ME SP0800

Joint order carrying over approximately 180 legislative matters from the First Special Session of the 132nd Maine Legislature to any subsequent special or regular session, maintaining each bill in its current procedural status

Held-over bills cover wide-ranging policy areas including Wabanaki Nation rights, energy and utilities, taxation, criminal justice reform, housing, health care, cannabis regulation, elections, labor protections, and environmental policy

Includes several firearms-related bills (72-hour waiting period repeal, extreme risk protection orders, firearm rights restoration) and multiple bills addressing record sealing and criminal justice reform

Orders that all matters remaining on the Special Appropriations Table and Special Study Table also be held over to subsequent sessions

Sponsored by Senator Teresa Pierce of Cumberland County; requires House concurrence