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LEGISLATIVE STUDIES

123rd Maine Legislature
Second Regular and First Special Sessions

1.  On-going Study Commissions (in alphabetical order by subject matter)

• Citizen Trade Policy Commission (P.L. 2003, chapter 699)
• Legislative Youth Advisory Council (P.L. 2001, c. 439, Part PPPP; amended by P.L. 2003, c. 481; amended by P.L. 2005, c. 414; amended by P.L. 2005, c. 616; as amended by P.L. 2007, c. 679)
• Right to Know Advisory Committee (P.L. 2005, c. 631)

2.  Interim Study Commissions 2008

The Maine Legislature has convened a number of interim committee studies and study commissions to examine certain complex issues and to formulate recommendations and propose legislation for consideration during the Second Regular and First Special Sessions of the 123rd Legislature. The study commissions and committees listed below are staffed by the Office of Policy and Legal Analysis (OPLA). For more information about one of these studies, please contact the OPLA office at (207)287-1670. For information on meeting dates of study commissions staffed by OPLA, please refer to Legislative Studies and Interim Committee Meeting Dates.  For information on meeting dates of study commissions that are not staffed by OPLA, please refer to the Weekly Legislative Calendar found at http://janus.state.me.us/house/wlc_list.htm. For a listing of other studies, boards or commissions, please refer to the Legislative Information Office, Boards, Commissions and Interim Study Groups list. For information on Task Forces' created by the Governor, please refer to the Governor's Office website.  For information on studies staffed by the Office of Fiscal and Program Review (OFPR), please visit OFPR's website.

• Protection of Farms and Farmland, Committee to Study (P.L. 2007, c. 649)

• Long-term Home-based and Community Based Care, Blue Ribbon Commission to Study (Resolve 2007, c. 209)

• Single Payer Feasibility Study (Resolve 2007, c. 216)

3.  Interim Committee Studies (listed alphabetically by Committee)

Joint Standing Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry

• Recommendations of the Agricultural Creative Economy Study, Committee Review of the 
  (P.L. 2007, c. 660)

Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety 

• Sex Offender Registry, Committee Study of  (SP 933)

Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services 

• Review the Fund for Healthy Maine, Committee Study to (P.L. 2007, c. 629, Part H)

4.  OPLA Staff Studies

• Teacher Confidentiality, OPLA Staff Study on (P.L. 2007, c. 666)

                   

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