About
Rep. Treat
Rep. Sharon Anglin Treat is in her fifth nonconsecutive term in the House.
She previously also served four terms in the Senate, including two as Senate
Majority Leader and two as Assistant Leader.
Professionally, Treat is Executive Director of the National Legislative
Association on Prescription Drug Prices, a nonpartisan organization
of state legislators working jointly across state lines to reduce
prescription drug prices and expand access.
Treat has an A.B. degree from Princeton University’s Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and graduated
with honors from Georgetown University Law Center. As an attorney,
she has practiced law with the Natural Resources Council of Maine,
as well as in state government and private practices. She has taught
environmental law at several colleges in Maine and at the University
of Maine Law School. Additionally, she was the coordinator of the
Environmental Studies Program at Colby College from 2000 to 2004.
In the Legislature, Treat has chaired the Health and Human Services,
Judiciary, and Natural Resources committees, and has sponsored
significant environmental and health-care legislation including
reducing mercury and other toxics in the environment, increasing
recycling, supporting downtown revitalization and smart growth,
Maine Rx Plus discount drug program, drug marketing disclosure,
PBM regulation, and Maine’s uninsured health access law creating
Dirigo Health. Other significant legislation sponsored by Rep.
Treat include the Health care Bill of Rights and a law providing
protections to homeowners facing foreclosure.
She currently is House Chair of the Legislature's Joint Standing
Committee on Insurance & Financial Affairs, and is a member
of the Joint Select Committee on Maine's Energy Future, the Maine
Citizen Trade Policy Commission, the Commission to Study Energy
Infrastructure, and the House Committee on Elections. Rep. Treat
is a member of the White House Working Group on Health Reform and
the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators. She was elected
to the Executive Committee of the National Conference of State
Legislatures in 2008 and in 2009 was elected Secretary-Treasurer
of the National Labor Caucus of State Legislators.
Rep. Treat lives in Hallowell with her partner Robert Collins.
To view high resolution photos of Rep. Sharon Treat click
here.
News
| October 20, 2009 | Treat lobbies for health-care reform at White House
To read Rep. Sharon Treat’s quotes in the October 20, 2009 issue of the Capital Weekly, by John Hale (you will be redirected to the Capital Weekly website)
| | October 13, 2009 | Rep. Treat part of D.C. delegation representing over 1000 state legislators supporting robust health care reform
Delegation to Capitol Hill and White House represents 50 states
| | October 1, 2009 | Area reps. recognized for conservation and environmental work
League of Conservation Voters gives high ranks to lawmakers’ work in 2009 legislative session
| | August 24, 2009 | Maine legislators favor public option as part of national health care reform
Insurance Committee members celebrate passage of Maine Health Care Bill of Rights, but more work remains
| | June 24, 2009 | Treat to present on foreclosure law at lawyers’ conference
New foreclosure law highlighted at annual meeting of attorneys
| | June 17, 2009 | Maine Rep. Sharon Treat represents state legislators in meetings with White House and Congress to urge choice of public health care plan
As health care battle heats up on Capitol Hill, Maine takes central role in pushing for reform
| | June 17, 2009 | Rep. Treat speaks about the upcoming health care reform efforts
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Committees
Rep. Treat serves as House chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Insurance
and Financial Services and is a member of the Joint Select Committee
on
Maine’s
Energy Future.
For more information about the schedule of committee hearings or to sign
up for advance notice of public hearings click
here.
Issues
To read Rep. Sharon Treat’s quotes in the October 20, 2009 issue
of the Capital Weekly, by John Hale (you will be redirected to the Capital
Weekly website)
Treat
lobbies for health-care reform at White House ....read
more
To read Rep. Sharon Treat's quote in the June 17, 2009 press release
(you will be redirected to the Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection's
website)
State Highlights New Home Foreclosure Law and Services ....read
more
To read Rep. Sharon Treat's quote in the June 11, 2009 KJ/MS (you
will be redirected to the KJ/MS website)
To read Rep. Sharon Treat’s quote in the May 19, 2009 issue
of The New York Times (you will be redirected to The New York Times
website) -
Vermont Acts to Make Drug Makers’ Gifts Public ....read
more
Maine State Representative Sharon Treat is among delegates to deliver
a letter to President Obama and Congress during a visit to Washington
D.C. this June
urging them to pass comprehensive health care reform within the year.
State legislators from across nation sign letter to Obama, Congress
urging health care reform within the year published May 13, 2009 in
the Progressive States Network ....read
more
To read Rep. Sharon Treat’s quote in the April
27, 2009 issue of the BDN (you will be redirected to the Bangor Daily
News website)
Public hearings set Tuesday on foreclosure bills by BDN staff Kevin
Miller ....read more
To read Rep. Sharon Treat’s quote in the May 3, 2009 issue of the
Morning Sentinel (you will be redirected to the Morning Sentinel website)
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Many in dark about how foreclosure process works by
Staff Writer Matt Difilippo ....read
more
Federal Initiative Expected to Reduce Maine Foreclosures - MPBN News
- Portland,ME,USA
State Representative Sharon Treat has introduced legislation she believes
will compliment the Obama Initiative. The Hallowell Democrat's bill
has a number ...read more
To read Rep. Sharon Treat's quote in the January 26,
2009 issue of the RX Compliance Report - Revised Sunshine Act deals pharma
sharp blow by eliminating preemption of state laws .... read more
To read Rep. Sharon Treat's quote in the September edition of NCSL
Magazine - Marketing
Drugs: Debating the Real Cost ....
read more (You will be redirected to the NCSL Website.)
Making Prescription Drugs More Affordable - For more
information on what Rep. Sharon Treat is doing to lower prescription drug
costs click
here.
You
can learn more about what the House Democrats are doing for Maine by clicking
here. And I'd like to hear what you think -- please Contact
Me.
Legislation
124th Legislative Session listed
by date
LD157 - "Maine's Superintendent of Insurance Granted Authority
over the Insurance Plans of the Freemasons and Oddfellows"…read
more (you will be redirected to The Exception Magazine website)
LD 1418 - “An Act to Preserve Home Ownership and Stabilize
the Economy by Preventing Unnecessary Foreclosures”
Click here to view testimony.
LD 157 - “AN ACT To Enhance Oversight of Fraternal Benefit
Societies”
Click here to view testimony.
LD 759 - “An Act To Require State-owned Solid Waste
Disposal Facilities To Demonstrate a Public Benefit”
Click here to view testimony.
LD 1183, “An Act to Prevent Predatory Marketing Practices
Against Minors Regarding Data Concerning Health Care Issues”
Click here to view testimony.
LD 323 - “An Act to Improve Transparency in the Health Insurance
Markets”& LD 859 - “An Act To Control Premium Costs
in the Small Group Health Insurance Market”& LD 1205 - “An
Act to Establish a Health Care Bill of Rights”
Click here to view testimony. LD
1339, “An Act to Improve Oversight of Pharmaceutical Purchasing”
Click here to view testimony.
LD 1005 - "An Act To Continue Access to Dirigo Choice
Health Insurance by Reducing Administrative Costs and Replacing
the Savings Offset Payment" & LD 1264 - "An Act To
Stabilize Funding and Enable DirigoChoice To Reach More Uninsured"
Click here to view testimony.
LD 1423, “ An Act to Improve Toxics Use Reduction and
Reduce Energy Costs by Maine Businesses”
Click here to view testimony.
123rd Legislative Session listed
by date LD
416 – “An act to protect seniors and the public from
unfair health insurance sales practices”
Click here to view testimony.
LD 1256 - “An act to authorize a general fund bond
issue for community recycling and household hazardous waste collection”
Click here to view testimony.
LD 838 - "An Act Protecting the Confidentiality of
Prescription Information"
Why is this bill necessary? This bill
is a matter of protecting privacy; safeguarding public health; and
reducing unnecessary prescription drug costs so that more people
in Maine can have access to needed medications. On the privacy front,
currently patient data is inadequately protected and prescriber
data isn’t protected at all. On the cost end, the use of this
information for marketing purposes is a key factor in the skyrocketing
costs of prescription drugs and the increased usage of expensive
brand-name medicines. And from a public health perspective, use
of prescriber data for marketing facilitates the provision of biased
and inaccurate information about health risks, and encourages the
prescription of new products that might be riskier to patients than
known agents on the market. Click here to view fact
sheet.
Click here to view testimony. LD
1294 - "An act to establish a health care bill of rights"
Click here to view Majority Report - Committee
Amendment "B" and fact
sheet.
Click here to view testimony.
LD 1551 - “An Act to Establish a Seasonal Ban on the
Operation of Outdoor Wood Boilers”
Click here to view testimony.
LD 1703 - “An Act to Regulate Presettlement Lawsuit Funding”
Click here to view testimony.
LD 1187 - “An act to Recoup Health Care Funds through
the Maine False Claims Act”
Click here to view testimony.
LD 839 - “An Act to Establish A Prescription Drug Academic
Detailing Program”
Click here to view testimony.
LD 1440 - “An act to prohibit inappropriate software
advertising of prescription drugs"
Click here to view testimony.
LD 2083 - "Resolve, to Expand Access to Foreign Language Instruction
in Maine Schools"
Click here to view testimony.
Click on the buttons below to see all bills and joint resolutions
and orders I sponsored or cosponsored this session, as well as
legislative sentiments that honor and recognize people from our
district and throughout the state.
To do a general bill search, click
here.
Contact Me
Thank you for taking time to contact me. You may use the online
Contact Form to reach
me.
You can also contact me at my home:
22 Page Street
Hallowell, ME 04347
Home tel: 207-623-7161
When the Legislature is in session, you can leave
a message for me by calling the State House Message
Phone: (800) 423-2900 or the State House TTY Line:
(207) 287-4469.
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