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• Read more about Roeder's bills to protect employee benefits and enhance access to emergency medicine to go into effect

AUGUSTA - On Monday, August 8, three key bills to protect employee benefits and enhance access to emergency medicine, sponsored by Rep. Amy Roeder, D-Bangor, will go into effect.

LD 225 requires employers to pay employees unused accrued vacation time upon the cessation of their employment. Employers with 10 or fewer employees and public employers, including the University of Maine System and the Maine Community College System, will not be subject to this new law.

• Read more about Roeder receives Maine AFL-CIO Edie Beaulieu Legislative Award

AUGUSTA - Rep. Amy Roeder, D-Bangor, received the Maine AFL-CIO's Edie Beaulieu Legislative Award Thursday night. Roeder is a member of three unions, serves on the Legislature's Labor and Housing Committee and successfully sponsored legislation to extend family medical leave to hourly school employees and enforce a provision that ensures accrued vacation time be paid to employees upon cessation of their work.

• Read more about Roeder bill to extend family medical leave to hourly school employees signed into law

AUGUSTA - Gov. Janet Mills recently signed into law LD 912, a proposal to extend family medical leave to hourly school employees, sponsored by Rep. Amy Roeder, D-Bangor.

• Read more about Roeder emergency medicine bill signed into law

AUGUSTA - Gov. Janet Mills recently signed into law LD 1776, a proposal to help Mainers more easily access emergency medications for their chronic health conditions, sponsored by Rep. Amy Roeder, D-Bangor.

The new law allows pharmacists to dispense an emergency supply of a chronic maintenance medication used to treat long-term conditions without a current, valid prescription from a health care provider so long as:

• Read more about Roeder vacation pay bill signed into law

AUGUSTA - Gov. Janet Mills recently signed into law LD 225, a bill that requires employees to receive their accrued vacation pay upon cessation of their employment, sponsored by Rep. Amy Roeder, D-Bangor.

• Read more about Legislature advances Roeder vacation pay bill

AUGUSTA - The Maine House and Senate gave initial approval to a proposal this week that would help ensure employees receive vacation pay upon cessation of their employment. The measure is sponsored by Rep. Amy Roeder, D-Bangor.

• Read more about Bangor resident sings national anthem before the Maine House

Reps. Joe Perry, Amy Roeder and Laura Supica, all D-Bangor, and Rep. Kevin O'Connell, D-Brewer, welcomed Bangor resident Joe Bennett to the State House Thursday. Bennett performed the national anthem in the chamber of the House of Representatives at the start of the days session.

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Jackie Merrill [OConnell, Perry, Roeder, Supica], c. 812-1111

Photo from left to right: Rep. Joe Perry, Joe Bennett, Rep. Kevin OConnell, Rep. Amy Roeder, Rep. Laura Supica.

• Read more about House advances Roeder emergency medicine supply bill

AUGUSTA - The Maine House advanced a proposal sponsored by Rep. Amy Roeder, D-Bangor, Tuesday that would help Mainers more easily access emergency supplies of chronic maintenance medications.

• Read more about Committee advances Roeder vacation pay bill

AUGUSTA - The Legislature's Labor and Housing Committee voted unanimously, of those present, to advance a bill sponsored by Rep. Amy Roeder, D-Bangor, that would ensure employees receive vacation pay upon cessation of their employment.

The legislation, LD 225, was amended to exempt public employees and employers with 10 or fewer employees. Currently, unused vacation time is required to be paid upon cessation of employment only if an employer's policy states this explicitly.

• Read more about Committee endorses bill to make emergency medicine more accessible

AUGUSTA - The Legislature's Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services (HCIFS) Committee voted unanimously on Tuesday, with two members absent, to advance a bill to make it easier for Maine people to access emergency supplies of medications. The proposal, LD 1776, is sponsored by Rep. Amy Roeder, D-Bangor.