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ME LD1528

Bill

Status

Enrolled

5/22/2025

Primary Sponsor

Richard Bennett

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Origin

Senate

132nd Legislature

AI Summary

  • Establishes a nonlapsing, interest-bearing account within the Bureau of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources to support public-private partnerships for the Maine Working Farmland Access and Protection Program

  • Transfers $1,000,000 from the General Fund unappropriated surplus to the program by June 30, 2026

  • Creates one permanent Resource Management Coordinator position with General Fund appropriations of $117,786 in FY2025-26 and $124,266 in FY2026-27

  • Total department funding of $1,121,725 in FY2025-26 and $128,205 in FY2026-27 across General Fund and Other Special Revenue Funds

Legislative Description

An Act to Support Farmland Conservation

Farms

Last Action

CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800.

6/25/2025

Committee Referrals

Agriculture, Conservation And Forestry4/8/2025

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