About
Rep. Treat
Rep. Sharon Anglin Treat is in her sixth nonconsecutive term in the House.
She is the lead Democrat on the Insurance and Financial Services Committee,
and has also been selected to serve on the Regulatory Fairness and Reform
Committee during the 125th Legislature. She previously served four terms
in the Senate, including one term as Senate Majority Leader and one 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 practice. 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, Insurance and Financial Services, and Natural Resources
committees, and has sponsored significant legislation on a variety
of topics.
Environmental laws sponsored by Rep. Treat include reducing mercury
and other toxics in the environment and workplace, increasing
recycling, supporting downtown revitalization and smart growth,
and providing for landowner dispute resolution for gas pipeline
construction.
Rep. Treat recently co-chaired the Legislature’s Joint Select
Committee on Health Care Health Reform Opportunities & Implementation,
and is sponsoring legislation in 2011 to implement a Maine-based
health insurance exchange for small businesses and families. Previously
enacted health care-related laws sponsored by Rep. Treat include
the Maine Rx Plus discount drug program, drug marketing disclosure,
pharmacy benefit manager regulation, providing access to more affordable
health insurance, and the Health Care Bill of Rights. Rep. Treat
is nationally recognized for her work on health care, receiving
an award for her activities from the Progressive States Network
in 2009, and testifying before various Congressional committees
on prescription drug and other policy issues.
Rep. Treat has also sponsored significant consumer and workplace
laws, including protections to homeowners facing foreclosure, regulation
of debit card fees, limitations on predatory loans, bonding and
other requirements for payroll processors to prevent fraud and
safeguard small businesses, and a first-in-Nation peer support
program that helps laid-off workers get training, education and
new jobs.
The sponsor of a law giving the Maine Legislature and Governor
a greater role in certain international trade agreements, Treat
has served on the Maine Citizen Trade Policy Commission since 2006.
In 2010, Rep. Treat testified on behalf of the Commission before
the U.S. Trade Representative on the Special 301 Report concerning
intellectual property.
Rep. Treat served in the 124th Legislature on the Joint Select
Committee on Maine's Energy Future, the Commission to Study Maine’s
Energy Infrastructure, and the House Committee on Elections. She
is a member of the State Legislators Working Group on Health Reform
and the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators. She is in
her third year serving on the Executive Committee of the National
Conference of State Legislatures, and is also Secretary-Treasurer
of the National Labor Caucus of State Legislators.
Rep. Treat is involved with several community organizations, including
serving as a Trustee of the Hubbard Free Library and the Advisory
Board of Gaslight Theater in Hallowell. Rep. Treat lives in Hallowell
with her partner Robert Collins.
To view high resolution photos of Rep. Sharon Treat click
here.
August 23, 2010 - Rep. Treat advocates
for residents in Central Maine Power proceedings
Meeting to be held with selectmen, CMP to review proposed
changes on power reliability project...read
more
Landowner Dispute-Ombudsman Process PUC Order 08-25-2010...read
more
News
| April 5, 2012 | Pro-consumer, Maine-based health insurance exchange rejected
| | March 30, 2012 | Maine House passes bill to allow taxpayer-funded health insurance board to meet in secret
Democrats say health insurance board activities should be open to public
| | March 27, 2012 | House gives initial approval to bill preventing price spikes for specialty medications
Bill would preserve access to life-saving medications for diseases and disorders like hemophilia, cancer and multiple sclerosis
| | March 15, 2012 | Health insurance exchange won’t move forward
Republicans reject health care savings for middle class families
| | March 8, 2012 | Republican House rams through bills to roll back health care, increase costs
Bills to prevent unchecked health insurance rates rejected, while measure to repeal health care coverage for hearing aids and pap smears advances
| | February 28, 2012 | Health insurance exchange bills stalled in committee
Republicans drag feet on health care bills
| | February 24, 2012 | Democratic women urge AG to drop name from national effort to undermine women’s health
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Committees
Rep. Treat serves as
the House Democratic Lead member on the 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
May 10, 2011
Rep. Sharon Treat's written testimony on LD 1498, "An
Act To Phase Out Dirigo Health and Establish the Maine Health Benefit
Exchange
for
Small Businesses
and Individuals" ...read
more
May 4, 2011
Rep. Sharon Treat’s written testimony in Opposition
to LD 1116, "An Act To Restore Market-Based Competition for Pharmacy
Benefits Management Services" ...read
more
April 27, 2011
Rep. Sharon Treat’s written testimony on LD 1361, “Resolve,
To Ensure Patient Safety in the Use of Certain Imaging Equipment” ...read
more April 13, 2011
Rep. Sharon Treat’s written testimony on LD 1222, “An
Act to Promote Fairness in Negotiations Between Health Insurance Carriers
and
Health Care Service Poviders” ...read
more
March 23, 2010
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, State Rep. Sharon Treat invited to signing
of historic health care reform
Pingree, Treat will watch President Obama sign legislation to crack down
on insurance companies, reduce costs for seniors ...readmore
March 3, 2010
Oral statement presented March 3, 2010 by Maine Rep. Sharon Treat on behalf
of the Maine Citizen Trade Policy commission ...
read more
Washington, D.C. – Maine State Rep. Sharon Treat, D-Hallowell, today
testified against a report issued by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
(USTR) that recommends a series of policies that would limit the tools
used by MaineCare and other state Medicaid programs to reduce drug costs
through rebates ...
read more
Submission of Written Testimony and Notice of Intent to Testify at a Public
Hearing Concerning the 2010 Special 301, Docket #USTR-2010-0003 ...read
more
Rep. Treat has been working with Maine's Congressional delegation for
months as Congress has debated comprehensive health reform legislation.
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has created a helpful side-by-side document
on the House and Senate versions of the federal health reform legislation.
“Kaiser Side-by-Side Federal Health Reform” ...read
more
Rep. Treat and her colleagues from other state legislatures around the
country have drafted a policy paper outlining key elements critical for
effective health reform.
Working Group of State Legislators for Health Reform ...read
more
Working Group of State Legislators for Health Reform Suggestions
for Strengthening Health Care Legislation from State Legislators ...read
more
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)
Help for Owners of Homes ...read
more
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
May 3, 2009 issue of the Morning Sentinel (you will be redirected
to the
Morning Sentinel website)
Many in dark about how foreclosure process works by
Staff Writer Matt Difilippo ...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
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Me.
Legislation
124th Legislative Session listed
by date
LD 1786 – "An Act Regarding Energy Infrastructure Development"
Click here to view testimony.
LD 1779 - "An Act To Prohibit Surcharges on the Use of Debit
Cards"
Click here to view testimony.
LD1554 - “An Act Regarding Documents Fees at County Registries
of Deeds”
Click here to view testimony.
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 button below to see all bills, 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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