AUGUSTA - A proposal introduced by Rep. Lori Gramlich, D-Old Orchard Beach, on Wednesday aims to bring children who are receiving behavioral health care services out of state home to Maine.
AUGUSTA - Rep. Morgan Rielly, D-Westbrook, introduced LD 1010, An Act To Establish the Maine Service Fellows Program, before the Joint Standing Committee on State and Local Government on Wednesday.
AUGUSTA - Rep. Steve Moriarty, D-Cumberland, introduced a bill to strengthen Maine people's privacy rights before the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety on Monday.
AUGUSTA - Rep. Nicole Grohoski, D-Ellsworth, introduced LD 1155, An Act To Require Election Transparency and Audits, before the Joint Standing Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs on Monday.
AUGUSTA - Rep. Laura Supica, D-Bangor, introduced a bill on Tuesday to protect survivors of economic abuse from long-term consequences before the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety (CJPS). LD 947 amends current Maine statute to empower the courts to consider economic abuse by a spouse when ordering spousal support and dividing up property.
AUGUSTA - Rep. Morgan Rielly, D-Westbrook, will host a virtual press conference to announce new legislation, LD 1010, An Act To Establish the Maine Service Fellows Program, on Wednesday, April 7 at 9:00 a.m.
AUGUSTA - The Legislature's Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee held a public hearing Monday on a proposal that would allow a Sanford resident instrumental in creating the Southern Maine Veterans' Cemetery to be buried there when she passes away.
LD 619, sponsored by Rep. John Tuttle, D-Sanford, would grant special eligibility for Christine Pratt, the current executive director of the Southern Maine Veterans' Cemetery in Springvale, to receive a burial plot at the facility.
AUGUSTA - On Friday, legislation sponsored by Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau of Biddeford to invest in Maine's Career and Technical Education Center infrastructure, LD 144, "An Act To Fund Capital Improvements to Career and Technical Education Centers and Regions To Bolster Maine's Future Workforce" was discussed and voted on in a work session before the Legislatures Education and Cultural Affairs Committee. The bill received unanimous support of all present.
AUGUSTA - Rep. Teresa S. Pierce, D-Falmouth, introduced a measure that would allow eligible Mainers to register to vote using a secure online portal during a public hearing before a legislative committee on Monday.
"I am grateful to everyone who voiced their support for this bill during today's public hearing," said Pierce. "So many members of our communities would benefit from this, from aging Mainers to working parents to service members. To strengthen our democracy, we need to look at ways to improve voting access, not limit it."
AUGUSTA - Rep. Nicole Grohoski, D-Ellsworth, and Rep. Genevieve McDonald, D-Stonington, have been appointed to serve in support of the Maine Climate Council.
