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Rep. Treat


Representative
Sharon Anglin Treat
District 79 -
Representing Farmingdale, Hallowell and West Gardiner
22 Page Street
Hallowell, ME 04347
Home tel: 207-623-7161

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

April 16, 2008Maine House gives initial approval to “health care bill of rights”
Bill requires more information on cost of competing policies, improve notification for cost changes
April 11, 2008Legislature approves bill to look at rate-setting for Kennebec County emergency call services
Area towns request a review of the fees for contracted services
February 11, 2008Rep. Sharon Treat to Attend School District Consolidation
February 1, 2008Representative Treat to speak at national conference on expanding access to medicines
December 20, 2007Treat speaks to health care providers on drug marketing and “datamining” legislation
December 3, 2007Law restricting datamining protects patients and improves health care
By Senator Lisa Marrache and Rep. Sharon Treat.
November 20, 2007New state prescription privacy law challenged in court

View all news from Rep. Treat or Search all news items from the House Majority Office

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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”

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LD 839 - “An Act to Establish A Prescription Drug Academic Detailing Program”

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LD 1187 - “An act to Recoup Health Care Funds through the Maine False Claims Act”

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LD 1256 - “An act to authorize a general fund bond issue for community recycling and household hazardous waste collection”

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LD 1294 - "An act to establish a health care bill of rights"

Click here to view Majority Report - Committee Amendment "B" and fact sheet.

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LD 1440 - “An act to prohibit inappropriate software advertising of prescription drugs"

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LD 1551 - “An Act to Establish a Seasonal Ban on the Operation of Outdoor Wood Boilers”

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LD 1703 - “An Act to Regulate Presettlement Lawsuit Funding”

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LD 2083 - "Resolve, to Expand Access to Foreign Language Instruction in Maine Schools"

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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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Leaders

Rep. Hannah Pingree
Rep. Sean Faircloth
 
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