About
Rep. Treat
Before returning as a member of the 123rd Maine Legislature,
Rep. Sharon Anglin Treat served 14 years in both the House and
Senate of the Maine Legislature, including two as Senate Majority
Leader and two as Assistant Leader.
Professionally, Treat works as the 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.
She currently serves on the Legislature’s Joint Standing
Committee on Insurance & Financial Affairs and the Maine
Citizen Trade Commission.
Rep. Treat lives in Hallowell with her partner Robert Collins.
News
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Committees
Rep. Treat serves on Joint Standing Committee on Insurance
and Financial Services.
For more information about the schedule of committee hearings or to sign
up for advance notice of public hearings click
here.
Issues
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
LD 416 – “An act to protect seniors and
the public from unfair health insurance sales practices”
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.
LD 838 - “An act protecting the confidentiality
of prescription information”
Click here to view testimony.
LD 839 - “An Act to Establish A Prescription
Drug Academic Detailing Program”
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 1256 - “An act to authorize a general fund
bond issue for community recycling and household hazardous
waste
collection”
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 1440 - “An act to prohibit inappropriate software
advertising of prescription drugs"
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 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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