sponsor: Margaret Rotundo
An Act To Reduce the Cost of Permitting of Business Development
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 97, Private Non-Medical Institution Services, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of MaineCare Services, Division of Policy and Performance
Sponsor: Thomas Saviello
An Act To Allow Certain School Units To Reorganize without Meeting Minimum Student Population Requirements without Being Penalized
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Provide a Sales Tax Exemption to Certain Organizations That Provide Assistance to Members of the Military
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Include the Study of Franco-American History in the System of Learning Results
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Clarify the Public Ownership of Marine Organisms within the Intertidal Zone
Sponsor: David Trahan
An Act To Allow Choice of Wine by Maine Consumers
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Provide for Prompt Resolution of Insurance Claims by Providing for a Direct Remedy by Consumers
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Require Patients of Opioid Treatment Programs To Release Medical Information to a Designated Primary Care Physician
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Restore Equity to the Maine Public Employees Retirement System
Sponsor: Charles Theriault
Resolve, To Reduce Homelessness for People with Mental Illness or Dual Diagnoses
Sponsor: Herbert Adams
An Act To Exempt Private Nonmedical Institutions from the Service Provider Tax
Sponsor: Wesley Richardson
Resolve, To Establish the Commission To Study the Reform of Taxes and Spending in Maine
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Prohibit Full-time State Employees from Enrollment in MaineCare
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Protect the Rights of Siblings Separated by Adoption
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Create a Speed Limit on Long Lake and Brandy Pond in Cumberland County
Sponsor: David Hastings
Resolve, To Advance Health Care in Maine
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Exempt Services Provided by Alzheimer Care Facilities from the Tax on Private Nonmedical Institution Services
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Reform the School Budget Validation Process
Sponsor: Carol Weston
Resolve, To Require the Department of Health and Human Services To Provide Cost-of-living Adjustments for Nursing Facilities and Certain Medical and Remedial Private Nonmedical Institutions
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Preserve the Commitment Made to Children in the State's Care
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Establish a Mental Health Services Advisory Commission To Improve Mental Health Services in the State
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act Regarding Unemployment Compensation
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Extend the Summer Tourism Season and Thereby Increase Sales Tax Revenues by Requiring that the School Year in Maine Begin After Labor Day
Sponsor: John Martin
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAINE ADULT EDUCATION
Sponsor: Anne Perry
An Act To Clarify the Right of Public School Employees To Engage in Collective Bargaining
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To End Discrimination in Civil Marriage and Affirm Religious Freedom
Sponsor: Joan Welsh
Resolve, To Develop a Management Plan for the Nonwildlife Components of Swan Island and Little Swan Island in Perkins Township, Sagadahoc County
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act Regarding Raffles Conducted by Nonprofit Organizations
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Prohibit Cruel Confinement of Calves Raised for Veal and Sows during Gestation
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
Resolve, Directing the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources To Study Equine Husbandry Practices in the State
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Ensure That the Membership of the State Board of Corrections Includes a Representative with Expertise in Issues Regarding Mental Illness
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Support Pretrial Diversion Programs for Issuers of Worthless Checks
Sponsor: Anne Haskell
Resolve, To Direct the Board of Dental Examiners To Review the Definition of “Edentulous Arch” in the Rules Governing Denturists
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, To Eliminate the Regional Wage Adjustment Applied to Nursing Homes
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Certain Reports and Reviews Related to Utilities and Energy and Certain Positions at the Public Utilities Commission
Sponsor: Jon Hinck
Resolve, To Allow for the Support, Preservation and Maintenance of Maine Monuments in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Conform Building Standards in the Unorganized Territories with Federal Emergency Management Agency Requirements
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Authorize Arbitration of Property Tax Valuation Disputes
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Update and Streamline State Licensing Laws and Clarify the Process for Appealing Final Decisions of Certain Licensing Entities
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Authorize Fuel Cost Stabilization Funds To Be Established in School Administrative Units
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Ensure the Workers' Compensation Board's Regulatory Oversight of the Maine Insurance Guaranty Association
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Clarify the Minimum Wage Exemption for Summer Camp Counselors Working at Day Camps
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Establish a Moratorium on School Administrative Regionalization
Sponsor: Carol Weston
An Act To Eliminate the Opt-out Penalty for Consolidation of Schools if a School Administrative Unit Forms an Alternative Organizational Structure
Sponsor: Herbert Clark
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 2009 AS LUPUS AWARENESS MONTH
Sponsor: Dale Crafts
An Act To Expand Super Pack License Opportunities
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, To Direct State Agencies To Develop Policies To Guide Employees When Accessing Private Woodland, Farmland or Coastal Lands
Sponsor: Thomas Watson
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Deer Hunting and To Extend the Coyote Hunting Season
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Increase the Availability of Solar and Wind Power
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Equitably Adjust the Workers' Compensation Board's Assessment
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Protect the Public Health and the Environment by Prohibiting the Sale of Wheel Weights Containing Lead or Mercury
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Ensure Transparency in Funding Certain Programs within the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Improve Assistance for Technology-based Entrepreneurs
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Clarify the Income-producing Requirement for Land in the Farm and Open Space Tax Program
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Make Certain Changes to the Laws Governing Approval for Transmission Lines
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Clarify the Definition of Hard Cider for the Purposes of the Returnable Container Law
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Include as Authorized Project Costs the Construction or Improvement of Buildings Used by Municipalities for Purposes of Designating Municipal Development Districts
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Require Candidates for Public Office To Provide Proof of Citizenship
Sponsor: Richard Cebra
An Act To Amend the Laws Relating to the Department of Corrections
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Facilitate the State's Existing Commitment to the Production of Liquid Biofuels
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
Resolve, To Establish a Pilot Program To Provide Greater Cooperation and Coordination between the University of Maine System and the Maine Community College System
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Amend the Provision Creating the Long-term Care Partnership Program
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
Resolve, Directing a Review of the Management of Risks Associated with Surface Uses on Public Water Supplies
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Authorize Municipalities To Protect the Habitability of Rental Housing during Heating Fuel Emergencies
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Reduce Costs for Customers of Northern Maine Consumer-owned Utilities
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Allow School Budget Validation Referenda To Be Held on a Saturday
Sponsor: Andre Cushing
An Act To Prohibit Aerial Spraying of Pesticides near Buildings, Roads and Bodies of Water
Sponsor: Seth Berry
Resolve, Directing the Department of Education To Convene a Stakeholders Group To Analyze the School Funding Formula
Sponsor: Douglas Smith
An Act To Improve the Health of Maine Citizens and Safety of Pedestrians
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Teacher Certification Interns
Sponsor: Brian Bolduc
An Act To Clarify Guaranteed Fund Protection for Deferred Compensation Accounts
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Strengthen the Board of the Maine Insurance Guaranty Association
Sponsor: Earle Mccormick
An Act To Allow the Use of Cameras To Enforce Traffic Violations
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Provide for the 2009 and 2010 Allocations of the State Ceiling on Private Activity Bonds
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Amend the Homestead Exemption for Certain Veterans To Include Certain Military Personnel Stationed at Guantanamo Bay
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Establish a Recall Procedure for Elected Officials
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
Resolve, To Ensure Access to Speech and Hearing Services
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
Resolve, To Establish the Commission To Examine the Establishment of a Wildlife Sanctuary on Blue Hill Bay
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act Regarding Liquor Licenses Issued to Incorporated Civic Organizations
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Correct Administrative Procedures Regarding the Dental Care Access Credit
Sponsor: Thomas Watson
An Act To Allow Members of the Armed Forces Who Are Not Residents but Own Property in this State To Obtain Resident Hunting and Fishing Licenses or Permits
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Improve Juvenile Correctional Services
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Improve the Service of Protection from Harassment and Protection from Abuse Orders and the Collection of Restitution by the Department of Corrections
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Expand Turkey Hunting Opportunities
Sponsor: David Trahan
An Act To Exclude Collectively Bargained Salary and Job Promotion Increases from the Earnable Compensation Limitation for Retirement Purposes
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, Directing the State Tax Assessor To Work with Local Law Enforcement Agencies To Improve Tax Collection and Enforcement along the Border of the State
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Improve the General Assistance Program
Sponsor: Peter Stuckey
An Act To Provide Tax Relief for Retired Veterans Operating Businesses in Maine
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Improve Transparency in the Health Insurance Markets
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Ensure Continued Access to Emergency Information in the State by Allowing Governments To Build Federally Licensed Television Translators
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act Regarding the Formula for the General Assistance Program
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Increase Mileage Reimbursement for Jurors
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Reduce Noise Pollution
Sponsor: Diane Russell
An Act To Calculate the School Year by Number of Hours
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Prohibit the Use of Engine Brakes on All State Roads under Certain Circumstances
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Allow the Department of Corrections To Certify Community Intervention Programs
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Reduce the Cost of Health Insurance
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
Resolve, To Provide Reimbursement in the MaineCare Program for Board-certified Behavior Analysts
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Further Facilitate the Provision of Educational Loans for Maine Students and Families
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Facilitate Lactation at the Workplace by New Mothers
Sponsor: Alexander du Houx
An Act To Amend the Petroleum Market Share Act
Sponsor: Richard Cleary
An Act To Increase Leaves of Absence for State Employees and Officials Who Are Members of the National Guard or Reserves of the United States Armed Forces
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
Resolve, Directing the University of Maine System To Self-transition Its Educational Broadband Service from Analog to Digital
Sponsor: Cynthia Dill
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Allowable Uses of Tax Increment Financing Funds
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Exempt Cleaning Products for Milking Machines from the Sales Tax
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Control Premium Costs in the Small Group Health Insurance Market
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Reimburse Philip Wolley for Litigation Expenses Incurred in Connection with His Termination and Reinstatement as a State Employee
Sponsor: Carol Weston
An Act To Make the Maine Music Educators Association Tax Exempt
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Amend the Employment Practices Laws
Sponsor: John Tuttle
An Act To Prohibit a Parent without Parental Rights from Inheriting from an Adult Child Who Dies without a Will
Sponsor: Herbert Clark
An Act To Control the Costs of College Textbooks
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Require That Universities within the University of Maine System Accept Credits Earned at Other Universities within the System
Sponsor: Brian Bolduc
An Act To Prevent the Unauthorized or Deceptive Use of the Names of Financial Institutions
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Amend Certain Laws Administered by the Department of Environmental Protection
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
Resolve, Directing the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife To Conduct a Study To Identify All Publicly Owned Inland and Coastal Water Access Sites
Sponsor: Dale Crafts
An Act To Continue Access to Dirigo Choice Health Insurance by Reducing Administrative Costs and Replacing the Savings Offset Payment
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Prohibit a Person from Being Hired in a School Administrative Unit in a Position for Which a Relative Serves in a Supervisory Capacity
Sponsor: Brian Bolduc
An Act To Establish a Reinsurance Mechanism To Expand Health Insurance for Individuals and Groups
Sponsor: Richard Rosen
An Act To Protect Moose Populations and Hunting Opportunities
Sponsor: David Trahan
An Act To Provide a Strategic Planning Fund for Research and Development and Technology-related Companies
Sponsor: Joan Cohen
An Act Concerning the Automatic Dissolution of Certain Marriages
Sponsor: David Hastings
An Act Creating a Probationary Period for County Corrections Officials
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Tenants Harbor Standard Water District
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Amend the Veterans Homestead Exemption To Include Certain Medal Winners
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Establish the Commission To Establish The Maine Academy of Living Treasures
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Improve the Safety of Snowmobile Trails
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Make the Site Location of Development Laws More Development Friendly
Sponsor: Edward Finch
An Act To Provide a Safe Sleeping Environment for Children with Disabilities To Enable Them To Remain in Their Homes
Sponsor: Douglas Smith
An Act To Enable the Use of Credit Cards for Governmental Transactions
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Limit the Work Week of Doctors and Medical Residents
Sponsor: Brian Bolduc
Resolve, To Transfer the Phillips Fish Hatchery to the Sandy River Land Trust
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
Resolve, Directing the Department of Education To Take Measures To Assist Blind and Visually Impaired Students
Sponsor: Peggy Pendleton
An Act To Require Closed-captioning for Certain Political Advertisements
Sponsor: Herbert Adams
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 4: Water-based Fire Protection Systems, a Major Substantive Rule of the Office of the State Fire Marshal
Sponsor: Herbert Adams
An Act To Clarify the Crime of Obstructing Government Administration
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act Regarding the Transfer of Nursing Facilities
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Ensure Health Care Practitioners Understand and Screen for Domestic Abuse for Pregnant Women and New Mothers
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Allow the Use of Net Metering for Energy Production by Consumers
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Create a Statewide Breast-feeding Resource System at Women, Infants and Children Offices
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
Resolve, Directing the University of Maine at Orono To Conduct a Pilot Project Regarding the Benefits of Medical Marijuana
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Limit the Transport of Water for Export
Sponsor: Andrea Boland
An Act Requiring Assisted Living Facilities To Provide Automated External Defibrillator Availability
Sponsor: Douglas Smith
An Act To Increase Highway Safety by Requiring Daytime Headlight Use
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act to More Accurately Reflect the Disposition of a Case in Criminal History Record Information
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Clarify the Meaning of Prudent Speed
Sponsor: Stacey Fitts
Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Limit Prescriptions for Narcotic Drugs under MaineCare without Prior Authorization
Sponsor: Peter Mills
Resolve, To Establish a Pilot Project To Issue Conditional Titles for Certain Automobiles and Trucks That Are More than 25 Years Old
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Reduce the Length of the Legislative Sessions
Sponsor: Patrick Flood
An Act To Improve the Safety of Minors by Collecting Data on Vehicle Collision Rates
Sponsor: Charles Theriault
An Act To Protect Consumers' Health Information Records
Sponsor: Steven Butterfield
Resolve, To Establish a Blue Ribbon Commission To Study On-ramp Speed Limits
Sponsor: Charles Theriault
An Act To Require a Test for Operating Under the Influence for a Driver Involved in an Accident That Caused Bodily Injury
Sponsor: Seth Berry
Resolve, Establishing a Study Commission on In Utero Narcotic Drug Exposure
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Clarify Hunting and Trapping Laws for Youth
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Improve the Ground Water Oil Clean-up Fund
Sponsor: Douglas Smith
An Act Concerning Deductibles for Underground Oil Storage Facilities and Tanks
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Allow Military Reenlistees To Obtain a Veterans Registration Plate
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Ensure Local Broadband Coverage
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Protect Fishing Families by Authorizing Certain Transfers of Lobster and Crab Fishing Licenses
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Require That Minutes Be Kept of Municipal Meetings
Sponsor: George Hogan
An Act To Extend the Season for Training Hunting Dogs
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Allow the Operation of Modified Utility Vehicles on Public Ways
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Renovate and Expand the Boat Launch on Long Lake in St. Agatha
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Change the Status of the Road System at the Loring Development Authority
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 313: Net Energy Billing Rule To Allow Shared Ownership, a Major Substantive Rule of the Public Utilities Commission
Sponsor: David Hastings
An Act To Allocate Redemption Centers Based on Population
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
Resolve, To Review and Update Sales Tax Exemptions for Products Purchased for Agricultural Use
Sponsor: Michel Lajoie
An Act To Amend Maine's Endangered and Threatened Species List by Removing the Bald Eagle
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act Concerning Mercury-added Button Cell Batteries
An Act Concerning Late Rent Fee Charges in Residential Tenancies
Sponsor: John Tuttle
An Act Regarding the Placement of Bait To Attract Wild Animals or Birds for Hunting
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Clarify the Limits of the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Restore Funding for Bed-hold Days at Private Nonmedical Institutions
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Promote Telecommunications Availability for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Adopt Amendments to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
Sponsor: Deborah Pelletier-Simpson
Resolve, Directing the Secretary of State To Conduct a Pilot Program for Early Voting for the November 2009 Election
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Remove Domestic Court Cases from the Probate Court
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Equalize Annuity and Structured Settlement Annuity Benefits with Life Insurance under the Maine Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Require Home Sellers To Disclose Energy Usage Data
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Amend the Notary Public Laws
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Provide a Tax Credit for Heating and Cooling System Alternatives and Improvements That Benefit the Environment and Address Climate Change
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Elect 2 Senators from Each County and To Increase the Senate Term from 2 to 4 Years
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
Resolve, To Identify Funding Available To Promote the Use of Energy-efficient Furnaces
Sponsor: Debra Plowman
An Act To Create Jobs and Improve Energy Efficiency through the Transformation of Maine's Housing Stock
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Help the State Achieve Energy Independence and Security
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
An Act To Add Maine Maritime Academy Representation to the State Employee Health Commission
Sponsor: Richard Rosen
An Act To Waive Public Utilities Commission Approval of Special Contracts When the Contracts Apply to Detariffed Rates or Terms
Sponsor: Jon Hinck
An Act To Allow Family Members of an Island Community to Share a Lobster and Crab Fishing License
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Facilitate the Removal of Dams That Pose a Hazard to Public Safety and the Installation and Repair of Fishways
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Increase Payments to Victims of Crimes
Sponsor: Deborah Pelletier-Simpson
An Act To Supervise and Regulate Real Estate Settlement Agents and Exchange Facilitators in Order To Protect Consumers
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Preserve Statewide Public Broadcasting
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Extend the Operation of the Maine Health Data Processing Center and To Amend the Maine Health Data Organization Statutes
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Equalize the Regional Salary Cost Index under the School Funding Formula
Sponsor: Herbert Clark
An Act To Permit the Landing of Dragged Crabs as Bycatch
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Create a Penalty for Harvesting Scallops in a Conservation Area
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Allow Municipalities and Counties To Require Bartender Training for Liquor Licensees
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
Resolve, To Increase the Blood Supply
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
Resolve, To Direct the Department of Marine Resources To Study the Issues Surrounding the Harvest of Bait Fish within Territorial Waters
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
Resolve, To Encourage the Preservation of Dark Skies
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Spending by School Administrative Units
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Adjust the Special Education Funding for Minimum Subsidy Receivers
Sponsor: John Nutting
Resolve, To Ensure All Children Covered by MaineCare Receive Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment Services
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Transform the Maine Economy and Create Jobs
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Create the Support Animal Welfare Registration Plate
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Create Jobs through Investment in Green Energy
Sponsor: Paul Gilbert
An Act Regarding Energy Independence
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Improve the Process for Recovering Personal Property
Sponsor: Richard Cleary
An Act To Streamline and Clarify Laws Pertaining to the Civil and Criminal Possession of Marijuana
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 2: Administration of Trust, Budgeting, Project Selection Criteria and Procedures, Monitoring and Evaluation Requirements, a Major Substantive Rule of the Energy and Carbon Savings Trust
An Act To Secure Maine's Energy Future
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Ensure Maine's Energy Security and Reduce Dependence on Oil
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Provide a Tax Deduction for Landlords Who Complete Energy Audits on Rental Units
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Remove the Local Requirement for Education Funding
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Limit the Interest Charged under Rental-purchase Agreements
Sponsor: James Campbell
An Act To Amend the Speed Limits for Low-speed Vehicles
Sponsor: Kenneth Fletcher
An Act To Amend the Informed Growth Act To Provide a Local Management Option
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Allow Certain Retirees in the Maine Public Employees Retirement System To Return to Service with the State for 180 Days Annually
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Strengthen the Informed Growth Act
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Cap the Property Tax on the Primary Residence of a Person 65 Years of Age or Older
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Provide Affordable Installation of Alternative Energy Systems
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Increase Public Safety by Requiring a Federally Licensed Firearms Dealer To Facilitate the Transfer of Firearms
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Create a Statute of Limitations for Oil Discharge Violations
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Create a Statewide Training and Protocol for Responding to Mental Health Crises
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Promote Fuel Conservation by Allowing the Use of Mini-trucks on Public Ways
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Encourage Green Commerce
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Exempt Certain Veterans from the Income Tax
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act Regarding the Sale of Weapons at Gun Shows
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Improve the Process for Issuing Concealed Weapons Permits
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Allow Towns To Establish Their Own Homestead Exemption Programs
Sponsor: Richard Cebra
Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Extend MaineCare Dental and Oral Health Services
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Require the Department of Environmental Protection To Amend Its Rules for Hydropower Projects To Require a Detailed Cost-benefit Analysis
Sponsor: Deborah Pelletier-Simpson
An Act To Clarify the Qualifications for the Position of State Archivist
Sponsor: Margaret Rotundo
An Act To Allow a Senior Hunter To Take an Antlerless Deer in Any Zone Designated by the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsor: Paul Davis
An Act To Ensure Proper Oversight of Propane Facilities
Sponsor: Stacey Fitts
An Act To Ensure Royalties to Visual Artists
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding Mandatory Electronic Filing of Certain Tax Returns
Sponsor: Richard Rosen
An Act To Provide Property Tax Relief to Senior Citizens
Sponsor: Earle Mccormick
Resolve, To Evaluate Climate Change Adaptation Options for the State
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Create the Insurance Fraud Division within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Bureau of Insurance
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Provide Additional Unemployment Benefits and Make Statutory Revisions in Accordance with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act Regarding Rockport College
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 115: Certification, Authorization, and Approval of Education Personnel, Part I and Part II, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education
Sponsor: Paul Davis
Resolve, To Fund the Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, Directing the Public Utilities Commission To Study the Feasibility of the Merger of Certain Utilities
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Require a Regional Review of Projects That Affect Areas Outside of the Community in Which the Project Is Proposed
Sponsor: Bruce Macdonald
An Act To Exempt Certain Senior Residents from the Income Tax
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Promote Clean Waters in the State
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Exempt Persons 65 Years of Age or Older with Income below the Poverty Line from Property Taxes on Their Homes
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act Establishing a Wind and Solar Energy Loan Guarantee Program
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Establish Native American Veterans Day
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Ensure the Availability of Supplemental Educational Loans
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Promote Property Tax Relief for Maine's Senior Citizens
Sponsor: William Diamond
JOINT RESOLUTION COMMENDING PRESIDENT BARACK H. OBAMA ON HIS SELECTION OF THE HONORABLE GEORGE J. MITCHELL AS MIDDLE EAST ENVOY AND URGING A JUST RESOLUTION OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Establish a Waiting Period for MaineCare Participants
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Consolidation of School Administrative Units To Eliminate Penalties, Establish Incentives and Allow Alternative Voting Procedures for Budgets
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Require Hospitals To Make Publicly Available the Cost of Medical Procedures
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Raise the Campaign Contribution Limit
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Rename Certain Unorganized Townships in Washington County
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
Resolve, To Encourage Physicians To Administer the Injectable Painkiller Toradol in Lieu of Other Opioids
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Amend the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992 To Remove Independent Medical Examiners
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Transfer Authority for School Food Service Programs to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act To Settle a Dispute between Andrea LaPointe and Michael Barden and the State
Sponsor: Earle Mccormick
An Act To Allow Persons Licensed for the Practice of Manicuring To Provide Treatment for Diabetics
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Clarify the Definition of "Employee" in the Employment Security Law
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Caribou Utilities District
Sponsor: Peter Edgecomb
Resolve, Directing the Commissioner of Conservation To Report on the Status of the Working Group on the Acquisition of Land for Multiple Uses
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act Regarding Consumer-owned Water Utilities and Contracts for Large-scale Extraction and Transportation of Water
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Abatement of Property Taxes Due to Infirmity or Poverty
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act Pertaining to the TransCap Trust Fund in the Maine Municipal Bond Bank
Sponsor: William Browne
An Act To Exempt Annuities from Taxation
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act to Facilitate Voting by Maine Residents in the Military Who Are Deployed Overseas
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act Regarding the Requirement That the Treatment of a Gunshot Wound Be Reported
Sponsor: Paul Davis
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO AMEND THE FEDERAL ORDER SYSTEM TO ENSURE THAT MAINE DAIRY FARMERS WILL RECEIVE A SUSTAINABLE PRICE FOR THEIR MILK
Sponsor: Ann Peoples
An Act To Reform Maine's Judicial System
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Provide a Tax Credit for the Purchase of Small Wind Power Generators
Sponsor: Richard Nass
Resolve, Directing the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation To Amend Its Rules Governing Pastoral Counselors
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Include Trucks in the Definition of "Low-speed Vehicle"
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO RAISE THE WEIGHT LIMIT ON INTERSTATE 95
Sponsor: Dean Cray
An Act To Allow a Retailer To Offer To Pay Sales Tax on Items and Services Sold by That Retailer
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
Resolve, Directing the Department of Transportation To Install a Traffic Light at an Intersection in Sabattus
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Improve Wheelchair-dependent Parking Access
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Winterport Water District
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
Resolve, To Assist Families with Substance Abuse Issues
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Change the Coyote Night Hunting Season
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Establish a Process for the Determination of a Reasonable Price in the Use of Eminent Domain by the Maine Turnpike Authority
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Protect College Students from Predatory Marketing and Lending Practices
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MAY 2009 AS LYME DISEASE AWARENESS MONTH IN THE STATE
Sponsor: Michael Willette
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Milo Water District
Sponsor: Douglas Smith
An Act To Clarify the Election of Municipal Charter Commission Members
Sponsor: Terry Hayes
An Act To Establish and Enhance Populations of Large Landlocked Salmon in Certain Inland Waters
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Simplify and Improve the Maine Clean Election Laws
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Create an Income Tax Credit for Certain Renewable Energy Systems
Sponsor: Joseph Wagner
Resolve, To Promote the Use of Alternative Fiber
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act Regarding the Tax on Fuel Used for Commercial Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Require School Bus Drivers and School Bus Attendants To Report Suspected Child Abuse
Sponsor: Richard Cleary
An Act Concerning Teacher Salaries
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Increase the Penalty for Keeping a Dangerous Dog That Harms a Domesticated Animal
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
Resolve, To Complete an All-terrain Vehicle Trail through Pittston Farm
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Ensure Fair Pay
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Amend the Laws Relating to Corporations, Limited Liability Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To License Septic System Installers
Sponsor: Edward Finch
An Act To Amend the Maine Clean Election Act Relating to Seed Money
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Facilitate the Protection of Electric Utility Consumer Interests in Public Utility Commission Cases Involving the Construction, Rebuilding or Relocating of Transmission Lines
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Provide for the Certification of Teachers in a Critical Teacher Shortage Area
Sponsor: Douglas Smith
Resolve, To Establish the Commission To Examine Restructuring the Management of the Institutional Long-term Care Delivery System
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Save Lives on Maine Waters
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Allow a Cosmetologist, Barber, Manicurist or Aesthetician Licensee To Perform Services outside of the Primary Business Location
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
Resolve, Authorizing the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services To Sell or Lease the Interests of the State in Certain Real Property Located at 17 School Street in Benedicta, Aroostook County
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
An Act To Support Maine State Parks
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Clarify the Law Regarding Reinstatement of a Driver's License
Sponsor: Charles Theriault
An Act Regarding the Reorganization of Regional School Units and Allowing a Municipality To Opt Out of an Existing School Structure
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Increase the Ability of the Maine Wage Assurance Fund To Pay Unpaid Workers
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, To Facilitate the Creation of a Memorial for the Families and Friends of Children Who Have Died by Violence
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Prohibit Telephone Charges Not Representing Services or Fees Requested by the Customer or Authorized by the Government
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Clarify Child Abuse and Neglect Information Disclosure
Sponsor: Alan Casavant
An Act To Require a Person under 18 Years of Age To Wear a Helmet While on a Motorcycle
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Designate the Great South Bridge in the Town of Milbridge as the Harold West Bridge
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Maintain and Improve ATV Trail Access
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, To Improve Recycling in Maine
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Allow Public-private Investment in Transportation Infrastructure Projects
Sponsor: Bruce Macdonald
An Act To Ensure That Medical Equipment Found in a Repossessed Vehicle Is Returned to the Owner
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
Resolve, To Establish a Landlocked Salmon Enhancement Pilot Project
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Provide for the Reduction in the Size of the Legislature
Sponsor: Edward Finch
An Act Regarding Assistance to Low-income Customers of Gas Utilities
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act Relating to Autocycles
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Provide an Administrative Structure for a School Administrative Unit That Does Not Join a Regional School Unit or an Alternative Organizational Structure
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Exempt Certain Municipalities from the Requirement To Hold Referenda on School Budgets
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Income Tax To Allow an Age-based Write-off of Capital Losses
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Protect Consumers from the Unlicensed Practice of a Trade or Profession
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Provide Collective Bargaining Protections for Alternative Organizational Structure Employees
Sponsor: Emily Cain
An Act To Change Current Limits on Commercial Harness Racing Tracks
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Clarify That the Assessor and Treasurer Are Incompatible Municipal Offices
Sponsor: Peter Mills
Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Create a New Health Care Internet Infrastructure
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Authorize the State Board of Nursing To Request Mental and Physical Examinations and To Establish a Nurse Health Program
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act To Exempt School Union No. 60 from the Laws Requiring School Administrative Unit Consolidation
Sponsor: Douglas Smith
An Act To Prohibit Cyberbullying
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act Regarding School Consolidation
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Hold Municipal Officers Harmless for a Determination That a Town Way or Public Easement Is Considered Abandoned
Sponsor: David Hastings
An Act To Establish a Specialty License Plate To Increase Funding for Autism Programs
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Permit the Commercial Harvesting of Illegal and Nuisance Fish Species
Sponsor: Herbert Adams
An Act To Make Technical Corrections to the Operating Under the Influence Laws
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Require the Department of Health and Human Services To Procure an Equal Supply of Vaccine from Each Manufacturer of That Vaccine under Certain Circumstances
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Allow Nonresidents under 14 Years of Age To Fish without a License
Sponsor: Edward Finch
Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Implement an Oral Health Capitated Care System for Children Covered by MaineCare and the Children's Health Insurance Program
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Exempt Certain Isolated Rural Communities from the Minimum Student Enrollment Requirements in the Laws Governing the Reorganization of School Administrative Units
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Increase Eligibility Requirements under the Maine Clean Election Act
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Notify a Lienholder before Property Is Withdrawn from Assessment under the Maine Tree Growth Tax Law
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Expand the Diagnostic Function of Denturists
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Allow an Alternative Organizational Structure To Act as a Fiscal Agent for Each Member or Municipality in That Alternative Organizational Structure
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Modify the Laws Regarding Seat Belts
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
Resolve, Regarding the Retention of Dealer Plates in Light of Recent Economic Conditions
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act Concerning Cremated Remains
Sponsor: Dean Cray
Resolve, To Allow the Department of Transportation To Transfer Certain Land to the Greater Grand Isle Historical Society
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Change the Campaign Finance Laws Pertaining to Campaign Contributions To Allow for Increases Indexed to Inflation
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Change the Name of Township 16, Range 4, WELS, to Madawaska Lake
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Amend the Instruction Permit Process
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Validate the Property Tax Commitments in the Towns That are Members of Community School District No. 9
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Increase Access to Health Care by Providing Insurance Coverage for Telemedicine
Sponsor: Jayne Giles
An Act To Improve the Protection for Buyers of Motor Vehicles from Vehicles Labeled Lemons in Other States
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Reduce the Risk of Hypothermia in Residential Rental Units
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Provide Funding to the ElderCare Network
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Provide Tax Relief for Maine Residents Deployed for Military Service
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
Resolve, To Require the Department of Health and Human Services and the Maine State Housing Authority To Create Efficiencies in Existing Services for Persons Who Are Homeless
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Clarify the Term of a Retail Tobacco License
Sponsor: Debra Plowman
An Act To Protect Private Enterprise from Tax-subsidized Competition by Imposing Requirements on Certain Postsecondary Institutions
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Establish an Income Tax Credit for the Purchase of Certain Wood-burning Boilers and Stoves
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Prohibit Maine Clean Election Act Candidates from Raising Private Campaign Funds
Sponsor: Earle Mccormick
An Act To Create an Additional Hunting Season for Bear
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Require Boating Safety Education
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Lower the Cost of State Government in the Departments under the Purview of the Joint Standing Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Base the Motor Vehicle Excise Tax on the Documented Actual Sale Price Rather than on the Maker's List Price
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Lower the Cost of State Government in the Departments under the Purview of the Joint Standing Committee on State and Local Government
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Payment for Prearranged Funeral Services
Sponsor: Paulette Beaudoin
An Act To Encourage Economic Recovery and Employment Growth To Support Maine's Working Waterfronts
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Allow the Sale and Use of Fuel Containing MTBE in a Vehicle in a Competitive Event
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Impose a State Residency Requirement for Eligibility for General Assistance
Sponsor: David Trahan
An Act To Provide Project Support for Veterans' Cemeteries
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
Resolve, To Require the Department of Health and Human Services To Request a Waiver To Prohibit the Use of Food Stamps for the Purchase of Taxable Food Items
Sponsor: Peter Mills
Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services To Raise Public Awareness of Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
Resolve, To Require the Department of Health and Human Services To Request a Waiver To Prohibit the Use of Food Stamps for the Purchase of Soft Drinks
Sponsor: David Trahan
Resolve, To Enhance Public Information about the MaineCare Program
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
Resolve, Requiring the Department of Transportation To Replace All Property Markers along the 85-mile Stretch of the Calais Branch Corridor from Washington Junction to Ayers Junction
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
Resolve, To Adjust Copayment Rules To Ensure Access to Home-based Care Services
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Adjust the Assessment for Correctional Services from Sagadahoc County
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Allow Municipalities To Offer Access to the Internet through Digital Subscriber Lines
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act Regarding First-party Automobile and Casualty Insurance
Sponsor: Henry Beck
An Act To Encourage Transparency in Disclosing the Ingredients in Vaccinations for Children to Parents and Guardians
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Allow the Taste Testing of Malt Liquor and Spirits
Sponsor: Deborah Pelletier-Simpson
An Act To Estimate the Financial Costs to Providers in Implementing MaineCare Rules
Sponsor: Richard Rosen
Resolve, To Create a Surrounding Community Advisory Panel for the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Permit Personal Watercraft on Lake St. George in Liberty
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Provide Income Tax Equity for Working Spouses
Sponsor: David Hastings
An Act To Encourage the Diagnosis and Treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
Resolve, To Establish a Blue Ribbon Commission To Study Methods of Protecting Emergency Medical Services Personnel during the Transportation of Persons with Mental Illness
Sponsor: John Tuttle
An Act To Amend the Reporting Requirements for Independent Expenditures for Political Campaigns
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act Regarding Trans Fat
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act Relating to Health Benefit Plan Coverage of Chemotherapy
Sponsor: Richard Rosen
An Act To Provide Complimentary Hunting and Fishing Licenses to Resident Disabled Veterans Who Served in Support Units Outside of Combat Zones
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Require Plain Language in Consumer Contracts
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act Regarding the State Earned Income Tax Credit
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Increase the Preservation Time for Municipal Campaign Finance Reports
Sponsor: Diane Russell
An Act To Reduce the Cost of the Maine Clean Election Act
Sponsor: Stephen Beaudette
An Act To Discourage Theft from and Destruction of Vending Machines
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Allow the Town of Baldwin To Be Eligible for Full Pine Tree Development Zone Benefits
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Reduce the Number of Qualifying Contributions Required for Special Elections under the Maine Clean Election Act
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
Resolve, Directing the Governor and the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Human Resources To Remove Longevity Biases from Collective Bargaining Agreements
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Facilitate Compliance with Solid Waste Management Rules
Sponsor: Robert Duchesne
An Act To Encourage Tire Recycling
Sponsor: George Hogan
An Act To Provide a Tax Credit to Certain Heating Fuel Contract Consumers
Sponsor: Peter Mills
Resolve, To Ensure the Health of Maine Children by Requiring a Certain Vaccination
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Require a Seller of a Gas Station To Provide an Updated Inspection Prior to Sale of the Property
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Improve Solid Waste Disposal Quality
Sponsor: Stephen Hanley
An Act To Improve Purchasing for the Department of Corrections
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
Resolve, Directing the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services To Adopt Rules Requiring a Tetanus, Diphtheria and Pertussis Booster Vaccination in School-age Children
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act Regarding Exceptions to the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code
Sponsor: David C. Burns
An Act Regarding the Labeling of Wood Pellet and Biomass Heating Fuel Sold in the State
Sponsor: Wright Pinkham
An Act To Protect Consumers from Credit Card and Debit Card Holds
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Validate Certain Proceedings Authorizing the Issuance of Bonds and Notes by School Administrative District No. 32
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Clarify the Disposition of Fines from Maine's Soft-shelled Clam Laws
Sponsor: Wesley Richardson
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES TO SIGN LEGISLATION THAT ESTABLISHES A NATIONAL, UNIVERSAL, SINGLE-PAYOR NONPROFIT HEALTH CARE PLAN
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Enable the Maine Employers' Mutual Insurance Company To Better Serve the Needs of All Employers
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Abolish the Intergovernmental Advisory Commission
Sponsor: Terry Hayes
An Act To Prohibit the Reduction of Benefits under the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992 for Certain Prior Injuries
Sponsor: Thomas Watson
An Act To Amend the Laws Concerning Informal Conferences as Part of the Board of Licensure in Medicine's Disciplinary Proceedings
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Reduce Income Tax on Capital Gains
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Provide for the Popular Election of the Secretary of State
Sponsor: Debra Plowman
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 33: Rules for the Certification of Family Child Care Providers, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Licensing and Regulatory Services
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Limestone Water and Sewer District
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Provide for the Popular Election of the Attorney General
Sponsor: Debra Plowman
An Act To Clarify the Prohibition on Payment for Health Care Facility Mistakes or Preventable Adverse Events
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Allow One Registration Fee for Multiple-town Poker Runs
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Raise the Fee a Bail Commissioner May Charge
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Reimburse Communities That Have Constructed Sand and Salt Sheds Rated Priority 3 and 4
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Allow the Operation of Low-speed Vehicles on Higher-speed Roads
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO SUPPORT THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COMMISSION TO PROTECT THE LIVES AND HEALTH OF MEMBERS OF THE MAINE NATIONAL GUARD
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Scallop Season
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Rescind the Statute of Limitations on the Ability To File a Civil Suit in Cases Dealing with Unlawful Sexual Contact
Sponsor: Bruce Macdonald
An Act Regarding the Period of Time for Which an Incarcerated Person Is Eligible To Earn Good Time
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Clarify the Warrant Article Petition Process
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF ENERGY AND THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES TO REVIEW NATIONAL POLICY ON USED NUCLEAR FUEL
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Increase Split Sentencing Alternatives
Sponsor: Richard Cleary
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING PARKINSON'S DISEASE AWARENESS MONTH
Sponsor: Ann Peoples
An Act To Restrict the Size of Political Signs on Vehicles
Sponsor: John Nutting
Resolve, To Provide Equitable Tolls on the Maine Turnpike
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
Resolve, To Allow Jenny Powell To Sue the State
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Prohibit Certain Uses of Cellular Telephones and Handheld Electronic Devices while Operating a Motor Vehicle
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
Resolve, To Increase Reporting Transparency in State Government
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Authorize the Resentencing of Certain Prisoners Who Have Served Consecutive Sentences of 20 or More Years
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Improve the Dental Health of Children by Making Fluoride Treatments More Available
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
JOINT RESOLUTION TO HONOR THE MEMORY OF NOTED AMERICAN ARTIST, ANDREW WYETH
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act To Update the Casco Bay Island Transit District Enabling Law
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act Pertaining to the Quality Child Care Education Scholarship Fund
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Create a Mandatory Sentence for Repeat Offenders of Sex Offenses against Victims under 12 Years of Age
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Ensure That All Toll and Intermodal Transportation Facilities and Roadway Lighting within the Maine Turnpike Corridor Are Consistent with Maine's Quality of Place Goals
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Allow a Verdict in a Criminal Trial To Be Considered a De Minimis Infraction
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Provide Sensible Options for Tax Increment Financing Proceeds in Small Towns
Sponsor: John Martin
Resolve, Directing the Department of Transportation and the Maine Turnpike Authority To Find Efficiencies in the Maine Transportation System
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act Regarding the Conducting of Games of Chance by Nonprofit Organizations
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Require Disclosure to a Potential Signer That a Circulator of Petitions for a Direct Initiative or People's Veto of Legislation Is Being Paid
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Ensure That Fair and Actual Funds from Maine Turnpike Authority Toll Receipts Be Given to the Department of Transportation Annually
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Use All Available Technologies To Provide Efficiencies in State Facilities
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine Concerning Early Voting and Voting by Absentee Ballot
Sponsor: Herbert Adams
An Act To Allow Property Owners To Terminate Residential Leases That Do Not Contain Termination Language
Sponsor: John Tuttle
An Act To Increase the Prize Limit on Beano
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act Regarding Guardians Ad Litem
Sponsor: David Hastings
Resolve, Regarding the Use of MaineCare for Catastrophic Illness
Sponsor: John Tuttle
An Act To Prohibit Payments to Persons Who Collect Signatures for the Direct Initiative or People's Veto of Legislation
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Assisted Living Programs
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Require Additional Information in the Annual Reports of Nonprofit Corporations
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
Resolve, To Direct the Emergency Medical Services' Board To Examine the Licensure Procedures for Emergency Medical Services Persons
Sponsor: Richard Nass
An Act To Allow Stepparents To Take Certain Actions with Respect to Their Stepchildren
Sponsor: Herbert Clark
Resolve, To Establish a Study Commission To Develop Legislation Designed To Prevent Domestic Violence and Abuse
Sponsor: Bruce Macdonald
An Act To Remove the Age Restriction for Serving as a Corporator of a Mutual Financial Institution
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Clarify the Amount of a Contract for Small Claim Purposes
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
Resolve, Directing the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife To Amend Its Rules Pertaining to Youth Spring Wild Turkey Hunting Day
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Protect Sports Officials
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Allow the Request for and Granting of Permanent Protection from Abuse Orders
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Returnable Beverage Containers
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Allow Bail Commissioners To Access Criminal Records
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act To Prohibit a Person Whose Parental Rights Have Been Terminated from Gaining Custody of a Grandchild
Sponsor: Herbert Clark
An Act To Control Education Administrative Costs
Sponsor: Brian Bolduc
An Act To Amend the Laws Concerning Terrorizing
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act to Facilitate Repairs to the Saco River Retaining Wall
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Protect Nonprofit Organizations from Embezzlement
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Protect Parental Relationships during and after Divorce
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE GOVERNMENT OF TURKEY TO UPHOLD AND SAFEGUARD RELIGIOUS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act Regarding Assault on a Firefighter
Sponsor: Dean Cray
An Act To License Commercial Painters
Sponsor: Jayne Giles
An Act To Increase the Redemption Fee on Sorting and Handling
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Amend the Laws Concerning Disorderly Conduct
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Clarify A Municipality's Authority To Pass Ordinances That Govern the Extraction of Groundwater
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Update the Board of Pesticides Control
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Increase the Time Period for Motor Vehicle Inspections to 2 Years
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Require That Police Reports Be Filed in All Automobile Accidents
Sponsor: Wesley Richardson
An Act To Remove Prior-operation Requirements for Commercial Large Game Shooting Area Licensing
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Allow Unimmunized Children to Attend School Upon Parental Waiver
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Powers of Attorney
Sponsor: Bruce Macdonald
An Act To Encourage Young Hunters by Providing Them with Complimentary Licenses and Permits
Sponsor: David Trahan
An Act To Amend Maine's School Construction Laws To Reduce the Percentage for Art to 0.5%
Sponsor: Debra Plowman
An Act To Require an Independent Audit of State Government Every 4 Years
Sponsor: Richard Cebra
An Act To Ban the Hunting of Animals in Enclosed Areas
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
Resolve, Authorizing the State Tax Assessor To Convey the Interest of the State in Certain Real Estate in the Unorganized Territory
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Authorize the Commissioner of Education To Issue Separate Subsidy Checks to Each Municipality in an Alternative Organizational Structure
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS FOR INCREASED OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR RECIPIENTS OF FEDERAL BAILOUT FUNDS
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Strengthen the Penalties for Leaving the Scene of an Accident
Sponsor: Mark Eves
An Act To Correct the Law Concerning Private Investigators' License Qualifications
Sponsor: Anne Haskell
An Act To Provide for Municipal Oversight and Authority over Groundwater Extraction
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Improve Transparency in the School Funding Formula
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Require the Department of Education To Provide Certain Information to Individual Communities of Alternative Organizational Structures
Sponsor: Peter Johnson
An Act Regarding the Granting of a Work-restricted Driver's License for Travel to and from Work for Certain Persons with Suspended Licenses
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Prevent High-speed Chases
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Include the Town of Falmouth as a Member of the Greater Portland Transit District
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO SUPPORT THE REFORM OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY OFFSETS
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Allow an Election Clerk To Request Proof of Identity from a Voter
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Require That the Proceeds from Property Seized through Drug Crime Forfeitures Go to the General Fund
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Change the Classification of Man-made Wetlands
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Lower the Cost of State Government in the Departments under the Purview of the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Protect Groundwater and Surface Water from Contamination
Sponsor: Seth Goodall
An Act To Abolish the Fund for the Efficient Delivery of Local and Regional Services
Sponsor: Stephen Beaudette
An Act To Create an Animal Welfare Trailer License Plate
Sponsor: Gerald Davis
An Act To Ensure Humane Dog and Cat Breeding in the State
Sponsor: Anna Blodgett
An Act To Provide a Sales Tax Exemption for Used Goods Sold To Benefit Food Pantries
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
Resolve, Directing the Department of Administrative and Financial Services To Develop a Proposed State Policy for the Use of State Property by the Private Sector
Sponsor: Douglas Smith
An Act To Contract Out the State Single Audit
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Enhance Economic Development in Rural Maine
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Change the Name of Columbus Day to Heritage Day
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act To Increase the Safety of Automobile Drivers
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
Resolve, Authorizing Coverage of Enteral Formula under the MaineCare Program
Sponsor: John Nutting
Resolve, To Name the Gorham Bypass
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
JOINT RESOLUTION IN HONOR OF THE MAINE FARMER AND MAINE AGRICULTURE
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Strengthen Maine Small Business by Establishing a Preference Percentage for State Contract Bids
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Allow the Consecutive Purchase of 6-month Health Insurance Policies
Sponsor: Thomas Saviello
An Act To Recruit Businesses from Other States
Sponsor: William Diamond
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS AND THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY TO SUPPORT THE WAIVER CALIFORNIA NEEDS TO ACHIEVE GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTIONS
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Improve the Water Quality of Maine's Rivers
Sponsor: Brian Bolduc
An Act To Enhance Safety on Maine's Bridges
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Allow Electricity Customers Who Operate Generating Facilities To Be Paid in Cash for Excess Net Energy Produced
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
An Act To Promote the Accessibility and Use of Reusable Bags
Sponsor: Deborah Pelletier-Simpson
An Act To Amend the Wind Energy Rebate Program Eligibility Requirements
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
An Act To Impose a Maximum Speed Limit of 45 Miles Per Hour on Roads on Which a School Bus Stop Is Located
Sponsor: Gary Connor
An Act To Provide Middle School Students with Access to Innovative Science Education
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act Concerning the Maine School of Science and Mathematics
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act Concerning Regulation of Borrow Pit Excavations
Sponsor: Douglas Smith
An Act Regarding Repayment of Subrogation or Lien Claims in Workers' Compensation Actions
Sponsor: Thomas Watson
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Reduce the Number of Signatures Required and Prohibit Payment for Signatures in the Citizen's Initiative Process
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Lower the Cost of State Government in the Departments under the Purview of the Joint Standing Committee on Natural Resources
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Increase the Amount and Number of Qualifying Contributions under the Maine Clean Election Act
Sponsor: Barry Hobbins
An Act Regarding the Composition of the Board of Pesticides Control
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Protect Confidential Consumer Records in Self-service Storage Facilities
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Provide Wraparound Medical Coverage in the Workers' Compensation System
Sponsor: Elizabeth Miller
An Act To Reevaluate the Scope of Coverage for the Childless Adult Waiver Program
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Pay a State Share into the HealthInfoNet System
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Preserve the Viability of Services to Maine's Citizens with Mental Retardation
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING MARCH 26, 2009 AS MEDICAL BILLERS DAY
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Require Economic Research Organizations To Report Financial Matters to the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices
Sponsor: John Tuttle
An Act To Amend the Laws Concerning Write-in Candidates for Elected Office To Increase Fairness
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Amend the Maine Clean Election Act To Equalize the Qualifying Period for All Candidates and To Increase the Number of Required Contributions for Candidates to the Legislature
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Increase the Amount of the Deposit on Returnable Beverage Containers
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Promote Consumer Fairness in Alternative Energy
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Prohibit the Commercial Sale of Water by a Water District
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Allow Wider Kayaks in the Allagash Wilderness Waterway
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
JOINT RESOLUTION TO HONOR THE DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE
Sponsor: Ann Peoples
An Act To Allow a Municipality To Recover Emergency Response Costs from a Natural Gas Utility in Certain Cases
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Facilitate Wind Power Siting
Sponsor: Richard Cebra
An Act To Prohibit the Force-feeding of Birds
Sponsor: Nancy Sullivan
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Cap on the Tax Assessment for Correctional Services in Lincoln County and Sagadahoc County
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING FRANCO-AMERICAN DAY
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act To Allow Nonresident Property Owners To Vote on Municipal Budget Matters
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
An Act To Add 10 Days to the School Year and To Require Daily Physical Exercise for All School Children
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Limit the Use of Seaplanes on West Harbor Pond
Sponsor: Bruce Macdonald
An Act To Provide Information to Maine Voters About the Cost and Fiscal Impact of Citizens' Initiatives
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Allow a Board of Selectmen To Fill a Vacancy on That Board
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Strengthen Rural Community Investment
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
An Act To Provide the Right of First Refusal to Mobile Home Park Residents
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Encourage Alternative Energy and Promote Maine Businesses
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Protect Public Safety and Provide for the Prudent Use of Landfill Capacity
Sponsor: Elizabeth Schneider
An Act To Retain Business in the State By Amending the Law Governing State Contract Bids
Sponsor: Joseph Perry
Resolve, To Direct the Department of Transportation To Establish a Memorial Park Honoring Veterans in Topsham
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Stabilize School Heating Costs
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Amend the Maine Clean Election Act
Sponsor: John Nutting
Resolve, Regarding the Cost of Telephone Calls Made by Incarcerated Persons
Sponsor: Herbert Adams
Resolve, To Suspend Certain Maine State Housing Authority Rules for Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program Grant Applications
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Clarify an Employer's Ability To Collect the Overcompensation of Wages
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Reduce Minimum Participation to 60% for Group Health Insurance
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Require Semiannual Testing in Certain Gravel Pits
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
Resolve, Directing the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources To Streamline Agricultural Regulation
Sponsor: John Piotti
An Act To Prohibit a Maine Clean Election Act Candidate from Participating in Political Action Committee Funding
Sponsor: Charles Harlow
An Act Regarding Nuisance Beaver
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Require Reimbursement for Search and Rescue Operations
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Survey Anglers Annually
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act Regarding Insurance Copayments for Short-term Prescriptions
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Allow State Agencies To Acquire and Sell Carbon Credits under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
Resolve, Requiring the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife To Market Youth Fishing Day
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Increase the Allowable Contributions to Traditionally Funded Campaigns
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Amend the Alewife Fishing Laws
Sponsor: Leila Percy
An Act To Require the State To Issue Requests for Proposals for the Shredding of State Documents
Sponsor: David Trahan
An Act To Amend the Length Limits on Fish Caught on the Inland Waters
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Amend the Occupancy Limits for Campsites in the Unorganized Territories
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Liquor Licenses
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Require Prisoners To Perform Community Service and To Require Jails, Prisons, Nonprofit Entities, Universities and Counties To Compost Food Waste
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Make Supplemental Allocations from the Highway Fund and Other Funds for the Expenditures of State Government and To Change Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2009
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Improve Elevator Safety
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
An Act To Expand the Diagnostic Functions of Independent Practice Dental Hygienists
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Authorize the Implementation of Modified School Year Calendars
Sponsor: Sawin Millett
An Act To Allow the Temporary Placement of Structures To Protect Property from Natural Disasters
Sponsor: Richard Nass
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING SUNSHINE WEEK
Sponsor: Deborah Pelletier-Simpson
Resolve, Directing the Maine Community College System, the University of Maine System and the Department of Education To Develop a Plan To Enable High School Students To Achieve a Seamless Transition to Higher Education
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Require the Teaching of Agricultural Studies in Maine's Schools
Sponsor: Patrick Flood
Resolve, To Increase Access to Dental Care in Rural Areas through Encouraging Distance Learning for Dental Hygienist Training
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
JOINT RESOLUTION IN HONOR OF ST. PATRICK'S DAY
Sponsor: Ann Peoples
An Act To Amend the Requirements for the Livable Wage Report
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Require Residents of the Unorganized Territories To Pay Excise Taxes To Agents and Not Directly to the Secretary of State
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Revise the Boundary between the City of Waterville and the Town of Oakland
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Increase Retail Sales of Wine
Sponsor: Peggy Pendleton
An Act To Amend the Laws Relating to the Maine Jobs Council
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Ensure Continued Support for Local Adult Education Programs
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act Regarding the Electronic Submission of Filings
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Amend the Penalty for Withdrawal of Land from the Maine Tree Growth Tax Law Program
Sponsor: Peter Bowman
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Public Water System Operation Fees
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Amend the Licensing Requirements for Speech-language Pathology Assistants
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Clarify Criminal Responsibility in the Sale of Alcohol and Tobacco to Minors
Sponsor: Peter Edgecomb
An Act To Allow a Newly Licensed Driver To Transport a Foreign Exchange Student Who Lives with That Driver's Family
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act Regarding the Practice of Professional Engineering without a License
Sponsor: Charles Theriault
An Act To Enhance Oversight of Fraternal Benefit Societies
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Reinstate Rules Requiring Inspection of Chimneys upon the Sale or Transfer of Property
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
An Act To Require the Department of Marine Resources To Enforce Conditions in an Aquaculture Lease
Sponsor: Richard Cleary
An Act To Facilitate the Development of Ocean Wind Power
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
Resolve, Directing the Department of Corrections To Accept Bank Checks for Inmates
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act To Prevent Domestic Violence and Abuse
Sponsor: Bruce Macdonald
An Act To Allow School Buses To Travel at the Posted Speed Limit on the Interstate and the Maine Turnpike
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
Resolve, To Study the Feasibility of Expanding the Curriculum of the Maine School of Science and Mathematics
Sponsor: Debra Plowman
An Act To Support New Mothers Who Are in Substance Abuse Treatment Programs
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Modify the Maine Dental Education Loan Program
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
Resolve, To Rename the Father Curran Bridge in Augusta
Sponsor: Elizabeth Mitchell
An Act To Increase Mandatory Minimum Insurance Requirements for Vehicles for Hire
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Require the Secretary of State To Provide Notice of License Revocation or Suspension by Certified Mail
Sponsor: Wesley Richardson
Resolve, Directing the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources To Develop a Plan To Facilitate the Procurement of Local Produce by Food Stamp Recipients
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
An Act To Add a Fuel Oil Benefit to the Circuitbreaker Program
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
Resolve, To Study and Develop a Tax Increment Financing Program To Fund the Washington County Development Authority
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Remove Game Sanctuary Status for Certain Lands in the Town of Orrington
Sponsor: Kimberley Rosen
An Act To Improve the Visibility of Automobiles
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Permit Wrecker Services To Charge for Storage while a Vehicle Is under an Order of Impoundment
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act Regarding Installation of Solar Energy Systems under the Solar and Wind Energy Rebate Program
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Lower the Cost of State Government in the Departments under the Purview of the Joint Standing Committee on Marine Resources
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Protect Child Victims of Sexual Abuse
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Appropriate Funds To Equip State Trooper Cars with Cages
Sponsor: Richard Nass
Resolve, To Delay the Sustainability of the Highway Fund
Sponsor: Edward Mazurek
Resolve, To Require the Department of Transportation To Improve the Safety of the Intersection of Route 4 and the Dill Road in the Town of Phillips
Sponsor: Walter Gooley
An Act To Ensure That MaineCare Reimbursements to Hospitals Do Not Pay For Hospital Advertisements
Sponsor: Lisa Marrache
Resolve, To Name Part of Route 16 the Alton E. Worcester Highway
Sponsor: Douglas Smith
An Act To Allow a Weight Tolerance for Vehicle Auxiliary Power Units
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Allow a Municipality Greater Flexibility To Disburse State Fees
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Allow Nonmember Directors To Serve on the Board of Cooperative Agricultural Associations
Sponsor: Roger Sherman
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Athens Standard Water District
Sponsor: Peter Mills
An Act To Prohibit the Sale of a Road Sign Originally Placed by the State, a County or a Municipality
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Provide Access to Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Auction Funds to Maine Indian Tribes
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Promote Ethics in Campaign Fund Solicitation
Sponsor: Philip Bartlett
An Act To Require Campaign Finance Reports of Independent Expenditures To Contain a Copy of an Advertisement
Sponsor: Veronica Magnan
Resolve, To Authorize a Trail To Be Built Connecting the Cascade Falls Trail with the Eastern Trail
Sponsor: George Hogan
An Act To Modify the Maine Seed Capital Tax Credit Program
Sponsor: Christopher Rector
An Act To Allow a Gasoline Retailer To Offer Discounts to Customers Who Pay by Cash or Similar Means
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Require Maine Clean Election Act Candidates To Use Maine Vendors
Sponsor: Kevin Raye
An Act To Prohibit the Use of a Handheld Cellular Telephone While Operating a Motor Vehicle
Sponsor: Deborah Pelletier-Simpson
An Act To Ensure an Adequate Time Frame within Which To Rebuild a Home
Sponsor: Wright Pinkham
An Act To Provide a Reward for Information Regarding the Murder of a Law Enforcement Officer
Sponsor: Charles Harlow
An Act To Reduce Registration Fees for Certain Generators of Biomedical Waste
Sponsor: Wright Pinkham
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 10: Exemptions to the Ban on Flavored Cigarettes and Cigars, a Major Substantive Rule of the Office of the Attorney General
Sponsor: Wright Pinkham
Resolve, To Return Two-thirds of the Purchase Cost of Sears Island to the People of Maine
Sponsor: Richard Cebra
An Act To Deter Road Rage
Sponsor: Richard Rosen
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 181: Child Development Services System: Regional Provider Advisory Boards, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education
Sponsor: Richard Blanchard
An Act To Amend the Law Governing Property Insurance on a Primary Residence
Sponsor: Douglas Smith
An Act To Prohibit Air Bag Fraud
Sponsor: Dennis Damon
An Act To Prohibit the Use of Handheld Cellular Telephones while Driving
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act To Increase Safety in Construction Zones
Sponsor: Margaret Rotundo
An Act To Require a Municipality That Abuts a Body of Water To Contribute to the Cost of Upkeep of Municipally Owned Dams on That Body of Water
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Ensure Public Safety during High-speed Chases by Law Enforcement Officers
Sponsor: Stanley Gerzofsky
An Act To Provide Rule-making Authority to the Maine Library Commission
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Require That Insurance Contracts Include a Plain Language Summary
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Construction Contracts
Sponsor: Bernard Ayotte
An Act To Require Health Care Practitioners To Distribute Free Samples of Medications in Certain Circumstances
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Ban Smoking on Public Beaches and in Public Parks
Sponsor: John Nutting
An Act To Exempt the United States Flag from Sales Tax
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Assist Small Businesses with Creating Jobs
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Promote the Integrity of Citizens' Initiatives
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Designate Registered Voters Not Enrolled in a Political Party as Independent Voters
Sponsor: Jonathan Courtney
Resolve, Directing the Department of Transportation To Install a Flashing Light in Charleston
Sponsor: Joshua Tardy
An Act To Exempt Breast-feeding Mothers from Jury Duty
Sponsor: Paulette Beaudoin
An Act To Allow a Person 65 Years of Age or Older To Obtain a Lobster License without Completing the Apprentice Program
Sponsor: Kerri Prescott
An Act To Allow Political Signs on Private Property Only
Sponsor: Lawrence Bliss
An Act To Allow the Use of Only 2 Studded Tires on Front-wheel-drive Vehicles
Sponsor: Wright Pinkham
An Act To Exempt a Door Prize Awarded at a Fishing Tournament from Being Classified as a Game of Chance
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
Resolve, Relating to Federal Stimulus Funds for Energy Programs
Sponsor: Peggy Pendleton
An Act To Amend the Process for Secession from a County by a Municipality
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Require Telephone Directories To Include Cellular Telephone Numbers for Businesses
Sponsor: Wesley Richardson
Resolve, To Direct the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services To Require the Teaching of Mental Health Awareness in Middle Schools Based on a National Curriculum
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Require the Secretary of State To Notify Vehicle Owners of Impending Registration Expiration
Sponsor: Wesley Richardson
An Act To Allow a Duplicate Vanity License Plate in a Different Classification of Plate
Sponsor: Richard Rosen
Resolve, Directing the Chancellor of the University of Maine System and the President of the Maine Community College System To Develop Recommendations To Address the Professional Needs of State Employees
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Prevent Teenage Substance Abuse and Suicide
Sponsor: Joseph Brannigan
An Act To Require Unredeemed Beverage Container Deposits To Be Provided to the State
Sponsor: John Martin
An Act To Ensure Access to MaineCare Services
Sponsor: Margaret Craven
An Act To Exempt Small Privately Owned Windmills from the Property Tax
Sponsor: William Diamond
An Act To Allow the Same Homestead and Veterans' Exemptions to a Person Who Has a Life Lease as Are Allowed to Those Who Have a Life Estate
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Prohibit the Sale of Energy Drinks to Minors
Sponsor: Peggy Pendleton
An Act To Amend the Definition of Employment for Purposes of Unemployment Compensation
Sponsor: Patrick Flood
JOINT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE SIGNIFICANT CULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS ACADIANS HAVE MADE TO OUR STATE AND NEW BRUNSWICK
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Allow Authorization for the Release of HIV Information on a General Medical Information Release Form
Sponsor: Wright Pinkham
An Act To Require the Provision of Unstructured Recess Time for Elementary School Students
Sponsor: Justin Alfond
An Act To Reopen Certain Rest Stops on Route 1
Sponsor: Troy Jackson
An Act To Ensure the Integrity of Harness Horse Racing Track Conditions
Sponsor: Bruce Bryant
An Act To Repeal the Maine Clean Election Act
Sponsor: Richard Cebra
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO ALLOCATE FULL FUNDING FOR THE NATIONAL VETERINARY MEDICAL SERVICES ACT
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Prohibit Constitutional Officers from Endorsing Candidates for the Legislature
Sponsor: William Browne
An Act To Amend the Laws Concerning Genetically Engineered Plants and Seeds
Sponsor: Seth Berry
An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding Public Rest Rooms
Sponsor: Wendy Pieh
An Act To Make Supplemental Appropriations and Allocations for the Expenditures of State Government and To Change Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2009
Sponsor: William Diamond
JOINT RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING THE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS TO SUPPORT THE "DIVIDED WE FAIL" EFFORT
Sponsor: Hannah Pingree
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Passed (500)
An Act Regarding Energy Infrastructure Development
An Act To Correct Errors and Inconsistencies in the Laws of Maine
An Act To Authorize Bond Issues for Ratification by the Voters for the June 2010 Election and November 2010 Election
Resolve, To Transfer the Ownership of the Fort Kent Armory from the Military Bureau to the University of Maine at Fort Kent
An Act Regarding Mental Health Treatment
An Act Concerning Certain MaineCare Rules Regarding Services Provided through the Child Development Services System and School Administrative Units
An Act To Establish a Residential Wood Stove Replacement Fund
An Act To Amend the Tax Laws
Resolve, Regarding Biofuel in Number 2 Heating Oil
An Act To Reduce the Sales Tax on Certain Watercraft
An Act To Amend the Unemployment Compensation Laws Regarding Vacation Pay
An Act To Protect Retirement Income
An Act To Adopt the Common Core State Standards Initiative
An Act Pertaining to Sales Tax Exemptions for Products Purchased for Agricultural Use
An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding Authority over and Oversight of Certified Nursing Assistant Educational Programs
An Act To Provide Predictable Benefits to Maine Communities That Host Wind Energy Developments
An Act To Distribute Funds Received from the Racino in Bangor to the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Substance Abuse
An Act To Decriminalize Violations of Rules or Permit Conditions of the Baxter State Park Authority
Resolve, Directing the Joint Standing Committee on State and Local Government To Study the Rule-making Process under the Maine Administrative Procedure Act
An Act To Make Administrative Changes to Tax Laws To Maintain a Balanced Budget
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Election of Androscoggin County Commissioner District Budget Committee Members
An Act To Stimulate Capital Investment for Innovative Businesses in Maine
An Act To Reform Insurance Coverage To Include Diagnosis and Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorders
An Act To Fund the Maine Downtown Center
An Act To Encourage the Use of Models in the Collection and Use of Student Achievement Data
An Act To Amend the Maine Medical Marijuana Act
An Act To Require Private Insurance Coverage for Certain Services for Children with Disabilities
An Act To Create Jobs and Stimulate Economic Development by Making Captive Insurers Eligible for Pine Tree Development Zone Benefits
An Act To Enhance the Redevelopment of the Brunswick Naval Air Station
An Act To Amend Licensing, Certification and Registration Requirements for Health Care Providers and Other Facilities
An Act To Protect Maine Workers
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Misclassification of Construction Workers
An Act To Increase Maine's High School Graduation Rates
An Act To Improve Water Quality through the Phaseout of Overboard Discharges and the Improvement of the Boat Pump-out Laws
An Act Relating to Road Noise
An Act To Improve Tribal-State Relations
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Legislative Youth Advisory Council
Resolve, Authorizing Certain Land Transactions by the Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands and the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and Directing the Initiation of Negotiations Regarding Easements on Certain Land
Resolve, To Review the Waste Motor Oil Disposal Site Remediation Program
An Act To Replace the Maine Limited Liability Company Act
Resolve, Directing the Department of Corrections To Coordinate Review of Due Process Procedures and To Ensure Transparency in Policies Regarding the Placement of Special Management Prisoners
An Act To Establish Municipal Cost Components for Unorganized Territory Services To Be Rendered in Fiscal Year 2010-11 and To Make Certain Changes in the Laws Governing Tax Increment Financing Payments in the Unorganized Territories
An Act To Stimulate the Maine Economy and Promote the Development of Maine's Priority Transportation Infrastructure Needs
An Act To Reduce Noise Caused by Motorcycles and Improve Public Health
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Section 10: Stream Crossings within Chapter 305 Permit by Rule Standards, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Environmental Protection
Resolve, Authorizing the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services To Sell or Lease the Interests of the State in Certain Real Property Located at 187-189 State Street, Augusta, Known as the Smith-Merrill House, and at 159 Hogan Road, Bangor, known as the Elizabeth Levinson Center
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Governor's Ocean Energy Task Force
An Act Relating to the Recommendations of the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability Regarding Emergency Communications Services
An Act To Align the Duties of School Boards Concerning Student Safety with the Requirements of the Federal Gun-Free Schools Act and To Prohibit the Discharge of Firearms within 500 Feet of Public and Private School Properties
An Act To Clarify Maine's Phaseout of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers
Resolve, To Develop Practices for Developments of State and Regional Significance in Order To Reduce Dependency on Fossil Fuels and Meet the State's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Goals
An Act Concerning the Allocation of Power Generated by GNE, LLC
An Act To Promote the Establishment of Innovative Schools
An Act To Enable the Installation of Broadband Infrastructure
Resolve, To Implement the Recommendations of the Juvenile Justice Task Force
Resolve, To Direct the Commissioner of Education To Review the Essential Programs and Services Funding Formula
An Act To Establish the Universal Childhood Immunization Program
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Maine Health Data Processing Center and the Maine Health Data Organization
An Act Relating to the Membership of the Workers' Compensation Board
An Act To Allow Electronic Filing of Vital Records and Closing of Records To Guard against Fraud and Make Other Changes to the Vital Records Laws
An Act To Make Supplemental Allocations from the Highway Fund and Other Funds for the Expenditures of State Government and To Change Certain Provisions of State Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011
An Act To Strengthen the Ballot Initiative Process
An Act To Make Maine's Laws Consistent with the Federal Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
An Act To Clarify Safety Requirements in Acadia National Park
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 101: Maine Unified Special Education Regulation, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education
An Act To Revise Notification Requirements for Pesticides Applications Using Aircraft or Air-carrier Equipment
An Act To Prohibit Surcharges on the Use of Debit Cards
Resolve, To Review Sales of Dairy Products
Resolve, Directing the Right To Know Advisory Committee To Further Examine Requirements That Public Bodies Keep Records of Public Proceedings
An Act To Require Insurance Companies To Cover the Cost of Prosthetics Containing Microprocessors
Resolve, To Direct the Public Utilities Commission and the Public Advocate To Account for Certain Resource Expenditures
Resolve, To Prevent the Spread of Invasive Plants and Protect Maine's Lakes
An Act To Update the Laws Affecting the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Resolve, To Increase Transparency and Accountability and Assess the Impact of Tax Expenditure Programs
An Act Making Supplemental Appropriations and Allocations for the Expenditures of State Government, General Fund and Other Funds, and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011
An Act To Establish a Broadband Policy for Maine
An Act To Allow a Maine-chartered Financial Institution To Conduct a Savings Promotion Raffle
Resolve, Directing the Right To Know Advisory Committee To Examine Issues Related to Private Information Contained in the Communications of Public Officials
An Act To Improve the Laws Governing the Consolidation of School Administrative Units
An Act To Make Corrections to the Life Settlement Laws
Resolve, To Continue Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation Options for the State
An Act To Support the Dairy Industry
Resolve, To Review and Update the Telecommunications Taxation Laws
Resolve, Regarding Emergency Communications Services
An Act To Further Amend the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act of 1999
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Advisory Council on Health Systems Development Relating to Payment Reform
An Act To Amend the Rights and Liabilities of the Supervising Physician of a Physician Assistant
An Act To Amend the Motor Vehicle Laws
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 270: Uniform Reporting System for Quality Data Sets, a Major Substantive Rule of the Maine Health Data Organization
An Act To Increase the Affordability of Clean Energy for Homeowners and Businesses
An Act To Conform the Maine Tax Laws for 2009 to the United States Internal Revenue Code
Resolve, Regarding the Dispensing of Antiepileptic Drugs
An Act To Regulate the Use of Automated License Plate Recognition Systems
Resolve, Directing the Commissioner of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources To Examine the Collection of the Milk Handling Fee on Packaged Milk for Out-of-state Sales
Resolve, Regarding Commercial Electricity Customers Whose Bills Increased after a Decrease in Electricity Use
An Act To Strengthen the Laws against Cruelty to Animals
An Act To Implement Recommendations Concerning Domestic Violence and Parental Rights and Responsibilities
An Act Regarding Document Fees at County Registries of Deeds
An Act Containing the Recommendations of the Criminal Law Advisory Commission
An Act To Avoid Unnecessary Removal of Land from the Maine Tree Growth Tax Law Program
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 348: Poultry Slaughter and Processing with Grower/Producer Exemption, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 881: Fees; Chemical Use in Children's Products, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Environmental Protection
An Act To Protect Health Care Consumers from Catastrophic Debt
Resolve, Directing the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation To Study the Complaint Resolution Process
Resolve, To Clarify the Reporting of Debt Service Costs and the Allowance of Minor Capital School Improvement Projects Costs under Essential Programs and Services
An Act To Improve Dental Insurance Coverage for Maine Children
Resolve, To Create a Working Group To Review the Property Tax Exemption for Veterans
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Right To Know Advisory Committee Concerning Public Records Exceptions
An Act To Regulate the Transportation of Firewood
An Act To Expand the Opportunity for Persons To Acquire Health Care Coverage under the State's "Mini-COBRA" Program
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 2: Standards for Qualifications of Assigned Counsel, a Major Substantive Rule of the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services
An Act To Strengthen Collection of Unredeemed Beverage Container Deposits
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 37: Voluntary Municipal Farm Support Program, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Working Group To Study Landlord and Tenant Issues
An Act To Improve Oversight of Pharmaceutical Purchasing
An Act To Create a Saltwater Recreational Fishing Registry
An Act Regarding Community-based Renewable Energy
An Act Regarding the Laws Governing Data Collection and Marketing Practices Directed at Minors
An Act To Clarify the Enforcement Role of the Mixed Martial Arts Authority of Maine
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Somerset County Budget Procedure
Resolve, Directing the Maine Human Rights Commission To Report on Improvements
An Act To Update the Laws Affecting the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Licensing and Regulatory Services
Resolve, To Promote Efficiency and To Streamline Access to the Circuitbreaker Program Application Process
An Act To Establish the Silver Alert Program
An Act To Amend the Maine Certificate of Need Act of 2002 Concerning Right of Entry and Investigation
An Act To Extend Access to Federal Health Insurance Premium Assistance
An Act To Expand Options in Child Protection Proceedings for Children in Foster Care
An Act To Improve Toxics Use Reduction and Reduce Energy Costs by Maine Businesses
Resolve, Regarding a Report on the Status of Federal Ship Ballast Water Discharge Rules
An Act To Clarify the Construction Subcontractor Status of the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992
An Act To Provide Protections for Consumers Subject to Mandatory Arbitration Clauses
An Act To Improve Maine's Air Quality and Reduce Regional Haze at Acadia National Park and Other Federally Designated Class I Areas
An Act To Amend Provisions of Certain Laws Relating to Fish and Wildlife
An Act To Provide for Legislative Review of Recently Proposed Revisions to Certain Rules Adopted Pursuant to the Site Location of Development Laws and the Storm Water Management Laws
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Kennebec Water District
Resolve, Concerning the Proper Disposal of Motor Fuels Containing Ethanol
An Act To Amend the Electric Utility Industry Laws as They Relate to Renewable Resources
An Act To Strengthen Protection from Abuse and Protection from Harassment Laws
Resolve, Directing the Right To Know Advisory Committee To Examine Issues Related to Communications of Members of Public Bodies
Resolve, Regarding Energy Conservation through Voltage Regulation
An Act To Correct Errors and Inconsistencies in Marine Resources Laws
An Act To Facilitate Voting by Uniformed Service and Overseas Voters
An Act To Strengthen the Job Creation Through Educational Opportunity Program
An Act To Improve Access to Data in the Central Voter Registration System
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 285: Adjustment of Non-bank Mortgage Lender Fees To Fund Investigative and Legal Compliance Personnel, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation
An Act To Facilitate Communication between the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Revenue Services and the Department of Conservation, Bureau of Forestry
An Act To Authorize an Alternative Calculation of the Property Growth Factor for Municipalities with Exempt Personal Property
An Act To Streamline Collections for Consumer-owned Consolidated Water and Wastewater Utilities
An Act To Amend the Animal Welfare Laws
An Act To Include All Children in the Conditions of Education Report
Resolve, Directing the Public Utilities Commission To Address Public Safety Issues Relating to Disconnection of Certain Utilities
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 15: Batterer Intervention Program Certification, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Corrections
Resolve, Directing the Department of Transportation To Place Signs at the Interstate Exits in Pittsfield Directing Motorists to Maine Central Institute
An Act To Establish Emergency Zones on Public Ways To Minimize Accidents
An Act To Amend the Law Pertaining to Smoke Detectors and Carbon Monoxide Detectors
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 11: Rules Governing the Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Substance Abuse
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 28: Notification Provisions for Outdoor Pesticide Applications, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, Board of Pesticides Control
An Act To Clarify the Child Abuse or Neglect Substantiation Process
An Act Concerning Litigation Brought by the Attorney General To Enforce Provisions of the Forest Practices Laws
An Act To Stimulate the Economy by Expanding Opportunities for Direct Support Aides
An Act To Create a Smart Grid Policy in the State
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 21, Allowances for Home and Community Benefits for Members with Mental Retardation or Autistic Disorder, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services
An Act To Clarify the Informed Growth Act
An Act To Clarify the Marine Resources Laws To Provide for the Protection of Public Safety and Welfare
An Act To Improve Disclosure of Campaign Finance Information and the Operation of the Maine Clean Election Act
An Act To Create a Commercial Pelagic and Anadromous Fishing License and Establish the Pelagic and Anadromous Fisheries Fund
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 97, Private Non-Medical Institution Services, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services
An Act To Ensure Search and Rescue Dogs Are Afforded Access to Public Accommodations without an Extra Charge
An Act Concerning the National Animal Identification System
An Act To Protect Maine Citizens' Credit
An Act To Protect Confidential Consumer Records in Self-service Storage Facilities
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Regarding Review of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources under the State Government Evaluation Act
An Act To Amend the Election Laws and Other Related Laws
An Act To Amend Mercury Stack Testing Requirements for Certain Air Emission Sources
An Act Regarding the Law Governing Recreational Vehicle Manufacturers, Distributors and Dealers
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Section 16 Activities in Coastal Sand Dunes, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Environmental Protection
An Act To Clarify the Status of Prisoners
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 9: Rule Requiring Best Management Practices for Growing Crops To Minimize Cross Contamination, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources
An Act To Update and Modernize Maine's Floodplain Mapping
Resolve, To Ensure Consistency in the Scheduled Expiration of Terms of the Board Members of the Finance Authority of Maine
An Act Enabling Expedited Partner Therapy
An Act To Amend the Definition of "Farmers' Market"
An Act Regarding the Maternal and Infant Death Review Panel
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Gardiner Water District
An Act To Promote Opportunity for Workers in the Maine Woods
An Act To Facilitate Recovery Zone Facility Bonds, Recovery Zone Economic Development Bonds and Qualified Energy Conservation Bonds
An Act To Extend the Temporary Reduction in High-stakes Beano License Fees
An Act To Close Loopholes in Environmental Laws
Resolve, Regarding Waste-to-energy Power
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Dexter Utility District
An Act To Amend the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992 Regarding Coordination of Benefits
An Act To Create the Buckfield Water District
Resolve, To Promote Geothermal Energy
An Act To Enhance Cooperation between the Workers' Compensation Board's Abuse Investigation Unit and Other State Agencies and To Ensure Equal Application of the Requirement To Obtain Coverage
An Act To Modernize the Bingo Laws
An Act Regarding Accidental Death Benefits for Beneficiaries of Deceased Firefighters
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 2: Change of Use, Downsizing, or Closure of Correctional Facilities, a Major Substantive Rule of the State Board of Corrections
An Act To Amend the Lobster Meat Laws and Expand Economic Opportunity for Maine's Lobster Industry
An Act To Adopt a Drug Benefit Equity Law
An Act To Provide Leadership Regarding the Responsible Recycling of Consumer Products
An Act Regarding Liquor Licenses for Qualified Catering Services
An Act Regarding Maine Public Employees Retirement System Life Insurance Policies
Resolve, Naming the Bridge over Pattagumpus Stream the Nicatou Bridge
An Act To Amend the Laws Relating to Government Records
An Act To Align Education Laws with Certain Federal Laws
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 232: Well Drillers and Pump Installers Rules, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Health and Human Services
An Act To Maintain Compliance of Maine's Insurance Laws with National Standards
An Act To Enhance Newborn Blood Spot Screening To Conform to Federal Newborn Screening Standards
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Taste Testing of Alcoholic Beverages
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of the Repeal of Chapter 182: Formula for Distribution of Funds to Child Development Services Regional Sites, a Major Substantive Rule That Has Been Provisionally Repealed by the Department of Education
An Act To Expedite Rulemaking Concerning Agronomic Utilization of Sludge
An Act To Streamline the Renewal Process for a Permit To Carry a Firearm
An Act To Facilitate Establishment of Watershed Districts
An Act To Enhance Public Awareness of Lyme Disease
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of the Repeal of Chapter 181: Child Development Services System: Regional Provider Advisory Boards, a Major Substantive Rule That Has Been Provisionally Repealed by the Department of Education
An Act To Clarify the Laws Governing Instant Redeemable Coupons Included with a Spirits Product
An Act To Assist in Reviewing Wind Energy Applications
Resolve, To Direct the Department of Conservation To Seek To Acquire Public Access to the Dead River
An Act To Amend the Loan Originator Registration Laws
An Act To Amend Laws Administered by the Department of Environmental Protection
Resolve, To Enhance Protection of Maine Farms and Nurseries
An Act To Encourage Veterinary Practice in Maine and Make Revisions to Related Medical Education Programs Administered by the Finance Authority of Maine
An Act To Protect Elderly Residents from Losing Their Homes Due to Taxes or Foreclosure
Resolve, To Develop Model Academic Year Calendars
An Act To Eliminate the 3-trap Limit in the Waters of the State
An Act To Provide Funding To Educate Homeowners in Integrated Pest Management
An Act Concerning Technical Changes to the Tax Laws
An Act To Protect Consumers from Charges after a Free Trial Period
An Act To Provide for the 2010 and 2011 Allocations of the State Ceiling on Private Activity Bonds
An Act To Change the Requirements for the Sales Tax Exemption for Snowmobile Trail Grooming Equipment
An Act To Make Allocations from Maine Turnpike Authority Funds for the Maine Turnpike Authority for the Calendar Year Ending December 31, 2011
An Act To Facilitate Uniformity Regarding Exemption from Registration of Certain Securities Offerings
Resolve, To Increase the Financial Stability of Low-income Families in Maine
An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding the Unlawful Use of License or Identification Card
An Act Relating to the Maine Aeronautical Advisory Board
An Act To Provide for the Safety of Maine Athletes
An Act To Facilitate the Involvement of the Office of the Public Advocate in the FairPoint Communications Bankruptcy Case
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 26: Producer Margins, a Major Substantive Rule of the Maine Milk Commission
An Act To Create Regional Quality of Place Investment Strategies for High-value Jobs, Products and Services in Maine
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Caribou Utilities District
An Act Regarding Gaming by Charitable Organizations
Resolve, To Review Certification Requirements for Installation of Solar Photovoltaic Systems
An Act To Update the Laws Concerning the Maine School of Science and Mathematics
An Act To Improve the Ability of the Commissioner of Corrections To Respond in Special Situations
An Act To Change the Penalties for Writing Bad Checks
An Act To Authorize Sanitary Districts, Water Utilities and Sewer Districts To Waive an Automatic Lien Foreclosure
An Act To Create the Lincolnville Sewer District
An Act To Enhance the Small Enterprise Growth Fund
Resolve, Authorizing the State Tax Assessor To Convey the Interest of the State in Certain Real Estate in the Unorganized Territory
An Act To Require That Marine Resources Dealers Purchase Only from Licensed Harvesters
An Act To Expand the Use of Ignition Interlock Devices
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the We Support Our Troops Registration Plates
An Act To Update Laws Regulating the Maine Emergency Management Agency
An Act To Make Technical Changes to the Laws Governing the Practice of Law
An Act To Provide Continued Protection of Benefits for Retirees of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System
An Act To Clarify the Application of Certain Statutory Requirements to Foreclosures
Resolve, To Support the Development of Maine's Economic Future by Promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education
An Act To Expand Tax Incentives for Visual Media Productions
Resolve, Directing the Department of Labor To Research and Analyze the Methods Other States Utilize To Assess Benefit Charges When a Worker Becomes Unemployed and Receives Benefits
An Act Regarding Mobile Service Bars at Municipal Golf Courses
An Act To Bring the Laws of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System into Compliance with the Federal Internal Revenue Code
An Act To Authorize Municipal Officers To Resolve Road-naming Disputes
An Act To Ensure the Perpetual Care of Maine Veterans' Cemeteries
An Act To Exempt from Penalties School Administrative Units That Would Lose Subsidy as a Result of Reorganization
An Act To Improve Safety on Maine's Primary and Secondary Roads, Reduce Road Maintenance Costs and Improve the Environment and the Economy by Allowing Certain Heavy Commercial Vehicles on the Interstate Highway System in Maine
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 692: Siting of Oil Storage Facilities, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Environmental Protection
Resolve, To Study Expenditures for Oral Health Care in the MaineCare Program
An Act To Raise the Indebtedness Limit of the Eagle Lake Water and Sewer District
An Act To Correct Errors in the Laws Relating to Unlicensed Practice and Other Provisions of the Professional and Occupational Licensing Laws
Resolve, To Name Route 16/27 in the Town of Stratton the Caleb Dalton Stevens Memorial Highway
An Act To Allow the Board of Dental Examiners To Grant Permits to Qualified Individuals To Practice as Dental Residents
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 700: Wellhead Protection: Siting of Facilities That Pose a Significant Threat to Drinking Water, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Environmental Protection
An Act To Make Maine Laws Consistent with Recent Amendments to the United States Trade Act of 1974
An Act To Adjust the Milk Handling Fee
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Task Force on the Sustainability of the Dairy Industry in Maine
An Act To Clarify the State's Initiative Involving the Federal Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008
Resolve, To Name a Bridge in North Berwick the North Berwick Veterans Memorial Bridge
Resolve, To Transfer the Ownership of the Bath Armory to the City of Bath
An Act To Authorize Maine Media College To Confer the Degree of Master of Fine Arts
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Initiative To Streamline State Government and To Make Other Necessary Changes to Law
An Act To Authorize Bond Issues for Ratification by the Voters for the November 2009 and June and November 2010 Elections
An Act To Encourage Maine Residents To Attend Medical School and Practice in Maine
An Act To Include Commercial Silvicultural Crop Production in the Sales Tax Exemption for Certain Products Used in Commercial Agricultural Crop Production Activities
An Act To Clarify the Role of the Public Advocate
An Act To Increase the Jurisdictional Limit for Small Claims
An Act To Provide Free Admission to State Parks to All Maine Veterans
Resolve, To Create a Working Group To Study Landlord and Tenant Issues
An Act To Establish a Distracted Driver Law
An Act To Provide a Waiver of the Tuition Remaining after the Application of Federal Department of Veterans Affairs Payments to Veterans Eligible for Benefits under the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008
An Act To Establish the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services
RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Amend the Time Frame for Towns To Certify Citizen Initiative Signatures
An Act To Add Combat Action Badges and Ribbons to the Special Commemorative Decals for Veterans License Plates
An Act To Amend the Tax Exemption Regarding Leased Property
An Act To Clarify Land Use Regulation in Unorganized and Deorganized Townships
Resolve, To Conduct an Updated Study of the Feasibility of Establishing a Single-payor Health Care System in the State and the Impact of Any Federal Health Care Reform
An Act Regarding Alcoholic Beverage Tastings
An Act To Enhance Motorcycle Safety
An Act To Promote Fairness and Protect Economic Development in Transportation Projects Undertaken by the State
An Act To Protect Maine Citizens and Franchised New Car and Truck Dealers
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Bottle Redemption
An Act To Bring Equity to the Sea Urchin License Fees
Resolve, Regarding Building Energy Efficiency and Carbon Performance Ratings
An Act To Amend the Certificate of Need Act of 2002 for Nursing Facility Projects
An Act Relating to Death Benefits for Certain Law Enforcement Officers and Amending the Definition of Emergency Vehicles
An Act To Establish a Health Care Bill of Rights
An Act To Clarify the Application of the Public Works Minimum Wage Laws
An Act To Improve Opportunity in the Maine Woods
An Act To Amend the Maine Certificate of Need Act of 2002 To Change Nursing Facilities Review Thresholds for Energy Efficiency Projects and for Replacement Equipment
An Act Regarding Violations of Lobster Conservation Laws
An Act Clarifying the Manner in Which a Person's Alcohol Level Is Determined under Maine Law
An Act To Allow Military Personnel Living in Maine To Benefit under the Maine Resident Homestead Property Tax Exemption
An Act To Reaffirm Maine's Commitment to Business by Amending the Pine Tree Development Zone Laws
An Act Making Unified Highway Fund and Other Funds Allocations for the Expenditures of State Government and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2009, June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011
An Act To Amend the Motor Vehicle Laws
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Axle Weights
An Act To Authorize the Social Work Education Loan Repayment Program
An Act Regarding the Pay of Tribal Representatives
An Act To Protect Benefits for State Retirees
An Act To Improve the Ability of the Department of Education To Conduct Longitudinal Data Studies
An Act To Direct Fines Derived from Tribal Law Enforcement Activities to the Passamaquoddy Tribe and the Penobscot Nation
An Act To Extend the Exception to Axle Fines during the Midwinter Season
An Act To Clarify the Rights of Bondholders and Noteholders in the Event a School Administrative Unit with Outstanding Bonds or Notes Is Dissolved or Is No Longer Authorized by Law
An Act To Provide Placards to Drivers Who for Medical Reasons Are Not Required To Wear Seat Belts
An Act To Allow the Licensing of Minibars in Hotel Rooms
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 61: State Board of Education Rules for Major Capital School Construction Projects, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education
An Act Regarding the Payment of Medicare Part B Premiums for Employees Eligible for Medicare
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission To Study Long-term Home-based and Community-based Care
Resolve, To Establish the Study Commission Regarding Teachers' Compensation
An Act Concerning Technical Changes to the Tax Laws
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Tournament Games
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Task Force on the Use of Deadly Force by Law Enforcement Officers Against Individuals Suffering From Mental Illness
Resolve, To Establish the Task Force on Kinship Families
An Act To Promote Youth Hunting License Sales
Resolve, Directing the Department of Transportation To Secure Funding To Complete the Aroostook North-South Highway Project
Resolve, To Review Changing the Duties of the State Board of Education
An Act To Amend the Surcharge for the E-9-1-1 System
An Act To Ensure that Replacement Culverts Permit Fish Passage
Resolve, To Expand Access to Renewable Energy Programs
An Act To Track the Prevalence of Childhood Obesity in Maine
An Act To Allow a Court To Award Attorney's Fees in Successful Freedom of Access Appeals
An Act To Correct Errors and Inconsistencies in the Laws of Maine
An Act To Amend the Laws Pertaining to Refusing To Submit to Arrest or Detention
An Act To Continue the Position of Director of Recreational Access and Landowner Relations
An Act To Increase Access to Nutrition Information
An Act To Prohibit the Delivery of Tobacco Products to Minors
An Act To Update Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management Laws
Resolve, To Stimulate the Maine Economy by Allowing the Federal First-time Home Buyer Tax Credit To Be Used at Closing of a Real Estate Transaction
An Act Regarding Maine's Energy Future
An Act Allowing Workers' Compensation Benefits for Firefighters Who Contract Cancer
An Act Regarding the Transfer of Patient Health Care Information through an Electronic Health Information Exchange
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Maine Children's Growth Council
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Limestone Water and Sewer District
An Act To Enact the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act
An Act To Implement Tax Relief and Tax Reform
An Act To Alter the Mechanism by which a Political Party is a Qualified Party
An Act To Improve Landfill Capacity
An Act To Allow for a Dual Liquor License
Resolve, Relating to a Review of International Trade Agreements and the Management of Groundwater Resources
An Act To Preserve Home Ownership and Stabilize the Economy by Preventing Unnecessary Foreclosures
An Act To Amend the 1980 Maine Implementing Act To Authorize the Establishment of a Tribal Court for the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians and Related Matters
An Act To Amend the Maine Clean Election Laws Governing Gubernatorial Candidates
An Act To Adopt the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
An Act Making Supplemental Appropriations and Allocations for the Expenditures of State Government, General Fund and Other Funds, and Changing Certain Provisions of the Law Necessary to the Proper Operations of State Government for the Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2009, June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011
An Act To Ensure That Construction Workers Are Protected by Workers' Compensation Insurance
An Act To Require Legislative Consultation and Approval Prior to Committing the State to Binding International Trade Agreements
An Act To Amend Certain Laws Related to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources
An Act To Amend the Review and Approval Process of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan
An Act To Amend the Law Regarding Littering on Public Lands
An Act To Simplify the Assessment of E-9-1-1 Surcharges on Prepaid Wireless Telecommunications Service
An Act Pertaining to the Breeding and Selling of Dogs and Cats and Equitable Funding of Animal Welfare
Resolve, Authorizing the Joint Standing Committee on Legal and Veterans Affairs To Report Out Legislation Regarding the Expansion of Slot Machine and Casino-style Gambling
An Act To Enhance Maine's Electronic Waste Recycling Law
An Act Regarding the Transfer of Licenses for Energy Recovery Facilities
An Act To Require Citizen Notification of Pesticide Applications Using Aerial Spray or Air-carrier Application Equipment
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Consolidation of School Administrative Units To Delay All Penalties for One Year
An Act To Amend the Maine Certificate of Need Act of 2002
An Act To Establish the Maine Fuel Board
Resolve, To Establish a Transition Adjustment for Fiscal Year 2009-10
An Act To Conform State Mortgage Laws with Federal Laws
An Act To Ensure a Uniform Comprehensive State Policy Regarding Residency Restrictions for Sex Offenders
An Act To Amend the Animal Welfare Laws
An Act To Stabilize Funding and Enable DirigoChoice To Reach More Uninsured
Resolve, Relating To Review of Certain Changes in the Application of the Sales and Use Tax Law
Resolve, To Reduce Funding to Maine Clean Election Act Candidates
An Act Relating to the TransCap Trust Fund
An Act To Improve the Maine Clean Election Act
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 22: Standards for Outdoor Application of Pesticides by Powered Equipment in Order To Minimize Off-target Deposition, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, Board of Pesticides Control
Resolve, To Further Regulate the Use of Tanning Booths by Minors
An Act To Clarify the Beano and Bingo Laws as They Apply to Federally Recognized Indian Tribes
Resolve, Directing a Study of Domestic Violence and Parental Rights and Responsibilities
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Alien Big Game and Turkey Hunters and Nonresident Hunters
Resolve, To Examine Concepts and Competencies from Family and Consumer Science for Achieving Educational Goals
An Act Regarding the Operation of County Jails and the State Board of Corrections
An Act To Promote Economic Development and Reduce Reliance on Automobiles through Transit-oriented Tax Increment Financing Districts
An Act Regarding Curriculum Requirements and Standards for Awarding a High School Diploma
An Act To Increase Consumer Choice for Wine
Resolve, To Facilitate Disclosure of Information to Taxpayer Representatives
An Act To Expand Representation on the Animal Welfare Advisory Council
Resolve, To Examine Environmental Effects of the Resource Recovery System
An Act Regarding Asbestos Abatement Work
An Act Regarding Requirements for Approval of a Transmission Line
An Act To Increase Access to Farm Fresh Poultry
An Act To Create the Advisory Committee on Bias-based Profiling by Law Enforcement Officers and Law Enforcement Agencies
An Act To Authorize a Court To Appoint a Parenting Coordinator To Assist in Domestic Relations Actions
An Act To Create a Funding Structure for Sustainable Investment in Public Water and Wastewater Infrastructure in the State
An Act Regarding Screening for Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
An Act To Amend the Maine Condominium Act Regarding Escrow of Assessments
An Act To Amend the Statute of Limitations for Actions against the Estate of a Decedent
An Act To Increase the Evidentiary Standard Required To Establish a Guardianship
An Act Regarding the Central Voter Registration System
An Act To Make Minor Substantive Changes to the Tax Laws
Resolve, To Examine Data Discrepancies and Adequately Identify and Serve Children with Brain Injuries
An Act To Require Interscholastic Athletic Organizations To Comply with the Public Proceedings Provisions of the Freedom of Access Laws for Certain Meetings
An Act Regarding the Evaluation of Economic Development Programs
Resolve, To Encourage Alternative Compensation Models for Teachers and School Administrators
An Act To Protect Maine Citizens and Franchised New Motor Vehicle Dealers
An Act To Provide More Transparency and Protection for Public Employees in the Laws Governing the Maine Public Employees Retirement System
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 131: The Maine Federal, State, and Local Accountability Standards, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education
An Act To Create the Maine Online Learning Program
An Act To Allow Pharmacists To Administer Certain Immunizations
Resolve, To Improve the Continuity of Care for Individuals with Behavioral Issues in Long-term Care
Resolve, To Recognize Women Veterans in the State House Hall of Flags
Resolve, Directing the Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources To Convene a Work Group To Strengthen Farm-to-school Efforts in the State
An Act To Amend Certain Provisions of Fish and Wildlife Laws
An Act To Protect Consumers and Small Business Owners from Rising Health Care Costs
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Commission To Study the Protection of Farms and Farmland
An Act To Establish the Community-based Renewable Energy Pilot Program
An Act To Amend Certain Laws Affecting Transportation
An Act To Improve Teacher Confidentiality Laws
An Act To Provide for a Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth
Resolve, Regarding Continuity of Care in the Child Development Services System
An Act To Regulate Mixed Martial Arts Competitions, Exhibitions and Events
Resolve, To Review Statutes, Rules and Policies Regarding Mental Retardation, Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Other Cognitive and Developmental Disorders
An Act To Increase the Number of Members of the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission Who Reside in the Commission's Jurisdiction
An Act To Amend the Laws Concerning Licensure Qualifications of Independent Practice Dental Hygienists
An Act To Clarify the Municipal Jurisdiction of a Portion of Saco Bay
Resolve, Authorizing the Finance Authority of Maine To Oversee an Obligation Owed to the State by Lincoln Paper and Tissue, LLC
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 3: Maine Clean Election Act and Related Provisions - Increase of Seed Money to $150,000, a Major Substantive Rule of the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices
An Act Concerning Debarment from Contracts with the Department of Environmental Protection
An Act To Enact the Maine Uniform Power of Attorney Act
An Act To Establish and Promote Statewide Collaboration and Coordination in Public Health Activities and To Enact a Universal Wellness Initiative
An Act To Update and Clarify Statutes Related to or Administered by the Department of Public Safety
An Act To Make Permanent the Allowance of Certain Commercial Vehicles between the United States-Canada Border and Certain Points in Maine
An Act Relating to Industrial Hemp
Resolve, Directing the ConnectME Authority To Create the Broadband Strategy Council
An Act To Amend Sentinel Events Reporting Laws To Reduce Medical Errors and Improve Patient Safety
An Act To Amend the Maine Clean Election Act and the Enforcement Procedures of the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices
An Act To Enhance Fund-raising Opportunities by Certain Nonprofit Organizations
An Act To Provide Fiscal Information for Citizen Initiatives
An Act To Amend Provisions of the Submerged Lands Law
An Act To Transfer the Seed Potato Board to the Maine Potato Board
An Act To Protect the Right To Use Solar Energy
An Act To Expand Access to Oral Health Care
An Act To Repeal Inactive Boards and Commissions
An Act To Create a Moratorium on the Open-air Production of Genetically Engineered Pharmaceutical Crops in Maine
An Act To Improve the Use of Information Regarding Sex Offenders
An Act To Require State-owned Solid Waste Disposal Facilities To Demonstrate a Public Benefit
An Act To Modify Child Support Enforcement Procedures and Requirements
An Act To Ensure Fair Calculation of Severance Pay for Maine Workers
An Act Regarding Emergency Involuntary Admission of a Participant in the Department of Health and Human Services' Progressive Treatment Program to a State Mental Institute
Resolve, To Reform Public Retirement Benefits and Eliminate Social Security Offsets
An Act To Allow the Award of Court Costs or Attorney's Fees in Protection from Harassment Actions
An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Involuntary Hospitalization Procedures
Resolve, Regarding the Classification of Wildlife Management District 2
An Act To Amend the Charter of the Clinton Water District
Resolve, Regarding Low-profit Limited Liability Companies
An Act To Update the Site Location of Development Laws
An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Criminal Law Advisory Commission
Resolve, To Provide a Program Model for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Resolve, To Study Implementation of Shared Decision Making To Improve Quality of Care and Reduce Unnecessary Use of Medical Services
An Act To Implement the Updates to Article 7 of the Uniform Commercial Code Suggested by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
An Act To Allow Efficient Health Insurance Coverage
An Act To Provide Consumer Disclosures and Protect Consumer Options in Life Insurance
Resolve, Directing the Secretary of State To Conduct a Pilot Program for Ongoing Absentee Voter Status
An Act To Regulate the Rockweed Harvest in Cobscook Bay
An Act To Amend the Education Laws Regarding the State Board of Education's Degree-granting Authority, the Telecommunications Education Access Fund and Certain Definitions and Programs
An Act To Reverse the Effects of Grant v. Central Maine Power, Inc. on Workers' Compensation
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 3: Maine Clean Election Act and Related Provisions - Matching Funds and Property and Equipment, a Major Substantive Rule of the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices
An Act To Implement the Uniform Law Conference Suggested Updates to Article 1 of the Uniform Commercial Code
An Act To Establish Annual Reporting for Genetically Engineered Crops
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 182: Formula for Distribution of Funds to Child Development Services Regional Sites, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Education
An Act To Amend the Law Concerning Adverse Possession
An Act Regarding Indirect Lobbying
An Act To Continue To Reduce Mercury Use and Emissions
An Act To Allow a Municipality To Grant a Variance for the Construction of a Parking Structure for a Person with a Permanent Disability
An Act to Regulate Swim Areas on Inland Waters
An Act To Reduce Lung Cancer Rates in Maine
Resolve, To Understand and Assist in Efforts To Promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education
An Act To Promote Economic Development in the Greater Portland Region
Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 41: Special Restrictions on Pesticide Use, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, Board of Pesticides Control
An Act To Create the Probate and Trust Law Advisory Commission
Resolve, Related to the Maine Estate Tax
An Act To Create Economic Development in the State by Modernizing the State's Captive Insurance Laws
Resolve, Directing the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services To Establish a Work Group To Clarify the Working Status of Respite Care and Shared Living Residential Service Providers for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities
An Act To Exempt from Taxation Biodiesel Fuel Produced for Personal Use
An Act To Clarify the Laws Regarding Significant Groundwater Wells
Resolve, To Implement Select Recommendations of the Joint Select Committee on Future Maine Prosperity
An Act To Amend Operating After Suspension Laws by Creating an Infraction Alternative for Certain Kinds of Operating After Suspension
An Act To Protect the Long-term Viability of Island Lobster Fishing Communities