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131st Legislative Session - Updated December 6
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| Bill | Title | Summary | Status | Position | Category |
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| LD 2 (HP 4) | An Act To Address Chronic Homelessness By Creating The Housing First Fund | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to amend the laws to address Maine's housing crisis. | On motion by Senator ROTUNDO of Androscoggin PLACED ON THE SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TABLE pending PASSAGE TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence. (6/6) | PH | |
| LD 3 (HP 5) | An Act To Establish The Winter Energy Relief Payment Program To Aid Residents With High Heating Costs And To Finalize The Covid Pandemic Relief Payment Program | This bill provides relief to certain Maine households to assist them with high costs for home heating. Part A transfers funds totaling $71,000,000 from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund to the Maine State Housing Authority no later than June 30, 2023. Of this amount, $40,000,000 is allocated for heating assistance to households in the State eligible for the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, $10,000,000 is allocated as emergency funds to households to avert an energy crisis and $21,000,000 is allocated for emergency housing to prevent people from experiencing homelessness during the 2022- 2023 winter months. Part B establishes the Winter Energy Relief Payment Program and transfers funds on a one-time basis totaling $398,000,000 from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund to the newly created Winter Energy Relief Payment Program Fund Other Special Revenue Funds account no later than December 31, 2022 to fund the program. The program provides relief payments of $450 to individuals who filed a Maine income tax return as of October 31, 2022 and who had income less than: $200,000, if filing as an individual filing a married joint return or a surviving spouse permitted to file a joint return; $150,000, if filing as a head of household; or $100,000, if filing as a single individual or as a married individual filing a separate return. The State Tax Assessor is required to identify eligible recipients and make relief payments to those individuals no later than March 15, 2023. A process is specified to allow individuals who are eligible but who have not received a relief payment to document eligibility to the State Tax Assessor. The relief payment is not considered income for Maine income tax purposes. Part C transfers $4,433,437 from the unappropriated surplus of the General Fund to the COVID Pandemic Relief Payment Program no later than June 30, 2023. Part C also transfers $385,754 from the COVID Disaster Relief Payment Fund Other Special Revenue Funds account and $6,674,993 from the Homestead Property Tax Exemption Reimbursement, Other Special Revenue Funds account to the COVID Pandemic Relief Payment Program. Part C provides the COVID Pandemic Relief Payment Program with an Other Special Revenue Funds allocation of $11,494,184 in fiscal year 2022-23 to complete the $850 pandemic relief payment to each eligible resident of the State as authorized in Public Law 2021, chapter 635, Part L. Part D includes General Fund deappropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services of $156,752,586 in fiscal year 2022-23 to adjust funding for the 6.2% increase in the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage based on the extension of the national public health emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic for the first, 2nd and 3rd quarter of fiscal year 2022-23. This adjustment also deallocates $4,154,555 from the Fund for a Healthy Maine in fiscal year 2022-23. The offsets for these deappropriations and deallocations are Federal Expenditures Fund allocations of $158,965,759 and Federal Block Grant Fund allocations of $1,941,382 in fiscal year 2022-23. Part E allows the Commissioner of Environmental Protection to suspend the sulfur content requirements for liquid and solid fossil fuels if the commissioner finds that the expected availability of fuel that complies with those requirements is inadequate to meet the needs of residential, commercial or industrial users in this State and that such expected unavailability constitutes an immediate threat to public health, safety or the general welfare. The commissioner is required to specify in writing the period during which the suspension is in effect. Part F requires the temporary suspension of the provision of law that requires certain General Fund revenue and resources that exceed the General Fund appropriation limit to be transferred to the Maine Budget Stabilization Fund. | Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure) Public Law Chapter 1 (1/4) | PH | |
| LD 11 (HP 15) | An Act To Strengthen Temporary Protections For Children Living In Dwellings With Identified Lead Hazards | This bill establishes the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services to order and enforce actions to temporarily protect children and families living in any residential dwelling unit from identified lead hazards until they are relocated to lead-safe housing or lead hazards are abated. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 82 (5/15) | PH/PEDS | |
| LD 18 (HP 22) | An Act To Provide Ongoing Funding For Up To 2 Years Of Community College For Certain Maine Students | This bill provides ongoing funding for high school graduates and individuals who obtain the equivalent of a high school diploma to receive a waiver of tuition and fees for up to 2 years in the Maine Community College System. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/9) | WrkForce | |
| LD 51 (HP 26) | An Act To Restore Religious And Philosophical Exemptions To Immunization Requirements | Public Law 2019, chapter 154 removed the exemption from immunization requirements based on religious or philosophical beliefs for students in elementary, secondary and postsecondary schools and employees of nursery schools and certain health care facilities. This bill reinstates the religious and philosophical exemptions. | Reports Read On motion by Senator RAFFERTY of York the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 125 Yeas 19 - Nays 11 - Excused 5 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/9) |
PH/COVID | |
| LD 52 (HP 27) | An Act To Allow Certain School Employees To Carry Firearms On School Property | This bill exempts a school employee from the prohibition on possessing a firearm on public school property or the property of an approved private school or discharging a firearm within 500 feet of public school property or the property of an approved private school if the school employee has successfully completed certification and training prescribed by the Board of Trustees of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy and has been authorized by the school board to possess or discharge a firearm for the purpose of enhancing the safety and security of the school and in defense of students, staff and members of the public on the school premises. The bill provides that the school employee is not authorized to exercise law enforcement powers. The bill allows a school board to establish a certification standard and a training program to arm and supervise certain school employees in a manner and according to protocols as the school board determines. The bill specifies that a school board may not arm a school employee without the employee's voluntary consent and a school employee may not be censured or discriminated against for unwillingness or refusal to carry a firearm. | Reports READ On motion by Senator RAFFERTY of York The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 323 Yeas 22 - Nays 13 - Excused 0 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/14) |
PH | |
| LD 59 (HP 34) | An Act To Prohibit Inclusion Of The Covid-19 Vaccine In The Universal Childhood Immunization Program | This bill prohibits the inclusion of any vaccine for COVID-19 on the list of vaccines available through the Universal Childhood Immunization Program. | Reports READ On motion by Senator BALDACCI of Penobscot The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 302 Yeas 20 - Nays 13 - Excused 2 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/13) |
PH/COVID | |
| LD 60 (HP 35) | An Act To Require A 72-hour Waiting Period After The Sale Of A Firearm | This bill requires a 72-hour waiting period between an agreement for the purchase and sale of a firearm and its delivery to the purchaser and makes violation of the waiting period a civil violation with a $200 to $500 fine for the first violation and a $500 to $1,000 fine for a subsequent violation. | Taken from the table by the President Senator BEEBE-CENTER of Knox moved to Accept The Majority Ought to Pass As Amended Report Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 354 Yeas 11 - Nays 24 - Excused 0 - Absent 0 FAILED Subsequently The Minority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/15) |
PH | |
| LD 67 (HP 42) | An Act To Increase The Number Of Educational Professionals By Accepting Out-of-state Certification | This bill requires the Department of Education to accept a certificate as an administrator, teacher, educational technician or educational specialist issued by another state, the District of Columbia, a United States territory or other country as qualification for such a certificate in this State. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/9) | ||
| LD 68 (HP 43) | Resolve, Directing The Office Of Tax Policy To Study The Impact Of Exempting Certain Nonprofit Organizations From The Sales And Use Tax And The Service Provider Tax | This bill exempts from the sales and use tax and from the service provider tax sales to a nonprofit organization that has been determined by the United States Internal Revenue Service to be exempt from income taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the federal Internal Revenue Code of 1986 if the property or services sold are to be used primarily for the purposes for which the nonprofit organization was organized. The bill requires the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of Revenue Services, Office of Tax Policy to review sales and use tax and service provider tax exemptions to identify provisions that should be repealed or amended because they are duplicative or otherwise unnecessary and to submit a report including suggested legislation repealing or modifying those exemptions to the Joint Standing Committee on Taxation. | Signed by the Governor Resolve Chapter 88 (6/28) | HA | |
| LD 82 (HP 52) | An Act To Improve Access To Children's Behavioral Health Services | This bill removes the requirement that service providers contracted by the Department of Health and Human Services charge fees for services for children with mental health needs, intellectual disabilities or autism and their families. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 83 (5/15) | BH/PEDS | |
| LD 94 (HP 62) | An Act Regarding The Use Of Medical Cannabis By Minors | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to require approval from a minor's primary care provider before that minor may use medical cannabis. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/6) | PH/FLAVORS/PEDS | |
| LD 97 (HP 65) | An Act To Repeal The Hospital And Health Care Provider Cooperation Act | This bill repeals the Hospital and Health Care Provider Cooperation Act. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 37 (4/24) | HA | |
| LD 109 (HP 77) | Resolve, To Establish The Commission To Study Measures To Improve Safety For Residents Of Recovery Residences | Current law provides that a certified substance use disorder recovery residence is treated as a family residence for the purposes of life safety code requirements, regardless of its size, layout or number of residents. This bill repeals that provision to require such recovery residences to meet the life safety code requirements for similarly situated buildings and housing establishments. | In possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (7/26) | SUD | |
| LD 155 (HP 96) | An Act Regarding Community-based Services For Youth Involved In The Juvenile Justice System | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would require the Department of Corrections to develop a comprehensive plan for community-based services for youth involved in the juvenile justice system. | On motion by Senator ROTUNDO of Androscoggin PLACED ON THE SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TABLE pending PASSAGE TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence. (6/22) | PH/PEDS | |
| LD 158 (HP 99) | An Act To Create A Training License And Program For Certain Advanced Practice Providers | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would allow hospitals to offer a training license and training program for physician assistants and nurse practitioners. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/11) | PH/PEDS | |
| LD 160 (HP 101) | An Act To Amend The Laws Governing Practicing Chiropractic Without A License | This bill amends the laws governing practicing chiropractic without a license to include a prohibition on an individual using the title "chiropractic physician" without having complied with the provisions of law relating to the licensing of the practice of chiropractic. | Reports READ On motion by Senator BAILEY of York The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/7) |
SCOPE | |
| LD 162 (HP 103) | Resolve, To Study The Establishment Of A Substance Use Disorder Hotline | This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a substance use disorder hotline staffed by volunteers and offering on-call assistance to health care providers seeking guidance in the treatment of patients with substance use disorder. It also directs the department to establish a consultation and clinical supervision program offering ongoing consultation and clinical supervision services to health care providers who provide care to patients with substance use disorder. It directs the department to engage the services of health care providers with expertise in the treatment of patients with substance use disorder. It provides that the department may accept federal funds and grants to implement the hotline and the program and directs the department to adopt routine technical rules. | Signed by the Governor Resolve Chapter 69 (6/22) | SUD | |
| LD 168 (HP 109) | An Act Regarding Criminal Background Checks For The Sale, Transfer Or Exchange Of Firearms | This bill requires criminal background checks of buyers of firearms for private sales, transfers or exchanges at gun shows or private sales, transfers or exchanges resulting from advertising or marketing subject to certain exceptions. The bill provides that the first offense for knowingly selling, transferring or exchanging a firearm in violation of the criminal background check required by this bill is a civil violation for which the penalty is a fine of up to $1,000. The bill designates subsequent offenses as Class D crimes. | On motion by Senator VITELLI of Sagadahoc The Senate INSISTED on Acceptance of Report B Ought Not To Pass In NON-CONCURRENCE Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 466 Yeas 20 - Nays 12 - Excused 3 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (7/6) |
PH | |
| LD 169 (HP 110) | An Act To Amend And Clarify The Laws Governing Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances And Other Harmful Chemicals | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would revise the definition of "perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances" to align with federal law, require downstream notification and allow for a safe harbor, implement a process for banning harmful chemicals that include exemptions for de minimis concentrations and replacement parts, require the consideration of limiting access to areas contaminated by perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances and prohibit certain bulk chemicals, components and parts containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/25) | ||
| LD 171 (HP 112) | An Act To Provide That All Rules Regarding Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Are Major Substantive Rules | This bill requires rules related to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, to be major substantive rules. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/25) | PH | |
| LD 172 (HP 113) | An Act To Allow Health Care Workers To Return To Work By Reinstating Exemptions From Immunization Requirements | This bill reinstates the religious and philosophical exemptions from immunization requirements for health care workers. | Reports Read On motion by Senator BALDACCI of Penobscot the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 226 Yeas 21 - Nays 14 - Excused 0 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/7) |
WrkForce/COVID | |
| LD 176 (HP 117) | An Act To Increase The Safety Of Patients And Staff At The Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center And The Riverview Psychiatric Center | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to establish and maintain certain staffing levels at the Riverview Psychiatric Center and the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center and to update and maintain certain technology at the psychiatric centers. It requires the department to report annually to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters regarding injuries of staff and residents of the psychiatric centers. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (2/16) | BH | |
| LD 198 (HP 122) | An Act To Provide Mainecare Coverage For Doula Services | This bill requires reimbursement under the MaineCare program for doula services. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/18) | HA/SCOPE | |
| LD 199 (HP 123) | An Act To Improve The Health Of Maine Residents By Removing Exclusions To The Mainecare Program | This bill provides MaineCare program coverage for noncitizen residents of this State 21 years of age or older with qualifying low incomes who are ineligible for coverage under the federal Medicaid program due to their immigration status. | The House INSISTED on PASSAGE TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (H-103) as Amended by House Amendment "B" (H-720) thereto. Placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (7/6) |
HA | |
| LD 200 (HP 124) | An Act To Require Medicaid Coverage For Certain Children Under 7 Years Of Age | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide Medicaid coverage to a child under 7 years of age, regardless of the child's family's nonfarm income official poverty line, if the child is not covered by an employer-sponsored or private health plan. It directs the department to seek any waivers and make amendments to the state Medicaid plan as needed, but does not make coverage contingent on federal approval. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/5) | HA/PEDS | |
| LD 206 (HP 127) | An Act To Make Supplemental Appropriations And Allocations From The General 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, 2023 | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill as emergency legislation proposes to make supplemental appropriations and allocations from the General 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, 2023, as submitted by the Governor pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5. The documents submitted by the Governor may be found here: https://legislature.maine.gov/12329. | Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure) Public Law Chapter 3 (2/21) | SB | |
| LD 217 (HP 138) | An Act To Support Manufacturers Whose Products Contain Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would require the development and implementation of a program to support manufacturers whose products contain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 138 (6/8) | ||
| LD 223 (HP 144) | Resolve, Directing The Department Of Health And Human Services To Amend Mainecare Rules Regarding Pharmacy Services | This resolve allows a pharmacist licensed under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 32, chapter 117 to be reimbursed for providing medication evaluation or consultation to a MaineCare member via telehealth or in a home visit when technology is not the most effective mode of consultation for services. It directs the Department of Health and Human Services to amend its rules under Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapters II and III, Sections 19, 40 and 96 and Chapter 5: Office of Aging and Disability Services Policy Manual, Section 63 accordingly. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | HA/SCOPE | |
| LD 224 (HP 145) | An Act To Strengthen Maine's Health Care Workforce By Preventing Discrimination By Requiring Maintenance Of Certification For Insurance Reimbursement | This bill prohibits carriers from conditioning reimbursement, provider network or empanelment status for a physician, hospital or outpatient clinical practice on a physician's, hospital's or outpatient clinical practice's participation in a maintenance of certification program. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 40 (4/24) | WrfForce/MAPP | |
| LD 225 (HP 146) | An Act Regarding Reimbursement To Hospitals For Patients Awaiting Placement In Nursing Facilities | Current law requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide reimbursement to hospitals other than critical access hospitals for each day after the 10th day that a MaineCare-eligible individual is in the care of a hospital while awaiting placement in a nursing facility. This bill provides that the department also is required to provide reimbursement to hospitals other than critical access hospitals for each day after the 10th day that a MaineCare-eligible individual is in the care of a hospital while awaiting placement in a residential care facility. The bill removes the provision that repeals the current law on December 31, 2023. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 227 (HP 148) | An Act Regarding Health Care In The State | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would enact provisions of law regarding health care in the State. | 05/24/23 10:00 AM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Work Session |
HA | |
| LD 228 (HP 149) | Resolve, To Require That Alcohol Misuse Be Disclosed As A Contributing Factor To Death On Death Certificates | This bill requires that if substance use disorder is a factor in the cause or the proximate cause in the death of a person, the death certificate must include substance use disorder as a factor in the cause or proximate cause of the death and identify the substance underlying the disorder. | Signed by the Governor Resolve Chapter 105 (7/26) | SUD/LM | |
| LD 231 (HP 152) | An Act To Support The Maine Pediatric And Behavioral Health Partnership Program | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would create a program designed to stabilize funding for the Maine Pediatric and Behavioral Health Partnership Program. | Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure) Public Law Chapter 339 (6/28) | BH/PEDS | |
| LD 262 (HP 167) | An Act To Strengthen Maine's Workforce | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would enact measures to strengthen the State's workforce. | Committee Docket: Carry Over Requested (6/1) | WrkForce | |
| LD 263 (HP 168) | An Act To Ensure Access To Family Planning Services | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would ensure that access to health care services, including, but not limited to, screenings and treatments, are not diminished during or because of health care mergers and acquisitions. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 343 (6/28) | HA | |
| LD 275 (HP 173) | Resolve, To Establish The Task Force To Review Work Practices And Treatment Of Pharmacists | This resolve directs the Maine Board of Pharmacy to conduct a study to review the work practices and treatment of pharmacists, including, but not limited to, treatment by employers. The board is required to submit a report based on its study by December 6, 2023 to the Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services, which may report out a bill based on the subject matter of the report to the Second Regular Session of the 131st Legislature. | In possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (7/26) | ||
| LD 277 (HP 175) | An Act Regarding Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to amend the laws regarding perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. | Committee Docket: Carry Over Requested (6/1) | BH | |
| LD 278 (HP 176) | An Act To Require Health Plans To Cover An Annual Mental Health Wellness Examination | The bill provides that health plans must provide coverage for an annual mental health wellness examination. The requirements apply beginning on January 1, 2024. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (3/30) | BH | |
| LD 282 (HP 180) | An Act To Allow The Department Of Health And Human Services To Authorize Standing Orders | This bill allows the Department of Health and Human Services to authorize standing orders for the dispensing of vaccines and nonprescription drugs to MaineCare members, participants in the state-funded medical program for noncitizens, enrollees in the elderly low-cost drug program, certain qualified residents and persons receiving Cub Care to support access to preventive care and medically necessary services. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 31 (4/21) | HA/COVID | |
| LD 288 (HP 186) | An Act Concerning Housing And Support Services For At-risk Youth And Youth Who Have Committed Juvenile Crimes | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would require the development and implementation of a program to provide housing and community-based support services for at-risk youth and youth who have committed juvenile crimes. | Committee Docket: Carry Over Requested (6/1) | PH/PEDS | |
| LD 291 (HP 189) | Resolve, To Establish The Commission To Study The Feasibility Of Establishing A Recovery High School In The State | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to support young people affected by substance use disorder. | On motion by Senator DAUGHTRY of Cumberland PLACED ON THE SPECIAL STUDY TABLE pending FINAL PASSAGE - Emergency - 2/3 Elected Required, in concurrence. (6/12) | SUD/PEDS | |
| LD 299 (HP 197) | An Act To Amend The Laws Regarding Health And Human Services | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would amend the laws regarding health and human services. | Committee Docket: Carry Over Requested (6/1) | HA | |
| LD 302 (HP 200) | An Act To Ensure Sufficient Rates For Behavioral Health Services | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would direct the Department of Health and Human Services to increase the rates in rule Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 65, Behavioral Health Services, for medication management, home and community-based treatment, multi-systemic therapy and functional family therapy and Section 17, Allowances for Community Support Services, for assertive community treatment. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/25) | BH | |
| LD 303 (HP 201) | An Act To Provide Health Insurance, Reduce Administrative Burdens, Reduce Costs And Improve Health Outcomes | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would provide residents in the State with health insurance, reduce administrative burdens, reduce costs and improve health outcomes. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/25) | HA/MMA BILL | |
| LD 304 (HP 202) | An Act To Establish Statewide Standards For Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would establish statewide standards for testing and acceptable levels of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/4) | ||
| LD 307 (HP 205) | An Act To Lower The State's Health Care Costs | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to enact measures to lower the State's health care costs. | Committee Docket: Carry Over Requested (6/1) | HA | |
| LD 308 (HP 206) | An Act To Require That Insurance Companies Notify Insured Persons Over 65 Years Of Age Regarding Coordination Of Benefits With Medicare Part B | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would require insurance companies to notify workers over 65 years of age of potential high costs. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 104 (5/30) | HA | |
| LD 309 (HP 207) | An Act To Ensure Equitable Access To All Higher Education Institutions | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would ensure equitable access to all institutions of higher education in the State. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/9) | WrkForce/HEDI | |
| LD 310 (HP 208) | An Act To Increase The Workforce In The State | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would increase the workforce in the State. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/16) | WrkForce | |
| LD 337 (HP 211) | An Act To Amend The Regulations Of Manufactured Housing To Increase Affordable Housing | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would amend the regulation of manufactured housing to increase the amount of affordable housing. | Committee Docket: Carry Over Requested (6/1) | HA/SDOH | |
| LD 342 (HP 216) | An Act To Streamline Licensing By Matching Federal Licensing Requirements For Occupations Licensed Federally | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would streamline state licensing and reciprocity rules to match federal licensing requirements for occupations licensed or certified at the federal level. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/2) | WrkForce | |
| LD 348 (HP 222) | An Act To Make Menstrual Products Available In Certain Schools | This bill requires school administrative units to require their schools that serve students in any of grades 6 to 12 to make available menstrual products to students at no cost in all school bathrooms. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | RH/PEDS | |
| LD 377 (HP 228) | An Act To Relieve Student Debt | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would require the development and implementation of a program to relieve student debt. | Committee Docket: Carry Over Requested (6/1) | ||
| LD 383 (HP 234) | An Act To Restore Legislative Oversight Of Rulemaking | This bill changes the designation of all rules adopted pursuant to the Maine Administrative Procedure Act to major substantive rules. | Reports READ On motion by Senator NANGLE of Cumberland The Minority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/14) |
HA | |
| LD 389 (HP 240) | An Act To Improve Rural Transportation And Access To Mental Health Care And Physical Health Care | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide a MaineCare member with mental illness who is receiving adult community support services and who resides more than 10 miles away from the member's community support provider's office with nonemergency transportation services to and from medical and mental health appointments and to and from activities identified in the member's community support individual support plan. It also requires the department to reimburse a community support provider or community-based mental health provider for travel time when the provider travels more than 10 miles in a single direction to visit a MaineCare member for a MaineCare billable service in the member's home or community-based setting. It allows the department to adopt routine technical rules. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/6) | BH | |
| LD 393 (HP 244) | Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review Of Portions Of Chapter 33: Rules Governing Physical Restraint And Seclusion, A Major Substantive Rule Of The Department Of Education | This resolve provides for legislative review of portions of Chapter 33: Rules Governing Physical Restraint and Seclusion, a major substantive rule of the Department of Education. | Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure) Resolve Chapter 49 (6/16) | HA | |
| LD 420 (HP 253) | An Act To Fund A Health Program For Medical Professionals | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to provide funds for a health program for medical professionals to assist licensing boards that provide monitoring services to health care professionals with illnesses or behavioral challenges that may affect their ability to practice. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/4) | BH/HA/MMA BILL | |
| LD 423 (HP 256) | An Act Making Certain Supplemental Appropriations And Allocations And Changing Certain Provisions Of The Law Necessary To The Proper Operations Of State Government | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would make supplemental appropriations and allocations from the General Fund and other funds for the expenditures of State Government and change certain provisions of the law necessary to the proper operations of State Government. | Committee Docket: Carry Over Requested (6/1) | ||
| LD 424 (HP 257) | An Act Making Certain Appropriations And Allocations And Changing Certain Provisions Of The Law Necessary To The Proper Operations Of State Government | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill, as emergency legislation, proposes to make unified appropriations and allocations for the expenditures of State Government from the General Fund and other funds and to change certain provisions of the law necessary to the proper operations of State Government for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2024 and June 30, 2025. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 17 (3/31) | ||
| LD 429 (HP 262) | An Act To Reclassify Certain Offenses Under The Motor Vehicle Laws And Increase The Efficiency Of The Criminal Justice System | Part A amends certain Maine motor vehicle laws in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 29-A, limiting the sentence for the crime of manufacturing or reproducing registration plates without the consent of the Secretary of State to a fine and changing some crimes to traffic infractions. Crimes reduced to traffic infractions include certain violations of laws related to: 1. Motor vehicle registration certificates and plates and driver's licenses; 2. Removal of a vehicle without the consent of the owner or person in charge of the property where the vehicle is located; 3. Unlawful ownership or display of a revoked, fictitious or fraudulently altered driver's license or identification card; 4. Unlawful use of a driver's license or an identification card; 5. Improper use of registration plates; and 6. Operating a motor vehicle while license or registration is suspended or revoked. Part B amends the Maine Criminal Code provision governing civil violations to explicitly provide that evidence obtained pursuant to an unlawful search and seizure is not admissible in any civil violation proceeding, not just those arising from cannabis possession by a person under 21 years of age or possession of butyl nitrite or isobutyl nitrite, and to permit a law enforcement officer who has probable cause to believe that a violation of the law has taken place or is taking place to make application for a search warrant. Part C establishes an effective date of January 1, 2024. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 362 (6/30) | ||
| LD 430 (HP 263) | Resolve, Directing The Department Of Health And Human Services To Promote Translation And Interpretation Services In Health Care Settings | This bill requires hospitals to make every effort to provide an appropriate adult translator for a patient of the hospital who cannot understand English and to provide any discharge instructions, any directions for prescription medications or anything else the patient must sign in the course of the patient's treatment or as a condition of the patient's release in a language that the patient understands. | Signed by the Governor Resolve Chapter 106 (7/26) | HEDI/HA | |
| LD 432 (HP 265) | An Act To Clarify Mainecare Program Requirements Regarding Certain High-risk Health Care Providers | This bill clarifies the MaineCare program requirements with regard to certain high-risk providers. It also requires a person with a certain level of ownership interest in a high-risk provider to submit to a fingerprint-based criminal history record background check. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 432 (7/26) | HA | |
| LD 435 (HP 268) | Resolve, To Ensure The Provision Of Medically Necessary Behavioral Health Care Services For Children In Their Homes And Communities | This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a plan to ensure that medically necessary home-based and community-based behavioral health care services are available in the scope, intensity and duration necessary to meet the needs of children and their families in the State. It directs the department to submit the plan to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services no later than October 1, 2023. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 448 (HP 277) | An Act To Improve Access To Behavioral Health Services For Maine Families And Children On Mainecare And To Increase The Number Of Behavioral Health Professionals In The State | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to enact measures to improve access to behavioral health services for families and children on MaineCare and to increase the number of behavioral health professionals in the State. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/27) | BH/PEDS | |
| LD 462 (HP 279) | An Act To Assist Persons Experiencing Homelessness In Areas Of High Rent By Seeking A Waiver From The Federal Government | This bill provides that, for an area where the actual fair market rent for existing housing is greater than the fair market rent calculated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Maine State Housing Authority is required to seek a temporary waiver of the requirements of the so-called Section 8 housing program administered by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development or any other federal housing assistance program to permit additional funds to cover the cost of the actual fair market rent for a person who is homeless. The temporary waiver must be terminated when the fair market rent calculated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is equal to or greater than the actual fair market rent for existing housing in the area. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/27) | SDOH | |
| LD 463 (HP 280) | Resolve, To Ensure Continued Mainecare Coverage For Persons Formerly In Foster Care Until They Attain 27 Years Of Age | This resolve requires the Department of Health and Human Services to amend its rules by November 6, 2024 to provide MaineCare coverage for a person formerly placed in foster care until the person attains 27 years of age. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/5) | HA/PEDS | |
| LD 469 (HP 286) | An Act To Provide Funding For A Diabetes Education Program | This bill provides a one-time appropriation to the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention to contract with an entity in York County and provide the start-up funding for an approved diabetes education program. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/18) | HA/SDOH | |
| LD 470 (HP 287) | An Act To Support Lead Abatement In Older Residential Properties | This bill provides for an ongoing General Fund appropriation of $1,000,000 for the Maine State Housing Authority's lead abatement program. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 435 (7/26) | PH | |
| LD 472 (HP 289) | An Act To Support Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic Projects | This bill provides one-time funding to bridge the gap for grants that are ending for mental health organizations participating in certified community behavioral health clinic projects. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | BH | |
| LD 473 (HP 290) | Resolve, To Expand The Eligibility For And Increase The Number Of Hours Of Applied Behavior Analysis Services Authorized By The Mainecare Program | This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to amend its rules in Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 21, Allowances for Home and Community Benefits for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Section 29, Allowances for Support Services for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities or Autism Spectrum Disorder, to allow for reimbursement for up to 120 hours of applied behavior analysis services. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | BH | |
| LD 474 (HP 291) | An Act To Improve Collaboration Between Mandatory Reporters And Law Enforcement In The Investigation Of Alleged Child Abuse And Neglect | This bill requires that a member of the staff of a public or private medical institution, agency or facility or person in charge of the institution, agency or facility or the designated agent who made a mandated report disclose the same information the member or person reported to the Department of Health and Human Services to a law enforcement officer upon request of the law enforcement officer. The bill also provides immunity for a person who made a report of suspected abuse or neglect who is participating in good faith in a law enforcement investigation or criminal justice proceeding relating to suspected abuse or neglect. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 146 (6/8) | PEDS/PH | |
| LD 479 (HP 296) | An Act To Amend The Laws Governing The Membership Of The Palliative Care And Quality Of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council | This bill amends the law governing the membership of the Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council to add a member who is appointed by the Governor and represents consumers of palliative care. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 78 (5/11) | HA | |
| LD 490 (HP 307) | An Act To Designate The Department Of Health And Human Services As The Implementing Department Of The Lead-safe Housing Registry | This bill replaces the Department of Environmental Protection with the Department of Health and Human Services as the agency responsible for implementing the registry of leased lead-safe residential dwellings. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 147 (6/8) | PH | |
| LD 493 (HP 310) | An Act To Establish A Statewide Relinquished Firearms Inventory | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would establish a statewide inventory, to be maintained by the Department of Public Safety, of firearms that were relinquished to law enforcement agencies in civil cases; the inventory would not include firearms stored as evidence in criminal cases. The department would be required to provide data to entities that received federal funds to address the relinquishment of firearms. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/5) | PH | |
| LD 494 (HP 311) | An Act To Conform State Funding To The Federal Hyde Amendment, Limiting Funding For Some Abortion Services | Public Law 2019, chapter 274 enacted the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22, section 3196, which requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide coverage to a MaineCare member for abortion services. Abortion services that are not approved Medicaid services must be funded by the State. The so-called federal Hyde Amendment prohibits federal Medicaid funding for abortions except in cases of life endangerment, rape or incest. This bill repeals Title 22, section 3196, removing the requirement that the department provide abortion services to MaineCare members and removing the requirement that the State pay when the abortion services are not covered by Medicaid. | Reports Read On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 403 Yeas 22 - Nays 12 - Excused 1 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/21) |
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| LD 518 (HP 323) | An Act To Allow Armed Security In Schools | This bill allows a school board to employ or engage by contract a school resource officer, private contractor or volunteer with applicable background and experience to provide armed security at a school within the school board's school administrative unit. | Reports READ On motion by Senator RAFFERTY of York The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/13) |
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| LD 526 (HP 331) | An Act To Amend The Laws Governing The Emergency Medical Services Stabilization And Sustainability Program | This bill provides a one-time General Fund appropriation of $25,000,000 in fiscal year 2023-24 to the Department of Public Safety targeting emergency medical services organizations at immediate risk of failing and leaving their service areas without access to adequate emergency medical services. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 438 (7/26) | EMS/HA | |
| LD 530 (HP 335) | An Act To Facilitate The Installation Of Safe Haven Baby Boxes At Hospitals, Law Enforcement Facilities And Fire Departments | This bill repeals the rule-making requirement for the provision of law regarding the safe design, installation and use of safe haven baby boxes. | Reports Read On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland the Minority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 404 Yeas 22 - Nays 12 - Excused 1 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/21) |
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| LD 535 (HP 340) | An Act Regarding Consent For Gender-affirming Hormone Therapy For Certain Minors | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to increase access to necessary medical care for certain minors. | Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 471 Yeas 19 - Nays 12 - Excused 4 - Absent 0 PREVAILED PASSED TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence. (7/6) |
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| LD 539 (HP 344) | An Act To Provide Substance Use Disorder Counseling For Mainecare Members With An Acquired Brain Injury | This bill adds substance use disorder counseling to the comprehensive neurorehabilitation service system administered by the Department of Health and Human Services and directs the department to include counseling for substance use disorder in rehabilitative services for MaineCare members who have sustained an acquired brain injury. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | SUD | |
| LD 540 (HP 345) | An Act To Establish Peer Respite Centers For Adults With Mental Health Challenges In Maine | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to establish 2 peer respite centers in the State. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | BH/HA | |
| LD 541 (HP 346) | An Act To Create Parity In The Taxation Of Medicine | This bill includes medical cannabis in the sales tax exemption that applies to medicines sold on a doctor's prescription. | The Bill was in the possession of the House when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (7/26) |
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| LD 546 (HP 351) | An Act Regarding Child Abuse And Endangerment | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to amend the laws governing child abuse and endangerment. It may include recommendations of the Legislature's government oversight committee upon completion of the study of the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Child and Family Services. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/9) | PEDS/PH | |
| LD 549 (HP 354) | An Act Regarding A Discovery Rule For The Statute Of Limitations For Cases Of Medical Negligence | Under current law, the statute of limitations on a medical malpractice claim begins to run on the date of the act or omission that gave rise to the injury, unless the medical malpractice claim is based on the leaving of a foreign object in the body. The statute of limitations does not begin to run on a medical malpractice claim based on the leaving of a foreign object in the body until the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discovered the harm. This bill provides that the statute of limitations does not begin to run on any medical malpractice claim, regardless of whether the claim is based on the leaving of a foreign object in the body, until the plaintiff discovers or reasonably should have discovered the harm. The bill also makes a technical change to remove an obsolete cross-reference in the law. | Reports Read On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/23) |
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| LD 551 (HP 356) | An Act To Strengthen Maine Citizens' Second Amendment Rights By Allowing The Discharge Of Firearms On Private Property That Is Within 500 Feet Of School Property In Certain Circumstances | Current law prohibits a person from discharging a firearm within 500 feet of public school property or the property of an approved private school. This bill establishes an exception for the discharge of a firearm by a person residing on private property for the purposes of self-defense or in order to protect the person's residence. | On motion by Senator VITELLI of Sagadahoc The Senate INSISTED to PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED BY Committee Amendment "A" (H-463) In NON-CONCURRENCE Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/20) |
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| LD 555 (HP 360) | An Act To Increase The Number Of Mature Plants Allowed For The Home Cultivation Of Cannabis | This bill increases the number of mature cannabis plants allowed for home cultivation from 3 to 6. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Public Law Chapter 220 (6/18) | PH/FLAVORS | |
| LD 571 (HP 366) | An Act To Develop Maine's Entry-level Workforce | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would amend the statutes, and require the amendment of relevant rules, that inhibit or prevent individuals who are 16 or 17 years of age from entering the workforce to make it less burdensome on those individuals to find employment and for businesses to hire those individuals. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/4) | WrkForce | |
| LD 573 (HP 368) | An Act Regarding Child Care Subsidy Payments And Eligibility | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to establish payment rates for child care services commensurate with the cost of care, rather than based on market rates for care. It requires that the department, in determining the eligibility for early childhood educator workforce salary supplements, develop a process for evaluating and accepting qualified training provided and degrees awarded outside of the training network of the entity contracted by the department to evaluate eligibility for such salary supplements. It requires that the department direct the entity responsible for determining quality indicators for child care services to develop a ratings system for child care sites based on average performance, rather than on the lowest performing indicator. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/5) | SDOH/PEDS | |
| LD 575 (HP 370) | An Act Regarding A Seat Belt Exemption For Persons With A Medical Condition | This bill allows a physician, for the purpose of allowing an exemption from the seat belt requirements for adult drivers and passengers, to designate the duration of the applicant?s medical condition not to exceed 6 years or designate the applicant?s medical condition as permanent. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 364 (6/30) | PH | |
| LD 597 (HP 374) | An Act To Improve Conditions For People Living In Recovery Residences By Requiring Approved Discharge And Transfer Policies | This bill requires that certified recovery residences have a written discharge and transfer policy that is approved by the Department of Health and Human Services. It provides that notwithstanding any landlord and tenant rights and obligations under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 14, chapter 709, a recovery residence with an approved discharge and transfer policy may immediately discharge or transfer a resident in accordance with the policy if the discharge or transfer is necessary for the resident's welfare, the resident's needs cannot be met at the recovery residence or the health and safety of other residents or recovery residence employees are at risk or would be at risk if the resident continues to live at the recovery residence. It requires that the department adopt routine technical rules describing the requirements of a discharge and transfer policy. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 249 (6/22) | SUD | |
| LD 599 (HP 376) | An Act To Provide Support Services For A Transitional Housing Program For Homeless Persons | This bill provides ongoing funding for support services for a transitional housing program in Portland. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | SDOH | |
| LD 600 (HP 377) | An Act To Expand Availability Of Naloxone Hydrochloride | This bill allows an overdose prevention program, with the express consent of a municipality, to provide and maintain naloxone hydrochloride in a visible and publicly accessible wall-mounted box or other container in municipal places to be used by a member of the public in response to an opioid-related drug overdose. The bill also provides immunity from criminal and civil liability to municipalities and overdose prevention programs for providing or maintaining the naloxone hydrochloride containers. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 71 (5/8) | SUD | |
| LD 601 (HP 378) | An Act To Reduce The Shortage Of Municipal Emergency Medical Services Personnel By Removing Certain Vaccination Requirements | This bill allows emergency medical services persons to provide treatment within the scope of their licenses without having been vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus or the influenza virus. | The Bill was in the possession of the House when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (7/26) |
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| LD 603 (HP 380) | An Act To Make Electric Breast Pumps More Accessible By Providing For Mainecare Reimbursement | This bill requires the MaineCare program to reimburse for electric breast pumps and supplies without prior authorization or limitation when recommended or prescribed by a physician. The reimbursement rate must be no less than the cost of the equipment. The Department of Health and Human Services is required to adopt implementing rules no later than January 1, 2024. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 216 (6/16) | RH/SDOH | |
| LD 615 (HP 392) | An Act To Ensure Access To Newly Born Male Infant Circumcision By Requiring Mainecare And Health Insurance Coverage | Part A of this bill requires health insurance coverage for newly born male infant circumcision. The requirements apply beginning on January 1, 2024. Part B of this bill requires the MaineCare program to provide reimbursement for the costs of newly born male infant circumcision beginning January 1, 2024. | Reports READ On motion by Senator BAILEY of York The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/13) |
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| LD 616 (HP 393) | An Act To Protect Health Care Professionals Providing Reproductive Health Care Services | This bill prohibits an insurer that provides medical malpractice insurance in this State from taking any adverse action against a health care professional that provides abortion or other reproductive health care services on the sole basis that a health care professional is acting in violation of another state's law or a revocation or other adverse action against a health care professional's license in another state. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 345 (6/28) | RH | |
| LD 618 (HP 395) | An Act To Eliminate Critical Race Theory, Social And Emotional Learning And Diversity, Equity And Inclusion From School Curricula | This bill prohibits school administrative units from providing instruction in critical race theory, social and emotional learning and diversity, equity and inclusion in any school curricula. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/1) | ||
| LD 619 (HP 396) | An Act To Ensure Coordination Of Care For Mainecare Members | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide nonemergency transportation services to MaineCare members regardless of whether a member resides in a rural or nonrural setting. It also requires the department to reimburse providers of behavioral health services and providers of physical health services for time spent engaged in coordination of care for MaineCare members, including for critical collateral care coordination for hospitalized members. It requires the department to provide reimbursement for representative payee services to members eligible for targeted case management and community support services. It requires the department to provide reimbursement for transportation to and from psychosocial clubhouse services. It requires the department to provide certified recovery coach and certified intentional peer support specialist services to MaineCare members eligible for targeted case management or community support services. It requires the department to submit any waivers or state plan amendments required for approval for federal match for services to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It allows the department to adopt routine technical rules. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 621 (HP 398) | An Act To Ensure That Businesses Do Not Refuse Payment In Person With Cash | This bill requires a person offering goods or services for sale at retail in person to accept cash and prohibits the person from accepting payment by only an electronic method. These provisions do not apply to transactions conducted remotely by telephone, mail or the Internet. | Reports READ On motion by Senator CURRY of Waldo The Minority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 326 Yeas 22 - Nays 13 - Excused 0 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/14) |
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| LD 624 (HP 401) | An Act To Prohibit Government Officials From Maintaining Records Related To Firearms Owners | This bill amends the law prohibiting a government agency or a political subdivision of the State from keeping a comprehensive registry of privately owned firearms and firearms owners to provide that such entities may not keep or cause to be kept a record or database of privately owned firearms and the owners of those firearms within their jurisdiction that contains sufficient information to establish a connection between any individual and any firearm. | On motion by Senator VITELLI of Sagadahoc The Senate INSISTED To Accept The Minority Ought to Pass As Amended Report AND PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED BY Committee Amendment "A" (H-522) In NON-CONCURRENCE Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/20) |
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| LD 625 (HP 402) | An Act To Set Aside Funds From Federal Block Grants For Certain Communities | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to annually set aside 20% of each federal block grant it receives for the most vulnerable communities in the State and at least 12% of each federal block grant it receives for federally recognized Indian nations, tribes and bands in the State. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 632 (HP 409) | An Act To Amend The Social Work Education Loan Repayment Program | This bill eliminates the requirement that participants in the Social Work Education Loan Repayment Program have completed a social work degree within 3 years of the date of application for the program. The bill adds to the list of practice areas available for participation in the program. The bill replaces the current priority consideration in the program with one developed by the Finance Authority of Maine with stakeholder input and also requires stakeholder input on changes to the application process. The bill requires a participant to serve residents of this State, increases the number of loans repaid each year and increases the amount of repayment for each participant. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | WrkForce | |
| LD 633 (HP 410) | An Act To Dedicate Revenue From Alcohol Tax To Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would dedicate a portion of the revenue from the taxes imposed on alcohol to funding for alcohol use disorder treatment programs. | Committee Docket: Carry Over Requested (6/1) | SUD | |
| LD 637 (HP 414) | An Act To Promote The Use Of Free Annual Wellness Visits By Ensuring Proper Disclosure | For a health plan with an effective date on or after January 1, 2024, this bill prohibits a health insurance carrier from requiring a provider to submit a claim, use a billing code or otherwise submit documentation relating to billing for an annual wellness visit during which the provider does not render any health care services to an enrollee. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 80 (5/11) | BH/HA | |
| LD 645 (HP 422) | 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 | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill, as emergency legislation, would make supplemental appropriations and allocations for the expenditures of State Government and change certain provisions of the law necessary for the proper operations of State Government. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 594. (3/30) |
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| LD 646 (HP 423) | An Act To Provide Appropriations And Allocations For The Operations Of State Government | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill, as emergency legislation, would provide appropriations and allocations for the operations of State Government. | Committee Docket: Carry Over Requested (6/1) | ||
| LD 662 (HP 431) | An Act To Prohibit Municipal Flavored Tobacco Product Bans On State-licensed Tobacco Retailers | This bill prohibits a municipality from adopting or enforcing an ordinance prohibiting a tobacco retailer from selling flavored tobacco products. | On motion by Senator VITELLI of Sagadahoc The Senate ADHERED To The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED In NON-CONCURRENCE Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/15) |
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| LD 663 (HP 432) | An Act To Require Health Insurance Coverage For Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated With Streptococcal Infections And Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome | This bill requires health insurance coverage for treatment of pediatric postinfectious neuroimmune disorders including pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome. The requirements apply to all individual and group policies and contracts issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2024. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 667 (HP 436) | An Act To Impose A Tax Surcharge On Certain Incomes | This bill establishes an income tax surcharge of 3% on taxable income in excess of $1,000,000 and 6% on taxable income in excess of $10,000,000 and requires that the revenue collected from the surcharge must be spent on public kindergarten to grade 12 education and rural economic development. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/25) | ||
| LD 668 (HP 437) | An Act To Protect Maine Taxpayers By Requiring A Person To Be A United States Citizen To Receive General Assistance Benefits And To Ensure Municipal Compliance With Federal Immigration Laws | This bill requires a person to be a citizen of the United States in order to receive general assistance benefits. This bill provides that a municipality is ineligible to receive general purpose aid for local schools, municipal general assistance and state-municipal revenue sharing if that municipality prohibits or restricts, formally or informally, the exchange of information with federal immigration authorities or any other federal, state or local government entity regarding the immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual or the maintenance of such information. | Senator VITELLI of Sagadahoc moved The Senate INSIST Senator KEIM of Oxford moved The Senate RECEDE and CONCUR Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 124 Yeas 10 - Nays 20 - Excused 5 - Absent 0 FAILED Subsequently On motion by Senator VITELLI of Sagadahoc The Senate INSISTED To The Bill being REFERRED to the Committee on HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES In NON-CONCURRENCE Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/9) |
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| LD 682 (HP 451) | An Act Regarding Labeling Of Packaged Foods For Genetically Modified Organisms | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to enact measures to require the labeling of packaged foods using genetically modified organisms and a review process for the labeling of packaged foods as not using genetically modified organisms. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/18) | ||
| LD 688 (HP 457) | An Act To Protect Access To Veterinary Care By Prohibiting Noncompete Agreements | This bill prohibits an employer from requiring or permitting an employee who is a licensed veterinarian to enter into a noncompete agreement unless the employee has an ownership interest in the business and provides that a court may not enforce such a noncompete agreement entered into prior to the effective date of this legislation. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 118 (6/1) | ||
| LD 706 (HP 475) | An Act To Improve Access To Specialty Health Care Providers By Reducing Copayments | This bill limits the amount of the copayment that carriers offering health plans in this State may impose for a health care service rendered by a health care provider, other than a primary care provider, to no less than the copayment for primary care services and to no more than 50% of the allowed amount under a carrier's health plan for that health care service. The requirements apply to health plans beginning on or after January 1, 2024. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (3/30) | ||
| LD 712 (HP 481) | An Act To Extend Or Waive Requirements For Certain Teaching Certificates | This bill allows the Commissioner of Education to grant an extension of a conditional teaching certification in the case of extenuating circumstances. The request for an extension must be accompanied by supporting documentation of the circumstances. The bill also allows the Commissioner of Education to waive a requirement for a teaching certificate if the individual seeking the issuance of the certificate holds a National Board Certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. The bill directs the State Board of Education to amend its rules about the requirements for a conditional teaching certificate to allow for a holder of a National Board Certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to be granted a waiver for a student teaching requirement. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/9) | ||
| LD 714 (HP 483) | An Act To Expand The List Of Crimes That Do Not Qualify For Immunity Under Maine's Good Samaritan Laws Concerning Drug-related Medical Assistance | This bill amends Maine's Good Samaritan laws concerning drug-related medical assistance by adding possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs and unlawfully furnishing scheduled drugs to the list of crimes that do not qualify for immunity under those laws. | Reports READ On motion by Senator BEEBE-CENTER of Knox The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 297 Yeas 21 - Nays 12 - Excused 2 - Absent 0 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/13) |
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| LD 796 (HP 485) | An Act Concerning Prior Authorizations For Health Care Provider Services | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to improve the health care decision-making and treatment process for prescriptions and testing by reducing clinical prior authorization burdens imposed by health insurance carriers. | Committee Docket: Carry Over Requested (6/1) | ||
| LD 813 (HP 502) | Resolve, To Study Methods To Increase Access To Medication-assisted Treatment For Substance Use Disorder | This resolve directs the Office of Policy Innovation and the Future to convene a working group to study the feasibility of and barriers to establishing a mobile methadone clinic in the State and other methods to increase local access to medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorder. It requires the office to submit a report related to the study, including recommendations and any suggested legislation, to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services by December 6, 2023 and authorizes the committee to report out a bill relating to the report to the Second Regular Session of the 131st Legislature. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/11) | ||
| LD 821 (HP 510) | Resolve, To Improve Access To Neurobehavioral Services | This resolve requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide by September 1, 2024 16 new neurobehavioral beds in one or more neurobehavioral centers to serve individuals with significant behavioral challenges and complex medical needs who need evaluation and short-term treatment before transitioning to a long-term care environment either in the community or in a long-term care facility. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 828 (HP 517) | An Act To Ban The Drug Tianeptine | This bill adds tianeptine as a Schedule W drug. | On motion by Senator DAUGHTRY of Cumberland The Senate ADHERED To Bill and accompanying papers COMMITTED to the Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services In NON-CONCURRENCE Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/15) |
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| LD 829 (HP 518) | An Act To Improve Behavioral Health Support For Students In Public Schools | This bill does the following. 1. It requires that school social workers spend at least 80% of their time providing direct services to students. 2. It requires school administrative units to employ an educator at each school in the school administrative unit who has completed a national board-certified assistant behavior analyst training and provides that the State must pay all costs associated with the training and provide an annual stipend of $3,000 for up to 3 years for each educator who completes the training. 3. It provides that for the purpose of the calculation of salary and benefit costs in the school funding formula, the elementary school and middle school level student-to-guidance staff ratio is decreased to 250:1. It also adds a student-to-school social worker ratio of 250:1 for the elementary school, middle school and high school levels. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 840 (HP 529) | An Act To Support Individuals With Personality Disorder Or Disorders Associated With Primary Emotional Dysregulation By Requiring Reimbursement Under The Mainecare Program | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services, beginning January 1, 2024, to reimburse under the MaineCare program for the treatment of personality disorder and emotional dysregulation. The bill also requires the department to establish a bundled reimbursement rate for the treatment of MaineCare members diagnosed with personality disorder or emotional dysregulation. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 847 (HP 536) | Resolve, To Study Implementation Of A Program To Provide Trauma-informed Training For Law Enforcement Officers At The Maine Criminal Justice Academy | This bill requires the Department of Public Safety to develop and implement a program to provide law enforcement officers with trauma-informed training and requires the department to work with municipalities to develop and implement a program to employ clinical social workers to work embedded within municipal police departments. | Signed by the Governor Resolve Chapter 37 (6/12) | ||
| LD 850 (HP 539) | An Act To Require State Agencies To Complete The Rulemaking Process Within One Year Of A Legislative Directive To Adopt Rules | This bill provides that when an agency is directed by law to adopt rules, the agency, unless otherwise required or directed by law, must adopt, or in the case of major substantive rules adopted under subchapter 2-A, must provisionally adopt, all of those rules within 12 months of the effective date of the law. | Reports READ On motion by Senator NANGLE of Cumberland The Minority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 341 Yeas 19 - Nays 16 - Excused 0 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/14) |
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| LD 883 (HP 549) | An Act To Exempt Emergency Medical Services Community Paramedicine Programs From Home Health Care Provider Licensing Requirements Under Certain Circumstances | This bill excepts from the definition of "home health care provider" a licensed emergency medical services provider providing community paramedicine services approved by the Emergency Medical Services' Board and exempts from Department of Health and Human Services home health services licensing requirements a provider providing approved community paramedicine services. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 195 (6/16) | ||
| LD 899 (HP 555) | An Act To Authorize Vaccine Administration By Pharmacy Technicians And Reduce Vaccine Administration Training Requirements For Pharmacists | This bill authorizes certified pharmacy technicians to administer vaccines under the direct supervision of a pharmacist. The bill amends the drug or vaccine administration training requirements for pharmacists by removing the requirement that certain training requirements were completed in the previous 3 years. | Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure) Public Law Chapter 245 (6/22) | ||
| LD 902 (HP 558) | An Act To Repeal So-called Mainecare Expansion | This bill repeals the provision of law that expanded the MaineCare program pursuant to Initiated Bill 2017, chapter 1. | Reports Read On motion by Senator BALDACCI of Penobscot the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 270 Yeas 25 - Nays 8 - Excused 2 - Absent 0 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/12) |
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| LD 904 (HP 560) | An Act Supporting The Rural Health Care Workforce In Maine | This bill establishes the Maine Rural Health Care Education Workforce Fund to support primary care and health professions workforce development in rural parts of the State. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 906 (HP 562) | An Act To Ensure Physicians Receive Full Diagnostic Test Data Concerning Tick-borne Diseases | This bill requires a medical laboratory that reports the results of a diagnostic test for a tick-borne disease, including Lyme disease, babesiosis, anaplasmosis and ehrlichiosis, to report all information gathered in the process of producing the test result, including the specific data used to determine the result. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 907 (HP 563) | An Act To Meet The Needs Of Individuals With Severe Behavioral Health Diagnoses | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would appropriate or allocate funds to the Department of Health and Human Services that would be used by the department to support the needs of children and adults with severe behavioral health diagnoses whose needs are not being met by state programs. The department would be authorized to use the funds to provide wraparound supports for children and adults with a high level of need, including: 1. Supporting special staffing, such as agency or in-home staff who require enhanced rates to care for individuals in the community; 2. Implementing physical accommodations to ensure that an individual's home environment is safe; and 3. Addressing other needs identified by families or providers to best meet the needs of the individuals receiving services. The funds would be required to supplement, not supplant, existing program funding. | On motion by Senator ROTUNDO of Androscoggin PLACED ON THE SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TABLE pending PASSAGE TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence. (6/15) | ||
| LD 908 (HP 564) | Resolve, To Establish A Comprehensive Integrated Co-occurring Behavioral Health Home Model Within The Mainecare Program | This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a new health home model that includes services for substance use disorder and co-occurring mental health diagnoses in one model and a new payment model. | Reports Read On motion by Senator BALDACCI of Penobscot the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/12) |
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| LD 913 (HP 569) | An Act To Support First Responders | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to enact measures to support first responders. | Committee Docket: Carry Over Requested (6/1) | ||
| LD 930 (HP 577) | An Act To Allow Only Students Of Female Gender To Participate In Women's And Girls' Scholastic Sports | This bill prohibits any student from joining or participating in an interscholastic or intramural athletic team or sports activity sponsored by an elementary or secondary school or postsecondary institution that is designated for "females," "women" or "girls" except for students of the female gender. | Reports Read On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 428 Yeas 22 - Nays 11 - Excused 2 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/21) |
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| LD 931 (HP 578) | An Act To Expand The State's Workforce By Supporting The Transition From Incarceration To Employment | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to charge the State Workforce Board with the responsibility of preparing a plan to expand the State's current workforce development programming for incarcerated persons and persons reentering the community after incarceration in consultation with the Department of Corrections and the Department of Labor in calendar year 2023. The responsibility for execution of this plan would rest with those departments beginning January 1, 2024. This bill also proposes adopting the specific recommendations of the Jail Navigator Focus Group on Transition/Reentry, which include the following. 1. The Legislature would set standards for all jails to conduct mental health and substance use assessments within 48 hours after booking for all residents, both pretrial and sentenced, and provide needed substance use disorder treatment. Mental health and substance use disorder treatment and recovery services would be offered and supported throughout the resident's stay and planned for upon release. 2. The Legislature would increase support for the Department of Health and Human Services to supply all jails with sufficient intensive case manager staffing with case loads that reflect best practice ratios of 20 residents to one intensive case manager to prepare and support all residents upon release. This support would help reduce the major barriers to successful reintegration into the community such as housing, transportation, food security, mentorship and health care services. Intensive case managers would continue to support the individuals' reentry into the community until the individuals are fully established with community-based case managers or providers. 3. The Legislature would support and fund access at every level of treatment, including community-based services, for individuals with mental health challenges and substance use disorder, including co-occurring disorders. The Legislature would also direct the Department of Health and Human Services' office of MaineCare services to explore a MaineCare supportive housing services benefit. 4. The Legislature would support and fund access for peer-to-peer mentorship programs at each jail in the State. 5. The Legislature would support funding for intensive case managers, working with community partners, to create programs for those leaving incarceration and returning to our communities to supply those individuals with items of immediate need such as personal hygiene items, fentanyl test strips, naloxone hydrochloride, a cellular telephone with limited minutes and recovery and prevention literature, as well as established housing and initial appointments for treatment. The provision of these goods and services would be tracked for reporting purposes. 6. The Legislature would direct all jails to track assessments, treatment and reentry services provided, preferably with one common management information system, to determine which services are needed most often to inform investments with specific metrics to be developed. In addition, this tracking should enable jails and other stakeholders to ascertain which reentry services achieve the best outcomes for reducing recidivism. 7. The Legislature would consider how to use the development of the new Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic model of care in this State as a major connector to post-release community treatment. | 05/15/23 1:00 PM in State House, Room 436 - Work Session |
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| LD 934 (HP 581) | An Act To Amend The Laws Governing Damages Awarded For Wrongful Death | This bill increases the limit on damages for the loss of comfort, society and companionship and emotional distress in a case of wrongful death from $750,000 to $1,500,000. It also increases the limit on punitive damages from $250,000 to $1,000,000 and increases from 2 years to 3 years the time after the decedent's death within which a wrongful death action must be commenced. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Public Law Chapter 390 (7/6) | ||
| LD 935 (HP 582) | An Act To Remove Barriers To Abortion Coverage In Private Insurance | This bill prohibits a health plan with an effective date on or after January 1, 2024 from imposing any deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other cost-sharing requirement for the costs of abortion services. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 347 (6/28) | ||
| LD 937 (HP 584) | Resolve, To Establish The Commission Regarding Foreign-trained Physicians Living In Maine | This resolve creates the Commission Regarding Foreign-trained Physicians Living in Maine to study integrating foreign-trained physicians living in the State into the health care workforce to best reflect their level of skills and training, with a focus on those who are here as refugees and asylum seekers. | Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure) Resolve Chapter 93 (7/7) | ||
| LD 940 (HP 587) | An Act To Allow Pharmacists To Provide Services Through Telehealth And Vending Machines At Federally Qualified Health Centers | This bill authorizes a pharmacist licensed in this State or licensed in another state to provide telehealth services for patients of a federally qualified health center in this State, including delivering those services through a pharmaceutical vending machine located at the health center. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/11) | ||
| LD 953 (HP 600) | An Act To Protect Maine Patients Regarding Hospital Price Transparency | This bill requires that hospitals comply with the price transparency requirements established at 45 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 180, as in effect on January 1, 2023. It provides that upon application of the Attorney General, the Department of Health and Human Services or any affected patient, the Superior Court or District Court has full jurisdiction to enforce the price transparency laws. It prohibits a hospital from billing a patient, a patient guarantor or a 3rd-party payor for items or services provided to the patient, and requires that a hospital refund any payment made for items or services provided, on a date the hospital was in violation of the price transparency laws, as determined by a court, and provides for monetary penalties. | The House RECEDED and CONCURRED to FAILED PASSAGE TO BE ENACTED. ROLL CALL NO. 253 (Yeas 73 - Nays 71 - Absent 6 - Excused 1) Placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. (6/16) |
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| LD 956 (HP 603) | An Act Concerning Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity Data Collection In Health Care Facilities | This bill requires health care facilities to collect data related to sexual orientation and gender identity from an individual as part of the individual's health care information. The federal uniform data system has included sexual orientation and gender identity data since 2016. This data is part of an individual's health care information that is confidential under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22, section 1711-C. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 129 (6/5) | ||
| LD 957 (HP 604) | An Act Requiring Water Bottle Filling Stations In New And Renovated Public Schools | This bill requires new public schools and public schools undergoing renovations to be equipped with water bottle filling stations and authorizes students to possess refillable water bottles. | Held by Governor (8/9) | ||
| LD 978 (HP 625) | An Act To Maintain Legislative Oversight Of The Maine Medical Use Of Cannabis Program By Requiring Major Substantive Rulemaking | This bill removes the provision of law that, on November 1, 2025, repeals the requirement that major substantive rules provisionally adopted by the Department of Administrative and Financial Services relating to the Maine Medical Use of Cannabis Act and submitted for legislative review may not be finally adopted by the department unless legislation authorizing final adoption of those rules is enacted into law. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Public Law Chapter 96 (5/21) | ||
| LD 994 (HP 629) | An Act To Include Possession Of Compounds, Mixtures Or Substances Containing A Detectable Amount Of Certain Scheduled Drugs To Prove The Offense Of Unlawful Trafficking Of Scheduled Drugs | This bill adds possession of compounds, mixtures or substances containing a detectable amount of certain scheduled drugs as proof that a person is unlawfully trafficking in scheduled drugs. | On motion by Senator VITELLI of Sagadahoc The Senate INSISTED To Acceptance of Report A Ought to Pass As Amended AND PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED BY Committee Amendment "A" (H-439) In NON-CONCURRENCE Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/20) |
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| LD 995 (HP 630) | An Act To Enhance Access To A Second Opinion For Health Care Services Or Treatment | This bill requires a health insurance carrier to provide coverage for the costs of a 2nd opinion and any additional testing by any provider of the enrollee's choice after the enrollee's provider has recommended an abortion due to the health or safety of the enrollee or fetus. The bill also requires health care professionals to inform a patient in writing of the right to a 2nd opinion and the availability of health insurance coverage for the costs of that opinion. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 348 (6/28) | ||
| LD 997 (HP 633) | Resolve, To Reduce Workforce Barriers For Mental Health Professionals In Maine | This resolve changes the educational requirements for behavioral health professionals providing services for children, regardless of the setting in which the service is provided, to a minimum of 60 credit hours in a related field, 90 credit hours in an unrelated field or a high school diploma or equivalent with training and oversight as determined by the Department of Health and Human Services in addition to the training provided for certification as a behavioral health professional. It requires the department to amend or establish contracts for training behavioral health professionals to train any number of additional individuals within existing resources and authorizes the department to opt to charge individuals or their employers fees for training. The resolve also requires the department to amend its guidelines regarding certification for mental health rehabilitation technician/community technicians so that an individual who has completed a 4-year postsecondary educational degree program in a mental health- related field or a graduate degree in a mental health-related field does not have to meet all 8 competency domains in the training contracted from the department as long as the individual has met the 3 priority domains. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1021 (HP 657) | An Act To Support Research, Education And Outreach Efforts At The University Of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Laboratory | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to enhance awareness by the residents of this State of the services provided by the tick laboratory at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Diagnostic and Research Laboratory, including the testing of a tick for Lyme disease submitted by a person who was bitten by that tick. | On motion by Senator ROTUNDO of Androscoggin PLACED ON THE SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TABLE pending PASSAGE TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence. (5/4) | ||
| LD 1035 (HP 671) | An Act To Adjust Reimbursement For Chiropractic Services | This bill requires health insurers to provide the same benefits for chiropractic services as other similar services and requires health insurers to make available to chiropractors quality or performance measures used to establish rates of reimbursement. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/5) | ||
| LD 1036 (HP 672) | An Act To Require All Uniformed Patrol Officers To Carry Naloxone Hydrochloride When On Duty | The bill amends the law requiring the administration and dispensing of naloxone hydrochloride by law enforcement officers, corrections officers and municipal firefighters to further require law enforcement officers to obtain medical training in the dispensing of naloxone hydrochloride and to carry naloxone hydrochloride at all times when on duty. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 153 (6/12) | ||
| LD 1085 (HP 680) | An Act To Extend The Comparable Health Care Service Incentive Program Beyond 2023 | This bill makes the following changes to the law relating to the comparable health care incentive program. 1. It removes the requirement that the small group health plan design be compatible with a health savings account. 2. It requires that the incentives be equal to or greater than 25% of the difference between the price of the service from the provider selected and the statewide average for the same covered health care service based on data reported on the publicly accessible health care costs website of the Maine Health Data Organization. 3. It adds surgical procedures to the categories of health care services included in the definition of "comparable health care service." 4. It repeals the sunset date of the comparable health care service incentive program, which is January 1, 2024. Under current law, if an enrollee covered under a health plan other than a health maintenance organization plan elects to obtain a covered comparable health care service from an out-of-network provider at a price that is the same or less than the statewide average for the same covered health care service, the carrier is required to allow the enrollee to obtain the service from the out-of-network provider at the provider's charge and, upon request by the enrollee, to apply the payments made by the enrollee for that comparable health care service toward the enrollee's deductible and out-of-pocket maximum as specified in the enrollee's health plan as if the health care services had been provided by an in-network provider. This bill removes the exception that the provision does not apply to a health maintenance organization plan and the limitation defining an out-of-network provider as a provider located in Massachusetts, New Hampshire or this State that is enrolled in the MaineCare program and participates in Medicare. The bill also removes the sunset date of the provision of law regarding access to lower-priced services, which is January 1, 2024. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Public Law Chapter 224 (6/18) | ||
| LD 1087 (HP 682) | An Act To Remove Restrictions In The Provisions Of Law Relating To No-knock Warrants | This bill amends the provisions of law regarding no-knock warrants by: 1. Removing the provision stating that any warrant is a no-knock warrant if it is executed without waiting 20 seconds after announcement of authority and purpose to make entry; 2. Adding preventing the destruction of evidence to death and bodily harm in the exceptions to the requirements of no-knock warrants; 3. Changing the clothing required to identify law enforcement while executing a no-knock warrant from a uniform to an article of clothing that clearly identifies an officer executing the warrant as a law enforcement officer; 4. Requiring law enforcement officers executing a no-knock warrant to follow the policy of the lead law enforcement agency executing the warrant as opposed to an individual officer's law enforcement agency; and 5. Allowing an untrained officer to use a stun grenade, stun, distraction or other similar device during the execution of a no-knock warrant in exigent circumstances. | Reports Read On motion by Senator BEEBE-CENTER of Knox the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/14) |
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| LD 1094 (HP 689) | An Act Regarding The Allocation Of Funds Awarded To Maine Due To The Opioid Settlement | This bill transfers funds from the Maine Recovery Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Corrections and the Department of Education for substance use and mental health intervention and treatment programs for specific individuals served by those departments. The bill also provides one-time allocations to the departments to allow for the expenditure of the transferred funds. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/18) | ||
| LD 1103 (HP 698) | An Act To Allow Persons Who Lawfully Use Or Possess Cannabis To Own Or Possess Firearms Or Ammunition | This bill exempts persons who use or possess cannabis pursuant to the Cannabis Legalization Act or the Maine Medical Use of Cannabis Act from the prohibition on the possession of a firearm provided in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 15, section 393. It prohibits a state employee or municipal official from assisting a federal agency or federal official with locating, apprehending, arresting or charging a person alleged to have violated 18 United States Code, Section 922(g)(3) because the person possesses or uses cannabis pursuant to Title 22, chapter 558-C or Title 28-B. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Public Law Chapter 381 (7/5) | ||
| LD 1104 (HP 700) | Resolve, To Review The Mainecare Hospital Readmission Protocol | This resolve requires the Department of Health and Human Services to amend its MaineCare benefits rules by excepting from its readmission protocol individuals who previously left the hospital against medical advice or were previously discharged with substance use disorder when the individual's primary or secondary diagnosis is a result of the individual's substance use disorder. It removes from the exceptions to the readmission protocol individuals who were previously discharged whose symptoms meet the American Society of Addiction Medicine Level 4 Criteria. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Resolve Chapter 77 (6/25) | ||
| LD 1105 (HP 701) | An Act To Ensure Lower Costs And Consumer Protections For Patients By Prohibiting Certain Billing Practices | This bill prohibits health care providers and health care practitioners from denying health care services or treatment based on the manner in which a patient intends to pay for health care services or treatment. The bill also requires health care providers and health care practitioners to disclose the cash price of health care services or treatments and allow a patient to pay cash instead of filing an insurance claim. The bill also prohibits a health insurance carrier from prohibiting a provider from providing an enrollee with the option of paying the provider's cash price for health care services and disclosing to an enrollee if the cash price is less than the enrollee's cost-sharing amount. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Public Law Chapter 382 (7/5) | ||
| LD 1116 (HP 712) | An Act To Provide Rural Recovery Residences For Families | This bill requires the Maine State Housing Authority to contract for the construction of at least 15 housing units, to be located in certified recovery residences and in counties with a county seat of no more than 35,000 residents. The certified recovery residences are required to serve mothers recovering from substance use disorder and promote reunification with minor children and are required to be staffed with peer-to-peer staff. The bill establishes the Rural Recovery Residence Fund to receive funds to support the certified recovery residences. The bill requires that the Maine State Housing Authority distribute funds through a competitive bid process to grantees, who will provide a minimum of 1:1 matching funds. | In possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (7/26) | ||
| LD 1137 (HP 723) | An Act To Prohibit Deceptive Advertising In Limited Pregnancy Services Centers | This bill defines the terms "pregnancy services center," "limited pregnancy services center" and "emergency contraceptive supplies," prohibits a limited pregnancy services center from disseminating information about pregnancy, pregnancy prevention or abortion that is deceptive or misleading and establishes a process for notice and enforcement of that prohibition. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/2) | ||
| LD 1157 (HP 729) | An Act To Stabilize Licensing Fees | This bill requires the Director of the Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation by July 1st of each fiscal biennium to review the revenue derived from each license fee collected by a licensing board or entity. If the director determines that the amount of revenue collected in the previous biennium from the fees of a licensing board or entity exceeds the expenses incurred by that licensing board or entity in the performance of its duties, the director shall by rule reduce the fees by a fraction calculated by dividing the amount of excess revenue by the total amount of revenue collected. The resulting license fee must remain in place for the ensuing biennium. If the fees are deposited into a nonlapsing fund and there are funds remaining in the fund at the end of the budget biennium, the amount of those funds is deemed to be excess revenue. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/16) | ||
| LD 1159 (HP 731) | An Act To Establish A Pilot Project Regarding Harm Reduction Health Centers | This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to create a 2-year pilot project establishing and operating a harm reduction health center to provide counseling and health service referrals and a place to use previously obtained controlled substances for clients of the center. The harm reduction health center must be approved by the municipality in which it is located, and the bill provides immunity to the State, the municipality or employees and clients of the center from criminal or civil liability. The bill creates an advisory board to provide guidance to the department and requires the department to report to the 132nd Legislature on the effectiveness of the project. | The Bill was in the possession of the House when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (7/26) |
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| LD 1161 (HP 733) | An Act To Fund Free Health Clinics | This bill provides one-time funding for the State's free health clinics. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1165 (HP 737) | An Act To Enhance Cost Savings To Consumers Of Prescription Drugs | This bill removes a provision that requires that compensation remitted by or on behalf of a pharmaceutical manufacturer, developer or labeler to a pharmacy benefits manager be remitted to the carrier if it is not remitted to the covered person. It retains the provision that requires that the compensation be remitted to the covered person to reduce the out-of- pocket costs associated with a prescription drug. It requires pharmacy benefits managers to annually report compliance with this requirement to the Superintendent of Insurance. It authorizes the superintendent to impose civil penalties and take enforcement action for noncompliance by a carrier or pharmacy benefits manager. It designates the information provided as confidential. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1174 (HP 746) | An Act To Prohibit The Sale Of Flavored Tobacco Products | This bill prohibits the sale and distribution of flavored tobacco products, including flavored cigars and electronic smoking devices. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/30) | ||
| LD 1178 (HP 750) | Resolve, To Reduce Barriers To Recovery From Addiction By Expanding Eligibility For Targeted Case Management Services | This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to amend its rule Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter II, Section 13.03-4 to remove from the eligibility requirements for targeted case management services for adults with substance use disorder the provision regarding pregnancy, living with minor children and intravenous drug use. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1197 (HP 757) | An Act To Prevent Coerced Abortion | This bill amends the laws governing informed consent to abortion by requiring a health care professional, prior to performing an abortion, to provide to a pregnant minor or pregnant patient orally and in writing, in a language and manner that will be understood by the patient: 1. Notice that the minor or patient has the right to withdraw consent for an abortion at any time before the performance of the abortion and, if so, to receive a refund of any payments made to the health care professional for the performance of the abortion; 2. Notice that the law prohibits criminal threatening of any person, including a person who refuses to have an abortion; 3. Contact information for providers of resources for victims of domestic violence, including the telephone number of at least one domestic violence hotline and one sexual assault hotline; an offer to make referrals to law enforcement agencies and domestic violence and sexual assault support organizations; and an offer to call a law enforcement agency if the patient or minor feels that the patient or the minor will be unsafe if the patient or the minor refuses to have an abortion; and 4. Information regarding the Maine Human Rights Act's protections against discrimination in employment, education and housing on the basis of pregnancy or familial status and, upon request, provide educational materials prepared by the Maine Human Rights Commission regarding these protections. | Reports Read On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland Report A Ought Not to Pass ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 411 Yeas 24 - Nays 10 - Excused 1 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/21) |
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| LD 1204 (HP 764) | An Act To Improve The Health Of Maine Residents By Closing Coverage Gaps In The Mainecare Program For Incarcerated Persons | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to enter into a memorandum of understanding with counties in this State that have a county jail or a regional jail in order to provide a person who is incarcerated in a county jail or a regional jail with assistance in applying for MaineCare services. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 458 (7/27) | ||
| LD 1205 (HP 765) | An Act Regarding The Scope Of Practice Of Certified Professional Midwives And Certified Midwives | This bill amends the national standards by which certified professional midwives and certified midwives are required to practice and changes from permissive to mandatory the rulemaking of the Board of Complementary Health Care Providers relating to the scope of practice of certified professional midwives and certified midwives and directs the board to replace the terms "collaboration" and "consultation" with "referral" in the board's rules regarding certified professional midwives. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1209 (HP 769) | An Act To Reinstate The Religious And Philosophical Vaccine Exemptions For Private Schools And Virtual Public Charter Schools | Public Law 2019, chapter 154 removed the exemption from immunization requirements based on religious or philosophical beliefs for students in elementary, secondary and postsecondary schools and employees of nursery schools and certain health care facilities. This bill reinstates the religious and philosophical exemptions for students enrolled in private schools or virtual public charter schools. | Reports Read On motion by Senator RAFFERTY of York the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 127 Yeas 19 - Nays 11 - Excused 5 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/9) |
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| LD 1228 (HP 776) | An Act To Prohibit Certain Higher Education Institutions From Requiring Vaccines Approved Under Emergency Use Authorization For Admission Or Attendance | This bill prohibits certain postsecondary educational institutions from requiring a student to be immunized with a vaccine that is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration under emergency use authorization. | Reports Read On motion by Senator RAFFERTY of York the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 128 Yeas 19 - Nays 11 - Excused 5 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/9) |
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| LD 1249 (HP 797) | An Act To Protect The Quality Of Care Provided Via Telehealth By Prohibiting Physicians From Prescribing Abortion-inducing Drugs Or Devices Through Telehealth Or Other Electronic Communication | This bill prohibits the prescription of an abortion-inducing drug or a device designed to produce an abortion by telehealth, telephone, the Internet or other type of digital communication and the shipment of an abortion-inducing drug or a device designed to produce an abortion by mail, express delivery service or other means of interstate commerce and makes a violation of this prohibition a Class C crime and subjects a person who violates the prohibition to civil liability for wrongful death and medical malpractice and to any relevant professional disciplinary proceeding. | Reports Read On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland Report A Ought Not to Pass ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 413 Yeas 26 - Nays 8 - Excused 1 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/21) |
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| LD 1252 (HP 800) | An Act To Ensure Choices In Health Insurance Markets By Limiting The Requirement To Offer Clear Choice Design Health Plans | This bill limits the requirement for health insurance carriers to offer so-called clear choice design plans to individual health plans offered through the federally facilitated marketplace pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act or the Maine Health Insurance Marketplace. The bill also expands the ability of carriers to offer alternative plans to a clear choice design plan. | Reports Read On motion by Senator BAILEY of York the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 191 Yeas 18 - Nays 12 - Excused 5 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/30) |
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| LD 1254 (HP 802) | An Act To Provide Coverage And Prior Authorization Of Medications And Services During A Mainecare Provider's Enrollment Period | This bill allows a provider with a pending enrollment application to apply for a prior authorization of medications and services and requires the Department of Health and Human Services to make available prior authorization criteria to providers with a pending enrollment application. It also requires the Department of Health and Human Services to cover medications and services delivered by a provider during the time the provider's application is pending based on the determination of the prior authorization request. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/23) | ||
| LD 1256 (HP 804) | An Act To Increase Access To Oral Health Care By Expanding The Maine Dental Education Loan Program | This bill expands eligibility for the Maine Dental Education Loan Program to include dental hygienists, dental therapists, expanded function dental assistants and dental assistants. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 130 (6/5) | ||
| LD 1263 (HP 811) | An Act To Require Certain School Identification Cards To Include The Telephone Number Of A Suicide And Crisis Hotline | This bill requires secondary schools that provide identification cards to students to ensure that the identification card includes a suicide prevention hotline telephone number. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1266 (HP 814) | An Act To Clarify The Producer Licensure Required To Act As A Pet Insurance Producer | This bill establishes pet insurance as a limited line property and casualty insurance that provides coverage for accidents and illnesses of pets. A pet insurance producer must also hold a license for life insurance or for accident and health or sickness insurance. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Public Law Chapter 225 (6/18) | ||
| LD 1267 (HP 815) | An Act To Provide Alternative Methods Of Payment To Health Care Providers | This bill requires a health insurance carrier to offer a health care provider at least one method of payment for claims that does not require the health care provider to pay any additional fees or incur any costs to accept payment from that carrier. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 232 (6/20) | ||
| LD 1305 (HP 830) | Resolve, To Design And Implement A Community-based Model Of Care For Adolescent Mental Health | This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to design and implement a community-based model of care that addresses the acute mental health needs of adolescents with co-occurring disorders. It appropriates one-time funds of $965,000 for this purpose. It directs the Department of Health and Human Services to, no later than December 3, 2025, submit to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters a report demonstrating the efficacy of the model of care and sufficient data to aid in the development of a future MaineCare reimbursement rate. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1323 (HP 838) | An Act To Amend The Opioid Education Requirements | This bill reduces the number of hours of continuing education on the prescription of opioid medication a health care provider who prescribes opioid medication must complete from 3 hours every 2 years to one hour every 2 years. | On motion by Senator VITELLI of Sagadahoc The Senate INSISTED To The Minority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED In NON-CONCURRENCE Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/9) |
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| LD 1334 (HP 848) | An Act To Establish A Managed Care Program For Mainecare Services | This bill establishes a managed care program for all covered MaineCare services. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a request for proposals for at least 3 managed care organizations that are able to operate the managed care program on a statewide basis. By July 1, 2025, the Medicaid expansion population, those covered by the children's health insurance program and members categorically eligible for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program must be enrolled in the managed care program. By July 1, 2027, all eligible MaineCare members must be enrolled in the managed care program. The bill establishes the requirements for contracts for managed care organizations. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to apply for any state plan amendments or waivers required by January 1, 2024. It requires the department to explore options to create a plan that integrates Medicaid and Medicare benefits for individuals into a managed care program. | Reports Read On motion by Senator BALDACCI of Penobscot the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 271 Yeas 22 - Nays 11 - Excused 2 - Absent 0 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/12) |
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| LD 1340 (HP 854) | An Act To Prohibit The Sale Or Possession Of Rapid-fire Modification Devices | This bill makes the possession, transfer, distribution, sale or importation into the State of a rapid-fire modification device a Class D crime. A rapid-fire modification device is a binary trigger system, bump stock device, burst trigger system, trigger crank or any other device that is designed to accelerate the rate of fire of a semi-automatic firearm. | On motion by Senator VITELLI of Sagadahoc The Senate INSISTED To Accept The Minority Ought Not To Pass Report In NON-CONCURRENCE Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/21) |
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| LD 1343 (HP 857) | An Act To Protect The Reproductive Freedom Of Maine People By Preempting The Field Of Abortion Regulation | This bill provides that the entire field of legislation concerning abortion is occupied and preempted by the State. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 352 (6/28) | ||
| LD 1354 (HP 868) | An Act To Protect Medicare Beneficiaries From Surprise Bills And To Inform Medicare Beneficiaries About Medicare Part B Excess Charges | This bill requires an insurer offering Medicare supplement insurance in this State to disclose whether the Medicare supplement insurance plan covers the costs of Medicare Part B excess charges. The bill also prohibits physicians from balance billing Medicare beneficiaries for any amount in excess of the Medicare-approved amount for a service, procedure or treatment paid to that physician under the Medicare program. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/25) | ||
| LD 1360 (HP 874) | An Act Requiring Training Regarding And Screening For Adverse Childhood Experiences | This bill requires a health care provider licensed under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 32, chapter 31, 36 or 48 to receive training on adverse childhood experiences and resources in the State for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault as part of the provider's requirements for licensure and screen all patients 18 years of age or older for adverse childhood experiences at annual physical exams and at the time behavioral or reproductive health services are provided. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1361 (HP 875) | An Act To Implement Best Practices Regarding Children's Behavioral And Mental Health Care | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide a supplement to MaineCare reimbursement for behavioral health services that are part of a nationally recognized model supported by evidence-based research and delivered with model fidelity. The bill requires the Department of Corrections to contract with providers who provide behavioral health services that are part of a nationally recognized model supported by evidence-based research and delivered with model fidelity when contracting for behavioral health services. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/23) | ||
| LD 1364 (HP 878) | Resolve, To Study Methods Of Preventing Opioid Overdose Deaths By Authorizing Harm Reduction Health Centers | This bill authorizes municipalities to approve safe consumption sites for individuals to self-administer previously obtained drugs. The bill requires the sites to satisfy certain requirements, including providing hygienic facilities, providing safe disposal of hypodermic apparatuses, providing naloxone hydrochloride as needed and making referrals to medical and social services. The bill provides immunity from arrest or prosecution for clients and staff members acting in accordance with the provisions of the bill. The bill requires municipalities that approve safe consumption sites to participate in a peer- reviewed study and requires the Department of Health and Human Services to submit reports related to the studies to the Legislature and the Governor's office. | Signed by the Governor Resolve Chapter 120 (7/27) | ||
| LD 1373 (HP 887) | An Act To Allow Employers To Shop For Competitive Health Plan Options By Expanding The Disclosure Of Health Claims Information | This bill expands the scope of loss information that must be provided to an employer to facilitate the employer's shopping for group health insurance coverage, including disclosure of a minimum of 24 months of claims data, to the extent possible, and information related to high-cost claimants. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Public Law Chapter 297 (6/24) | ||
| LD 1377 (HP 891) | An Act To Provide Rental Assistance For Recovery Housing | This bill creates the recovery residence rental assistance program and fund to provide rental assistance for up to 3 months in a certified recovery residence for an individual accepted to reside in or who resides in a certified recovery residence and who has an income at or below the federal poverty level. The program is required to provide at least 50% of the assistance to individuals who are members of marginalized groups, including but not limited to Black, indigenous or other persons of color, persons with differences in mental or physical abilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/18) | ||
| LD 1400 (HP 895) | An Act To Allow Certain Social Workers To Diagnose Organic Mental Illnesses | This bill removes the requirement that a social worker seek a physician's opinion in forming a psychosocial opinion, removes the Volunteer Social Workers Project from the Maine Revised Statutes and removes the prohibition on social workers' diagnosing organic mental illness. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 315 (6/26) | ||
| LD 1407 (HP 903) | An Act To Amend The Maine Insurance Code Regarding Payments By Health Insurance Carriers To Providers | This bill amends the Maine Insurance Code in the following ways. 1. It allows a health care provider to object to a health insurance carrier's material change to a provider agreement within 60 days of receiving notice of the change and extends the date on which a change to a provider agreement takes effect based on that objection. 2. It requires a health insurance carrier to include an estimate of any adverse financial impact on a provider as part of a notice of an amendment to a provider agreement. 3. It clarifies that the requirement for interest to be paid on overdue insurance claims payments also applies to 3rd-party administrators that furnish provider networks to carriers. 4. It restricts the authority of a health insurance carrier to retroactively deny a previously paid claim to no later than 24 months from the date of the claims payment. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1410 (HP 906) | An Act To Hold School Employees Civilly Liable For Failure To Notify Parents Regarding Medical Issues Of Students Under 18 Years Of Age | This bill prohibits public and private schools from withholding from a minor student's parent or encouraging a minor student to withhold from the student's parent medical information related to the student or conversations with the student related to medical issues. The prohibition does not apply in an emergency. A parent of a minor student who was the subject of a violation may bring a civil action to recover the party's actual damages, compensatory damages, punitive damages, injunctive relief, any combination of those or any other appropriate relief. A prevailing parent is entitled to an award of attorney's fees and costs. | Reports READ On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 329 Yeas 24 - Nays 11 - Excused 0 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/14) |
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| LD 1411 (HP 907) | An Act To Enhance Reporting By Certain Agencies Regarding Greenhouse Gas Emissions | This bill requires the Department of Environmental Protection to adopt rules setting sector-specific biennial limits on greenhouse gas emissions from energy sources in the commercial sector, industrial sector, residential sector and transportation sector and for electricity and combined heat and power plants whose primary business is to sell electricity or electricity and heat to the public. The bill also requires the Department of Transportation to adopt rules as necessary to ensure compliance with the State's greenhouse gas emissions levels. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 234 (6/20) | ||
| LD 1421 (HP 917) | An Act To Provide Funds To The Maine Indian Education School District | This bill provides $350,000 for each year of the 2024-2025 biennium to the Maine Indian Education school district to develop and implement a Wabanaki-centered curriculum for Native American high school students. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1428 (HP 924) | An Act To Ensure Treatment For Mainecare Recipients With Serious Mental Illness By Prohibiting The Requirements For Prior Authorization And Step Therapy For Medications | This bill prohibits prior authorization requirements and step therapy protocols under the MaineCare program for prescription drugs used to assess or treat serious mental illness. The implementation of the prohibition must be consistent with the requirements of the Medicaid drug rebate program. | On motion by Senator VITELLI of Sagadahoc The Senate INSISTED To The Minority Ought to Pass As Amended Report AND PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED BY Committee Amendment "A" (H-383) In NON-CONCURRENCE Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/13) |
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| LD 1432 (HP 928) | An Act To Amend The Law Governing Racial Impact Statements | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would amend the law regarding the preparation of racial impact statements for certain legislation to include statements assessing the impact of that legislation on socioeconomic status. | 05/19/23 9:55 AM in Cross Building, Room 214 - Work Session |
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| LD 1439 (HP 935) | An Act To Promote Family-centered Interventions For Substance Use Disorder Treatment | This bill establishes a process to connect individuals with substance use disorder with treatment services and connect family members and friends with supportive services. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to develop a list of providers of substance use disorder services and identify options for coordinating training of potential providers. It requires hospitals to respond to requests for interventions from family members or friends of a person with substance use disorder. It requires a hospital to post information in its emergency department. It requires hospitals to offer services, follow up with individuals who frequently require admission for substance use disorder, request input from family members about the ability of the person to perform self-care and develop discharge plans with appropriate services. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 463 (7/27) | ||
| LD 1440 (HP 936) | Resolve, To Increase The Availability Of Community Children's Behavioral Health Services By Providing Training And Career Opportunities For Behavioral Health Professionals | This resolve requires the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of MaineCare Services and Office of Child and Family Services to coordinate the development of a course curriculum, credential and career path for behavioral health professionals providing services to children in the community. The course curriculum must be offered through community college courses around the State or by a contracted agency with multiple sites around the State. The course curriculum must lead to a credential that is portable and sufficient to satisfy department licensing requirements for any behavioral health professional serving children in the community. The department shall explore options for providing incentives to individuals wishing to pursue the course curriculum, including but not limited to grants or free or reduced tuition. The resolve also requires MaineCare program rates to be increased for services provided by behavioral health professionals with the training. The resolve requires that all behavioral health professionals providing services to children in the community receive one hour per week of clinical supervision. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/18) | ||
| LD 1488 (HP 943) | An Act To Expand Testing For Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances To Private Drinking Water Wells | This bill requires testing of well water for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances by a landlord of a residential building supplied by a private drinking water well. Under the bill, for residential property that uses a private water supply, the seller of that property is required to disclose a water test that indicates the presence of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The bill also adds perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances to the list of contaminants in the Department of Health and Human Services uniform testing recommendations for private drinking water wells. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1494 (HP 949) | An Act To Help Address The Worker Shortage In Behavioral Health Care Services By Allowing Provisional Licensure And Providing For Reimbursement For Out-of-state Licensees | This bill requires the Board of Counseling Professionals Licensure to grant a provisional license for up to 90 days to a counseling professional licensed in another state or an applicant who has completed the requirements for licensure in this State upon receipt of an application for licensure. The bill requires the board to issue a provisional license upon the submission of evidence that the applicant holds a substantially equivalent, valid license in another state and that the applicant's qualifications for licensure are substantially similar to those required in state law or that the applicant has completed the requirements for licensure in this State. The bill also provides that a person holding a provisional license is authorized to practice in this State and may not be denied payment or reimbursement for the person's services on the basis that the person is practicing under a provisional license. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1496 (HP 951) | An Act To Prohibit Noncompete Clauses | This bill prohibits an employer from requiring or permitting an employee to enter into a noncompete agreement with the employer, regardless of the amount of the employee's earned wages. It prohibits noncompete agreements between an out-of-state employer and a resident of this State. It authorizes noncompete agreements in specific nonemployment- related situations, subject to certain conditions. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1497 (HP 952) | An Act To Strengthen Medicare By Preventing Providers From Adding Excess Charges | This bill prohibits health care providers from balance billing Medicare beneficiaries for any amount in excess of the reasonable charge for a service, procedure or treatment paid to that entity under the Medicare program. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/25) | ||
| LD 1498 (HP 953) | An Act To Create An Advocacy And Complaint Process For Health Care Providers Within The Bureau Of Insurance | This bill establishes the Health Care Provider Assistance Division within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Bureau of Insurance to assist health care providers in obtaining information about health insurance plans, assist health care providers in navigating the health insurance industry, assist health care providers with concerns specific to coverage for individual patients and issues that may have market-wide impact and provide a system for health care providers to submit complaints about violations of statutes or rules. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1501 (HP 956) | An Act To Protect Maine Citizens From Discrimination By Including Vaccination Status As A Protected Class | This bill adds vaccination status as a protected class under the Maine Human Rights Act. | Reports Read On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 210 Yeas 23 - Nays 12 - Excused 0 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/6) |
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| LD 1506 (HP 961) | Resolve, Directing The Department Of Health And Human Services To Study The Scarcity Of Licensed Clinical Behavioral Health Professionals Across The State | This resolve requires the Department of Health and Human Services to convene a stakeholder group to review issues related to the training and recruitment of clinical behavioral health care professionals. The resolve requires the department to submit a report related to the study to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services and authorizes the committee to report out a bill relating to the report. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1509 (HP 964) | An Act To Amend Certain Provisions Of Maine's Drug Laws | This bill amends provisions of the Maine Criminal Code regarding drugs in the following ways. 1. It adds to the definition of "traffick" possessing 2 grams or more of heroin or 90 or more individual bags, folds, packages, envelopes or containers of any kind containing heroin. 2. It adds to the definition of "furnish" possessing more than 200 milligrams but less than 2 grams of heroin or at least 45 but fewer than 90 individual bags, folds, packages, envelopes or containers of any kind containing heroin; and possessing more than 200 milligrams but less than 2 grams of fentanyl powder or at least 45 but fewer than 90 individual bags, folds, packages, envelopes or containers of any kind containing fentanyl powder. 3. It adds the possession of 4 grams or more of cocaine in the form of cocaine base to the inference under the Maine Rules of Evidence, Rule 303, which allows a court to permit a jury to infer guilt or a fact relevant to guilt based on a statutory presumption. 4. It adds to the crime of trafficking the trafficking of cocaine in the form of cocaine base in a quantity of 32 grams or more. 5. It adds to the crime of furnishing the furnishing of cocaine in the form of cocaine base in a quantity of 32 grams or more. 6. It adds 2 grams or more of cocaine in the form of cocaine base and removes the possession of 2 grams or more of heroin and 2 grams or more of fentanyl powder from the inference under the Maine Rules of Evidence, Rule 303, which allows a court to permit a jury to infer guilt or a fact relevant to guilt based on a statutory presumption. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/4) | ||
| LD 1512 (HP 967) | An Act To Require The Consideration Of Restitution To Support A Child Whose Parent Is Killed During The Commission Of A Crime | This bill requires that a defendant convicted of operating under the influence, when the crime resulted in the death of a person who is a parent of a minor, pay restitution to the surviving parent or guardian for each child of the person killed until each child reaches 18 years of age and graduates, or the classes in which the children are members graduate, from secondary school. The amount of restitution is based upon relevant factors regarding the child's needs and accustomed standard of living. Any arrearage accumulated due to the defendant's being incarcerated is required to be paid after the defendant is released from incarceration. The court is prohibited from ordering restitution if a surviving parent or guardian obtains a civil judgment against the defendant prior to sentencing, and any civil judgment obtained after restitution is ordered offsets the restitution. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 277 (6/23) | ||
| LD 1515 (HP 970) | An Act To Fund Delivery Of Emergency Medical Services | This bill provides General Fund appropriations to the Department of Public Safety to support existing transportation costs of emergency medical services. These appropriations must be reduced to the maximum extent possible through the use of public and private Medicaid match programs. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1530 (HP 985) | An Act To Support Patients By Permitting On-site Consumption Of Medical Cannabis And Medical Cannabis Products | This bill allows for the on-site consumption of harvested cannabis for medical use by a qualifying patient in a caregiver retail store, in a registered dispensary or with a registered caregiver. The Department of Administrative and Financial Services must establish, by major substantive rule, the process for issuing permits for on-site consumption and the permit fee, which may not exceed the administrative cost of issuing the permit. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1533 (HP 988) | An Act To Provide For Consistent Billing Practices By Health Care Providers | This bill establishes consistent billing requirements for providers of outpatient health care services delivered in off-campus outpatient departments owned by or affiliated with a health care system. The bill's requirements must be followed by health care facilities and health insurance carriers and apply to claims submitted to a health insurance carrier on or after January 1, 2024. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1541 (HP 993) | An Act To Amend The Laws Relating To The Certificate Of Need | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to amend the laws governing the certificate of need requirements in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22, chapter 103-A. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/4) | ||
| LD 1545 (HP 997) | An Act To Reduce Drug Overdoses And Death By Expanding The Crime Of Aggravated Trafficking Of Scheduled Drugs By Including Compounds, Mixtures Or Substances | This bill adds the trafficking of compounds, mixtures or substances containing a detectable amount of a scheduled drug to the crime of aggravated trafficking of scheduled drugs. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/25) | ||
| LD 1547 (HP 999) | An Act To Temporarily Prohibit The State From Mandating Covid-19 Vaccinations | This bill prohibits mandatory vaccinations for COVID-19 for 5 years from the date of a vaccine's first emergency use authorization by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration in order to allow for safety testing and investigations into reproductive harm. | Reports READ On motion by Senator BALDACCI of Penobscot The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 303 Yeas 20 - Nays 13 - Excused 2 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/13) |
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| LD 1557 (HP 1002) | An Act To Increase And Enhance School Safety By Allowing Individuals With Concealed Carry Permits To Possess Handguns On School Property | This bill allows a person with a permit to carry concealed handguns to possess a firearm on public school property or the property of an approved private school. | Reports Read On motion by Senator RAFFERTY of York the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 266 Yeas 23 - Nays 10 - Excused 2 - Absent 0 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/12) |
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| LD 1558 (HP 1003) | An Act To Prohibit The Sale Of Tobacco Products In Pharmacies And Retail Establishments Containing Pharmacies | This bill provides that pharmacies and retail establishments containing a pharmacy are ineligible for a retail tobacco license and provides that a pharmacy or retail establishment containing a pharmacy that engages in retail sales of tobacco products commits a civil violation. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1577 (HP 1022) | An Act To Require Health Insurance Coverage For Biomarker Testing | This bill requires insurance coverage, including coverage in the MaineCare program, for biomarker testing. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1579 (HP 1024) | Resolution, Proposing An Amendment To The Constitution Of Maine To Eliminate The Diversion Of Revenue From Professional And Occupational Licensing Fees | This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to provide that revenue derived from professional and occupational licensing fees must be expended solely for the cost of administering and enforcing the laws governing professional and occupational licensing and may not be diverted for any other purpose. | Reports READ On motion by Senator CURRY of Waldo The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/14) |
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| LD 1583 (HP 1028) | An Act To Provide A Pathway To Sobriety For Formerly Or Currently Incarcerated Individuals | This bill makes changes to the comprehensive substance use disorder treatment program maintained by the Commissioner of Corrections for individuals residing in correctional facilities and for individuals released from Department of Corrections custody. 1. It requires correctional facilities to offer alternative treatment that is plant-based, including traditional herbal medications or cannabis products, to residents receiving treatment for substance use disorder. If requested, the alternative treatment must be provided. Such treatments must be legal in this State but do not need to be approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration. 2. It requires the program to adopt a standard that requires 30% of participants in the program to no longer require medication-assisted treatment or alternative treatment after 6 months. The program must continue to show that participants no longer require such medications or alternative treatment after one year and 2 years. The 30% may include individuals who continue to reside in correctional facilities or have been released and are receiving services in the community. 3. If the contracted organization providing services to the correctional facilities does not maintain the standard of 30% of participants no longer requiring medical or alternative treatment, the contract must be cancelled and the Department of Corrections must seek a new provider. 4. It requires those individuals identified as no longer requiring medical or alternative treatment to undertake weekly screening for 3 years. 5. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide recovery residence placements to individuals who were receiving services in correctional facilities and have been identified as no longer requiring medication-assisted treatment or alternative treatment. The cost of each placement must be no more than the cost of providing a hotel room in the area to the individual. | Reports Read On motion by Senator BEEBE-CENTER of Knox Report A Ought Not to Pass ACCEPTED. in concurrence Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/21) |
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| LD 1586 (HP 1031) | An Act To Enable Occupational License Portability And Prohibit Use Of Good Character Qualifications In Occupational Licensing | This bill prohibits licensing entities from using good character to evaluate applicants for licensure and makes a conforming change. The bill creates a framework for the various government agencies, boards, departments and other governmental entities that regulate and issue occupational licenses within the State to offer a path to certification or licensure in the State to persons who hold occupational credentials from other states in order to allow those persons to more quickly qualify to work within their occupations or professions in the State. | Reports Read On motion by Senator CURRY of Waldo the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 209 Yeas 23 - Nays 12 - Excused 0 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/6) |
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| LD 1612 (HP 1037) | An Act To Address Food Insecurity And Support Local Agriculture | This bill provides one-time funding for the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to contract with the Preble Street Food Security Hub to help address food insecurity throughout the State. The department is required to report on the distribution of the funds by Preble Street. | In possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (7/26) | ||
| LD 1613 (HP 1038) | An Act To Prohibit Profiling And To Strengthen Civil Rights In Maine | In Part A, this bill requires law enforcement agencies to select, assign and train civil rights officers and to keep the Attorney General informed of the identity of the civil rights officer. It requires law enforcement agencies to make contact information for their civil rights officers publicly available. In Part B, the bill prohibits profiling by a law enforcement officer or agency based on race, gender, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, physical or mental disability or national origin. In Part C, the bill changes from January 1, 2023 to January 1, 2024 the date by which the Attorney General must adopt rules for the recording, retention and reporting of information regarding traffic infractions and from January 15, 2024 to January 15, 2025 the date by which the Attorney General must begin submitting the information to the joint standing committees of the Legislature having jurisdiction over judiciary matters and criminal justice and public safety matters. It also makes the changes in Part C retroactive to December 31, 2023. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 368 (6/30) | ||
| LD 1614 (HP 1039) | An Act To Require An Ultrasound And Certain Counseling Before An Abortion | This bill requires a health care professional to ensure that a pregnant woman undergoes an ultrasound and receives information about alternatives to abortion, including parenting the child, at least 48 hours before she can have an abortion. The existence of a medical emergency eliminates the 48-hour waiting period. | Reports Read On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland Report A Ought Not to Pass ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 412 Yeas 25 - Nays 9 - Excused 1 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/21) |
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| LD 1615 (HP 1040) | An Act Regarding Limits On Medication In Vending Machines | This bill repeals the limitation that no more than 12 different nonprescription drugs may be dispensed by any single vending machine. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 160 (6/12) | ||
| LD 1624 (HP 1049) | An Act To Clarify The Procedure For Amending The Birth Certificate Of An Adult To Recognize A Parent Not Known Or Listed At The Time Of Birth | This bill provides that in order to amend a birth certificate of an adult, evidence of genetic parentage based on testing of DNA is required only if the genetic parentage of the person to be named on the amended birth certificate is in dispute. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 323 (6/26) | ||
| LD 1683 (HP 1082) | An Act To Provide For Civil Recovery Based On Nonconsensual Removal Of Or Tampering With A Condom And Considering Sexual Assault In Evaluating Parental Rights | This bill creates a civil cause of action for the act of nonconsensual removal of or tampering with a condom. The bill adds considerations for when a child was conceived by sexual assault or nonconsensual removal of or tampering with a condom in awarding parental rights and responsibilities. The bill also adds victims of nonconsensual removal of or tampering with a condom to the list of persons eligible to seek relief under Title 19-A, chapter 103 regarding protection from domestic abuse. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Public Law Chapter 298 (6/25) | ||
| LD 1696 (HP 1085) | An Act To Create A Civil Cause Of Action For Persons Suffering Damages Arising From The Sale Of Abnormally Dangerous Firearms | This bill creates a cause of action against a firearm industry member's intentional or knowing manufacturing, marketing, importing, offering for wholesale sale or offering for retail sale a firearm-related product that is abnormally dangerous and likely to create an unreasonable risk of harm to public health and safety in the State. A firearm-related product is not considered abnormally dangerous and likely to create an unreasonable risk of harm to public health and safety based on a firearm's inherent capacity to cause injury or lethal harm. A violation is prima facie evidence of an unfair trade practice, but attorney's fees and costs may not be awarded. Exempted from the action are actions brought by persons injured with a firearm while committing a crime or self-inflicted injury from a reckless, wanton or willful discharge of the firearm. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1701 (HP 1090) | Resolve, To Reestablish And Continue The Work Of The Blue Ribbon Commission To Study Emergency Medical Services In The State | This resolve reestablishes the Blue Ribbon Commission to Study Emergency Medical Services in the State, which was previously established by the 130th Legislature in 2022. This 17-member commission is charged with examining and making recommendations on the structure, support and delivery of emergency medical services in the State. The commission is directed to submit, no later than December 6, 2023, a report detailing its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety. | Became Law without Governor's Signature (Emergency Measure) Resolve Chapter 99 (7/19) | ||
| LD 1708 (HP 1097) | An Act To Address Anticompetitive Terms In Health Insurance Carrier And Health Care Provider Contracts | Beginning January 1, 2024, this bill prohibits contractual agreements between health insurance carriers and health care providers that include provisions restricting the ability of a health insurance carrier to encourage enrollees to use specific health care providers, to use tiering as part of a carrier?s provider network or to require the inclusion of all members or affiliates of a health care provider in a carrier?s network. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/7) | ||
| LD 1714 (HP 1103) | An Act To Create A Sustainable Funding Source For Recovery Community Centers Using A Percentage Of The Adult Use Cannabis Tax Revenue | This bill establishes the Recovery Community Centers Fund within the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Behavioral Health to fund recovery community centers. The bill requires that 12% of the sales tax revenue received per month on the sale of adult use cannabis and adult use cannabis products and 12% of the excise tax revenue collected on the sale of adult use cannabis be credited to the fund. The bill also clarifies that 12% of the sales tax revenue collected on the sale of adult use cannabis and adult use cannabis products is credited to the Adult Use Cannabis Public Health and Safety and Municipal Opt-in Fund, not 12% of all sales tax revenue collected under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 36, section 1811. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1719 (HP 1106) | An Act To Establish Substance Use Disorder Treatment Centers | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to establish 2 treatment centers for substance use disorder treatment. | In possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (7/26) | ||
| LD 1735 (HP 1114) | An Act To Safeguard Gender-affirming Health Care | This bill prohibits the enforcement of an order based on another state's law authorizing a child to be removed from the child's parent or guardian based on that parent or guardian allowing the child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care. The bill prohibits a court from finding that it is an inconvenient forum if the law or policy of another state that may take jurisdiction limits the ability of a parent to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care for a child and the provision of that care is at issue in the case before the court. The bill authorizes a court to take temporary jurisdiction because a child has been unable to obtain gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care. The bill prohibits a court from considering the taking or retention of a child from a person who has legal custody of the child if the taking or retention was for obtaining gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care for the child. The bill prohibits a health care practitioner, health care facility or state-designated statewide health information exchange from releasing medical information related to a person or entity allowing a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care in response to a criminal or civil action, including a foreign subpoena, based on another state's law that authorizes a person to bring a civil or criminal action against a person or entity that allows a child to receive gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care. The bill prohibits law enforcement agencies from knowingly making or participating in the arrest or extradition of an individual pursuant to an out-of-state arrest warrant based on another state's law against providing, receiving or allowing a child to receive gender- affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care in this State. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1736 (HP 1115) | An Act To Advance The National Hiv/aids Strategy In Maine By Broadening Hiv Testing | This bill makes the following changes to broaden HIV testing in the State. 1. It requires an individual 13 years of age or older who is receiving medical services in a hospital or in an urgent care facility or from a primary care provider in an outpatient office setting to be offered an HIV test if the individual has not been under regular care from a primary care provider unless that individual is being treated for a life-threatening emergency. 2. It requires a health care provider to include an HIV test in the standard set of medical tests performed on an individual with a possible sexually transmitted disease or infection. 3. It requires health insurance carriers to provide coverage for annual HIV testing for all individuals 13 years of age or older in health insurance policies and contracts beginning January 1, 2024. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 281 (6/23) | ||
| LD 1740 (HP 1119) | An Act To Support An Insured Patient's Access To Affordable Health Care With Timely Access To Health Care Prices | Under current law, health care entities are required to provide an estimate of the total price of medical services to be rendered directly by that health care entity during a single medical encounter within a reasonable time of a request from an uninsured patient. This bill requires health care entities to provide a good faith estimate of the allowed amount under an insured patient's health insurance coverage to be paid by an insurer for the medical services to be rendered directly by that health care entity during a single medical encounter. This bill requires the information to be provided within 3 business days of a request from an insured patient to the patient and to the patient's health insurance carrier. This bill also requires health care entities to post notice of a patient's right to request this information in their offices and include such notice in a patient's written consent to treatment form that must be signed prior to receiving health care treatment or services. The bill requires health insurance carriers to provide an insured patient with an advanced explanation of benefits within 3 business days of receiving a good faith estimate from a health care entity for medical services. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1744 (HP 1123) | An Act To Strengthen Accountability In Rulemaking By Providing For Legislative Oversight | This bill does the following. 1. It establishes the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules within the Legislature. The committee replaces the joint standing committees in reviewing the list, produced by the Secretary of State, of rules adopted in the previous calendar year; the Secretary of State?s report on rule-making activities in the previous calendar year; regulatory agendas submitted by agencies; provisionally adopted major substantive rules; and petitions for review of rules. 2. It establishes the Legislative Economic Analysis Unit within the Legislature. The unit is responsible for undertaking impact analysis of major substantive rules and other rules as directed. The unit is also required, whenever it is unclear under applicable law whether a rule is a major substantive rule or a routine technical rule, to make a finding, on request, as to the appropriate classification of the rule. The unit is further directed to produce an impact analysis of the State?s acceptance and use of any federal or other grants, at the request of the President of the Senate, Speaker of the House or either chair of or a ranking member of any legislative committee with subject matter jurisdiction over the grant. The unit is responsible for any other work assigned to it jointly by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House or by the Legislature. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/1) | ||
| LD 1745 (HP 1124) | An Act To Support Public Health By Clarifying Authorized Activities Regarding Drug Checking | This bill eliminates criminal liability for a person who trafficks, furnishes or possesses a residual amount of a prescription drug, scheduled drug or imitation scheduled drug in one or more sample collection instruments or drug paraphernalia when that trafficking, furnishing or possession is for the purpose of delivering the sample collection instruments or drug paraphernalia to a drug checking and analysis program authorized by the Department of Health and Human Services or for conducting the drug checking and analysis as part of such an authorized program. | Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure) Public Law Chapter 303 (6/26) | ||
| LD 1766 (HP 1130) | An Act To Require Insurance Carriers To Compensate Providers For Costs Of Providing Medical Records For Utilization Review | This bill requires a carrier requesting medical records or documents for utilization review to compensate a health care provider for reasonable expenses to provide the requested records or documents. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/7) | ||
| LD 1768 (HP 1132) | An Act To Clarify The Mainecare Rate Determination Requirements | This bill provides that: 1. After implementing the alternative payment method for federally qualified health centers similar to the prospective payment system required by federal law but using an updated base year, the Department of Health and Human Services must further update the base year of that alternative system no later than June 30, 2026, and no less frequently than every 3 years thereafter; and 2. The department may also adjust rates determined under the alternative payment method as needed to reflect prevailing wage rates and workforce shortages. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 238 (6/20) | ||
| LD 1776 (HP 1139) | An Act To Allow Citizen Oversight Of Department Of Environmental Protection And Department Of Marine Resources Actions And Rulemaking | This bill allows a person in the State to anonymously petition the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Marine Resources or the Attorney General to enforce a law regarding either department or to enforce or amend a rule of either department that protects or conserves a natural resource, the environment, public health or freedom of information, including the common law. If either department or the Attorney General does not respond, the person may bring an action in court and win attorney's fees, expert witness fees and other reasonable costs in certain circumstances. The bill also creates a fund for oversight administered by an administrator appointed by the Governor to pay the legal expenses, expert witness fees and other costs for people not seeking a permit for commercial use but seeking to enforce a law or enforce or amend a department rule by participating in adjudicatory and judicial proceedings regarding agency rulemaking and issuance of licenses and permits. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/23) | ||
| LD 1779 (HP 1142) | An Act To Develop A Continuum Of Care For Youth Involved In The Justice System And To Develop Alternatives For Juveniles Incarcerated In Long Creek Youth Development Center | This bill requires the: 1. Department of Corrections to establish a process to conduct an individualized needs assessment and complete a transition plan for every juvenile in the department's custody; 2. Department of Corrections and the Children's Cabinet to develop recommendations for reinvestment of corrections funds currently designated for youth incarceration into a continuum of community-based alternatives and report the recommendations to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety; 3. Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety to study the selection of an entity to manage and distribute corrections funds currently designated for youth incarceration; 4. Department of Corrections to create and implement a workforce development plan for the Long Creek Youth Development Center staff, developed in coordination with the Department of Labor; and 5. Department of Corrections to develop a plan to repurpose Long Creek Youth Development Center and to submit its plan to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety, including its findings, recommendations and any suggested legislation. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1781 (HP 1144) | Resolve, To Continue Case Management Services For The Homeless Opioid Users Service Engagement Pilot Project Within The Department Of Health And Human Services | This bill establishes the Homeless Substance Use Disorder Service Program to provide rapid access to low-barrier treatment for substance use disorder and stable housing to support recovery. The program is similar to the homeless opioid users service engagement pilot project established in Resolve 2019, chapter 105, but the program is not limited to opioid use and provides additional services including transportation, community services and inpatient treatment services. The evaluation of the pilot project must be used to inform the rules implementing the program and the contractors and subcontractors of the pilot project must be included in developing the rules. | Signed by the Governor Resolve Chapter 123 (7/27) | ||
| LD 1782 (HP 1145) | An Act To Empower Jurors By Allowing Instructions That They May Find A Defendant Not Guilty If A Guilty Verdict Would Yield An Unjust Result | This bill allows an instruction to a jury impaneled in a criminal case that the jury may find a defendant not guilty even if the jury finds the State has proved all the elements of the crime charged beyond a reasonable doubt if the jury finds based upon the facts of the case a guilty verdict would yield an unjust result. | Reports READ On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 384 Yeas 30 - Nays 3 - Excused 2 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/20) |
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| LD 1809 (HP 1154) | An Act To Prohibit Health Care Services Without Parental Consent | This bill requires parental consent and the provision of parental notification before a minor can obtain treatment for all health care services, including but not limited to: 1. Giving blood; 2. Preventing or treating a sexually transmitted infection; 3. Preventing or treatment for substance use disorder, including psychological, counseling or social work services; 4. Collecting sexual assault evidence through a sexual assault forensic examination; 5. Providing health services associated with a sexual assault forensic examination; 6. Providing family planning services; 7. Providing an abortion; 8. Treating emotional or psychological problems; 9. Providing direct and indirect services by school counselors and school social workers; and 10. Providing a substance use assessment, education or support group service when a student has been determined to be in violation of school rules governing substance use or alcohol or drug possession. The bill repeals the provision of law authorizing a surrogate to provide consent for the health care of a minor. | Reports Read On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 406 Yeas 23 - Nays 11 - Excused 1 - Absent 0 PREVAILED Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/21) |
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| LD 1836 (HP 1168) | An Act Regarding Insurance Coverage For Diagnostic And Supplemental Breast Examinations | This bill provides that individual and group health insurance policies may not impose any cost-sharing requirements on a medically necessary diagnostic breast examination or supplemental breast examination performed by a health care provider. The requirements apply to insurance policies beginning on January 1, 2024. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Public Law Chapter 338 (6/28) | ||
| LD 1837 (HP 1169) | An Act To Increase Oral Health Services | This bill concerns the Department of Health and Human Services' provision of oral health services as follows: 1. It clarifies the requirement of the department to expand availability of school-based preventive oral health services to public schools; 2. It allows the Legislature to report out legislation based on the annual report of the department on the goal that children enrolled in the MaineCare program in all regions of the State receive at least one preventive dental visit annually; and 3. It requires the department to work with the MaineCare Advisory Committee, dental subcommittee to plan a pilot project for an oral health value-based payment model within the MaineCare program that includes prevention, early intervention, disease management and care coordination services for oral health services delivered in schools and early child care settings and to report the plan to the Legislature. The bill also makes permanent within the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention's office of rural health and primary care the positions of oral health educator and data and research analyst. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1840 (HP 1172) | An Act To Reform The State's Administrative And Rule-making Procedures | This bill makes the following changes to the laws governing administrative procedures. Part A requires courts and hearing officers to review an agency's interpretation of a statute, rule or subregulatory document without deference to the agency's interpretation. If the legal text is unclear after the court or hearing officer exhausts all customary interpretive tools, the court or hearing officer must default to a reasonable interpretation that limits agency power and maximizes individual liberty. Part B provides that administrative rules expire on June 30th of the 5th year following the year of their filing unless extended by the Legislature. It also requires rules to be approved by the Governor before they can be finally adopted by an agency. Part C changes the definitions of routine technical rules and major substantive rules. It also eliminates the provision allowing an agency to finally adopt major substantive rules that the Legislature failed to act on. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/1) | ||
| LD 1856 (HP 1186) | Resolve, To Study The Establishment Of A Public Option Health Benefit Plan | This resolve directs the Office of Affordable Health Care to study, in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Services, the options for establishing a MaineCare public health plan. It directs the Office of Affordable Health Care to submit a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services no later than January 31, 2024 with its recommendations, including any suggested legislation. The committee may report out legislation related to the report. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Resolve Chapter 87 (6/28) | ||
| LD 1877 (HP 1202) | An Act To Reduce The Number Of Children Living In Deep Poverty By Adjusting Assistance For Low-income Families | This bill changes the policy goal of the provision of assistance to low-income families to allow those families to live with economic stability and secure access to health care, based on reliable market data. The bill adjusts the standard of need for assistance and the maximum amount of monthly assistance to a standard and amount based on the federal poverty level. The bill increases the pass-throughs of child support collections. The bill provides for a clothing allowance and payment for certain transportation support services and sets a lower limit on the amount of the special housing allowance for families receiving assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. The bill prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services from requiring verification of the use of payments for support services. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1880 (HP 1205) | An Act To Amend The Adult Use Cannabis Laws | This bill clarifies that adult use cannabis and adult use cannabis products may be returned by a licensee to the licensee from which the cannabis or cannabis product was received. It authorizes social clubs for the on-site consumption of adult use cannabis and adult use cannabis products, excluding smoking, which includes vaping. It creates a shelf life for cannabis flower. It allows a cannabis store to deliver in municipalities that have not approved the operation of cannabis stores and to deliver to businesses or hotels if written consent is given by an authorized employee of the business or hotel. It replaces the advertising and marketing restrictions on advertising and marketing designed or likely to reach persons under 21 years of age with a requirement that the Department of Administrative and Financial Services adopt rules that identify specific limitations on signs, advertising and marketing to minimize the appeal of adult use cannabis and adult use cannabis products to persons under 21 years of age. It removes or increases certain limitations on the amount of THC, cannabis and cannabis concentrate that may be used, possessed, transported or furnished. It makes the personal information of a licensee included on an application confidential. It requires the Department of Administrative and Financial Services to adopt rules with criteria and an application process for a licensee experiencing financial hardship to be granted a waiver or reduction in license fees. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Public Law Chapter 396 (7/6) | ||
| LD 1902 (HP 1217) | An Act To Protect Personal Health Data | This bill establishes consumer rights with regard to consumer health data and defines obligations of regulated entities that collect, use and share consumer health data. The bill prohibits selling consumer health data and implementing a geofence around certain health care entities. The bill provides a private right of action for a consumer against a regulated entity for a violation of the provisions as well as civil penalties and enforcement by the Attorney General. The bill also makes violations enforceable under the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act. The bill's requirements do not apply to government agencies and health care information subject to federal and state law related to confidentiality of health care information. | 12/11/23 10:00 AM in State House, Room 438 - Work Session |
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| LD 1955 (HP 1257) | An Act To Require Hospitals And Hospital-affiliated Providers To Provide Financial Assistance For Medical Care | This bill does the following. 1. It directs the Department of Health and Human Services to adopt rules, consistent with the federal Hill-Burton Act, for the provision of free health care services to patients who are state residents and meet certain income requirements. 2. It requires hospitals and hospital-affiliated providers to adopt a modified adjusted gross income methodology in determining a patient's eligibility for financial assistance. 3. It requires that hospitals and hospital-affiliated providers use a single streamlined application for all financial assistance programs and provides for other resources relating to applications and for the determination of a patient's financial assistance. 4. It requires that hospitals and hospital-affiliated providers widely publicize their financial assistance programs within the community served by the hospital or hospital-affiliated provider, including by publishing a summary of the programs written in plain language; by providing physical copies of the summary, application and application instructions in conspicuous locations within the hospital or hospital-affiliated provider; and by posting a full, accessible and downloadable version of the application on the hospital's or hospital-affiliated provider's publicly accessible website. 5. It requires that hospitals and hospital-affiliated providers inform patients eligible for financial assistance if any service, treatment, procedure or test is not covered by the hospital's or hospital-affiliated provider's financial assistance program. 6. It provides that a hospital and a hospital-affiliated provider must offer patients payment plan options with terms of at least 2 years, with monthly payments not to exceed 3% of the patient's monthly gross income. 7. It prohibits certain collections actions by hospitals and hospital-affiliated providers for at least 240 days beginning on the date the hospital or hospital-affiliated provider provides a billing statement to the patient who has received medical care and left the hospital or hospital-affiliated provider. Prohibited collections actions include the sale of a patient's medical debt to a collection agency, legal action against a patient with the intent of collecting a debt for services rendered or withholding medically necessary care to a patient prior to the collection of debt. 8. It prohibits other billing or collections actions by a hospital or a hospital-affiliated provider until the hospital or hospital-affiliated provider fully determines a patient's eligibility for charity care, including by resolving an appeal filed by the patient. 9. It provides that the Department of Health and Human Services enforce the provisions of this law and establishes a civil penalty for hospitals or hospital-affiliated providers that knowingly or willfully violate these provisions or engage in a pattern of noncompliance. 10. It requires hospitals to comply with the price transparency requirements established in 45 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 180. A hospital is prohibited from initiating or pursuing a collections action against a patient for services provided on a date on which the hospital was not in compliance with the price transparency requirements. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1975 (HP 1266) | An Act To Implement A Statewide Public Health Response To Substance Use And Amend The Laws Governing Scheduled Drugs | This bill establishes the Substance Use, Health and Safety Fund in the Department of Health and Human Services. Money deposited in the fund must be used by the department to oversee, approve and provide grants and funding to agencies, organizations and service providers, including the federally recognized Indian tribes in this State and service providers that are affiliated with federally recognized Indian tribes in this State, to increase voluntary access to community care for persons who need services related to substance use, as set forth in the bill. By June 30, 2024, and annually thereafter, the Legislature must appropriate to the fund an amount sufficient to fully fund the services as set forth in the bill. The bill repeals the laws that make possession of a schedule W, X, Y or Z drug and use of drug paraphernalia a crime. It also repeals the laws governing the civil violation of use of drug paraphernalia and possession with intent to use drug paraphernalia. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 22 (SP 14) | An Act To Impede The Transfer Of Firearms To Prohibited Persons | This bill prohibits the sale or transfer of a firearm to a person who is prohibited from owning a firearm, possessing a firearm or having a firearm under that person's control. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 305 (6/26) | PH | |
| LD 35 (SP 27) | An Act To Establish Adult Protective Services Training Requirements For Professionals Mandated To Report Suspected Abuse, Neglect Or Exploitation To Enhance Protection Of Incapacitated And Dependent Adults | This bill requires professionals mandated to make reports of abuse, neglect and exploitation of incapacitated and dependent adults pursuant to the Adult Protective Services Act to complete training on mandated reporter responsibilities once every 4 years. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 36 (4/24) | ||
| LD 36 (SP 28) | An Act To Make Corrections To The Maine Insurance Code | This bill amends the Maine Insurance Code in the following ways. 1. It clarifies the laws governing domestic insurer investments concerning investments in stocks of subsidiaries. 2. It removes the prohibition on members of the Continuing Education Advisory Committee being reappointed and allows the Superintendent of Insurance to remove a member of the committee for cause. 3. It removes from the small and large group health insurance rating laws obsolete references to the Dirigo Health savings offset payments program. 4. It requires licensees under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 24-A and Title 24 to respond to all inquiries of the superintendent within 14 days of receipt of the inquiry. Current law requires licensees under Title 24-A to respond to inquiries that relate to resolution of consumer complaints involving the licensee within the 14-day time frame and to all other inquiries within 30 days. The bill also requires licensees to respond to follow- up inquiries within 5 days of receipt. 5. It makes other technical corrections. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 59 (5/8) | HA | |
| LD 40 (SP 32) | An Act To Amend The Cannabis Laws | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would amend the cannabis laws. | 05/22/23 11:15 AM in State House, Room 437 - Work Session |
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| LD 47 (SP 39) | An Act To Amend The Law Governing Licensing Actions Of The Emergency Medical Services' Board | This bill amends the law governing licensing actions of the Emergency Medical Services' Board to remove a reference to the revocation of a license. | Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure) Public Law Chapter 111 (6/1) | EMS/LICESING | |
| LD 73 (SP 45) | An Act To Require Bottled Water Companies To Monitor For Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances | This bill requires persons that extract water in this State to be sold as bottled water to conduct monitoring for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, in the bottled water. If the monitoring detects the presence of perfluorooctanoic acid, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, perfluorohexane sulfonic acid, perfluorononanoic acid or perfluoroheptanoic acid at a level at or above the standard applicable to community water systems, the person is required to conduct additional monitoring. The bill also imposes reporting, treatment and notice requirements on persons that extract water in this State to be sold as bottled water. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/1) | PH | |
| LD 75 (SP 47) | An Act To Establish Maximum Contaminant Levels Under The State's Drinking Water Rules To Prohibit Certain Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances | This bill amends the law authorizing the adoption of state drinking water rules by the Commissioner of Health and Human Services to require that those rules establish a maximum contaminant level equivalent to zero nanograms per liter for certain perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | PH | |
| LD 83 (SP 50) | An Act To Clarify State Policy Regarding Cannabis Paraphernalia In The Maine Medical Use Of Cannabis Act And The Cannabis Legalization Act | This bill defines the term "cannabis paraphernalia" for purposes of the Maine Medical Use of Cannabis Act. It clarifies that cannabis paraphernalia is not a tobacco product under the laws governing the retail sale of tobacco. It permits a caregiver to sell or provide cannabis paraphernalia to a qualifying patient for the patient's medical use of cannabis. | Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure) Public Law Chapter 6 (3/15) | PH/FLAVORS | |
| LD 116 (SP 55) | An Act To Establish A Minimum Wage For All Health Care Workers Including All Support Staff | This bill provides that, beginning January 1, 2024, the minimum wage for individuals employed by or who work in a health care facility is $15.00 per hour. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/11) | WrkForce | |
| LD 118 (SP 57) | An Act To Ensure Continuity Of Care For Pretrial Defendants | This bill authorizes the State Forensic Service to disclose prior court-ordered evaluation reports pertaining to the pending changes of pretrial defendants to institutions for the care and treatment of people with mental illness or residential programs that provide care and treatment for persons who have intellectual disabilities or autism when the court commits a defendant to the Commissioner of Health and Human Services for observation in such an institution or program. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 38 (4/24) | HA/BH | |
| LD 129 (SP 68) | Resolve, To Direct The University Of Maine System To Study The Feasibility Of Establishing A Public Allopathic Medical School In Penobscot County | This resolve directs the University of Maine System to conduct a study to evaluate the feasibility of establishing a public allopathic medical school in Penobscot County. The University of Maine System is required to submit a report based on its evaluation by December 6, 2023 to the Joint Standing Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs, which may report out legislation related to the report to the Second Regular Session of the 131st Legislature. | Signed by the Governor Resolve Chapter 114 (7/27) | WrkForce | |
| LD 132 (SP 71) | An Act To Require Health Insurance Carriers To Provide Coverage For Blood Testing For Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances | This bill requires carriers offering health plans in this State to provide coverage for blood testing for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. The requirements of the bill apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2024. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | PH | |
| LD 148 (SP 77) | An Act To Allow Detention Of Juveniles For Certain Acts | This bill provides 2 additional grounds for the detention of a juvenile: in cases when adult supervision is not available for the juvenile and to prevent the juvenile from committing offenses. | Reports READ. On motion of Representative SALISBURY of Westbrook, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED. ROLL CALL NO. 165 (Yeas 74 - Nays 65 - Absent 11 - Excused 0 - Vacant 1) In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. Placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (6/12) |
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| LD 150 (SP 80) | An Act To Allow Incentive Continuity Following A Catastrophic Occurrence Under The Pine Tree Development Zone And Major Food Processing And Manufacturing Facility Expansion Tax Credit Programs | This bill allows a company to subtract the reduction in its base level of employment established for an incentive program related to the locations that were affected by a catastrophic occurrence, lowering the base level of employment the company needs to maintain due to the catastrophic occurrence. It affects the Pine Tree Development Zone program and the tax credit for major food processing and manufacturing facility expansion. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 173 (6/15) | PH/COVID | |
| LD 178 (SP 82) | An Act To Support Reentry And Reintegration Into The Community | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would support an individual's reentry and reintegration into the community. | On motion by Senator VITELLI of Sagadahoc The Senate RECEDED and CONCURRED With Acceptance of Report A Ought Not To Pass ACCEPTED in concurrence Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) HELD at the Request of Senator DAUGHTRY of Cumberland. RELEASED. (6/27) |
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| LD 181 (SP 85) | Resolve, Requiring Progress Reports From The Department Of Health And Human Services Regarding The Implementation Of Secure Children's Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility Services | This resolve requires, by January 1, 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services to implement secure children's psychiatric residential treatment facility services in the State pursuant to rule Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapters II and III, Section 107. The delivery model must provide secure behavioral health and intellectual and developmental disabilities psychiatric residential treatment facility services. The department must submit a progress report to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services by September 29, 2023. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Resolve Chapter 78 (6/25) | BH/PEDS | |
| LD 182 (SP 86) | An Act To Create A 9-month Time Limit On General Assistance Benefits For Able-bodied Adults Without Dependents | This bill limits to a maximum of 275 days every 5 years the general assistance benefits a person who does not have any dependents and who is capable of working may receive. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/30) | ||
| LD 190 (SP 94) | An Act To Develop A Long-term Plan To Address Mental Health Needs In Rural Maine | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would require the development of a long-term plan to address mental health needs in rural areas. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/23) | BH/HA | |
| LD 202 (SP 102) | An Act To Clarify The Requirements For Adult Use Cannabis Stores To Transact Sales At Specified Events | This bill amends the Cannabis Legalization Act in the following ways. It: 1. Creates new definitions for the terms "specified event permit," "permitted premises for a specified event" and "specified event"; 2. Amends the requirements applicable to cannabis stores to account for authorized sales outside of a cannabis store's licensed premises; 3. Clarifies the application requirements for a permit for cannabis stores to conduct sales at a specified event; 4. Provides criteria for the Department of Administrative and Financial Services' approval or denial of a permit application for cannabis stores to conduct sales at a specified event; 5. Provides criteria for the Department of Administrative and Financial Services' suspension or revocation of a permit for a cannabis store to conduct sales at a specified event; 6. Amends the Department of Administrative and Financial Services' rule-making authority; and 7. Repeals the requirement that the Department of Administrative and Financial Services issue guidance documents to adult use licensees. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 408 (7/10) | PH/FLAVORS | |
| LD 242 (SP 108) | An Act To Clarify That Animal Health Products Are Exempt From The Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Reporting Law | This bill provides that certain health products intended for animals that are regulated under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the federal Virus-Serum-Toxin Act or the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act are exempt from the notification requirements that generally apply to products containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/18) | ||
| LD 244 (SP 110) | Resolve, Directing Maine Emergency Medical Services To Convene A Stakeholder Group To Explore Emergency Medical Services Career Pathways And Educational Opportunities In The State | This resolve directs the Department of Public Safety, Maine Emergency Medical Services to convene a stakeholder group to explore career pathways and educational opportunities for emergency medical services providers in the State and to submit a report to the Legislature. Stakeholders include the Maine Community College System and the University of Maine System. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Resolve Chapter 15 (5/17) | ||
| LD 252 (SP 118) | An Act Relating To Long-term Care Pharmacies | This bill creates a new category of pharmacy facility licensure for long-term care pharmacies. It defines terms regarding long-term care pharmacies for the Maine Pharmacy Act to mirror a proposed federal law. It increases the number of individuals on the Maine Board of Pharmacy from 7 to 8 members and requires that the additional member be a pharmacist working at a long-term care pharmacy at the time of appointment. It provides that a drug or pharmaceutical preparation may only be accepted back by a pharmacy to be dispensed again if the drug or preparation is packaged in an unbroken, sealed container. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (3/21) | SCOPE | |
| LD 253 (SP 119) | An Act To Add Health And Physical Education Requirements To High School Diploma Standards | This bill adds a requirement for health and physical education to the standards for receiving a high school diploma. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/5) | ||
| LD 257 (SP 123) | An Act To Provide For A Later Starting Time For High Schools | This bill requires that, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, each school administrative unit ensure that its secondary schools' school days start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/5) | BH/PEDS | |
| LD 267 (SP 126) | An Act To Require Private Insurance Coverage For Donor Breast Milk | This bill provides that health plans must provide coverage for donor breast milk. The requirements apply beginning on January 1, 2024. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 229 (6/20) | HA/RH | |
| LD 272 (SP 131) | An Act Regarding The Issuance Of Driver's Licenses To Persons With Obstructive Sleep Apnea | This bill prohibits the Secretary of State from requiring a holder of a Class C driver's license who has been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea to submit to a driving evaluation related to obstructive sleep apnea more frequently than every 2 years. The bill also requires the Secretary of State to convene a working group to review and make recommendations regarding the process for issuing and renewing a driver's license to a person diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/18) | LM | |
| LD 312 (SP 133) | An Act To Improve Health Outcomes By Expanding The Perinatal Workforce To Include Professionals Such As Community Health Workers And Doulas And To Provide Mainecare Reimbursement For Services | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would expand the workforce of perinatal professionals, including community health workers and doulas, and provide for reimbursement for the services of those professionals under the MaineCare program. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (2/14) | WrkForce | |
| LD 317 (SP 138) | An Act Regarding Safe Schools | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would implement changes designed to result in safer schools. | Reports READ. On motion of Representative BRENNAN of Portland, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED. ROLL CALL NO. 194 (Yeas 77 - Nays 64 - Absent 8 - Excused 1 - Vacant 1) In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. Placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (6/13) |
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| LD 320 (SP 141) | An Act To Support The Maine Multicultural Center | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to enact measures to expand and support the Maine Multicultural Center. | On motion by Senator ROTUNDO of Androscoggin PLACED ON THE SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TABLE pending PASSAGE TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence. (6/12) | HEDI | |
| LD 322 (SP 143) | An Act To Improve The Unemployment Insurance System | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would improve the unemployment insurance system. | Committee Docket: Carry Over Requested (6/1) | HA | |
| LD 324 (SP 145) | An Act To Prevent The Wrongful Firing Of Maine Workers | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to enact the Secure Jobs Act, which establishes a framework for employee discipline and discharge, prohibits the unjust discharge of an employee, requires employers to use progressive discipline measures, limits the use of electronic monitoring, provides for severance pay, provides remedies for wrongfully discharged employees and authorizes the recovery of damages. | 05/24/23 10:00 AM in Cross Building, Room 202 - Work Session |
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| LD 326 (SP 147) | An Act To Improve Recruitment And Retention Of First Responders | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would ensure free training for emergency medical responders and emergency medical technicians and make changes to provisions of law to increase recruitment and retention of first responders in rural areas of the State. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/1) | Wrkforce | |
| LD 328 (SP 149) | An Act To Improve Mental Health In Maine | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would improve mental health in the State. | 05/16/23 1:00 PM in Cross Building, Room 209 - Work Session |
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| LD 329 (SP 150) | Resolve, To Establish The Blue Ribbon Commission On Guaranteed Health Care | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would ensure that residents of the State have universal health care. | On motion by Senator DAUGHTRY of Cumberland PLACED ON THE SPECIAL STUDY TABLE pending FINAL PASSAGE, in concurrence. (6/20) | HA | |
| LD 351 (SP 158) | An Act To Increase Access To Birth Control By Making Certain Contraception Accessible From A Pharmacist | This bill authorizes pharmacists to prescribe and dispense hormonal contraceptive patches and self-administered oral hormonal contraceptives to a person who has evidence of a previous prescription from a practitioner for a hormonal contraceptive patch or self-administered oral hormonal contraceptive. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 115 (6/1) | RH | |
| LD 353 (SP 160) | An Act Concerning Substance Use Disorder, Treatment, Recovery, Prevention And Education | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would improve and expand treatment and recovery services for persons with substance use disorder, strengthen prevention efforts and modernize education requirements for clinicians. | Committee Docket: Carry Over Requested (6/1) | SUD | |
| LD 361 (SP 168) | Resolve, To Review Mainecare Reimbursement For Electronic Consultation Services | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to enact measures to increase the reimbursement for electronic consultations through Medicaid in the State. | On motion by Senator ROTUNDO of Androscoggin PLACED ON THE SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TABLE pending FINAL PASSAGE, in concurrence. (6/14) | HA | |
| LD 411 (SP 192) | An Act To Prevent Subscribers From Being Overcharged For Health Insurance Premiums | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would enact changes to the laws governing health insurance to prevent subscribers to health insurance programs from being overcharged for premiums on the basis of age or other factors. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/11) | HA | |
| LD 445 (SP 200) | Resolve, Directing The Department Of Health And Human Services To Apply For A Waiver From The Federal Government For The Medicaid Limitation On Payment To A Facility With More Than 16 Inpatient Beds For Psychiatric Treatment | This resolve requires the Department of Health and Human Services, within 90 days of the effective date of this resolve, to apply to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a waiver of the prohibition, as described in 42 United States Code, Section 1396d(a)(xvii)(31)(B) and 42 Code of Federal Regulations, Section 435.1010, against the provision of Medicaid covered services to individuals who are inpatients in a hospital, nursing facility or other institution with more than 16 beds that is primarily engaged in providing diagnosis, treatment or care to persons with mental disease. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 457 (SP 211) | An Act To Amend Maine's Tax Laws | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would amend Maine's tax laws. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to a subsequent special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 594. (3/30) | HA | |
| LD 459 (SP 213) | An Act To Update The Procedures For Issuance Of Orders Related To Involuntary Hospitalizations | This bill authorizes the use of an electronic copy of the documents associated with requesting or issuing an order for involuntary commitment. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 66 (5/8) | BH | |
| LD 499 (SP 217) | An Act To Change Maine's Tax Laws | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would change Maine's tax laws. | Committee Docket: Carry Over Requested (6/1) | HA | |
| LD 510 (SP 227) | An Act To Protect The Public Health By Allowing The Appointment Of Associate Health Officers | This bill permits a municipality to hire associate health officers, as defined, to assist the local health officer during an actual or threatened epidemic or other public health threat. An associate health officer must have appropriate education, training or experience, is not required to meet the qualifications of a local health officer and must work under the direct supervision of the local health officer. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 46 (5/1) | ||
| LD 568 (SP 239) | An Act To Provide Funding For The Fund To Address Food Insecurity And Provide Nutrition Incentives | This bill provides ongoing General Fund appropriations of $600,000 to the Fund To Address Food Insecurity and Provide Nutrition Incentives within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. The bill also removes the $50,000 limit on matching contributions from the fund criteria. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | SDOH | |
| LD 582 (SP 250) | An Act To Enhance Certain Penalties For Possession Of Firearms By Prohibited Persons | This bill increases the class of crime for the prohibited possession of a firearm by certain persons. | Held by Governor (8/9) | PH | |
| LD 590 (SP 258) | Resolution, Proposing An Amendment To The Constitution Of Maine To Establish A Right To Health Care | This resolution proposes a constitutional amendment to establish that health care, including care to prevent and treat physical and mental illness, is the right of the people and necessary to ensure the strength of the State and requires the Legislature to provide by law the implementation and enforcement of this right. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/25) | HA | |
| LD 592 (SP 260) | An Act To Amend The Law Governing Mainecare Coverage Of Chiropractic Treatment | This bill requires all chiropractic services that are within the scope of practice of chiropractic doctors and performed by a licensed chiropractic doctor to be reimbursed under the MaineCare program. Under current law, the Department of Health and Human Services is required to reimburse for only chiropractic evaluation and management examinations. The bill also requires the Department of Health and Human Services to apply for a state plan amendment to allow for Medicaid reimbursement for all chiropractic services within the scope of practice of chiropractic doctors no later than January 1, 2024. If the state plan amendment is not approved by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, chiropractic doctors will not be reimbursed by the MaineCare program for any additional chiropractic services not currently eligible for reimbursement. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 454 (7/27) | HA/SCOPE | |
| LD 716 (SP 274) | An Act To Assist Nonprofit Service Providers | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to enact measures to assist nonprofit service providers in the State. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/5) | ||
| LD 722 (SP 280) | An Act To Expedite The Health Insurance Referral Process For Specialists By Allowing Referrals During Urgent Care Visits | This bill prohibits a health insurance carrier from denying payment for any health care service covered under an enrollee's health plan provided by a specialist based solely on the basis that the enrollee's referral was not made by the enrollee's primary care provider as long as the referral is made by a provider employed at an urgent care facility. The requirements apply beginning January 1, 2024. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 119 (6/1) | ||
| LD 723 (SP 281) | An Act To Protect Consumers By Prohibiting Discrimination By Insurers Based On Certain Information | This bill prohibits an insurer from using information disclosed in a consumer credit report to charge a higher premium rate based on the insured person's race, ethnicity, religion, gender, income, lack of credit history or zip code. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (3/9) | ||
| LD 726 (SP 284) | An Act To Amend The Laws Governing Political Action Committees Relating To Union, Business And Nonprofit Organizations | This bill removes the provision of law stating that monetary contributions from party committees, ballot question committees and political action committees to candidates and leadership political action committees may not be derived, in whole or in part, from a business entity. Under current law, a business entity includes a firm, partnership, corporation, incorporated association, labor organization or other organization, whether organized as a for-profit or a nonprofit entity. | Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure) Public Law Chapter 244 (6/22) | ||
| LD 741 (SP 299) | An Act To Prohibit Certain Training Repayment Agreements By Employers | This bill specifies that an employer may not require an employee to enter into an agreement that requires the employee to reimburse the employer for training costs related to the employment if the employee leaves employment with that employer. The Department of Labor is required to enforce this provision. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 757 (SP 315) | Resolve, To Review Telemonitoring And Certain Telehealth Services Reimbursed Under Mainecare | This bill amends the law governing MaineCare services delivered through telehealth to change the rule-making authority of the Department of Health and Human Services, providing that qualifying criteria for telemonitoring services include documentation in a patient's medical record that the patient may be hospitalized or admitted or readmitted to an emergency room at the discretion of the patient's health care provider. It also conditions MaineCare coverage for telemonitoring services on the intention to collect a patient's health-related data to assist in monitoring and assessing the patient's health status, telemonitoring's being medically necessary, the patient's capacity to participate in telemonitoring and the patient's having a suitable residence for telemonitoring. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Resolve Chapter 84 (6/27) | ||
| LD 759 (SP 317) | An Act To Reduce Out-of-pocket Prescription Drug Expenses For Coinsurance | This bill reduces from $3,500 to $1,500 per year the maximum out-of-pocket limit for prescription drugs subject to coinsurance that a carrier may establish. | Reports READ. On motion of Representative PERRY of Calais, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED. In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. Placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (4/20) |
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| LD 771 (SP 330) | An Act To Protect A Woman's Right To Withdraw Consent For An Abortion | This bill establishes a pregnant woman's and a pregnant minor's right to withdraw the woman's or the minor's consent to an abortion at any time before the death of the fetus. The bill makes performing or aiding in the performance of an abortion after the pregnant woman or the pregnant minor has withdrawn consent a Class C crime. | Speaker laid before the House Subsequently, on motion of Representative MOONEN of Portland, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED. ROLL CALL NO. 272 (Yeas 79 - Nays 66 - Absent 5 - Excused 1) In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. Placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (6/20) |
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| LD 776 (SP 335) | Resolution, Proposing An Amendment To The Constitution Of Maine To Establish The Right To Bodily Autonomy | This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine by declaring that every person has a natural, inherent and inalienable right to bodily autonomy. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/16) | ||
| LD 780 (SP 339) | Resolution, Proposing An Amendment To The Constitution Of Maine To Protect Personal Reproductive Autonomy | This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine by declaring that every person has a right to personal reproductive autonomy. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 783 (SP 342) | An Act To Protect Certain Private Emergency Services Personnel From Liability Under The Maine Tort Claims Act | This bill specifies that a person who is a private firefighter, a private emergency medical services employee or an employee of another private service that provides an emergency response is an employee for purposes of the Maine Tort Claims Act only under certain conditions. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 311 (6/26) | ||
| LD 858 (SP 355) | An Act To Require The State To Invest In Federal Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to require state investment in federal certified community behavioral health clinics. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/2) | ||
| LD 859 (SP 356) | Resolve, To Assess, Develop, Implement And Fund The Reuse Of Existing Facilities At Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to assess, develop, implement and fund the reuse of existing facilities at Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center to provide mental health, substance use disorder and homelessness services. | Signed by the Governor Resolve Chapter 75 (6/23) | ||
| LD 864 (SP 361) | An Act To Clarify Provisions Of The Maine Good Samaritan Law | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to change the laws governing immunity from arrest, prosecution and revocation and termination proceedings when assistance has been requested for a suspected drug-related overdose regarding which crimes qualify for immunity. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 178 (6/15) | ||
| LD 867 (SP 364) | An Act Regarding Undesignated Ready-to-use Glucagon Rescue Therapies In Schools | This bill allows a primary or secondary public school, public charter school or approved private school to obtain a standing order for undesignated ready-to-use glucagon rescue therapy and describes procedures relating to the storage and use of that therapy. The bill also provides for diabetes-related training for school employees. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 253 (6/22) | ||
| LD 869 (SP 366) | An Act To Protect Education Access By Prohibiting A Mandate For Schoolchildren For A Covid-19 Vaccine Or A Vaccine Under An Emergency Use Authorization | This bill prohibits the Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention within the Department of Health and Human Services from requiring by rule a vaccine approved for use solely under an emergency use authorization or a COVID-19 vaccine. | Reports READ. On motion of Representative MILLETT of Cape Elizabeth, REPORT A Ought Not to Pass was ACCEPTED. ROLL CALL NO. 59 (Yeas 78 - Nays 65 - Absent 7 - Excused 0 - Vacant 1) In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. Placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (5/9) |
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| LD 876 (SP 373) | An Act To Expand Access To Oral Health Care In Rural Maine By Allowing Certain Out-of-state Dentists To Practice In Dental Clinics In The State | This bill provides for a limited license for a dentist credentialed under the laws of another state, a Canadian province or a foreign country to be licensed to practice in Maine for the purposes of providing services in dental clinics when dental services from licensed resident dentists are not available. The bill also directs the Board of Dental Practice, in conjunction with the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, to review options for a similar limited license for dental professionals other than dentists credentialed under the laws of another state, a Canadian province or a foreign country and to report their findings and recommendations to the Second Regular Session of the 131st Legislature. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/5) | ||
| LD 919 (SP 390) | An Act Regarding Licensure In The Field Of Emergency Medical Services | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would facilitate employment in the field of emergency medical services. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 166 (6/12) | ||
| LD 981 (SP 400) | An Act To Require All Emergency Medical Services Persons To Be Trained To Administer And Dispense Naloxone Hydrochloride | This bill requires an emergency medical services person to be trained to dispense naloxone hydrochloride. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 92 (5/15) | ||
| LD 983 (SP 402) | An Act To Exempt Maine From Daylight Saving Time | This bill creates an exemption to federal provisions regarding the observation of eastern daylight saving time and establishes eastern standard time as the standard time year-round for the State. | Committee Docket: Voted - ONTP (11/16) | ||
| LD 986 (SP 405) | An Act To Ensure Safer Communities By Increasing The Punishment For Crimes Involving Fentanyl | This bill amends the Maine Criminal Code as follows: 1. It increases the penalty for trafficking fentanyl and other scheduled drugs containing a detectable amount of fentanyl from a Class B crime to a Class A crime; and 2. It establishes a new Class B crime of unlawful use of an electronic communication device in furtherance of fentanyl trafficking. A person is guilty of the crime if the person uses an electronic communication device in the furtherance of trafficking in fentanyl or other scheduled drugs containing a detectable amount of fentanyl. | Speaker TALBOT ROSS of Portland MOVED to INSIST. Motion of Representative NUTTING of Oakland, to RECEDE AND CONCUR to ACCEPTANCE of REPORT B Ought to Pass as Amended and PASSAGE TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (S-313) FAILED. ROLL CALL NO. 258 (Yeas 62 - Nays 79 - Absent 9 - Excused 1) Subsequently, the House INSISTED on ACCEPTANCE of REPORT A Ought Not to Pass . ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. Placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (6/20) |
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| LD 1042 (SP 411) | An Act To Update Youth Sports Concussion And Injury Prevention Protocols | This bill requires youth sports organizations, including schools, to follow specific protocols and provide education relating to head injuries sustained during athletic activities. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/23) | ||
| LD 1044 (SP 413) | An Act Directing The Commissioner Of Health And Human Services And The Commissioner Of Corrections To Develop Alternative Responses To Mental Health And Substance Use Disorder Emergency Calls | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to direct the Commissioner of Health and Human Services and the Commissioner of Corrections to develop alternative responses to mental health and substance use disorder emergency calls. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/2) | ||
| LD 1047 (SP 416) | An Act To Adopt Eastern Daylight Time Year-round Contingent On Federal Approval | Current law provides that the standard time year-round for the State is the time commonly known as eastern daylight time, if federal law permits the year-round observation of eastern daylight time and all the states in the eastern time zone and the District of Columbia observe eastern daylight time year-round. This bill removes the prerequisite that all the states in the eastern time zone and the District of Columbia observe eastern daylight time, which will allow Maine to observe eastern daylight time year-round if federal law permits it. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/13) | ||
| LD 1052 (SP 421) | An Act To Expand Good Samaritan Protections For Naloxone Hydrochloride Administration | This bill extends immunity from civil or criminal liability or professional disciplinary action to any person who provides or administers naloxone hydrochloride to an individual whom the person believes in good faith is experiencing an opioid-related drug overdose. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 154 (6/12) | ||
| LD 1059 (SP 428) | Resolve, To Allow Reimbursement For Remote Ultrasound Procedures And Fetal Nonstress Tests Under Mainecare | This resolve directs the Department of Health and Human Services to amend its rules regarding reimbursement under the MaineCare program to allow reimbursement for ultrasound procedures and fetal nonstress tests performed remotely in a residence or other off-site location through telehealth under the MaineCare program. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/11) | ||
| LD 1077 (SP 446) | An Act To Fund Consultation Services To Ensure Affordable Health Care For Maine Residents And To Provide Targeted Outreach To Ensure Affordable Health Care For Maine Farmers | This bill provides ongoing funding to the Department of Health and Human Services to provide consultation services through a contract with a nonprofit advocacy organization committed to helping Maine residents obtain quality, affordable health care. | In possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (7/26) | ||
| LD 1078 (SP 447) | An Act To Increase The Number Of Recovery Beds In The State | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to increase the number of recovery beds in this State for persons making the transition from addiction to recovery. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/4) | ||
| LD 1119 (SP 453) | An Act To Clarify The Criminal Statutes With Regard To Assaults On Emergency Medical Services Persons | Under current law, a person is guilty of a Class C crime if that person intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causes bodily injury to an emergency medical care provider, as that term is defined in the law, while the provider is providing emergency care. This bill amends the law by specifying that it is a Class C crime if the bodily injury is to: 1. A person licensed pursuant to the Maine Emergency Medical Services Act of 1982, regardless of the location where the emergency medical care is provided; or 2. A person employed or contracted by a hospital and the injury occurs in the hospital's designated emergency room. The bill also amends the law governing elevating the class of a crime to include assaults on emergency medical services providers. The bill also makes a technical change to the definition of "emergency medical care provider" in the law governing emergency blood-borne pathogen testing. Currently, that term is defined by providing a cross-reference to a term the bill repeals. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 455 (7/27) | ||
| LD 1143 (SP 470) | An Act To Address Late Medical Billing By Limiting Hospital Billing To One Year | This bill requires a hospital to issue a bill within one year of providing a service or the patient or guardian of the patient who received the service is not obligated to pay the bill. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/2) | ||
| LD 1146 (SP 473) | An Act To Authorize Certain Health Care Professionals To Prescribe Methadone | This bill allows a health care professional licensed under the Board of Osteopathic Licensure or the Board of Licensure in Medicine with authority to prescribe controlled substances to prescribe methadone to a person with substance use disorder. It requires the person receiving treatment to participate in appropriate counseling activities that are equivalent to those required of individuals receiving methadone treatment at a methadone clinic. It requires prescribers to establish that the person with substance use disorder receiving methadone prescriptions are considered sufficiently responsible for unsupervised use and the days the prescription is for. These requirements are based on 42 Code of Federal Regulations, Section 8.12 and the changes proposed to those requirements in S. 3629 introduced to the United States Congress in 2022. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/20) | ||
| LD 1148 (SP 475) | An Act To Prohibit Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates For Students Enrolled In Public Institutions Of Learning | This bill prohibits certain postsecondary educational institutions from requiring a student to be immunized with a vaccine that is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration under emergency use authorization. | Reports READ. On motion of Representative MILLETT of Cape Elizabeth, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED. ROLL CALL NO. 57 (Yeas 78 - Nays 64 - Absent 8 - Excused 0 - Vacant 1) In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. Placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (5/9) |
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| LD 1151 (SP 478) | An Act Concerning The Authority For Pharmacists To Administer Vaccines | This bill authorizes certain pharmacy technicians to administer vaccines under the supervision of a pharmacist. It changes the age of a person to whom a pharmacist may administer influenza vaccines without a prescription from a person 7 years of age or older to a person 3 years of age or older. It authorizes a pharmacist to administer other vaccines to a person 3 years of age or older without a prescription. | Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure) Public Law Chapter 170 (6/15) | ||
| LD 1184 (SP 480) | An Act To Exempt Certain Prescribed Home Medical Supplies From Sales Tax | This bill provides a sales tax exemption for medical equipment and supplies prescribed by a health care provider for medical purposes when payment is made by an insurance company or specified government programs. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1187 (SP 483) | An Act To Protect Inpatient Psychiatric Services In Northern Maine By Preserving The Current Reimbursement Rate | This bill prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services from decreasing the reimbursement rate for distinct psychiatric unit discharges for Northern Maine Medical Center or its successor hospital without legislative approval. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/1) | ||
| LD 1188 (SP 484) | An Act To Establish A Public Health Response To Substance Use | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would provide resources for substance use prevention and early intervention, harm reduction, substance use disorder treatment and sustained recovery from substance use disorder. The bill would decriminalize the possession of certain scheduled drugs. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (4/11) | ||
| LD 1214 (SP 495) | An Act To Clarify The Laws To Combat Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Contamination | This bill makes the following changes to the laws governing products containing perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. 1. It changes the definitions of "intentionally added PFAS" and "perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances." 2. It changes the date for the requirement that a manufacturer of a product for sale in the State that contains intentionally added PFAS submit a written notification to the Department of Environmental Protection from January 1, 2023 to January 1, 2024. With respect to this notification, it requires a manufacturer to designate confidential business information claims in accordance with the laws of the State and the Uniform Trade Secrets Act. 3. It removes the provision of law that provides that, effective January 1, 2030, a person may not sell, offer for sale or distribute for sale in this State any product that contains intentionally added PFAS, unless the department has determined by rule that the use of PFAS in the product is a currently unavoidable use. Current law provides that the department may by rule identify products by category or use that may not be sold, offered for sale or distributed for sale in this State if they contain intentionally added PFAS and that products in which the use of PFAS is a currently unavoidable use as determined by the department may be exempted by the department by rule. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/18) | ||
| LD 1215 (SP 496) | An Act To End The Sale Of Flavored Tobacco Products | This bill prohibits the sale and distribution of flavored tobacco products, including flavored cigars and electronic smoking devices. | Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) |
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| LD 1220 (SP 501) | An Act To Require Lyme Disease Vaccine Coverage For State-regulated Health Plans | This bill requires carriers offering health plans in this State to provide coverage for vaccines for Lyme disease authorized by the federal Food and Drug Administration. The requirements of the bill apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2024. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/18) | ||
| LD 1224 (SP 505) | Resolve, Directing The Department Of Health And Human Services To Seek Federal Approval For Reimbursement Of Community-based Mobile Crisis Intervention Services | This resolve requires the Department of Health and Human Services to submit to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services any waivers or state plan amendments determined necessary in order to reimburse community-based mobile crisis intervention services. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1271 (SP 508) | An Act To Require A Disclaimer On Promotional Materials For Medicare, Medicaid And Mainecare Products By Private Entities | This bill requires, on promotional material by private entities using the terms "Medicare," "Medicaid" or "MaineCare," prominent disclaimers stating the promotional material is an advertisement or solicitation by a private company that is not Medicare, Medicaid or MaineCare or any other governmental agency, and that these disclaimers and any other disclaimer on the material be in a large type size and distinctive type color. | Became Law without Governor's Signature Public Law Chapter 243 (6/21) | ||
| LD 1273 (SP 510) | An Act To Exempt Some Businesses From Certain Laws Relating To Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances In Accordance With The Size Of The Business | This bill exempts certain businesses from the requirement to test products for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/18) | ||
| LD 1315 (SP 533) | An Act To Require Public Schools To Offer Training For Secondary Students On The Administration Of Naloxone Hydrochloride | This bill requires secondary schools to annually provide to students an age-appropriate instructional program on the use and misuse of drugs and controlled substances, the dangers of substance abuse and substance abuse prevention. The instructional program must include a component on providing appropriate assistance to an overdose victim, including training in how to administer an opioid antidote, such as naloxone hydrochloride. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 460 (7/27) | ||
| LD 1317 (SP 536) | Resolve, To Establish The Commission To Promote The Integration Of Human Health And Environmental Health | This resolve directs the Commissioner of Health and Human Services to establish the Commission to Promote the Integration of Human Health and Environmental Health, which is directed to conduct a comprehensive review of the overall health of the State's population, health care access and delivery systems in the State and environmental health in the State and the interrelation of those public health areas and develop recommendations to achieve health equity in the State through an integrated health care approach. The commissioner is required to submit a report based on the commission's review by December 6, 2023 for presentation to the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services, which is authorized to submit legislation related to the report to the Second Regular Session of the 131st Legislature. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/18) | ||
| LD 1321 (SP 540) | An Act To Address Income Disparity In Health Care By Limiting The Compensation Of Hospital Executives | This bill limits total annual compensation for an executive at a hospital to no more than 5 times the median compensation of the full-time registered professional nurses at the hospital. For the purposes of this provision, "executive" does not include administrative staff or persons primarily employed by the hospital as health care practitioners or to provide health care services. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/30) | ||
| LD 1382 (SP 547) | An Act To Establish The Guiding Public Health Principles Of Focused Protection For Pandemics Of A Highly Infectious Respiratory Disease | This bill establishes principles of focused protection for a pandemic of a highly infectious respiratory disease for public health authorities to follow, including: 1. Considering the impact on overall public health instead of being focused on a single disease; 2. Weighing the short-term versus the long-term consequences of any public health measure; 3. Protecting vulnerable populations and not shifting the burden of protecting against the disease from the affluent to the less affluent; 4. Addressing the needs of various populations in the State, including considering places of worship essential; 5. Basing comparative risk evaluations, risk reductions and reduction of uncertainties on using the best available scientific evidence but recognizing that risk cannot be entirely eliminated; 6. Presenting facts as the basis for guidance and not employing fear, shame or falsehood to manipulate the public; 7. Not forcing medical interventions on a population, which must be voluntary and based upon informed consent rather than coercion; and 8. Being honest and transparent, giving fact-based and data-based advice and acknowledging errors or changed evidence. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/30) | ||
| LD 1383 (SP 548) | An Act To Regulate Insurance Carrier Prior Authorization Requirements For Rehabilitative And Habilitative Services | This bill enacts provisions of law relating to prior authorization for physical therapy, occupational therapy, chiropractic services and physical medicine and rehabilitation services. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 275 (6/23) | ||
| LD 1387 (SP 552) | An Act To Ensure That All Maine Children Have A Healthy Start By Providing Single-payer Health Care Insurance To All Children | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would create the Healthy Start Maine Commission to oversee a program to automatically provide single-payer health care insurance coverage to children who have not attained 19 years of age. The coverage provided would be similar to benefits provided under the MaineCare program and would begin January 1, 2025. | Committee Docket: Voted - ONTP (5/17) | ||
| LD 1391 (SP 558) | An Act To Limit Cannabis Cultivation Licenses To Protect The Cannabis Market | This bill allows the Department of Administrative and Financial Services to impose a moratorium on issuing a new conditional cultivation license or renewing a cultivation license for a tier with a greater area of authorized plant canopy if the department determines that: the average monthly price per gram of cannabis cultivated and sold by all licensed cultivation facilities has decreased by more than 20% in any 2 consecutive fiscal quarters from the average monthly price per gram of cultivated cannabis from the prior year as calculated by the department from data reported pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 28-B, section 113, subsection 2, paragraph F; or the current volume of cannabis cultivated by all licensed cultivation facilities is at least 3 times the volume of cannabis sold by all licensed cannabis stores in any 90-day period. A moratorium must last for 4 consecutive months, or until data received by the department indicates the moratorium conditions no longer exist, whichever is later. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/23) | ||
| LD 1447 (SP 565) | Resolve, To Authorize The Training Of Nursing Assistants By Certified Nursing Assistants | This resolve directs the State Board of Nursing to amend its rules to authorize the training of nursing assistants by certified nursing assistants who have had at least 8 years of professional experience as a certified nursing assistant and no disciplinary record. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/18) | ||
| LD 1451 (SP 569) | An Act To Prohibit State And Local Enforcement Of Federal Firearms Laws | This bill prohibits all state and local government entities, the employees of these entities and all other state and local government officials from: 1. Enforcing or assisting federal agencies in the enforcement of federal laws that restrict a person's right to own, possess and purchase a firearm or firearm ammunition or obtain a related firearms certification without prohibiting these state and local government officials from enforcing state laws that do the same; 2. Restricting, revoking, suspending or otherwise infringing on a person's right to own, purchase or possess a firearm or firearm ammunition or to obtain any related firearms certification based on the person's purchase, possession or use of cannabis; and 3. Providing information to a federal agency or official of a federal agency relating to a person's ownership, possession or purchase of a firearm or firearm ammunition or the person's obtaining of any related firearms certification based solely on the person's purchase, possession or use of cannabis. | Reports READ. On motion of Representative SALISBURY of Westbrook, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED. In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. Placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (6/20) |
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| LD 1453 (SP 571) | An Act To Amend The Physical Therapist Practice Laws | This bill amends the laws governing the practice of physical therapy as follows. 1. It includes the term "physiotherapy" in the definition of "physical therapy" and clarifies the definitions of "physical therapist," "physical therapist assistant," "practice of physical therapy" and "referral." 2. It amends the provisions of law governing physical therapy licensure to delineate authorized practices and limitations and referral requirements. 3. It authorizes the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation to determine the date of license renewal and requires the Board of Examiners in Physical Therapy to establish continuing education requirements as a condition of license renewal. 4. It requires the board to request a background check, including criminal history record information and fingerprints, for all persons who submit an application for initial licensure or licensure by endorsement. | Signed by the Governor Public Law Chapter 317 (6/26) | ||
| LD 1469 (SP 588) | Resolve, To Sufficiently Staff Overnight Behavioral Health Crisis Facilities | This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to adopt rules requiring a facility providing overnight behavioral health crisis services to establish staffing ratios based on a clinical assessment of the acuity of the residential milieu and not fewer than one staff person to every 3 clients between the hours of 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and one staff person to every 4 clients between the hours of 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/18) | ||
| LD 1478 (SP 598) | An Act To Improve Women's Health And Economic Security By Funding Family Planning Services | This bill provides ongoing appropriations of $3,390,000 in each year of the biennium from the General Fund to be distributed by the Department of Health and Human Services to a single grantee to provide management and oversight of the delivery of family planning services. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1481 (SP 602) | An Act Regarding Clearance For Occupancy Under The Lead Poisoning Control Act | This bill authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services to clear for occupancy one unit at a time in an owner-occupied residential building of 3 dwelling units or less that has been ordered to be cleared of harmful lead-based substances and from which the occupants have been displaced. | Signed by the Governor (Emergency Measure) Public Law Chapter 270 (6/23) | ||
| LD 1485 (SP 606) | An Act To Provide Funding For Hospital Security In Aroostook County | This bill provides one-time funding to Cary Medical Center in Caribou and Houlton Regional Hospital in Houlton to help with the hiring of 2 full-time security officers. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/4) | ||
| LD 1554 (SP 618) | An Act To Repeal Certificate Of Need Requirements For Health Care Providers | Under current law, before introducing additional health care services and procedures in a market area, a person must apply for and receive a certificate of need from the Department of Health and Human Services. This bill eliminates that requirement. | Reports READ. On motion of Representative PERRY of Calais, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED. ROLL CALL NO. 286 (Yeas 79 - Nays 65 - Absent 6 - Excused 1) In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. Placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (6/20) |
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| LD 1598 (SP 629) | An Act To Allow An Exception To Immunization Requirements For Health Care Workers For Vaccines Approved Under Emergency Use Authorization | This bill allows an exemption from immunization requirements for health care workers if the only available vaccine for a disease is one that is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration under an emergency use authorization and provides that an employer of health care workers may not require a vaccine approved under an emergency use authorization or retaliate against an employee for refusing to obtain a vaccine that is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration under an emergency use authorization. | Reports READ. On motion of Representative MEYER of Eliot, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED. ROLL CALL NO. 197 (Yeas 75 - Nays 65 - Absent 9 - Excused 1 - Vacant 1) In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. Placed in the Legislative Files. (DEAD) (6/13) |
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| LD 1628 (SP 645) | An Act To Reform The Occupational Licensing Regime By Including Portability And Removing Good Character Requirements | This bill prohibits licensing entities from using good character to evaluate applicants for licensure and makes a conforming change. The bill creates a framework for the various government agencies, boards, departments and other governmental entities that regulate and issue occupational licenses within the State to offer a path to certification or licensure in the State to persons who hold occupational credentials from other states in order to allow those persons to more quickly qualify to work within their occupations or professions in the State. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/2) | ||
| LD 1629 (SP 646) | Resolution, Proposing An Amendment To The Constitution Of Maine To Recognize The Right To Personal Privacy | This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to recognize the people's natural, inherent and unalienable right to personal privacy. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (6/6) | ||
| LD 1633 (SP 650) | An Act To Establish A Community-based Reentry Program In All Department Of Corrections Facilities | This bill creates a community-based reentry program administered by a community- based organization at each correctional facility operated by the Department of Corrections. The program is a peer-supported program that provides individualized reentry plans to incarcerated individuals starting from 2 years prior to an individual's release, involving multiple meetings to determine the individual's education, job training, substance use disorder treatment, housing and other needs subsequent to release and follow-up meetings after release to support the individual's reentry into the community and to reduce or prevent recidivism. This bill also creates the Peer Reentry Review Board, which oversees, advises, studies data and makes recommendations to the community-based reentry program and reports to the Commissioner of Corrections and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1639 (SP 656) | An Act To Address Unsafe Staffing Of Nurses And Improve Patient Care | This bill establishes the Maine Quality Care Act in order to ensure adequate direct-care registered nurse staffing assignments in health care facilities, including hospitals, freestanding emergency departments and ambulatory surgical facilities, to provide safe and effective patient care. It establishes minimum direct-care registered nurse staffing requirements based on patient care unit and patient needs, specifies the method to calculate a health care facility's compliance with the staffing requirements, protects direct-care registered nurses from retaliation and includes notice, record-keeping and enforcement requirements. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1665 (SP 670) | An Act To Improve Breast Health Care By Providing Coverage For Genetic Counseling And Testing | This bill requires that individual and group health insurance policies provide coverage for BRCA-related genetic counseling and BRCA-related genetic testing for individuals who are at increased risk for developing BRCA-related cancers. The requirements apply to insurance policies beginning on January 1, 2024. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/18) | ||
| LD 1722 (SP 685) | Resolve, To Establish The Blue Ribbon Commission To Design A Plan For Sustained Investment In Preventing Disease And Improving The Health Of Maine Communities | This resolve establishes the Blue Ribbon Commission to Design a Plan for Sustained Investment in Preventing Disease and Improving the Health of Maine Communities to evaluate funding models and structures that allow for the sustained investment in the health and prosperity of youth and families in the State and make recommendations for further legislative action. | Became Law without Governor's Signature (Emergency Measure) Resolve Chapter 100 (7/19) | ||
| LD 1753 (SP 699) | An Act To Establish An Independent Adjudicatory Process Regarding The Department Of Health And Human Services | This bill requires that, in an adjudicatory proceeding regarding the Department of Health and Human Services, the Attorney General must appoint the presiding officer from a list of qualified persons, who: 1. Must be licensed attorneys or knowledgeable in health and human services law; 2. Must enter into a contract with the Attorney General; 3. May not be an employee of a state agency or have a personal or professional conflict that would prevent the person from being fair and impartial; 4. Must attend periodic training sessions in health and human services practices and law; 5. Does not have a client involved in a health and human services matter in the State; and 6. May not preside over a matter in which there is a party who the person represented within the prior 12 months or who employed the person within the prior 3 years. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/23) | ||
| LD 1757 (SP 703) | An Act To Amend The Laws Governing The Reporting And Tracking Of Adult Use Cannabis | This bill replaces the tracking system required for adult use cannabis with an electronic portal, similar to that used for medical cannabis. The Department of Administrative and Financial Services is required to develop and implement an electronic portal for use by licensees to submit required records. Licensees are required to accompany all cannabis plants and harvested cannabis being transported with a label that provides specific information about the licensee and the cannabis being transported; that information also may be submitted through the electronic portal. The department is prohibited from charging a fee or other cost to a licensee for using the electronic portal. This bill also requires the department to terminate immediately its contract with Metrc, LLC, the company that is required to administer the tracking system used for adult use cannabis. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1792 (SP 717) | Resolve, To Establish The Rural Health Services Task Force | This resolve establishes the Rural Health Services Task Force to study rural health care delivery in the State. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1797 (SP 722) | An Act To Expand Maine's Health Care Workforce By Expanding Educational Opportunities | This bill does the following. 1. It makes part-time faculty eligible for the nursing education loan repayment program, with loans of up to $10,000 for a master's degree and up to $20,000 for a doctoral degree. 2. It provides for $1,000,000 in ongoing annual appropriations to the nursing education loan repayment program. 3. It establishes the Maine Health Care Education Training and Medical Residency Fund and appropriates $4,885,000 annually to the fund to establish clinical training opportunities for 3rd-year and 4th-year medical students in the rural parts of the State. 4. It provides for $4,000,000 in ongoing annual appropriations to the Maine Health Care Provider Loan Repayment Program Fund. 5. It provides for $1,000,000 in ongoing annual appropriations to the Doctors for Maine's Future Scholarship Program. 6. It establishes a new income tax credit of up to $500 a year for new nurses, for 3 years per eligible nurse, for employment in a licensed health care facility in the State. It directs the State Board of Nursing to certify eligible nurses for the tax credit. It limits the tax credit to 1,000 nurses per year. 7. It provides for $300,000 in ongoing annual appropriations to support incentives for clinical preceptorships. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1819 (SP 734) | An Act To Create The Maine Medical Cannabis Advisory Commission And The Medical Cannabis Alternative Health Board | This bill makes changes to the medical cannabis and adult use cannabis laws, including: 1. Creating the Maine Medical Cannabis Advisory Commission with membership consisting of stakeholders in the medical cannabis industry in the State to study, analyze and report findings about the administration and medical use of cannabis to the Legislature, make recommendations for improvement and nominate members to the Medical Cannabis Alternative Health Board; 2. Creating the Medical Cannabis Alternative Health Board to collect and provide information and administer grants to support objective scientific research on the efficacy of harvested cannabis as part of medical treatment and the health effects of harvested cannabis used as part of medical treatment. The board?s staffing and activities are funded by the Medical Use of Cannabis Fund; and 3. Eliminating the Cannabis Advisory Commission under the adult use cannabis laws. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1829 (SP 745) | An Act To Reduce Prescription Drug Costs By Requiring Reference-based Pricing | This bill requires that a state entity, health plan or participating plan qualified under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 may not purchase prescription drugs to be dispensed or delivered to a consumer of this State at a cost that exceeds the referenced rate. The referenced rate of a prescription drug is the maximum rate for a drug determined by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services under the federal Medicare program. Any savings generated as a result must be used to reduce costs to consumers. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1890 (SP 765) | An Act To Ensure Robust Contracts Between Insurers And Providers By Establishing Dispute Resolution Procedures | This bill directs the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Bureau of Insurance to establish dispute resolution procedures for the resolution of disputes between health insurance carriers and health care providers. | Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD) (5/18) | ||
| LD 1914 (SP 774) | An Act To Enact The Maine Psilocybin Health Access Act | This bill enacts the Maine Psilocybin Health Access Act, which establishes a regulatory framework in order to provide psilocybin products to individuals in Maine who are 21 years of age or older. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| LD 1983 (SP 812) | An Act To Establish The Maine Buy American And Build Maine Act | This bill establishes the Maine Buy American and Build Maine Act and requires that all contracts for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, improvement or maintenance of a public building or public work made by a state agency, board, commission or institution, except for the Department of Transportation and the Maine Turnpike Authority, contain a provision that any manufactured good valued over $5,000, including iron, cement and steel, and any article, material or supply acquired for public use used or supplied in the performance of the contract or any subcontract to the contract must be manufactured in the United States. This requirement does not apply to counties, municipalities or school administrative units. The bill requires, in the case of a manufactured good valued over $5,000, other than an iron, cement or steel product, all of the manufacturing processes to take place in the United States, the origin of the manufactured good's components to meet a minimum level of domestic content as established by rule or the manufactured good to be assembled in the United States. Under the Act, a public agency may apply to the Governor or the Governor's designee for a waiver of the requirement if the executive head of the public agency finds that the application of the requirement would be inconsistent with the public interest, that the necessary manufactured goods are not produced in the United States in sufficient and reasonably available quantities and of a satisfactory quality, that inclusion of manufactured goods made in the United States will increase the cost of the overall project contract by an unreasonable amount or that the total cost of the contract is below a minimum project cost established by rule. The Department of Administrative and Financial Services is directed to adopt rules to implement the Act. The bill requires that, if the department has reason to believe that any individual, business or other entity has intentionally made fraudulent representations about the domestic content of a manufactured good or has intentionally violated any provision of the Act, the department must, after a hearing, debar that individual, business or other entity from contracts or subcontracts with the State for 2 years. The bill provides that the provisions of this legislation must be applied in a manner consistent with the State's obligations under any applicable international agreements pertaining to government procurement and do not apply to emergency life safety and property safety goods. The bill also requires that, in the award of a contract for the construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, improvement or maintenance of a public building or public work, for services to be provided to or on behalf of the State or for the purchase of manufactured goods, if 2 or more bids are submitted that are substantially similar, the public agency shall give the bid from an in-state contractor a preference of 10% applied in a manner determined by the department in rules. An in-state contractor may request that the Attorney General investigate the bidding and award process and act as a mediator between the in-state contractor and the public agency. The department is required to administer the Maine Buy American and Build Maine Act within existing resources. | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847. (7/26) | ||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 39 | An Act Regarding Alternatives To Incarceration | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 75 | An Act To Require All Bottled Water To Be Tested For Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances And To Comply With State Standards | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 85 | An Act Regarding Women?s Health | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 191 | An Act To Require Certain Schools To Provide Menstrual Products | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 262 | An Act To Increase Accessibility To Appropriate Communication Methods By Deaf Patients In Health Care Settings | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 508 | An Act To Recruit, Train And Retain Mental Health And Substance Use Disorder Workers In All Regions Of The State | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 575 | An Act To Eliminate Cost Sharing For Medically Necessary Breast Imaging | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 590 | An Act Regarding Syringe Exchange Programs | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 631 | An Act To Restore Legislative Oversight In Executive Rulemaking | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 712 | An Act To Prevent Unlawful Firearm Transactions Involving Straw Purchases | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 774 | An Act To Expand Health Care Choice | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 782 | An Act To Prevent Teachers And Social Workers From Giving Children Gender Reassignment Treatments Without Permission | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 799 | An Act To Support Recovery Centers | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 814 | An Act To Require The Department Of Health And Human Services To Offer To Medicaid Patients A Mobile Application Regarding Pregnancy | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 847 | An Act To Provide Transgender-inclusive Health Care | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1013 | An Act To Protect Public Safety And Welfare By Restricting Large Capacity Ammunition Feeding Devices | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1043 | An Act To Support Nontransportation Emergency Medical Services | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1055 | An Act To Restore Religious And Philosophical Exemptions For Immunization Requirements | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1058 | An Act To Expand Health Care Choice | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1092 | An Act To Repeal Certain Provisions Of Law Regarding Permits To Carry Concealed Weapons | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1129 | An Act To Employ A Scientific Expert In The Office Of Policy And Legal Analysis | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1148 | An Act To Legalize The Medicinal Use Of Plant-based Medicines | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1214 | An Act To Reduce Fatal Domestic Violence Through Due Process Focused Firearm Relinquishment | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1354 | An Act To Develop And Fund A Nonpolice Mental Health And Substance Use Disorder Response Team | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1409 | An Act To Require Mainecare Coverage Of Treatment Of Gender Dysphoria | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1422 | An Act To Empower Health Care Consumers And Require Carriers To Respond To Appeals In A Timely Manner | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1430 | An Act To Improve Maine's Reproductive Privacy Law | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1450 | An Act To Expand And Retain The State's Nurse Workforce | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1453 | An Act To Recruit And Retain Employees At The Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center And The Riverview Psychiatric Center | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1508 | An Act To Make Trafficking Or Manufacturing Of Any Amount Of Fentanyl A Class A Crime | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1585 | An Act To Improve Outcomes For High-risk Pregnancies | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1672 | An Act Regarding Maine Consumers' Comparison Shopping For Certain Health Care Procedures And Lowering Health Care Costs | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1683 | An Act To Facilitate Research Into Alternative Therapeutics | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1686 | An Act To Improve The Health And Prosperity Of Maine Communities By Establishing The Trust For A Healthy Maine | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1692 | An Act To Require Insurance Companies To Cover Preventive Screenings For Persons At Elevated Risk Of Reproductive Cancers | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1716 | An Act To Encourage Relocation To Rural Maine | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1722 | An Act To Create An Advocacy And Complaint Process For Providers Within The Bureau Of Insurance | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1745 | An Act To Ensure Insurance Companies Reimburse Providers In A Timely Manner | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1776 | An Act To Require Companies To Report Breaches Of Biometric Data, Dna Profiles And Health Information | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1849 | An Act Regarding Control Over Personal Data | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1881 | An Act To Make Daylight Savings Time Permanent | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1907 | Resolve, Directing The Department Of Health And Human Services To Adopt Rules To Change The Standard Of Proof For Certain Asset Transfers | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1912 | An Act To Modernize The Record-keeping Requirements For Political Action Committees | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1918 | An Act To Establish A Special Commission Regarding Foreign-trained Physicians Living In Maine | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1969 | An Act To Require That Restrictions For Patients Under The Age Of 21 Be Printed On Medical Cannabis Cards | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 1999 | An Act To Expand Availability Of Naloxone Hydrochloride By Authorizing Distribution In Municipal Buildings And Properties | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 2101 | An Act To Ensure Access To Prescription Contraceptives | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 2132 | An Act To Provide Cost-effective, Clinically Appropriate And Affordable Health Care For Every Maine Resident | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 2133 | An Act To Extend Health Insurance Coverage To Dependents Up To Age 30 | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 2152 | An Act To Remove Cannabis From Drug And Controlled Substance Schedules And Repeal All Crimes Related To Cannabis | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 2213 | An Act To Ensure Reimbursement Rates Are Adequate To Provide Services For Mental Health And Behavioral Health Care | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 2249 | An Act To Protect Patients From Medical Debt Exploitation | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 2250 | An Act To Ensure Facility Fee Disclosure To Patients | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 2253 | An Act To Reduce Prescription Drug Costs By Using International Pricing | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 2254 | An Act To Create The Maine Hospital Board | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 2314 | An Act To Require Elementary School Instruction To Include Mental Health Care Techniques To Help Students Understand Their Sense Of Self-worth | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 2315 | An Act To Allow School Administrative Units To Establish Rules, Procedures And Guidelines For Properly Trained Staff To Carry A Concealed Handgun On School Property While Acting In Their Official Capacities | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 2330 | An Act To Protect The Rights Of People Regardless Of Sexual Orientation Or Gender Identity | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 2339 | An Act To Make Health Care Accessible Through Health Savings Accounts That Are Exempt From State Taxes | ||||
| https://mainelegislature.org/doc/9466">LR 2346 | An Act To Require Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Testing For Bottled Water |