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132st Legislative Session - Updated February 16

Upcoming Hearings

Time	Location	Bill	Priority
Tue 2/17 10:00 AM Public Hearing	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 2082 An Act To Regulate The Use Of Artificial Intelligence In Providing Certain Mental Health Services
Tue 2/17 10:00 AM Public Hearing	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 2129 An Act To Prohibit Liens On Principal Residences And Wage Garnishments For Medical Debt	Low
Tue 2/17 10:00 AM Public Hearing	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES; JUDICIARY - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 2162 An Act To Regulate And Prevent Children's Access To Artificial Intelligence Chatbots With Human-like Features And Social Artificial Intelligence Companions	Low
Tue 2/17 1:00 PM Work Session	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 2071 An Act To Expand Access To Vaccines Approved By The United States Food And Drug Administration By Allowing Pharmacists To Prescribe, Dispense And Administer Vaccines And Require Insurance Coverage	High
Tue 2/17 1:00 PM Work Session	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 2166 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review Of Chapter 6: Delegation Of Nursing Activities And Tasks To Unlicensed Assistive Personnel By Registered Professional Nurses, A Major Substantive Rule Of The Department Of Professional And Financial Regulation, State Board Of Nursing	Low
Tue 2/17 1:00 PM Work Session	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 1803 An Act To Amend The Laws Governing Optometric Practice	High
Tue 2/17 1:00 PM Work Session	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 2146 An Act To Increase Access To Critical Vaccinations	High
Tue 2/17 1:00 PM Work Session	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 2151 An Act To Improve Access To Affordable Prescription Drugs In Underserved Areas	High
Wed 2/18 9:00 AM Public Hearing	STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT - Cross Building, Room 214	LD 695 An Act Regarding The Laws Of The State Of Maine	Concept Draft
Wed 2/18 10:00 AM Public Hearing	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 2189 An Act To Require Prior Notification Of Closures Of Labor And Delivery Units And Changes In Maternity Or Newborn Care Services By Hospitals As Recommended By The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State	High
Wed 2/18 10:00 AM Public Hearing	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 2190 An Act To Implement Certain Changes In The Certificate Of Need Laws Recommended By The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State	High
Wed 2/18 10:01 AM Public Hearing	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 2197 An Act To Prohibit The Sale And Leaseback Of A Health Care Entity's Main Campus To A Real Estate Investment Trust As Recommended By The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State
Wed 2/18 10:01 AM Public Hearing	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 2198 An Act To Implement Certain Recommendations Related To The Ratio Of Debt To Equity In Transactions Involving Health Care Entities From The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State
Wed 2/18 10:01 AM Public Hearing	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 2199 An Act To Prohibit Interference With The Professional Judgment And Clinical Decisions Of Licensed Health Care Professionals As Recommended By The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State
Wed 2/18 10:01 AM Public Hearing	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 2200 An Act To Prohibit Noncompete Clauses For Health Care Professionals As Recommended By The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State
Wed 2/18 10:01 AM Public Hearing	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 2201 An Act To Implement Certain Recommendations Related To The Regulatory Review And Approval Of Certain Health Care Transactions Involving Private Equity Companies, Hedge Funds Or Management Services Organizations From The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State
Wed 2/18 10:01 AM Public Hearing	HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 220	LD 2202 An Act To Require Notice To The Attorney General Prior To The Merger Of Certain Health Care Entities As Recommended By The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State
Fri 2/20 10:00 AM Work Session	VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS - State House, Room 437	LD 2000 An Act To Update The Campaign Finance Laws	Low
Tue 2/24 1:00 PM Public Hearing	HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES - Cross Building, Room 209	LD 2103 An Act Requiring Hospitals To Adopt Cybersecurity Plans	Low

High Priority Legislation

Bill	Title & Summary	Status	Position
LD 105 High	An Act To Implement The Recommendations Of The Commission Regarding Foreign-trained Physicians Living In Maine To Establish A Sponsorship Program For Internationally Trained Physicians This bill establishes a sponsorship program within the Finance Authority of Maine to make grants to sponsoring institutions to provide an alternative license pathway for internationally trained physicians in the State and to expand the number of physicians practicing in areas in the State experiencing a shortage of physicians. Under the program, internationally trained physicians are provided a pathway to full and unrestricted licensure as physicians in the State as long as certain requirements are met.	Committee: EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS; HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Monitor
LD 107 High	An Act To Require Health Insurance Coverage For Biomarker Testing This bill requires insurance coverage, including coverage in the MaineCare program, for biomarker testing.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Support
LD 208 High	An Act To Eliminate The 72-hour Waiting Period On Firearm Purchases This bill repeals the requirement that a seller of firearms wait 72 hours before delivering a purchased firearm to the buyer.	Committee: JUDICIARY Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Oppose
LD 260 High	Resolution, Proposing An Amendment To The Constitution Of Maine To Establish That All Maine Residents Have Equal Rights Under The Law This resolution proposes to amend the Constitution of Maine to prohibit the denial or abridgment by the State or any political subdivision of the State of equal rights based on the actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, physical or mental disability, ancestry or national origin of an individual.	Committee: JUDICIARY CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Support
LD 362 High	An Act To Authorize A General Fund Bond Issue To Replenish The Land For Maine's Future Program The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $50,000,000, will be used by the Land for Maine's Future Board for the acquisition of land and interest in land for conservation; water access; wildlife or fish habitat including deer wintering areas; outdoor recreation, including hunting and fishing; working farmland preservation; and working waterfront preservation.	Committee: APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Support
LD 581 High	An Act To Fund The Doctors For Maine's Future Scholarship Program This bill provides ongoing funds to maintain the Doctors for Maine's Future Scholarship Program.	Committee: EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS; HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Support
LD 582 High	An Act To Require Health Insurance Carriers To Provide Coverage For Blood Testing For Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances This bill requires carriers offering health plans in this State to provide coverage for blood testing for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, recommended by a provider as medically necessary health care in accordance with clinical guidelines established by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The requirements of the bill apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026. The bill also includes language stating the Legislature's finding that the requirement for coverage for blood testing for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances are not an expansion of the State's essential health benefits and do not require the State to defray costs pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Support
LD 593 High	An Act To Extend Funding For The Land For Maine's Future Program This bill provides ongoing funding for eligible expenditures and other authorized purposes under the Land for Maine's Future Trust Fund.	Committee: AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Support
LD 608 High	An Act Making Certain Supplemental Appropriations And Allocations And Changing Certain Provisions Of Law Necessary To The Proper Operations Of State Government This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to make certain supplemental appropriations and allocations and change certain provisions of the law necessary for the proper operation of State Government.	Committee: APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	TBD
LD 648 High	An Act To Expand The Supervised Community Confinement Program This bill establishes an exception to the standard eligibility criteria of the Department of Corrections? supervised community confinement program by allowing a prisoner to be eligible if the prisoner is serving a term of imprisonment of at least 15 years, the prisoner has served at least 15 years of the term of imprisonment, the prisoner has continuously maintained a custody classification of medium, medium trustee status or minimum for the 5 years preceding the prisoner's consideration for the supervised community confinement program and the crime or crimes for which the prisoner is serving the term of imprisonment were committed before the prisoner attained 26 years of age.	Committee: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY On motion by Senator ROTUNDO of Androscoggin Tabled until Later in Today's Session, pending PASSAGE TO BE ENACTED, in NON-CONCURRENCE. Unfinished Business (2/12/2026)	Support
LD 740 High	An Act To Establish A Comprehensive Program To Divert Youth From The Criminal Justice System And Address Their Needs This bill establishes a process allowing a law enforcement officer who has probable cause to believe that a juvenile has committed a juvenile crime, or a juvenile community corrections officer to whom a juvenile has been referred, to refer the juvenile to the Department of Health and Human Services for a juvenile needs assessment designed to identify the supports and services needed to promote child and family well-being and actions to be taken to address the medical, educational, social therapeutic or other services needed by the juvenile and the juvenile's family. The assessment must be conducted by persons with comprehensive training and must be completed within 60 days following referral of the juvenile to the department. If a juvenile needs assessment was completed for the juvenile within the 6 months prior to referral, the department must provide that report to the law enforcement officer or juvenile community corrections officer. The bill also requires that if the assessment reveals that the juvenile has complex behavioral health needs and is at risk or is already involved in multiple service systems, the department must refer the juvenile and the juvenile's family to high-fidelity wraparound care coordination services. The bill also establishes requirements for issuing petitions regarding a juvenile when that petition is being issued prior to or in conjunction with a referral for a juvenile needs assessment and following a juvenile needs assessment. The bill also establishes criteria for the use of the report and recommendations based on the juvenile needs assessment in adjudicatory hearings and stipulates that statements made by the juvenile or the juvenile's parents, guardian or legal custodian related to the juvenile needs assessment are not admissible as evidence in adjudicatory hearings. The bill also directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish an implementation stakeholder group to assist in the implementation of the juvenile needs assessment and train relevant persons and entities on all matters related to the juvenile needs assessment. The portion of the bill establishing the implementation stakeholder group takes effect upon enactment of this legislation, and the portions of the bill establishing the juvenile needs assessment become effective January 1, 2026.	Committee: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (1/21/2026)	Support
LD 754 High	An Act To Ban The Sale, Use And Possession Of Single-use Electronic Cigarettes And To Review Extended Producer Responsibility Options For All Batteries This bill prohibits the sale, use and possession of single-use electronic nicotine delivery devices, which include electronic cigarettes, electronic cigars, electronic pipes, electronic hookahs and so-called vape pens. The bill establishes penalties for such sale, use and possession that are similar to the penalties for the sale of nicotine liquid containers that are not child resistant. The bill also directs the Department of Environmental Protection to convene a stakeholder group of interested parties to review the feasibility and viability of establishing an extended producer responsibility approach to all batteries not currently covered by an extended producer responsibility requirement, including, but not limited to, batteries used in electronic cigarettes, electronic cigars, electronic pipes, electronic hookahs and so-called vape pens.	Committee: ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES Ought Not to Pass Pursuant To Joint Rule 310, Jan 27, 2026 (1/27/2026)	Monitor
LD 755 High	An Act To Prevent Opioid Overdose Deaths By Allowing Municipalities To Approve The Establishment Of Overdose Prevention Centers This bill authorizes municipalities to approve overdose prevention centers at which clients may receive health screening, disease prevention and recovery support services and may self-administer previously obtained controlled substances on the premises. The bill also provides immunity from arrest, prosecution, revocation proceedings or termination proceedings for persons using, employed by or otherwise associated with an overdose prevention center when acting in accordance with the provisions of the bill. It also provides additional protections to such persons for actions in accordance with those provisions.	Committee: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY; HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Leave to Withdraw, Jan 13, 2026 (1/13/2026)	Monitor
LD 910 High	An Act To Collect Data To Better Understand The Consumer's Health Insurance Experience This bill requires a health insurance carrier, beginning in 2026, to provide a quarterly report to the Superintendent of Insurance that identifies the number of claims for that quarter that were denied, the number of claims for that quarter for which prior authorization was denied, the 5 most common reasons for a claim denial and the 5 most common reasons for a prior authorization denial. The superintendent is required to submit an annual report on that information as well as information provided to the superintendent by the United States Department of Health and Human Services regarding claim and prior authorization denials under the federal Affordable Care Act to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health coverage, insurance and financial services matters. The committee is authorized to submit legislation related to the annual report to the session of the Legislature in which the annual report is received.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Ought Not to Pass Pursuant To Joint Rule 310, Jan 27, 2026 (1/27/2026)	Support
LD 961 High	An Act To Address Maine's Health Care Workforce Shortage And Improve Access To Care This bill repeals the provision of law requiring that a certified nurse practitioner who qualifies as an advanced practice registered nurse must practice for at least 24 months under the supervision of a physician or supervising nurse practitioner or be employed by a clinic or hospital that has a medical director who is a licensed physician. The bill also eliminates the supervising nurse practitioner designation, which is no longer needed.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Taken from the table by the President Subsequently, PASSED TO BE ENACTED - Emergency - 2/3 Elected Required, in concurrence. (2/12/2026)	Oppose
LD 1216 High	An Act To Improve Behavioral Health Crisis Services And Suicide Prevention Services This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would improve the quality of and access to behavioral health crisis services; reduce the stigma surrounding suicide, mental health conditions and substance use disorder; provide a behavioral health crisis response that is substantially equivalent to the response already provided to individuals who require emergency physical health care in the State; strengthen the crisis response for children, youth, young persons and families; and codify the name of the 988 telephone number for the national suicide and crisis hotline.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (1/29/2026)	TBD
LD 1230 High	An Act To Abolish The 72-hour Waiting Period For A Gun Purchase This bill repeals the requirement that a seller of firearms wait 72 hours before delivering a purchased firearm to the buyer.	Committee: JUDICIARY Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Oppose
LD 1277 High	An Act Regarding Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Activities This bill excepts testosterone from the definition of "controlled substance" in the laws governing controlled substances prescription monitoring and directs the Department of Health and Human Services to purge from the records of the Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program all information concerning the prescribing and dispensing of testosterone.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Neither For Nor Against
LD 1281 High	An Act To Address The Safety Of Nurses And Improve Patient Care By Enacting The Maine Quality Care Act This bill establishes the Maine Quality Care Act to ensure adequate direct care registered nurse staffing assignments in health care facilities, including hospitals, freestanding emergency departments and ambulatory surgical facilities, and critical access hospitals to provide safe and effective patient care. It establishes minimum staffing requirements for direct care registered nurses based on patient care unit and patient needs, specifies the method to calculate a health care facility's compliance with the staffing requirements, protects direct care registered nurses from retaliation and includes notice, record-keeping and enforcement requirements. The bill also directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a process for critical access hospitals to request flexibility regarding the minimum staffing requirements.	Committee: LABOR Unfinished Business (2/12/2026)	TBD
LD 1301 High	An Act To Prohibit The Use Of Artificial Intelligence In The Denial Of Health Insurance Claims This bill establishes requirements, beginning January 1, 2026, for health insurance carriers that use artificial intelligence to make medical review or utilization review determinations relating to the approval, denial, delay, modification or adjustment of coverage for services under a health plan. The bill requires that any denial, delay, modification or adjustment of health care services based on medical necessity be made by a clinical peer.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Ought Not to Pass Pursuant To Joint Rule 310, Jan 27, 2026 (1/27/2026)	Support
LD 1311 High	An Act To Expand Maine's Health Care Workforce By Improving Educational Opportunities This bill establishes the Maine Health Care Education Training and Medical Residency Fund and appropriates $5,000,000 annually to support health care in rural and underserved communities and physician workforce development.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Support
LD 1365 High	An Act To Allow Consumption Of Adult Use Cannabis In Locally Approved Hospitality Lounges This bill amends the Cannabis Legalization Act to authorize a municipality or other local government entity within the unorganized and deorganized areas of the State to adopt an ordinance providing licensing or other approval requirements applicable to cannabis hospitality lounges within the municipality or unorganized and deorganized area. The bill defines "cannabis hospitality lounge" as a location that is open to members of the public who are 21 years of age or older and is licensed or approved by a municipality or other local government entity within the unorganized and deorganized areas of the State where persons 21 years of age or older may consume adult use cannabis, adult use cannabis products and edible products that do not contain cannabis. A cannabis hospitality lounge is not a cannabis establishment, may operate as a cannabis hospitality lounge without the need for additional state licensing or approvals and is not subject to the oversight of the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Office of Cannabis Policy. The bill also amends the law prohibiting smoking in public places to allow the smoking of adult use cannabis or adult use cannabis products at a locally licensed or approved cannabis hospitality lounge.	Committee: VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (2/4/2026)	Oppose
LD 1378 High	An Act To Protect Maine Communities By Enacting The Extreme Risk Protection Order Act This initiated bill enacts the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act. Under the bill, a petition for an extreme risk protection order, which prohibits the purchase, possession or control of a dangerous weapon, may be sought if a person is suspected of posing a significant danger of causing physical injury to the person or to another person. A significant danger of causing physical injury to the person or another person is demonstrated by establishing that the person has inflicted or attempted to inflict physical injury on another person; placed another person in reasonable fear of physical injury; by action or inaction, presented a danger to persons in the person's care; or threatened or attempted suicide or has threatened or attempted serious bodily injury. The petition may be filed by a family or household member of the person or by a law enforcement agency or a law enforcement officer and must be supported by an affidavit stating the facts to support the allegations, identifying any dangerous weapons believed to be in the person's possession and stating whether the person is already the subject of an existing protection from harassment or protection from abuse order. Upon receipt of the petition and affidavit, the District Court is required to schedule a hearing, which must be held within 14 days of the filing of the petition, and provide notice of the hearing to the person who is the subject of the requested extreme risk protection order. Following the hearing, if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the person poses a significant risk of causing physical injury to the person or to another person, the court must issue an order prohibiting, for up to one year, the person from purchasing, possessing or receiving a dangerous weapon, attempting to purchase, possess or receive a dangerous weapon or having custody or control of a dangerous weapon. The bill allows a court to issue an emergency extreme risk protection order without prior notice to the person who is the subject of the requested order. A hearing must be scheduled no later than 14 days after the order is issued. An extreme risk protection order may be terminated upon the request of the person who is the subject of the order if that person shows by clear and convincing evidence that the person no longer poses a significant danger of causing physical injury to the person or another person. An extreme risk protection order may be renewed for an additional period of up to one year. A person who is the subject of an extreme risk protection order must immediately surrender all dangerous weapons in that person's possession, custody or control to a law enforcement agency. The bill directs the State Court Administrator to report annually regarding data related to this legislation. It also directs the Department of Public Safety to submit a report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over civil rights matters on the status of obtaining federal funding related to storing dangerous weapons in the custody of law enforcement agencies.	Committee: JUDICIARY Died On Adjournment, Nov 3, 2025 (11/3/2025)	Support
LD 1496 High	An Act To Ensure Ongoing Access To Medications And Care For Chronic Conditions By Changing Requirements For Prior Authorizations This bill requires that a prior authorization for health care services remain valid for the duration of the treatment or one year, whichever is longer. It prohibits a health care plan from requiring the renewal of a prior authorization more frequently than once every 5 years for treatment that is necessary for more than one year. It also prohibits a health care plan from restricting coverage for a health care service or a prescription that was approved under a previous health care plan within 90 days of enrollment in the new health care plan and requires a health care plan to provide at least 90 days' notice to an enrollee prior to restricting coverage of a previously approved health care service.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Support
LD 1583 High	An Act Regarding Home Health Care And Hospice Services Ordered By A Health Care Provider Outside Of Maine This bill allows a home health care or hospice provider to deliver home health care or hospice services to a patient who resides in this State based upon an order from a health care provider from another state or jurisdiction in the United States who is licensed and prescribes services pursuant to an in-person physical examination in the jurisdiction of licensure.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (1/15/2026)	Support
LD 1658 High	An Act To Preserve And Strengthen The Fund For A Healthy Maine This bill, beginning January 5, 2026, increases the cigarette excise tax rate by 50 mills, changing the rate per pack of 20 cigarettes from $2 to $3, and the rate per cigarette from 10? to 15?. Under current law, when the cigarette tax increases, the tax on tobacco products also increases by an equivalent amount. The bill includes in the excise tax on tobacco products that equivalent increase and specifies that the definition of "tobacco products" includes products with synthetic nicotine. The bill also, beginning in fiscal year 2027-28, requires the State Tax Assessor and the State Controller to annually determine the amount of revenue from the taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products that is needed to ensure the Fund for a Healthy Maine receives at least $65,000,000 annually from all sources of revenue, including from the so-called tobacco settlement and from certain slot machine income.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (1/21/2026)	Support
LD 1746 High	An Act To Reduce Dental Disease And Ensure Access To Essential Preventive Dental Care Among Maine Children This bill does the following. 1. It delays the requirement for oral health services to be available in all schools from January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2027 and clarifies that the requirement applies only to public schools. 2. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to develop public-private partnerships to establish a model to provide for mobile dental services providers to provide additional preventive oral health and disease intervention services in schools based on the model in the Cumberland County School Oral Health Project. It requires the department to provide for at least one mobile dental services provider in each public health district per school year. 3. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide training and education to primary care providers on minimally invasive dental disease treatment for infants and small children using guidance from the From the First Tooth program or its successor program and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Pediatricians are encouraged to use silver diamine fluoride in primary care settings to reduce dental disease and prevent cavities. 4. It makes permanent 2 previously established limited positions related to provided oral health services in public schools within the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Monitor
LD 1772 High	An Act To Implement The Recommendations Of The Blue Ribbon Commission To Design A Plan For Sustained Investment In Preventing Disease And Improving The Health Of Maine Communities This bill establishes the Trust for a Healthy Maine to receive money paid to the State pursuant to the tobacco settlement and from other sources and to distribute that money to state agencies or designated agents of the State to fund tobacco use prevention and addiction disease control, ensure adequate resources for other disease prevention efforts, promote public health, plan and deliver public health and prevention programs and services, support accreditation of the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and support public health workforce development. The trust is governed by a 15-member board of trustees composed of the Director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and 14 members appointed by the Governor.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (1/21/2026)	Support
LD 1803 High	An Act To Amend The Laws Governing Optometric Practice This bill amends provisions of the law governing optometrists. The bill provides a more detailed explanation of what constitutes the practice of optometry. The definition of "practice of optometry" in current law does not include surgical procedures. Under the bill, certain types of ophthalmic surgeries are included in the practice of optometry and certain procedures are specifically excluded. An optometrist may only perform ophthalmic surgery if the optometrist meets credentialing requirements established by the State Board of Optometry. The bill also broadens the authority of an optometrist to dispense drugs by expanding the types of drugs an optometrist may dispense to include schedule II narcotics limited to pharmaceuticals containing specified doses of hydrocodone combined with doses of another drug and by removing language that prohibits an optometrist from administering drugs by injection or intravenously. The bill directs the board to adopt rules to further define the scope of practice of optometry and establish credentialing requirements for surgical procedures. The bill clarifies that the board, and no other board or commission in the State, has the authority to define the scope of practice of optometry and to exercise the powers of the board. The bill authorizes the board to issue advisory opinions and declaratory rulings. The bill also makes minor changes to the provisions relating to telehealth services and filling contact lense and spectacle prescriptions.	02/17/26 1:00 PM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Work Session	Oppose
LD 1822 High	An Act To Enact The Maine Online Data Privacy Act This bill enacts the Maine Online Data Privacy Act, which takes effect July 1, 2026. The Act regulates the collection, use, processing, disclosure, sale and deletion of nonpublicly available personal data by a person that conducts business in this State or that produces products or services targeted to residents of this State, referred to in the Act as a "controller," if the personal data is linked or can be reasonably linked to an identified or identifiable individual who is a resident of this State, referred to in the Act as a "consumer," or is linked or reasonably can be linked to a device that is linked or reasonably can be linked to an identified or identifiable consumer. Under the Act, a controller must limit the collection and processing of personal data to what is reasonably necessary and proportionate to provide or maintain a specific product or service requested by the consumer, except that the controller must limit the collection and processing of certain sensitive data to what is strictly necessary to provide or maintain a specific product or service requested by the consumer. Under the Act, "sensitive data" includes data revealing a consumer's race or ethnic origins, religious beliefs, mental or physical health conditions or diagnoses, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship or immigration status; genetic or biometric data; precise geolocation data; social security, driver's license or nondriver identification card numbers; specific financial or account access information; data of a minor under 18 years of age; or data concerning the consumer's status as the victim of a crime. The Act establishes that consumers have the right to confirm whether a controller is processing their data; correct inaccuracies in their personal data; require the controller to delete any portion of their personal data that the controller is not required to maintain by law; obtain a copy of their personal data in a format that can be readily transferred to another controller; obtain a list of the 3rd parties to which the controller has sold personal data; and opt out of the processing of their personal data for purposes of targeted advertising, sale or consumer profiling. The Act also prohibits a controller from selling any sensitive data; processing the personal data of a minor for purposes of targeted advertising or sale; processing personal data in a manner that discriminates against a person in violation of state or federal law; and retaliating against a consumer for exercising a consumer's rights under the Act, except that a controller may offer different prices or selection of goods in connection with a consumer's voluntary participation in a bona fide loyalty or discount program. The Act also requires a controller to provide consumers with a privacy notice specifying how a consumer may exercise the consumer's rights under the Act; the categories of personal data processed by the controller; the purposes for processing the personal data; the categories of personal data transferred to 3rd parties; and the categories of 3rd parties to whom personal data is shared. The controller must establish, implement and maintain reasonable data security practices and a retention schedule that requires the disposal of personal data by the controller either when deletion is required by law or when the data is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was processed and retention of the data is not required by law. The controller must also require, by contract, that any person who processes a consumer's personal data on behalf of the controller treats the personal data confidentially and deletes or returns all personal data to the controller at the end of the processing, unless retention of the data is required by law. If a controller engages in a data processing activity that presents a heightened risk of harm to a consumer, including processing any data for targeted advertising, sale or profiling or any processing of sensitive data, the controller must conduct and document a data protection assessment identifying and weighing the benefits and potential risks of the processing activity. The controller may be required to disclose the data protection assessment to the Attorney General, who must keep it confidential, when the assessment is relevant to an investigation conducted by the Attorney General. The Act further prohibits any person from establishing a geofence within 1,750 feet of any in-person health care facility in the State, other than the operator of the facility, for the purpose of identifying, tracking, collecting data from or sending a notification regarding consumer health data to consumers who enter that area. The provisions of the Act do not apply to specifically enumerated persons, including the State, political subdivisions of the State and federally recognized Indian tribes in the State; nonprofit organizations; institutions of higher education; federally registered national securities associations; supervised financial organizations and service corporations; health care facilities and health care practitioners as well as their affiliates that both qualify as business associates and provide services only to covered entitites; state-licensed and authorized insurers that are in compliance with applicable Maine laws governing insurer data security and data privacy; and broadband Internet service providers to the extent those providers are subject to the data privacy requirements of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A, section 9301. In addition, the provisions of the Act do not apply to specifically enumerated types of data, including, for example: nonpublic personal information regulated under the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act; protected health information under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996; personal data regulated by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974; data processed and maintained by the controller regarding an applicant for employment or employee to the extent the data is collected and used within the context of that role; and data necessary for the controller to administer benefits. The Act also does not prohibit controllers from engaging in specifically enumerated activities, including, for example: complying with state or federal law; complying with investigations or subpoenas from federal, state or tribal governmental authorities; cooperating with federal, tribal or Maine law enforcement agencies; providing a product or service specifically requested by the consumer; protecting life and physical safety of consumers; and preventing or responding to security incidents. The Act also does not prohibit a controller from using personal data collected in a lawful manner to effectuate a product recall, identify and repair technical errors and perform internal operations that are reasonably aligned with a consumer's expectations or otherwise compatible with providing the product or service specifically requested by the consumer. Violations of the Act may be enforced exclusively by the Attorney General under the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act. If the violation occurs on or before April 1, 2027, the Attorney General may provide a potential defendant with a notice of violation at least 60 days prior to initiating an enforcement action, during which time the potential defendant may cure the violation to avoid the enforcement action. The Act further requires the Attorney General to submit a report by February 1, 2027 to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over judiciary matters regarding the implementation and operation of the Act. The committee may report out legislation related to the report to the 133rd Legislature in 2027.	Committee: JUDICIARY Reports READ Senator CARNEY of Cumberland moved Report A Ought to Pass As Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (H-716) Report in concurrence. On motion by Same Senator Tabled until Later in Today's Session, pending ACCEPTANCE of Report A Ought to Pass As Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (H-716) Report in concurrence. Unfinished Business (2/12/2026)	Neither For Nor Against
LD 1847 High	An Act To Institute Testing And Tracking Of Medical Use Cannabis And Cannabis Products Similar To Adult Use Cannabis And Cannabis Products, Dedicate A Portion Of The Adult Use Cannabis Sales And Excise Tax To Medical Use Cannabis Programs And Create A Study Group This bill provides: 1. For the same testing and tracking provisions that are applied for adult use cannabis and adult use cannabis products to be applied for medical use cannabis and medical use cannabis products; 2. A requirement that a portion of the adult use cannabis and adult use cannabis products excise and sales tax must be used to fund public health and safety campaigns related to the sale and use of medical use cannabis and medical use cannabis products; 3. That edible adult use cannabis products that are gummies must be blister packaged; and 4. For the establishment of a study group to examine youth consumption of medical use and adult use cannabis, including a study of data related to cannabis use of people under 21 years of age in the State, science concerning the effects of the use of cannabis on youth development and overall health, strategies to improve the quality, availability and transparency of data concerning cannabis use by people under 21 years of age in the State and an approach to regularly report to the Legislature on youth consumption of cannabis.	Committee: VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (2/12/2026)	Support
LD 1870 High	An Act To Establish A Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program To Impose Penalties On Climate Polluters This bill establishes the Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program within the Department of Environmental Protection. Under the program, an entity or a successor in interest to an entity that was engaged in the trade or business of extracting fossil fuel or refining crude oil between January 1, 1995 and December 31, 2024 is assessed a cost recovery demand for the entity's share of fossil fuel extraction or refinement contributing to greenhouse gas-related costs in the State. An entity is assessed a cost recovery demand only if the department determines that the entity's products were responsible for more than one billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Cost recovery payments received by the department are deposited into the Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program Fund to provide funding for recovery of the costs to develop and implement the program and fund and for climate change adaptation projects in the State, which the department is directed to prioritize through the adoption of a resilience implementation strategy and to ensure that at least 35% of the funds are used for climate change adaptation projects that benefit low-income persons with environmental justice concerns.	Committee: ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (1/28/2026)	Support
LD 1890 High	An Act To Facilitate The Development Of Ambulatory Surgical Facilities By Exempting Certain Facilities From The Requirement To Obtain A Certificate Of Need This bill exempts certain ambulatory surgical facilities from the requirement to obtain a certificate of need from the Department of Health and Human Services to finance or incur expenditures for a project. An ambulatory surgical facility that is owned or operated by a hospital is exempt from the requirement only if the facility is operated and paid only as an ambulatory surgical facility and does not share space with a hospital or the outpatient surgery department of a critical access hospital, even if the facility and hospital or outpatient surgery department are not open at the same time.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (1/28/2026)	Support
LD 1932 High	An Act To Support Essential Support Workers And Enhance Workforce Development This bill increases the rate for the labor portion of reimbursement for services provided by essential support workers from 125% of the minimum wage to 140%. This requirement is effective January 1, 2026. The bill requires that essential support workers whose services are reimbursed under the MaineCare program or a state-funded program must be paid no less than 125% of the minimum wage. The bill requires the Maine Health Data Organization, in consultation with the Essential Support Workforce Advisory Committee and the Department of Health and Human Services, to develop a methodology for establishing a baseline report in order to be able to examine the care gap in essential support worker services paid by the MaineCare program or a similar state-funded program. The care gap is defined as the difference between approved services and the hours of services actually provided. The bill requires the Department of Administrative and Financial Services to provide a biennial report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters that estimates the actual cost to the State of providing all long-term care services and forecasts costs in the future. The bill changes the membership of the Essential Support Workforce Advisory Committee to include a representative of the long-term care ombudsman program and a representative of an organization that provides personal care services in the home. The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to convene a stakeholder group to develop the Innovations in Care and Support Technology Plan to be submitted by October 15, 2026. The purpose of the plan is to advance the use of technology to reduce the number of approved but unstaffed essential support worker hours. The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to create a stakeholder group to assist the department in developing a 5-year plan to expand the department's worker portability and advancement initiative to establish a standardized curriculum and training program for essential support workers.	01/20/26 1:00 PM in Cross Building, Room 209 - Public Hearing	Support
LD 1948 High	An Act To Fund Mainecare Part A of this bill provides one-time funding for the MaineCare program in fiscal year 2024-25. Part A takes effect when approved. Part B of the bill deappropriates one-time funding provided in Public Law 2025, chapter 2, Part D for the MaineCare program. Part B takes effect June 20, 2025, which is the effective date of Public Law 2025, chapter 2, Part D.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Support
LD 1970 High	An Act To Amend The Laws Regarding Consent For Hiv Testing And Disclosure Of Related Medical Information For Insurance Purposes This bill provides that an HIV test may be undertaken with a patient's general consent. The bill defines "general consent" to mean consent obtained without undue inducement or any element of compulsion, fraud, deceit, duress or any other form of constraint or coercion and that is obtained after providing instruction to a patient that, as part of a medical procedure or test, the patient may receive an HIV test and that receiving an HIV test is voluntary and the patient may choose not to submit to an HIV test. The bill also provides that disclosure of information in a medical record for the purpose of seeking insurance reimbursement for HIV testing is not precluded. The bill removes the requirement that an HIV test may be undertaken only with a patient's informed consent.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (1/14/2026)	Monitor
LD 1989 High	An Act To Increase Access To The Progressive Treatment Program Fund This bill allows mental health care providers to request reimbursement from the Department of Health and Human Services for both the initiation and renewal of progressive treatment programs, subject to available funds. Current law allows for reimbursement to private entities to initiate such programs.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (1/22/2026)	TBD
LD 2046 High	An Act To Update Certain Duties Regarding Student Health Related To Communicable And Infectious Disease This bill clarifies the duties of school personnel, superintendents and parents with regard to reporting symptoms of communicable or infectious diseases. The bill also clarifies that the duty for school nurses to supervise and coordinate health-related activities must be carried out in accordance with the most recent school nursing practices and follow all applicable rules adopted by the State Board of Nursing. The bill also requires the guidelines on the provision of school health services and health-related activities to be based on state and national standards and updated at least every 3 years. The bill also updates the term "epinephrine autoinjector" to "epinephrine automated device.	Committee: EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (2/11/2026)	TBD
LD 2051 High	An Act To Ensure Access To The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program In Maine This bill provides that in the laws governing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the term "noncitizen legally admitted to the United States" includes, without limitation, any person who is pursuing any lawful immigration process, who has permanent residence in the United States under color of law or who was eligible to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits as of July 3, 2025 but is no longer eligible for federally funded food assistance benefits pursuant to the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act.	01/14/26 1:00 PM in Cross Building, Room 209 - Public Hearing	Support
LD 2065 High	An Act To Provide One-time Funds To Support The Construction Of A Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility For At-risk Youth This bill provides one-time funds to support the construction of a psychiatric residential treatment facility serving at-risk youth under 21 years of age.	01/29/26 10:00 AM in Cross Building, Room 209 - Public Hearing	Support
LD 2071 High	An Act To Expand Access To Vaccines Approved By The United States Food And Drug Administration By Allowing Pharmacists To Prescribe, Dispense And Administer Vaccines And Require Insurance Coverage This bill allows pharmacists to prescribe, dispense or administer vaccines. It requires insurance carriers and the MaineCare program to provide coverage for vaccines without any deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other cost-sharing reimbursement and to provide coverage for off-label use of vaccines.	02/17/26 1:00 PM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Work Session	TBD
LD 2088 High	An Act To Increase Access To Primary Care Provided By Physician Associates This bill removes the requirement for a practice agreement with an active physician for a physician associate who is the principal clinical provider in a practice that does not include a physician. The bill also makes optional consultations between a physician associate and a physician or other health care professional and removes the requirement that a physician be accessible at all times for purposes of consultation.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (2/11/2026)	TBD
LD 2119 High	An Act To Expand Reimbursement For Treatment In Place, Community Paramedicine And Alternate Destination Transport This bill expands existing requirements for insurance carriers and the MaineCare program to provide reimbursement for ambulance services to include: 1. Treatment provided on the scene in response to an emergency call, regardless of transport; 2. Care provided by an emergency medical services provider through community paramedicine; and 3. Alternate destination transport to clinically appropriate facilities other than hospital emergency departments. The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, Maine Emergency Medical Services to adopt rules to implement reimbursement standards.	02/11/26 10:00 AM in Cross Building, Room 209 - Public Hearing	TBD
LD 2122 High	An Act To Prevent Negative Impacts From Federal Funding Changes To And Fund Eligibility Determinations And Outreach For The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to operate an electronic system to reduce the error rate for eligibility determinations for food allotments under the statewide Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The bill authorizes the department to award grants to community-based organizations to provide matching funds for federal funding for approved SNAP outreach activities and to hire SNAP outreach community coordinators. The grant program is established by the department. The bill provides ongoing funding of $750,000 per fiscal year for the grant program. The bill directs the department to establish and maintain a contingency fund to provide SNAP benefits to SNAP benefit recipients in the event the Federal Government fails to provide SNAP benefit funding to the State. The balance in the fund may not exceed $87,000,000. The bill appropriates $87,000,000 in fiscal year 2025-26 to the fund. The bill provides ongoing funding of $96,400 per fiscal year for the cost of contracting for a position to support and manage SNAP outreach activities and assist with work to reduce the SNAP payment error rate.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES in concurrence (1/7/2026)
LD 2128 High	An Act To Reorganize The Emergency Medical Services' Board To Implement The Recommendations Of The Blue Ribbon Commission To Study Emergency Medical Services In The State This bill, based on the recommendations of the Blue Ribbon Commission to Study Emergency Medical Services in the State, reduces the number of members appointed to the Emergency Medical Services' Board, other than the members representing regional councils, from 12 to 5, provides for regular feedback and recommendations from each region and requires the board to report annually by January 1st to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over emergency medical services matters any recommended changes to the Maine Emergency Medical Services Act of 1982 or other necessary changes to improve the provision of emergency medical services and allows the committee to report out legislation based on the board's recommendations.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (2/11/2026)	TBD
LD 2133 High	An Act Regarding Licensing Of Community Paramedicine Services And Clinicians This bill defines "community paramedicine," "community paramedicine clinician" and "community paramedicine service" and requires community paramedicine clinicians and community paramedicine services to be licensed by the Emergency Medical Services' Board. It establishes minimum requirements for licensure and directs the board to adopt rules governing qualifications and standards.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Committee Docket: Work Session Held - TABLED (2/11/2026)	TBD
LD 2146 High	An Act To Increase Access To Critical Vaccinations This bill requires the Maine Vaccine Board to consider vaccines that are recommended by and available through the Northeast Public Health Collaborative or its successor organization when making its annual determination of vaccines that must be made available through the Universal Immunization Program. If federal funding is not available for certain vaccines under the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Vaccines for Children Program, the bill also authorizes the Maine Vaccine Board to request state funding to cover the costs of vaccines for children who qualify for vaccines under the Vaccines for Children Program for those vaccines that are recommended by the Department of Health and Human Services or the Northeast Public Health Collaborative or its successor organization. The bill provides a pharmacist licensed in this State with immunity from liability for negligence for administering a vaccine that is outside the guidelines recommended by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or its successor organization, as long as the administration of the vaccine is in accordance with guidelines recommended by the State or the Northeast Public Health Collaborative or its successor organization.	02/17/26 1:00 PM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Work Session	TBD
LD 2151 High	An Act To Improve Access To Affordable Prescription Drugs In Underserved Areas This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to provide support for federally qualified health centers to develop or expand the centers' capacity to provide access to affordably priced prescription drugs to patients by increasing the centers' ability to deliver pharmacy services to those patients. The bill provides one-time funding of $4,000,000 in fiscal year 2026-27 for that purpose. The bill provides that initial awards of funding must be made by December 15, 2026 and that the selection process must be performed by an evaluation team, the majority of whose members must be persons with training or experience in the operation and management of federally qualified health centers.	02/17/26 1:00 PM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Work Session	Support
LD 2154 High	An Act To Establish The Health Information Technology Fund To Support A State-designated Statewide Health Information Exchange This bill establishes the Health Information Technology Fund within the Department of Health and Human Services to support the operation and sustainability of a state- designated statewide health information exchange and to meet the State's matching fund requirements to obtain available federal funding for that purpose. The fund is nonlapsing and consists of money appropriated or allocated by the Legislature, federal funds, grants, gifts and other funds from public or private sources. The bill includes an ongoing appropriation of $1,800,000 annually in support of the fund beginning in fiscal year 2026-27.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (2/11/2026)	Support
LD 2159 High	An Act To Require School Buses To Be Equipped With And To Use School Bus Crossing Arms This bill requires all school buses to be equipped with a school bus crossing arm and requires the operator of a school bus to activate the school bus crossing arm while the bus is stopped to receive or discharge passengers. The bill provides that the penalty for not activating a school bus crossing arm is a Class E crime and requires the Secretary of State to revoke the operator's endorsement to operate a school bus for a period of not less than 2 years. The penalty is the same penalty that applies to failure of a school bus operator to stop at a railroad track crossing.	01/29/26 1:00 PM in State House, Room 126 - Public Hearing	Support
LD 2189 High	An Act To Require Prior Notification Of Closures Of Labor And Delivery Units And Changes In Maternity Or Newborn Care Services By Hospitals As Recommended By The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State This bill is reported out by the Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services pursuant to Resolve 2025, chapter 106 to implement a recommendation from the Commission to Evaluate the Scope of Regulatory Review and Oversight over Health Care Transactions That Impact the Delivery of Health Care Services in the State. The joint standing committee has not taken a position on the substance of this bill. By reporting this bill out, the joint standing committee is not suggesting and does not intend to suggest that it agrees or disagrees with any aspect of this bill; instead, the joint standing committee is reporting the bill out for the sole purpose of having a bill printed that can be referred to a joint standing committee for an appropriate public hearing and subsequent processing in the normal course. The joint standing committee is taking this action to ensure clarity and transparency in the legislative review of the proposals contained in the bill. This bill requires a hospital to provide at least 120 days' notice prior to the termination of maternity or newborn care services or of a change in the level of care a hospital provides for maternity and newborn care services.	02/18/26 10:00 AM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Public Hearing
LD 2190 High	An Act To Implement Certain Changes In The Certificate Of Need Laws Recommended By The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State This bill is reported out by the Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services pursuant to Resolve 2025, chapter 106 to implement a recommendation from the Commission to Evaluate the Scope of Regulatory Review and Oversight over Health Care Transactions That Impact the Delivery of Health Care Services in the State. The joint standing committee has not taken a position on the substance of this bill. By reporting this bill out, the joint standing committee is not suggesting and does not intend to suggest that it agrees or disagrees with any aspect of this bill; instead, the joint standing committee is reporting the bill out for the sole purpose of having a bill printed that can be referred to a joint standing committee for an appropriate public hearing and subsequent processing in the normal course. The joint standing committee is taking this action to ensure clarity and transparency in the legislative review of the proposals contained in the bill. This bill expands the criteria considered during a review under the certificate of need laws to include consideration of a project's impact on affordability and accessibility of health care for all Maine residents. The bill also expands the scope of review under the certificate of need laws when there is a change in ownership or control of a health care facility to require a review and analysis of the extent to which the applicant's ownership structure involves a private equity company or real estate investment trust. The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to contract with a consultant funded by the applicant to review and investigate the prior activities and conduct of the private equity company or real estate investment trust and authorizes the department to consult with the Attorney General. Finally, the bill broadens the authority of the department to conduct subsequent reviews of an applicant for a certificate of need when there is a change in ownership or control of a health care facility.	02/18/26 10:00 AM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Public Hearing
LD 2196 High	An Act To Lower Health Insurance Costs, Reduce Barriers To Health Care And Ensure Fair Prices For Health Care Part A of this bill limits, beginning January 1, 2028 and annually thereafter, the annual aggregate growth in hospital prices to a percentage equal to the inpatient prospective payment system hospital market basket established by the federal Medicare program. Part A also limits the maximum amount that a hospital may charge or collect for any inpatient or outpatient facility service to no more than 200% of the Medicare rate for the same service in the same geographic area beginning January 1, 2028 subject to certain exceptions. An insurer or health plan sponsor must comply with statutory requirements related to utilization review and prior authorization in order to access the caps on maximum prices charged by hospitals. Part A authorizes the Office of Affordable Health Care to fine hospitals if they do not comply with these requirements. Part B of the bill requires that a prior authorization for health care services for the treatment of a chronic condition and for diagnostic procedures or tests related to the treatment of a chronic condition remains valid for one year. It prohibits a health insurance carrier from requiring the renewal of a prior authorization more frequently than once every 2 years for treatment of a chronic condition that is necessary for more than one year. It also prohibits a health plan from restricting coverage for a health care service or a prescription that was approved under a previous health plan within 90 days of an enrollee's enrollment in the new health plan if the prescribed drug is included on the health plan's formulary at the time of that enrollee's enrollment and requires a health plan to provide at least 90 days' notice to an enrollee prior to restricting coverage of a previously approved health care service or prescription. Part C of the bill requires each rate filing submitted by a carrier for the 2028 plan year and for each plan year thereafter to provide detailed information to the Superintendent of Insurance within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation related to the experience period and projected trends in utilization and per-unit payment by benefit category and by hospital. Part C also requires that the minimum negotiated charge of a health insurance carrier for in-network primary care or behavioral health care services may not be less than 110% of the Medicare rate for the same service in the same geographic area.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES in concurrence (2/3/2026)

Low Priority Legislation

Bill	Title & Summary	Status	Position
LD 18 Low	An Act To Offset The Costs Of Client Medical Care Support Workers At Department Of Corrections Facilities And Study Correctional Service Fees And Collections This bill increases the amount the Commissioner of Corrections may charge clients of correctional and detention facilities for medical and dental fees from $5 to $25 and requires the proceeds from those fees to be used as a first priority to pay client workers who support medical care and related services for other clients.	Committee: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 35 Low	An Act To Strengthen Local Emergency Medical Services By Increasing The Mainecare Reimbursement Rate For Ambulance Services This bill increases for 3 years the MaineCare reimbursement rate for ambulance services to 140% of the average allowable reimbursement rate under Medicare for such services.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. Ought Not to Pass Pursuant To Joint Rule 310, Jan 7, 2026 (1/7/2026)	Monitor
LD 145 Low	An Act Pertaining To Sales And Use Tax Exemptions For Durable Medical Equipment, Breast Pumps And Mobility-enhancing Equipment This bill provides a sales and use tax exemption on the sale of durable medical equipment and breast pumps for home use and on the sale of mobility-enhancing equipment for use in a home or motor vehicle. The provisions in the bill apply to sales occurring on or after January 1, 2026.	Committee: TAXATION CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 182 Low	An Act To Provide Per Diem Payments For Mainecare Residents Of The Maine Veterans' Homes This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to establish reimbursement rates for Maine Veterans' Homes services covered by the MaineCare program. It requires the MaineCare program to reimburse veterans' facilities for covered services on a per resident daily rate basis that will reimburse the portion of the total MaineCare allowable cost of operating each veterans' facility attributable to the provision of services to residents who receive MaineCare benefits. It requires the department to index the rates to inflation annually and authorizes the department to contract with a 3rd party to derive or review the rates.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 298 Low	An Act To Employ Mental Health Personnel Within The Maine State Police This bill creates 3 Behavioral Health Coordinator positions assigned to the state police Southern Field Troop, Central Field Troop and Troop F responsible for making decisions about the health, safety and welfare of persons in the community who have interacted with law enforcement professionals and are in need of services. The bill also creates one Behavioral Health Coordinator Supervisor position to oversee the activities of the Behavioral Health Coordinator positions and coordinate with the state police field troops.	Committee: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 328 Low	An Act Requiring The State To Pay A Retired State Employee's Or Retired Teacher's Premium For Medicare Part B Under Medicare Advantage This bill requires the State to pay 100% of a retired state employee's or retired teacher's premium for Medicare Part B under the Medicare Advantage plan beginning January 1, 2026.	Committee: LABOR CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 331 Low	Resolve, Directing The Department Of Health And Human Services To Ensure Timely Reimbursement Under Mainecare Regarding Hospital Cost Reports This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to amend its rules in Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 45, Hospital Services, to require the department to reimburse at least 75% of the as-filed settlement pursuant to a hospital's cost reports within 90 days of receipt. It requires the department to accomplish this within existing resources.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 415 Low	An Act To Support Hunger Prevention In Maine This bill provides an additional $1,000,000 each year in ongoing funding to contract with nonprofit organizations that provide statewide hunger relief services.	Committee: AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Support
LD 467 Low	An Act To Require The State To Pay Medicare Part B Premiums For Certain Retired State Employees This bill provides that the State must pay 100% of certain retired state employees' shares of the premiums for Medicare Part B for retirees not eligible for benefits under the United States Social Security Act whose base annual state pension benefit on or after January 1, 2026 is projected to be less than or equal to the maximum amount of the retirement benefits that is subject to the cost-of-living adjustment.	Committee: LABOR CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 507 Low	An Act To Authorize A General Fund Bond Issue To Fund Lifeflight Of Maine The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $13,485,000, will be used to improve emergency aviation infrastructure, including hospital helipads, fuel systems, automated weather observation systems, communications systems and emergency transport, to improve the safety of and access to critical emergency medical services.	Committee: APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 519 Low	An Act To Remove The Requirement That Individual And Small Group Health Plans Be Offered Through A Pooled Market And To Eliminate The Provision Of Law Establishing A Pooled Market For Those Plans This bill repeals the provisions of the Maine Insurance Code that establish a pooled market for individual and small group health plans, removing the requirement that those types of plans must be offered through a pooled market. The bill also eliminates related provisions that require the Maine Guaranteed Access Reinsurance Association to operate a retrospective reinsurance program providing coverage to member insurers for all individual and small group health plans issued in any plan year in which a pooled market is operating.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (1/28/2026)
LD 540 Low	An Act To Identify The State's Unidentified Human Remains This bill requires the Chief Medical Examiner to use forensic genetic genealogy testing with the deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, of the remains of an unidentified individual after 45 days of having possession of those remains.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 549 Low	An Act To Establish A Statewide Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kit Tracking System And Update Certain Requirements Regarding Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kits This bill directs the Department of Public Safety to establish, operate and maintain a sexual assault forensic examination kit tracking system. The system must provide relevant information for victims, both those who choose to report to a law enforcement agency and those who choose not to report, and other approved users regarding the processing, custody, analysis and destruction of evidence. The department is required to submit an annual report beginning January 1, 2027 to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters and the Governor concerning information related to the status of sexual assault forensic examination kits reported in the tracking system. The bill provides requirements for the tracking system and requires the department to adopt routine technical rules, including rules regarding participation in the tracking system, confidentiality and the operation of the tracking system. The bill directs that, by June 1, 2026, a law enforcement agency that receives, maintains, stores or preserves sexual assault forensic examination kits must complete an inventory of all kits in its possession and report its findings to the Department of Public Safety. The department must compile all agency reports and present findings of the inventory by January 1, 2027 to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters and at the same time post the report on the department?s publicly accessible website. Public Law 2023, chapter 236 changed a provision in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 25 to require law enforcement agencies to store sexual assault forensic examination kits for 20 years. For consistency with that provision, this bill amends a provision in Title 24 to require law enforcement agencies to store sexual assault forensic examination kits for 20 years. The bill allows an alleged victim who has not reported an alleged offense to a law enforcement agency to request that a completed kit be transported to the Maine State Police Crime Laboratory to be processed by signing a consent form, and the results of the analysis must be kept anonymous. The bill requires that, beginning January 1, 2027, and every 5 years thereafter, all completed kits that identify an alleged victim and are being stored by a law enforcement agency must be transported to the Maine State Police Crime Laboratory and be processed on a rolling basis, beginning with kits most recently stored. The bill also requires all forensic examination kits completed on or after January 1, 2027 to be transported to the Maine State Police Crime Laboratory and be processed.	Committee: JUDICIARY CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 555 Low	An Act To Create A Separate Department Of Child And Family Services This bill creates a new Department of Child and Family Services and transfers the functions of the Department of Health and Human Services that relate to child and family services and child welfare to the new department. The Department of Child and Family Services will have a commissioner appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Legislature as is the current Commissioner of Health and Human Services. The bill also establishes provisions for transferring functions to the new department.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (1/15/2026)
LD 577 Low	An Act To Maximize Federal Funding And Protect Maine's School Meals Programs This bill establishes the Free Milk Fund in the Department of Education, which the department must use to issue grants to eligible school administrative units to reimburse the cost of providing milk at no cost to students who do not receive a lunch through a school food service program.	Committee: EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	TBD
LD 579 Low	An Act To Include Certain Mental Health Workers Under The 1998 Special Plan For Retirement This bill adds employees of the Department of Health and Human Services employed on October 1, 2025 or hired thereafter who provide direct care to persons in need of mental health services in a community-based or residential setting or to residents or patients of mental health institutions in this State or have responsibility for providing crisis outreach and crisis services to adults with developmental disabilities or intellectual disabilities in a community-based or residential setting to the 1998 Special Plan for certain Maine Public Employees Retirement System members.	Committee: LABOR CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 584 Low	An Act To Make The Director Of The Office Of Cannabis Policy An Appointed Position Subject To Confirmation By The Legislature This bill provides that the Director of the Office of Cannabis Policy within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services is appointed by the Governor and that the appointment is subject to review by the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over cannabis matters and to confirmation by the Legislature. The bill also requires the Governor to appoint the Director of the Office of Cannabis Policy no later than 60 days after the effective date of this legislation.	Committee: VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (1/28/2026)	Support
LD 604 Low	An Act To Ensure Access To Concurrent Methadone Treatment And Intensive Outpatient Programs This bill prohibits the Department of Health and Human Services from prohibiting coverage of or otherwise restricting coverage for individuals enrolled in the MaineCare program from receiving methadone maintenance for the treatment of opioid use disorder and from concurrently participating in medically appropriate intensive outpatient programs and other outpatient services intended for the treatment of substance use disorder or behavioral health disorders. It directs the department to adopt rules implementing these requirements no later than 90 days after the effective date of the rules.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 703 Low	An Act To Establish A Health Care Gap Year Program For Recent College Graduates This bill provides one-time funds for a health care gap year program that incentivizes recent college graduates to work in critical health care positions, particularly in underserved and rural communities.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES; LABOR CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	TBD
LD 875 Low	An Act To Fund Essential Services For Victims Of Domestic Violence This bill provides funding for essential services for victims of domestic violence.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 876 Low	An Act To Support The Maine Service Fellows Program This bill provides ongoing funds for 20 program fellows to participate in the Maine Service Fellows Program. The bill also directs the Maine Commission for Community Service, in conjunction with the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management, to compile a list of volunteers who are available at the request of the Governor during states of emergency to provide emergency response and support services in coordination with the Maine Emergency Management Agency.	Committee: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY; HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 948 Low	An Act To Reduce Administrative Burdens And Expand Access In The Laws Governing Cannabis This bill increases the current limit under the medical cannabis laws to allow a caregiver to cultivate up to 60 mature cannabis plants, up to 120 immature cannabis plants, up to 1,000 square feet of mature plant canopy and up to 2,000 square feet of immature plant canopy. The bill also amends the medical cannabis and adult use cannabis laws to extend registration and license periods from one year to 2 and updates the license renewal process for registrants and licensees without any violations of those laws in the previous year to require only the payment of the license fee or registration fee to the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Office of Cannabis Policy for a new active license to be issued.	Committee: VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Support
LD 984 Low	An Act To Require State-owned Or Leased Buildings Occupied By 50 Or More Executive Branch Employees To Have At Least One Automated External Defibrillator And One Bleeding Control Kit This bill directs the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Bureau of General Services to ensure that each state building is equipped with at least one automated external defibrillator. It also directs each municipality to ensure that each municipal building is equipped with at least one automated external defibrillator.	Committee: STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 1009 Low	An Act To Restore Full Civil Rights To Possess Firearms To Persons Previously Convicted Of Certain Nonviolent Felony Crimes Currently, persons who have been convicted of committing or found not criminally responsible by reason of insanity of committing a crime in this State, a crime under the laws of the United States and certain crimes in other jurisdictions that are punishable by a term of imprisonment of one year or more are prohibited from owning, possessing or having under their control a firearm. This bill restores the right for some of these convicted persons to own, possess and have a firearm under their control, setting certain eligibility requirements a person must meet to have their civil rights relating to firearms restored, including a requirement that 10 years have passed since the completion of any sentence imposed on them. Eligibility for restoration of firearm rights is excluded for certain enumerated categories of crimes, including murder; any Class A crime; any Class B or C crime in violation of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 17-A, chapter 9, 11, 12, 13, 33 or 45; robbery; assault on an officer; assault on an emergency medical services person; assault on a firefighter; aggravated sex trafficking; and sex trafficking. The bill also outlines the procedure for applying for a restoration of civil rights. A person meeting the eligibility requirements may submit a request to the Department of Public Safety to have that person's firearm rights restored. Upon receipt of a request, the department must conduct a review of the person's criminal history to ensure the person is eligible. Upon a determination that the person is eligible, the department must notify the court having jurisdiction over the crime on which the person's firearm prohibition is based, and that court must issue an order restoring the person's rights. The bill also stipulates that, in the event a person who has had the person's civil rights restored is subsequently convicted of any felony crime, defined as a crime punishable by a sentence of imprisonment of one year or more in Maine or any other jurisdiction, that person's restored rights are revoked and the person is ineligible from qualifying for a restoration of that person's rights in the future. In this occurrence, the court that issued the order restoring the person's civil rights to own, possess and have under the person's control a firearm must revoke that order.	Committee: JUDICIARY Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (11/14/2025)	Monitor
LD 1123 Low	An Act To Provide Funding For Mainecare-related Services For Public Schools This bill provides ongoing funds to establish 2 Public Service Coordinator I positions to provide technical assistance and facilitate MaineCare reimbursements for local school districts.	Committee: EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 1139 Low	An Act To Provide Funding For Essential Services For Victims Of Crimes This bill provides ongoing funding for crime victim services and requires any balance remaining at the end of a fiscal year appropriated to the Department of Health and Human Services to supplement grants under the federal victim assistance formula grant program to be carried forward to the next fiscal year for the same purpose.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; JUDICIARY CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 1220 Low	An Act To Allow Chiropractors To Treat Dogs And Equids This bill authorizes a chiropractor licensed in this State to provide chiropractic care to dogs and equids as long as the licensed chiropractor is certified to perform animal chiropractic care and meets other conditions specified in the bill.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Committee Docket: Work Session Held - TABLED (2/11/2026)
LD 1416 Low	An Act To Require The Department Of Health And Human Services To Immediately Take Custody Of Persons Sentenced To Mental Health Facilities That May Not Include County Or Regional Jails This bill requires that when a court commits a defendant to the Commissioner of Health and Human Services for placement in an appropriate mental health institution, that placement must be immediate and may not be in a county or regional jail.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (2/5/2026)
LD 1418 Low	An Act To Protect Access To Reproductive Health Care, Including Fertility Treatments And Contraceptives This bill prohibits the Commissioner of Health and Human Services from adopting rules that place a ban or restriction on access to reproductive health care.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Ought Not to Pass Pursuant To Joint Rule 310, Jan 27, 2026 (1/27/2026)	Monitor
LD 1425 Low	An Act To Improve Access To Sustainable And Low-barrier Trauma Recovery Services This bill provides one-time funding only in fiscal years 2025-26 and 2026-27 to the Maine Resiliency Center in Lewiston to support the continuation and expansion of services for residents of the State affected by the immediate and cumulative effects of trauma through connection, information and support.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 1443 Low	An Act To Ensure The Financial Stability Of Behavioral Health Service Providers And Housing Assistance Providers This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to continue payments to service providers, including, but not limited to, private or nonprofit behavioral health agencies, housing assistance providers and other nonprofit organizations, in good standing with the department at their previous contract rates when delays in new contract awarding, finalization or payment exceed 30 days. It also requires the department to pay administrative expenses and interest charged on lines of credit or loans accessed by a service provider when a delay in awarding, finalization or payment of a department contract requires the service provider to access the line of credit or loan.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 1502 Low	An Act To Update The Requirements For Health Insurance Coverage Of Prostate Cancer Screening Under current law, health insurance coverage must be provided for annual prostate cancer screening, if recommended by a physician, to men 50 years of age or older until attaining 72 years of age. This bill updates the required coverage by doing the following. 1. It expands the scope of the required screening services to include medically necessary follow-up testing as directed by a physician, including, but not limited to, urinary analysis; serum biomarker testing; and medical imaging. It retains the provision in current law that requires coverage of a digital rectal examination and a prostate-specific antigen test and provides that associated laboratory fees for those tests are also covered. 2. It requires the coverage of services for the early detection of prostate cancer, if recommended by a physician, when supported by medical and scientific evidence according to the most recently published nationally recognized clinical practice guideline. 3. It prohibits the use of any deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other cost-sharing requirement for the costs of services for the early detection of prostate cancer. The requirements of the bill apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (1/21/2026)
LD 1519 Low	An Act To Create A Stewardship Program For Electronic Smoking Devices And Related Products This bill requires that, on or before November 1, 2026, a producer of electronic smoking devices, individually, collectively or through a stewardship organization, must submit to the Department of Environmental Protection for review and approval a plan for the establishment of a stewardship program to manage unwanted electronic smoking devices sold by the producer at the end of the device's life. One hundred eighty days after a stewardship plan is approved by the department, a producer of electronic smoking devices may not sell or offer for sale in the State an electronic smoking device unless the producer participates, individually, collectively or through a stewardship organization, in an approved electronic smoking device stewardship program.	Committee: ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 1530 Low	An Act To Improve The Sustainability Of Emergency Medical Services In Maine This bill provides that care that is provided at the scene of an emergency medical services event by an ambulance service or nontransporting emergency medical service is reimbursable care regardless of whether a patient is transported to another facility. This includes the administration of overdose-reversing medications that do not result in patient transport to a facility. Additionally, the bill requires reimbursement for certain services provided through community paramedicine.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (1/21/2026)
LD 1609 Low	An Act To Prevent The Participation Of Individuals And Companies Linked To Federally Recognized Criminal Organizations In The Medical And Adult Use Cannabis Programs This bill requires the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Office of Cannabis Policy to deny a license under the Cannabis Legalization Act to any person associated with organized crime as identified by state or federal law enforcement officers within the 5 years prior to application. It requires the office to deny a license to any person who operates a cannabis establishment at a physical location known to be associated with organized crime within the 5 years before the finding of the association as identified by state or federal law enforcement officers. It also requires the office to revoke, for a period of 5 years, a license currently held by a licensee if the person or the physical location of a licensed cannabis establishment is known to be associated with organized crime as identified by state or federal law enforcement officers. These requirements also apply to registrations issued under the Maine Medical Use of Cannabis Act.	Committee: VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (1/12/2026)
LD 1636 Low	Resolve, To Study Changing The Start Of The State Fiscal Year To October 1st This resolve establishes the Working Group to Study Changing the Start of the State Fiscal Year to study the feasibility of changing the state fiscal year from the time period covering July 1st to June 30th to the time period covering October 1st to September 30th and the implications for the State, counties, municipalities and school administrative units associated with that change.	Committee: APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS Accepted Majority (ONTP) Report, Feb 3, 2026 (2/3/2026)
LD 1646 Low	An Act To Amend Maine's Good Samaritan Laws Regarding Suspected Drug-related Overdoses This bill updates the provisions regarding immunity from arrest, prosecution and revocation and termination proceedings when assistance has been requested for a suspected drug-related overdose to remove references to medical emergencies and expands the scope to include calls for assistance for a person exhibiting symptoms of a drug-related overdose.	Committee: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (1/21/2026)
LD 1652 Low	An Act To Create A Tax Credit For Providers Of Dental Care For Mainecare Recipients This bill establishes a tax credit for licensing and malpractice insurance costs up to $5,000 for dental providers who treat MaineCare patients. The bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to amend its rule Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Section 25, Dental Services and Reimbursement, to reimburse all dental services at 75% of the national state Medicaid rates and to provide reimbursement for all dental case management codes. It also requires the department to create 3 positions within the office of MaineCare services dedicated to the dental programs and services provided under the MaineCare program.	Committee: TAXATION Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (2/12/2026)
LD 1720 Low	Resolve, Regarding Certified Nursing Assistant Examinations This bill: 1. Provides access to the Maine Public Employees Retirement System for long-term care workers including nurses, certified nursing assistants, direct care workers and housekeeping and dietary staff; 2. Provides access to the state group health plan for long-term care workers including nurses, certified nursing assistants, direct care workers and housekeeping and dietary staff; 3. Provides nursing homes and long-term care facilities with direct MaineCare reimbursement for training for staff, including a certified nursing assistant training program, a direct care worker training program and English as a second language training for a staff member who is a nonnative English speaker; 4. Provides nursing homes and long-term care facilities with direct MaineCare reimbursement for actual costs of interpreter services for staff and residents who require language assistance, including expenses for on-site interpreters, remote interpreting services and interpreter-related administrative costs; and 5. Directs the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation to provide translations of certified nursing assistant written examinations in French, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin and Filipino.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 1734 Low	An Act To Exempt Over-the-counter Medicines From The Sales And Use Tax This bill adds over-the-counter medicines and drugs to the sales tax exemption for medicines sold for humans on a doctor's prescription as long as the over-the-counter medicine or drug is labelled according to the requirements of the United States Food and Drug Administration. Medicines or drugs included in the new exemption include anesthetics; antacids; contraceptive supplies, drugs, devices and products approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration to prevent pregnancy; medication prepared for use in the eyes, ears or nose; opioid antagonists; products intended to be taken for coughs, colds, asthma or allergies; and steroidal medicines.	Committee: TAXATION CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 1761 Low	An Act To Prohibit Indemnification Agreements This bill prohibits contract agreements that indemnify or hold harmless the promisee from or against any negligence, claim or liability arising out of an intentional act or omission of the promisee or promisor. Parties to a contract are not prohibited from agreeing that the promisee must be included as an additional insured in an insurance contract. The bill does not affect the validity of workers' compensation or other insurance contracts.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES; JUDICIARY Ought Not to Pass Pursuant To Joint Rule 310, Jan 27, 2026 (1/27/2026)
LD 1816 Low	An Act To Establish A Statewide Sexual Assault Forensic Examination Kit Tracking System And Conduct An Inventory Of Existing Forensic Examination Kits In The Possession Of Law Enforcement This bill directs the Department of Public Safety to establish, operate and maintain a sexual assault forensic examination kit tracking system for all completed kits regardless of whether the alleged offense related to the kit was reported to a law enforcement agency. The tracking system must be continuously accessible to approved users. The department is required to submit a report by January 1, 2027, and annually thereafter, to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters and the Governor concerning information related to the status of sexual assault forensic examination kits reported in the tracking system. The bill provides requirements for the tracking system and requires the department to adopt routine technical rules, including rules regarding participation in the tracking system, confidentiality and the operation of the tracking system. The bill directs that, by June 1, 2026, a law enforcement agency that receives, maintains, stores or preserves sexual assault forensic examination kits must complete an inventory of all kits in its possession and report its findings to the Department of Public Safety. The department must compile all agency reports and present findings of the inventory by January 1, 2027 to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over criminal justice and public safety matters and at the same time post the report on the department's publicly accessible website. Public Law 2023, chapter 236 changed a provision in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 25 to require law enforcement agencies to store sexual assault forensic examination kits for 20 years. For consistency with that provision, this bill amends a provision in Title 24 to require law enforcement agencies to store sexual assault forensic examination kits for 20 years.	Committee: JUDICIARY CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 1820 Low	An Act To Simplify Regulation Of The Adult Use Cannabis Industry This bill amends the Cannabis Legalization Act and the laws governing personal adult use of cannabis by eliminating the individual identification card requirement for licensees, eliminating cannabis purchase limits, eliminating certain requirements regarding the inspection of licensed premises and eliminating certain cannabis and cannabis product labeling requirements. The bill amends certain provisions regarding cannabis delivery transactions, including allowing licensees to use the tracking system established by the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Office of Cannabis Policy to track delivery transactions and sales at specified events. The bill prohibits the Office of Cannabis Policy from requiring licensees to sign forms that require the licensees to waive certain rights protected under constitutional, statutory or common law privilege. The bill also clarifies excise tax laws as they apply to cannabis biomass.	Committee: VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 1821 Low	An Act To Ensure Responsible Business Practices By Licensed Firearms Dealers This bill requires the Department of Public Safety to adopt rules specifying the minimum security requirements for firearm dealers including the requirement of alarm systems, record retention and site hardening. The bill also designates as a Class C crime falsifying a certification that a firearm dealer is in compliance with department minimum security rules. The bill also creates a civil violation for failure to comply with the minimum security requirements outlined in the bill. Finally, the bill requires firearm dealers and gun shows to post signs informing customers of the crime of endangering the welfare of a child, background check requirements, suicide prevention resources and firearm safety course information.	Committee: JUDICIARY Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (2/12/2026)
LD 1835 Low	An Act To Improve Nonemergency Mainecare Transportation This bill does the following. 1. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to create and maintain a MaineCare nonemergency transportation dashboard, which is information posted on the department's publicly accessible website reflecting broker performance indicators and results. 2. It requires the department to track nonemergency transportation trips by region and categorize and issue a monthly report regarding all incidents involving the delivery on nonemergency transportation. 3. It establishes the nonemergency transportation ombudsman program as an independent program within the Executive Department to provide ombudsman services to MaineCare members regarding MaineCare nonemergency transportation provided by the department. 4. It requires the department to establish a nonemergency transportation advisory committee in each region to provide the department with recommendations regarding the performance of nonemergency transportation services in that region.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee Docket: Reported Out - ONTP (2/11/2026)	Neither For Nor Against
LD 1843 Low	An Act To Provide Peer Respite For Individuals With Mental Health Care Needs This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide peer respite services and establish a peer respite center. The center must provide 24-hour peer respite services to individuals 18 years of age or older in need of voluntary, short-term mental health services.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 1893 Low	An Act To Establish An Independent Office Of The Child Advocate This bill establishes the Office of the Child Advocate as an independent agency with jurisdiction over all children's services delivered or arranged by the State. It endows the Child Advocate with authority to receive complaints, access information, investigate, publicly report, make recommendations and advise the Governor, the Legislature, administrators of state agencies and the public on the best interests of children in providing services. It repeals the provision creating the ombudsman program in the Child and Family Services and Child Protection Act but retains services formerly provided by the ombudsman to be provided by the Office of the Child Advocate. It also provides for the transfer of funding from the ombudsman program to the Office of the Child Advocate.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 1911 Low	An Act To Automatically Seal Criminal History Record Information For Certain Crimes This bill establishes a system for automatically sealing criminal history record information associated with criminal convictions for certain crimes, provided that certain conditions are met. Automatic sealing refers to the process established by the bill by which criminal history record information related to qualifying convictions must be sealed and the dissemination of that information limited consistent with the requirements of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 15, section 2265, without the need to file a petition to seal the information. Under the bill, the Administrative Office of the Courts must routinely examine electronic case records and compile a list of criminal history record information that qualifies for automatic sealing under this legislation and provide that list to the appropriate courts to issue a sealing order. The bill provides a list of criminal convictions for which automatic sealing may be available. The underlying crimes include all Class E crimes except for sexual offenses; all Class D crimes except for certain crimes, such as certain violent crimes or certain offenses against a family member; certain Class D or Class E drug crimes committed prior to January 30, 2017; and other specified drug crimes. The bill provides that for an eligible criminal conviction to be automatically sealed, 5 years must have passed since the date of conviction for a Class D or Class E crime. For a Class A, Class B or Class C crime, 10 years must have passed since the date of conviction and the person who is the subject of the criminal history record information must have completed the person's sentence, including any period of supervised release. The criminal history record information is not eligible for sealing if the person who is the subject of the criminal history record information has been convicted of any other crimes in the time elapsed since the person satisfied the sentencing requirements of the eligible criminal conviction.	Committee: JUDICIARY Committee Docket: Work Session Held - TABLED (2/11/2026)	TBD
LD 1923 Low	An Act To Repurpose Long Creek Youth Development Center And Build A Community System Of Support This bill requires that, no later than January 1, 2027, the Long Creek Youth Development Center physical plant be repurposed into a secure residential treatment facility to provide services for juveniles involved in the juvenile justice system and at-risk youth, including, but not limited to, services for housing, behavioral health, education, substance use disorder prevention and treatment, wraparound case management and diversion and other services. The State must contract with community-based organizations to provide these services in conjunction with staff of the Department of Corrections. The bill also requires that, no later than January 1, 2027, the State must direct funds from the Department of Corrections' juvenile corrections and juvenile services budgets to fund community-based services for youth. The bill requires the Department of Corrections and the Department of Health and Human Services to convene a working group to study options and best practices for repurposing Long Creek Youth Development Center and reinvesting corrections funds currently designated for youth incarceration into community-based services. The working group must submit a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety and the Joint Standing Committee on Health and Human Services by January 15, 2026. The joint standing committees each may report out legislation based on the report to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. The bill authorizes the Maine Governmental Facilities Authority to issue securities in an amount not to exceed $10,000,000 outstanding at any one time to pay for capital construction, repairs and improvements to the Long Creek Youth Development Center to repurpose it into a secure residential treatment facility to provide services for juveniles and to be used to establish 2 community-based residential programs, one that supports youth leaving Long Creek Youth Development Center and one that provides an alternative to commitment at Long Creek Youth Development Center. The bill requires the Department of Corrections to develop and publish each month on its publicly accessible website data regarding the number of juveniles involved in the juvenile justice system.	Committee: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (1/21/2026)
LD 1941 Low	An Act To Implement Recommendations Of The Commission To Examine Reestablishing Parole This bill implements the recommendations of the Commission to Examine Reestablishing Parole, as established by Resolve 2021, chapter 126. Part A of this bill renames the State Parole Board the Maine Parole Board and increases the membership of the board from 5 to 7 members appointed by the Governor, at least one of whom must be a formerly incarcerated individual. It also provides that member appointments must be reviewed by the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over judiciary matters and confirmed by the Legislature, and members must receive annual training regarding best practices in evaluating applications for parole and designing appropriate conditions of parole. Part B of the bill amends the laws governing parole. Current law provides that only individuals in the custody of the Department of Corrections pursuant to a sentence imposed under the law in effect before May 1, 1976 are eligible for parole. As recommended by the Commission to Examine Reestablishing Parole, this bill establishes the option of parole for individuals sentenced to the custody of the Department of Corrections after May 1, 1976. The bill incorporates the concepts of positive reentry parole; research and testimony presented to the Commission to Examine Reestablishing Parole by persons with expertise in victims' rights and advocacy, probation and parole structure and restorative justice; and some of the technical aspects of Maine's existing parole law. Part C of the bill amends the laws governing sentencing to provide that, when a person is sentenced to imprisonment for life, the sentencing court must specify whether the person is or is not eligible for parole. Part D of the bill specifies that a person who is incarcerated and in the custody of the Department of Corrections on the effective date of this legislation is not eligible for parole until at least 5 years after the effective date of this legislation.	Committee: JUDICIARY Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (2/11/2026)	Support
LD 1942 Low	An Act To Modify Taxes Applying To Adult Use Cannabis, Hemp And Hemp Products Beginning January 1, 2026, this bill imposes a sales tax of 20% on hemp and hemp products that contain tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. It changes the percentage from 12% to 6% of the adult use cannabis sales tax and excise tax that is transferred to the Adult Use Cannabis Public Health and Safety and Municipal Opt-in Fund. It changes the method of taxation of adult use cannabis products to 10% of the average wholesale price of adult use cannabis sold by a cultivation facility licensee to other licensees. It provides that an excise tax is not imposed on the sale or transfer of adult use cannabis between cultivation facilities and products manufacturing facilities. It changes payment of the adult use cannabis excise tax to a quarterly schedule.	Committee: TAXATION; VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (2/12/2026)
LD 1962 Low	An Act To Establish The Corrections Ombudsman This bill establishes the Office of the Corrections Ombudsman. The office is responsible for: 1. Receiving, investigating and resolving complaints and suggestions from certain incarcerated persons and from staff of the Department of Corrections; 2. Providing information to the Governor, the department and its staff, the Legislature, certain incarcerated persons and their families and the public; 3. Promoting public awareness and understanding of the problems and challenges of incarceration; 4. Identifying systemic issues and responses upon which the department, the Governor and the Legislature may act; and 5. Ensuring compliance with relevant statutes, rules, regulations and policies concerning correctional facilities, services, staff and treatment of certain incarcerated persons.	Committee: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (1/28/2026)	Support
LD 1990 Low	An Act To Update The Requirements For Psychology Licensure This bill modifies licensure requirements for psychologists by allowing the State Board of Examiners of Psychologists to accept applications for licensure at any time after successful passage of the qualifying examination. Current law prevents the board from accepting such applications within 6 months of failure of the examination.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (1/13/2026)
LD 2000 Low	An Act To Update The Campaign Finance Laws This bill amends campaign finance laws as follows: 1. It increases the threshold amounts for financial transactions that require candidates, political action committees, ballot question committees and party committees to file 24-hour reports during the last 13 days before an election; 2. It extends the deadline for 24-hour reports so that the reports are due within 48 hours of the contribution or expenditure; 3. It increases the threshold amount that requires an independent expenditure report from spending in excess of $250 to advocate for or against a candidate to spending in excess of $1,000 per candidate; and 4. It directs the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices to amend its rules to provide that independent expenditures made during the 60 days before an election must be disclosed in a report within 2 calendar days of the expenditure.	02/20/26 10:00 AM in State House, Room 437 - Work Session
LD 2004 Low	An Act To Enhance Support Of Local Nutrition Incentive Programs By Modifying The Eligibility Requirements Of The Fund To Address Food Insecurity And Provide Nutrition Incentives This bill makes funds from the Fund To Address Food Insecurity and Provide Nutrition Incentives more readily available to local nutrition incentive programs by removing language that specifies federal food and nutrition assistance programs.	Committee: AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY CONSENT CALENDAR - FIRST DAY Under suspension of the rules CONSENT CALENDAR - SECOND DAY. The Bill was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED. In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. (2/12/2026)
LD 2011 Low	An Act To Remove The Mainecare Program From The Prescription Drug Benefit Provisions In The Maine Insurance Code This bill removes the MaineCare program from the definition of "carrier" for the purposes of the law governing health plans that provide prescription drug benefits under the Maine Insurance Code.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Committee Docket: Reported Out - OTP/ONTP (2/12/2026)
LD 2017 Low	An Act To Update Certain Statutes Governing School Nutrition This bill amends provisions of education law governing applications for free or reduced-price school meals by removing the requirement that the Department of Education contract for the development and implementation of an Internet-based application for such school meals, instead simply permitting the department to take these actions. It also changes requirements for making the application available on the department's publicly accessible website and instead permits the department to make the application available on a publicly accessible website. It also removes the requirement that a public school is solely responsible for processing that school's online applications. The bill modifies provisions governing alternative breakfast delivery service in schools by removing an exemption applying to certain school administrative units and removing the requirement that the department adopt rules related to the alternative breakfast delivery service, including rules establishing procedures to track health and academic outcomes of students and schools that participate in the service and schools' annual increase in participation in the service. The bill repeals a provision of education law governing access to food, collection of student meal debt and use of food as discipline in schools.	Committee: EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (1/28/2026)
LD 2019 Low	An Act To Amend The Laws Governing Licensure Of Wholesalers And Manufacturers Under The Maine Pharmacy Act This bill modifies the initial licensure qualifications for prescription drug manufacturers and wholesalers by allowing an applicant to apply for licensure before the applicant has obtained a registration number from the appropriate federal agencies but requires that a manufacturer or wholesaler licensed in this State file the applicable registration numbers with the Maine Board of Pharmacy once the registration numbers are obtained by the manufacturer or wholesaler. The bill also provides that the board may deny a license, refuse to renew a license or impose disciplinary sanctions if the manufacturer or wholesaler fails to file the applicable registration numbers with the board once the registration numbers are obtained.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMITTEE ON BILLS IN THE SECOND READING REPORTS NO FURTHER VERBAL AMENDMENTS NECESSARY. REPORT ACCEPTED. READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED, in concurrence. Ordered sent down forthwith (2/12/2026)
LD 2030 Low	An Act To Expand The Scope Of Practice Of Independent Practice Dental Hygienists This bill allows an independent practice dental hygienist to administer local anesthesia or nitrous oxide analgesia as long as the independent practice dental hygienist has the appropriate licensure authority.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (1/28/2026)
LD 2032 Low	An Act To Amend The Extreme Risk Protection Order Procedure This bill amends the laws governing extreme risk protection orders by adding the requirement that a copy of the judicial endorsement and all attachments be provided to the court. Current law requires that a copy of the notification to the restricted person including the date of notification be provided to the court.	Committee: JUDICIARY COMMITTEE ON BILLS IN THE SECOND READING REPORTS NO FURTHER VERBAL AMENDMENTS NECESSARY. REPORT ACCEPTED. READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED BY Committee Amendment "A" (H-796), in concurrence. Ordered sent down forthwith. (2/12/2026)
LD 2040 Low	An Act To Survey Food Insecurity In Maine This bill directs the Commissioner of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, in partnership with outside agencies or other state agencies as necessary, to institute, with input of the commissioner's advisory committee to guide the implementation of the State's strategic plan to end hunger in the State by 2030, an annual survey and regularly publish a report regarding food insecurity in the State.	Committee: AGRICULTURE, CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (1/27/2026)
LD 2083 Low	An Act To Expand Access To Certified Residential Medication Aide Training This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a certificate to an individual who has successfully completed a department-approved certified residential medication aide course that meets the medication administration training requirements for unlicensed assistive personnel in accordance with rules established by the department for certain facilities. The bill also requires the department to review the course curriculum at least every 5 years and allows the department to establish by rule certification fees and sanction fees for certified residential medication aides and instructors.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (2/11/2026)
LD 2103 Low	An Act Requiring Hospitals To Adopt Cybersecurity Plans This bill requires hospitals to adopt and submit to the Department of Health and Human Services a cybersecurity plan that includes provisions related to notifications, communications, continuity of care for patients and patient complaint processes in the event of a cybersecurity intrusion. The cybersecurity plan must include a provision for cybersecurity training for hospital employees and board members and organizations affiliated with the hospital. The bill also adds cybersecurity intrusions impacting patients' access to medical care to the definition of "sentinel event" in the laws governing required reporting of sentinel events.	02/24/26 1:00 PM in Cross Building, Room 209 - Public Hearing
LD 2106 Low	An Act To Prohibit The Disclosure Of Nonpublic Records Without Proper Judicial Review This bill prohibits a person acting on behalf of a public school, state postsecondary educational institution, health care facility, child care facility, family child care provider or public library from providing voluntary consent permitting a law enforcement officer engaged in immigration enforcement or supporting immigration enforcement to enter a nonpublic area of a public school, state postsecondary educational institution, health care facility, child care facility, home of a family child care provider or public library or access, review or obtain student, patient or library records. The bill also requires the Attorney General to publish, by January 1, 2027, model policies and guidance for public schools, state postsecondary educational institutions, health care facilities, child care facilities, family child care providers and public libraries related to limiting voluntary assistance with immigration enforcement activity to the fullest extent possible consistent with federal and state law. Public schools, state postsecondary educational institutions, health care facilities, child care facilities, family child care providers and public libraries must adopt the published policies and guidance or establish equivalent policies and guidance within 6 months of the Attorney General's publishing of the model policies and guidance.	Committee: JUDICIARY Committee Docket: Work Session Held - TABLED (2/5/2026)
LD 2108 Low	An Act To Establish The Suicide Mortality Review Panel This bill establishes the Suicide Mortality Review Panel, which is a multidisciplinary panel established to review the trends in deaths by suicide of all residents of the State. The panel is charged with reviewing records of cases of confirmed or suspected deaths by suicide and deaths recorded as undetermined in which suicide cannot be ruled out to identify strengths and weaknesses of the system of care and to recommend to the Commissioner of Health and Human Services ways to decrease the rate of deaths by suicide and improve the system for preventing death by suicide, including modifications to law, rules, training, policies and procedures. A report is required to be submitted by January 2nd of each year to the Governor, commissioner and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP (2/4/2026)
LD 2123 Low	An Act To Improve Dental Care Access For Children By Modifying The Mainecare Reimbursement Methodology For The Provision Of Anesthesia For Certain Dental Services This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to provide supplemental payments to providers when reimbursing medically necessary deep sedation or general anesthesia for dental services provided to a child at an ambulatory surgical center if the patient population receiving dental services at the ambulatory surgical center consists of at least 50% MaineCare members. The bill authorizes the department to adopt rules to implement this requirement. The bill requires the department to amend its rules in Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual to provide that a time limit may not be imposed on the provision of reimbursable anesthesia services for comprehensive dental services provided to a MaineCare member who is a child as long as those services are medically necessary and to set requirements for the reimbursement rate and billing processes applying to anesthesia services for comprehensive dental services provided to a child.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (2/11/2026)
LD 2125 Low	An Act To Sustain Access To Children's Residential Care Services This bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to establish an emergency rate determination process for services under Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 97, Appendix D and provides funding of $1,000,000 to establish an emergency sustainability fund to stabilize child residential treatment providers in danger of closing a facility or closing beds in a facility.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (2/5/2026)
LD 2129 Low	An Act To Prohibit Liens On Principal Residences And Wage Garnishments For Medical Debt This bill prohibits the placement of a lien on the principal place of residence of a consumer and prohibits the garnishment of salary or wages of a consumer when the related action is based on medical debt.	02/17/26 10:00 AM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Public Hearing
LD 2131 Low	An Act To Preserve And Improve Access To Nursing Facility Services In The State This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to establish a system to maintain and increase access to nursing home services statewide and to develop strategies to recruit and retain a workforce for nursing homes.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. (1/7/2026)
LD 2134 Low	An Act To Create An Exception To The Prohibition Of Tobacco Sales In Retail Establishments Containing Pharmacies For Certain Small Grocery Stores This bill creates an exception to the provision of law that prohibits a retail establishment that contains a pharmacy from obtaining a retail tobacco license. Under the bill, a grocery store containing a pharmacy is eligible for a retail tobacco license if the store has no more than 26,000 square feet of customer-accessible sales area; the pharmacy was established in the grocery store prior to July 7, 2025 and is independently licensed and operates in a separately demised, leased space; all tobacco sales are made from the grocery store's independent inventory and point-of-sale system; and the grocery store complies with all other requirements under the provisions governing retail tobacco licenses. The bill also removes references to the sale of tobacco through vending machines or the practice of giving away tobacco products in the course of trade, both of which were made illegal by Public Law 2025, chapter 367.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (2/3/2026)
LD 2144 Low	Resolve, To Establish The Working Group To Prioritize Wellness And Mental Health Resources For Heritage Industries This resolve creates the Working Group to Prioritize Wellness and Mental Health Resources for Heritage Industries, which is directed to review existing mental health and wellness resources available to individuals in Maine's heritage industries, identify gaps in the provision of services and barriers to accessing existing resources, examine successful models from other states and jurisdictions, develop recommendations for establishing sustainable funding mechanisms and service delivery models and explore opportunities for public education to reduce stigma around mental health issues and increase awareness of mental health services. The resolve requires the working group to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the joint standing committees of the Legislature having jurisdiction over agriculture, conservation and forestry matters, marine resources matters and health and human services matters by December 1, 2026 and authorizes the joint standing committees to each submit legislation to the 133rd Legislature in 2027.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (2/11/2026)
LD 2148 Low	An Act To Amend The Laws Governing The Health Insurance Premium Cap For State Employees This bill provides that the total premium increase for active and retired state employee health insurance for fiscal years ending after June 30, 2026 is limited to no more than any percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index plus 10%. The limitation does not apply to the fully insured Medicare Advantage prescription drug plan.	Committee: STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (2/11/2026)
LD 2162 Low	An Act To Regulate And Prevent Children's Access To Artificial Intelligence Chatbots With Human-like Features And Social Artificial Intelligence Companions This bill prohibits operators and distributors of artificial intelligence chatbots and social artificial intelligence companions from making accessible to minors any chatbots or social artificial intelligence companions that have human-like features. A chatbot with human-like features means a chatbot that behaves in a way that conveys humanity, sentience, emotions or desires; attempts to build an emotional relationship with the user; or impersonates a real individual, living or dead. The bill provides an exemption for therapy chatbots, as long as a licensed mental health professional prescribes and monitors the minor's use of the therapy chatbot and the therapy chatbot and its developers adhere to additional required safeguards. The bill places limitations on an operator and distributor's collection and storage of user information and requires an operator and distributor to implement and maintain systems to detect and respond to situations in which a user indicates that the user intends to harm the user or another person. The bill allows the Attorney General to bring a civil action against a person that violates the provisions of this legislation and also provides a private right of action that a minor or the minor's guardian may bring on the minor's behalf.	02/17/26 10:00 AM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Public Hearing
LD 2166 Low	Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review Of Chapter 6: Delegation Of Nursing Activities And Tasks To Unlicensed Assistive Personnel By Registered Professional Nurses, A Major Substantive Rule Of The Department Of Professional And Financial Regulation, State Board Of Nursing This resolve provides for legislative review of Chapter 6: Delegation of Nursing Activities and Tasks to Unlicensed Assistive Personnel by Registered Professional Nurses, a major substantive rule of the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, State Board of Nursing.	02/17/26 1:00 PM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Work Session
LD 2167 Low	Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review Of Portions Of Chapter 100: Enforcement Procedures, A Major Substantive Rule Of The Maine Health Data Organization This resolve provides for legislative review of portions of Chapter 100: Enforcement Procedures, a major substantive rule of the Maine Health Data Organization.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP (2/11/2026)

Concept Draft Legislation

Bill	Title & Summary	Status	Position
LD 335 Concept Draft	An Act To Safeguard Reproductive Rights This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to safeguard reproductive rights.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; JUDICIARY Reports READ. Senator CARNEY of Cumberland moved the Majority report to REFER TO COMMITTEE. Motion by Senator STEWART of Aroostook to INDEFINITELY POSTPONE FAILED Roll Call Number 691 Yeas 13 - Nays 18 - Excused 4 - Absent 0 Subsequently, Report ACCEPTED and the Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES in concurrence. PREVAILED Roll Call Number 692 Yeas 18 - Nays 13 - Excused 4 - Absent 0 (1/27/2026)	TBD
LD 378 Concept Draft	An Act To Strengthen The Health Care System In Maine This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to strengthen the health care system in this State.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	TBD
LD 426 Concept Draft	An Act To Protect The Human Rights Of Individuals In The State This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to protect the human rights of individuals in the State.	Committee: JUDICIARY Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	TBD
LD 564 Concept Draft	An Act To Improve The Operations Of State Government This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to make certain changes to state laws to improve the operations of State Government.	Committee: STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	TBD
LD 595 Concept Draft	An Act To Update Privacy Protections For Maine Consumers This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to further update certain consumer privacy laws in response to recent developments in federal and state consumer privacy laws.	Committee: JUDICIARY CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	TBD
LD 663 Concept Draft	An Act Regarding Health Care This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to amend provisions of law related to health care.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	TBD
LD 695 Concept Draft	An Act Regarding The Laws Of The State Of Maine This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to make changes regarding the laws of the State.	02/18/26 9:00 AM in Cross Building, Room 214 - Public Hearing	TBD
LD 766 Concept Draft	An Act To Protect The Children Of Maine This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill would enact measures to protect the children of Maine.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	TBD
LD 781 Concept Draft	An Act To Provide For Appropriations And Allocations This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to provide for appropriations and allocations.	Committee: APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCIAL AFFAIRS CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	TBD
LD 1004 Concept Draft	An Act To Ensure The Proper Operation Of The State This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to make changes to the laws to ensure the proper operations of the State.	Committee: STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	TBD
LD 1119 Concept Draft	An Act Regarding Reproductive Health Care This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to amend the laws regarding reproductive health care.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	TBD
LD 1136 Concept Draft	An Act To Defend The Rights Of Lgbtq+ Persons In The State This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to update certain laws to protect the rights of individuals who identify as LGBTQ+.	Committee: JUDICIARY Leave to Withdraw, Feb 10, 2026 (2/10/2026)	TBD

Other Legislation

Bill	Title & Summary	Status	Position
LD 127	An Act To Strengthen Legislative Oversight Of Government Agencies And Programs By Reaffirming The Legislature's Access To Confidential Records This bill provides that the Government Oversight Committee may receive information and records that are privileged and confidential and that that information and those records are exempt from public disclosure.	Committee: JUDICIARY Committee Docket: Work Session Held - TABLED (2/6/2026)
LD 222	An Act To Establish A Take-back And Disposal Program For Firefighting And Fire-suppressing Foam To Which Perfluoroalkyl And Polyfluoroalkyl Substances Have Been Added This bill requires the Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with the Department of Public Safety, Office of the State Fire Marshal, to design and, by July 1, 2027, implement a take-back and disposal program for firefighting and fire-suppressing foam to which perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances have been intentionally added that is located in the State and that is in the possession of a person located in the State. The program must provide for the collection of such firefighting or fire-suppressing foam from a person that voluntarily requests collection and for the safe and contained disposal of the collected foam. The department may contract with a 3rd-party entity to implement and administer the program and may adopt rules as necessary for the implementation and administration of the program.	Committee: ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)	Support
LD 245	An Act To Implement The Recommendations Of The Blue Ribbon Commission To Study Emergency Medical Services In The State This bill does the following. 1. It establishes a permanent Maine Emergency Medical Services Commission to monitor and evaluate the State's emergency medical services system on a continuing basis and to provide recommendations to the appropriate state agencies and to the Legislature regarding necessary changes in the emergency medical services system. 2. It permits the municipal officers of a municipality to adopt and post a plan stipulating the method by which transporting emergency medical services will be delivered within the municipality. A municipality is not required to directly or indirectly provide or fund the delivery of transporting emergency medical services within the municipality. 3. It amends the Maine Emergency Medical Services Act of 1982 to authorize an emergency medical services provider to render emergency medical services within a hospital or health care facility where the provider is a contractor of the hospital or facility. 4. It directs the Department of Public Safety, Maine Emergency Medical Services to conduct a funding needs analysis of communities seeking to engage in regional collaboration or the adoption of a regional model in the delivery of emergency medical services and to submit a report describing the findings of its analysis and any associated recommendations on or before December 3, 2025 to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety. The committee may report out related legislation to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. 5. It directs the Department of Public Safety, Maine Emergency Medical Services to submit to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety by December 3, 2025 a proposal, including draft legislation, regarding the reorganization of the Emergency Medical Services' Board consistent with the document titled "Maine EMS: Two-Year Action Plan" published by Maine Emergency Medical Services on October 27, 2023. The committee may report out related legislation to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. 6. It directs the Department of Public Safety, Maine Emergency Medical Services, as resources allow, to develop and, not later than July 1, 2026, implement a public information campaign designed to enhance the public's understanding and appreciation of the delivery of emergency medical services, the design and funding of the emergency medical services system in the State and the essentiality of the services provided by emergency medical services entities. On or before December 3, 2025, Maine Emergency Medical Services is required to submit a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety regarding its development and anticipated implementation of the public information campaign. The committee may report out related legislation to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature.	Committee: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)	Monitor
LD 411	Resolve, Directing The Attorney General To Update Rules Relating To The Disposition Of Forfeited Firearms This bill amends the law governing the disposition of firearms that have been forfeited to the State as a mandatory part of a criminal sentence under the general sentencing provisions of the Maine Criminal Code. Current law requires that forfeited firearms used in commission of a murder or unlawful homicide crime be destroyed by the State. The bill extends the requirement to all firearms that have been forfeited as mandated by the general sentencing provisions of the Maine Criminal Code. The bill also eliminates one of the exceptions to mandatory forfeiture applying to cases in which the firearm subject to forfeiture is rightfully owned by another person. The bill amends the provision of law governing forfeiture of firearms within the Maine Juvenile Code to align with the general sentencing provisions as amended by this bill. The bill amends the relevant asset forfeiture laws to align with the narrowed exception for 3rd-party claims to firearms subject to forfeiture as provided by this bill. Finally, the bill directs the Attorney General to update rules governing the disposition of forfeited firearms under state law.	Committee: JUDICIARY Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 496	An Act Regarding The Issuance Of Silver Alerts This bill amends the provisions of law governing the Silver Alert Program to clarify that a person reported missing from a group home, mental hospital, psychiatric ward or other facility or division of a facility providing inpatient mental health services in the State is automatically considered a missing endangered person and a Silver Alert must be issued for that person. The bill requires that Silver Alerts be issued immediately to all police departments statewide and to all hospitals, homeless shelters, soup kitchens and public libraries in the State within 24 hours. When a person who is the subject of a Silver Alert is not located, the alert must be reissued after 2 weeks and every 2 weeks thereafter.	Committee: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 587	An Act To Require School Boards To Adopt A Policy On Automated External Defibrillator Access At School-sponsored Athletic Events This bill requires school administrative units, beginning in the 2026-2027 school year, to develop cardiac emergency response plans, which must address the appropriate use of school personnel to respond to incidents involving an individual experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening emergency on school grounds. A cardiac emergency response plan must include the establishment of a cardiac emergency response team, the activation of the team in an incident of sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening emergency, placement of automated external defibrillators in school buildings, distribution of the plan to school personnel, organization of personnel training on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of automated external defibrillators and annual practice drills of each and a process for annual review and evaluation of the plan. The bill also requires that a school board approve an athletic emergency action plan that addresses the appropriate use of school personnel in response to an individual experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threatening emergency at a school- sponsored athletic event and requires that each school athletic venue be equipped with an automated external defibrillator. The bill requires the Department of Education to provide funding for the implementation of cardiac emergency response plans and athletic emergency action plans with priority to schools in which at least 50% of the students are economically disadvantaged.	Committee: EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 697	An Act To Direct The Maine Prescription Drug Affordability Board To Assess Strategies To Reduce Prescription Drug Costs And To Take Steps To Implement Reference-based Pricing This bill makes the following changes to the laws governing the Maine Prescription Drug Affordability Board. 1. It adds to the board the executive director of the Maine Health Data Organization, or the executive director's designee, as an ex officio, nonvoting member. 2. It removes the authority of the board to recommend that public payors pay an annual assessment to support the administration of the board. 3. It changes the scope of the duties of the board from determining prescription drug spending targets to focusing on an assessment of strategies to reduce prescription drug costs, reduce the rate of growth in prescription drug spending and reduce cost barriers for consumers. 4. It requires the board to review how states with authority to establish upper payment limits have implemented that authority and their regulation of pharmacy benefits managers, to recommend whether the board should have comparable authority and to assess implementing reference-based pricing for the first 10 prescription drugs for which the Medicare program has negotiated maximum fair prices through the Medicare drug price negotiation program. 5. It requires the board to recommend annual spending targets for prescription drugs for public payors and implementing complementary purchasing strategies; annual spending targets and strategies for the commercial insurance market; transparency requirements and supply chain regulation; strategies to reduce out-of-pocket costs through insurance regulation; and aligning prescription drug payment with acquisition costs. The bill also directs the board to recommend a program to reduce the impact of prescription drug costs on the State's health care system, stem the rate of growth in prescription drug spending and reduce cost barriers for consumers based on data the board has collected. The board is directed to submit in reports to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health coverage, insurance and financial services matters a preliminary plan to implement the program by January 30, 2026 and a final plan by October 1, 2027. The joint standing committee is authorized to report out legislation based on the reports.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 721	Resolve, To Support The Full Implementation Of Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics In The State This resolve provides one-time funding to support the full implementation of the 5 certified community behavioral health clinics certified by the State as part of the federal certified community behavioral health clinic Medicaid demonstration program, including hiring clinical and administrative staff critical to the success of the program. The funding must support enhancement of the Department of Health and Human Services' proposed certified community behavioral health clinic rate methodology, including increasing wages for new clinical positions that require graduate-level education from 100% to 125% of the state median wage as reported by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics and increasing wages for new administrative positions from 75% to 100% of the state median wage as reported by the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)
LD 784	An Act To Create A Rebuttable Presumption Related To Specialized Risk Screening For First Responders For policies issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027, this bill prohibits a health insurance carrier from denying coverage to an enrollee who is a first responder for specialized risk screening recommended by a health care provider. It limits the ability of a health insurance carrier to require prior authorization for specialized risk screening. It also prohibits a carrier from imposing any out-of-pocket costs for specialized risk screening except for high deductible health plans offered for use in connection with a health savings account to the extent required under federal regulations.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 858	An Act To Ensure Behavioral And Mental Health Services Are Available To Students By Providing Grants To Schools That Contract For Those Services This bill establishes a grant program within the Department of Education to provide grants to school administrative units that contract for behavioral and mental health services provided by licensed behavioral and mental health service providers. The bill limits the use of funds provided through the grant program to behavioral and mental health services that are not otherwise covered or reimbursable through the MaineCare program and provides that funds must be used in a manner that does not supplant qualified and available school administrative unit behavioral and mental health staff. The bill also provides that the amounts of the grants must be based on a school administrative unit's population and provides ongoing funding for the grants starting in fiscal year 2025-26.	Committee: EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 1012	An Act To Fund The Operations Of The University Of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Laboratory This bill establishes the University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Laboratory Operations Fund and directs the State Liquor and Lottery Commission to develop and initiate a $4 instant lottery game to raise funds for the fund. The commission is required to submit a report by December 15, 2028 detailing the status of the instant lottery game to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over lottery matters, which may report out legislation related to the report to the 134th Legislature in 2029.	Committee: EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS; VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 1126	An Act Requiring Serial Numbers On Firearms And Prohibiting Undetectable Firearms This bill establishes unlawful conduct related to certain firearms and firearm components without serial numbers. The bill also establishes penalties for violations of the provisions. The bill also establishes requirements for the imprinting of certain firearms and firearm components with serial numbers by federal firearms licensees and prohibits the manufacture, possession, importation, offer, sale or transfer of undetectable firearms in the State.	Committee: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY; JUDICIARY Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 1187	An Act To Include Certain Mental Health Data In Firearm Fatalities And Hospitalizations Reports This bill adds to the categories of uniform crime reports that all law enforcement agencies are required to submit to the Department of Public Safety, Bureau of State Police, State Bureau of Identification to require the reporting of the number of mental health referrals made pursuant to the extreme risk protection order statutes and the number of individuals who received services pursuant to those referrals.	Committee: CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY Recalled by Legislature (1/7/2026)
LD 1426	Resolve, To Expand Child Assertive Community Treatment This resolve requires that, by December 31, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services issue 2 requests for proposals for pilot programs to develop child assertive community treatment teams to serve the Lewiston and Bangor geographic areas. The request for proposals must require the awardees of the grants to use workforce incentives designed to attract, train and retain child assertive community treatment team staff. The department is required to engage in a competitive process to determine the awardees. The awardees for each grant may be, but are not required to be, the same entity. The resolve also provides one-time funding to provide 2 grants of $160,000 each for the 2 pilot programs. Within 90 days following the conclusion of the pilot programs, the department must submit a report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters describing the outcomes and recommendations for continuation of the pilot programs.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 1488	An Act Regarding Cannabis Testing This bill removes the prohibition of simultaneously using manufacturing-related equipment, supplies and facilities for the manufacturing of cannabis and cannabis products and the manufacturing of hemp products and clarifies that the further processing, manufacturing or alteration of cannabis or cannabis products does not include the use of a cannabis extract or distillate in the creation of a baked good or other edible cannabis product except for potency, homogeneity and cannabinoid profiles.	Committee: VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS Recalled by Legislature (1/7/2026)
LD 1654	An Act To Exempt Certain Sales And Transfers Of Adult Use Cannabis From Excise Tax Under current law, an adult cannabis cultivation facility licensee is required to submit a monthly return to the State Tax Assessor and pay all the excise taxes incurred from sales to other cannabis licensees that occurred within the preceding month. This bill extends the amount of time a cultivation facility licensee has to remit the excise taxes to 120 days after a sale upon which an excise tax is levied or, for a cultivation facility that holds a license to operate another cannabis establishment, 120 days after the date of transfer or other licensed activity as specified in the bill.	Committee: TAXATION Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 1669	An Act To Establish The Cannabis Advisory Council This bill establishes the Cannabis Advisory Council to make recommendations to the Director of the Office of Cannabis Policy within the Department of Administrative and Financial Services and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over cannabis matters concerning how best to work with state agencies, municipal governments, the medical use cannabis industry and adult use cannabis industry and citizen groups to make improvements to and maintain the quality of the State's medical use cannabis industry and adult use cannabis industry concerning matters of interest to the State's medical use cannabis industry and adult use cannabis industry, including, but not limited to, changes to the tracking system contract, public health protection and federal legalization. The council is responsible for bringing forward to the director and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over cannabis matters issues of concern to the medical use cannabis industry and adult use cannabis industry and for assisting in the dissemination of information to members of the medical use cannabis industry and adult use cannabis industry.	Committee: VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 1677	An Act To Establish The Alzheimer's Disease And Related Dementias Prevention And Support Program This bill establishes the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Prevention and Support Program, which the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention must administer in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Services, office of aging and disability services. The program's objectives include public education, supporting efforts for early detection and diagnosis, reducing cognitive decline and other negative outcomes and supporting care planning and management. The bill also creates the Healthy Brain Initiative Council as an advisory board composed of various stakeholders including, but not limited to, families affected by Alzheimer's disease or related dementias, medical professionals and medical facilities that treat individuals with Alzheimer's disease or related dementias, research and advocacy organizations and employees of the office of aging and disability services. The council is responsible for studying and developing findings and recommendations on a series of topics including, but not limited to, the occurrence of Alzheimer's disease or related dementias in this State, the treatment and care available and policies that address public awareness, prevention and early detection, treatment and care, safety concerns, legal concerns, research and assistance to families. By December 3, 2025, the council must submit to the Governor and the Legislature a 5-year plan outlining its recommendations to address the concerns the council is tasked with studying under the bill. A plan that is in effect on the effective date of this legislation that was developed by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in consultation with stakeholders, to address Alzheimer's disease or related dementias prevention and support, is deemed to fulfill the requirement to create a plan by December 3, 2025. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention is required to issue annual updates on the progress of the plan's implementation, and the council is required to issue an updated plan every 5 years.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 1730	An Act Regarding The Beneficial Electrification Policy Of The State amendment is the minority report. This amendment incorporates a fiscal note. 13 (Filing No.	Committee: ENERGY, UTILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (1/29/2026)
LD 1738	An Act To Establish The Biohazard Waste Disposal Grant Program To Support Public Health Efforts In The State This bill establishes the Biohazard Waste Disposal Grant Program within the Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The purpose of the program is to disseminate grant funds to community organizations seeking to develop or enhance community hypodermic apparatus mitigation and disposal efforts. The center is required to establish grant guidelines and selection requirements, as well as to submit an annual report to the Legislature.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 1745	An Act To Stabilize Residential Treatment Capacity For Children And Youth In Maine This bill does the following. 1. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to notify the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters whenever a children's residential care facility closes. The notification must include the name of the facility, the services provided, the number of beds and employees and the reasons for closure. The notification must be within 2 weeks of closure. 2. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to convene a stakeholder group of child residential treatment providers to identify the short-term and long-term staffing and resources needs to ensure the sustainability of child residential treatment providers and report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters. 3. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to assess the costs associated with children and youth with long stays in hospital emergency departments and out-of-state placements of children and youth with behavioral health care needs or developmental disabilities and submit a report to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters. 4. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to amend its rules in Chapter 101: MaineCare Benefits Manual, Chapter III, Section 97, Private Non-Medical Institution Services, Appendix D, no later than December 3, 2025, to establish a payment model for aftercare services attempts on a per member, per month basis. The payment model must include travel costs and require minimum standards for service delivery attempts, with a maximum of 2 reimbursable unsuccessful delivery attempts per case. The rules must also allow for delivery of aftercare services by staff who have qualifications below a bachelor's degree but have experience with the family, as long as the family provides consent. 5. It provides funding of $1,000,000 to establish an emergency sustainability fund to stabilize child residential treatment providers in danger of closing a facility or closing beds in a facility.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 1840	An Act To Amend The Maine Medical Use Of Cannabis Act This bill makes the following changes to the Maine Medical Use of Cannabis Act. 1. It amends the definition of "caregiver retail store" to clarify that it is a retail store with regular business hours at a location accessible to the general public where a registered caregiver sells cannabis paraphernalia, cannabis plants, harvested cannabis, related supplies or educational materials to qualifying patients without an appointment and other items to the general public. It provides that a caregiver retail store does not include an office at a location not accessible to the general public where a registered caregiver provides consultation services, cannabis paraphernalia, cannabis plants, harvested cannabis, related supplies or educational materials to qualifying patients by appointment. 2. It prohibits the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, except where explicitly authorized or directed by law, from requiring a registered caregiver, registered dispensary, cannabis testing facility or manufacturing facility to use a form issued by the department in complying with the requirements of the Act or of adopted rules and from issuing a guidance document or memorandum to such persons regarding compliance by those persons with the requirements of the Act or of adopted rules. The bill directs the department?s Office of Cannabis Policy to, as expeditiously as possible, rescind and remove from public availability any noncompliant forms and guidance documents or memoranda. 3. It repeals the provision of law that authorizes a caregiver to receive reasonable monetary compensation for costs associated with cultivating cannabis plants or assisting a qualifying patient with that patient's medical use of cannabis. 4. It provides that a caregiver is authorized to transport, sell, offer to sell or furnish cannabis plants or harvested cannabis on the property or premises owned, leased or rented by the caregiver; at trade shows, festivals or other cannabis industry-related events; or through delivery to or private arrangement with a qualifying patient, caregiver or registered dispensary. 5. It removes the process under the Act by which a person that is not a qualifying patient, registered caregiver, registered dispensary or manufacturing facility may receive authorization from the department to engage in cannabis extraction using an inherently hazardous substance and prohibits such cannabis extraction other than by qualifying patients, registered caregivers, registered dispensaries or manufacturing facilities. A qualifying patient, registered caregiver, registered dispensary or manufacturing facility that engages in cannabis extraction using an inherently hazardous substance must comply with any rules regarding that activity adopted by the department by rule but is not required to obtain additional approvals or authorizations from the department to do so. 6. It prohibits the department from posting on its publicly accessible website or otherwise making publicly available, except upon request, applications, supporting information and other nonconfidential information regarding a registered caregiver, including any address where the registered caregiver cultivates, manufactures, tests, packages, stores or sells cannabis plants or harvested cannabis under this chapter. The bill directs the office to, as expeditiously as possible, remove from the office's website and otherwise from public availability, except upon request, any such nonconfidential information regarding registered caregivers. 7. It prohibits the department from requiring a caregiver retail store, registered dispensary, cannabis testing facility or manufacturing facility to use a form provided by the department to demonstrate municipal approval or other local authorization, if such approval or authorization is required by the municipality in which the store, dispensary or facility is seeking to operate. 8. It provides that a caregiver retail store, registered dispensary, cannabis testing facility or manufacturing facility that was previously issued by the department a registration or other authorization to operate and was subsequently denied such registration or other authorization based solely on the failure of the store, dispensary or facility to obtain a completed form provided by the department to demonstrate municipal approval or other local authorization, or based solely on the failure of the municipality to adopt or amend an ordinance or approve a warrant article as required by law, is deemed in compliance with applicable municipal approval or local authorization requirements under the Act. A caregiver retail store, registered dispensary, cannabis testing facility or manufacturing facility deemed in compliance with applicable municipal approval or local authorization requirements pursuant to this provision may request and the department shall issue a registration or other authorization to renew operations, provided that: the store, dispensary or facility is to be located in the same municipality in which it was located when last issued a registration or other authorization to operate by the department; and the store, dispensary or facility satisfies all other applicable registration or authorization requirements pursuant to the Act and adopted rules, excluding any such requirements relating to municipal approval or local authorization and any such requirements that the store, dispensary or facility maintain continuous operation since it was last issued a registration or other authorization to operate by the department. 9. It provides that the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, in its annual report to the Legislature regarding the medical cannabis program, must include information regarding the gross sales of cannabis for medical use for the current and prior fiscal years. 10. It directs the Department of Administrative and Financial Services, Office of Cannabis Policy, on or before January 9, 2026, to provisionally adopt and submit for legislative review major substantive rules necessary to implement the medical cannabis research grant program in accordance with the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 22, section 2430, subsection 5.	Committee: VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 1897	An Act Regarding Outdoor Cultivation In The Medical Use Cannabis And Adult Use Cannabis Industries This bill amends the Maine Medical Use of Cannabis Act and the Cannabis Legalization Act by: 1. Defining "sun-grown cultivators" under the medical use cannabis provisions and "sun-grown cultivation" under the adult use cannabis provisions; 2. Increasing the number of cannabis plants and expanding the area of canopy of cannabis plants that a medical use caregiver who is a sun-grown cultivator and who registers based on annual plant count or canopy may cultivate. The bill establishes a registration fee for such caregivers; 3. Creating requirements for the outdoor cultivation of cannabis for medical use; 4. Allowing medical use caregiver assistants and contractors, employees and other support staff of adult use cannabis licensees a 30-day grace period to assist, work or perform services after submitting an application for an individual identification card; 5. Repealing the prohibition on cannabis collectives under the medical use of cannabis provisions; and 6. Repealing the mandatory testing requirement for yeast and mold for adult use cannabis and cannabis products.	Committee: VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 1943 TBD	Resolve, To Establish A Commission To Study The Role Of Private Equity In Maine's Economy And In Key Economic Sectors This resolve establishes the Commission to Study Private Equity Firms to conduct a comprehensive study of the role of private equity firms in the State's economy, with a focus on transparency, investment practices and private equity's effects on key sectors such as energy, health care, housing and nursing homes. The commission must issue a report with its findings and recommendations to the Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services no later than December 3, 2025, which may include legislative proposals to address the effects of private equity firms on the State's economy and on key economic sectors, such as energy, health care, housing and nursing homes.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES; HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025)	Monitor
LD 1971	An Act To Protect Workers In This State By Clarifying The Relationship Of State And Local Law Enforcement Agencies With Federal Immigration Authorities This bill enacts provisions to clarify the relationship of state and local law enforcement agencies, including correctional facilities, and state employees with federal immigration authorities. The bill: 1. Prohibits a law enforcement agency from stopping, investigating, interrogating, arresting or detaining a person for immigration enforcement purposes, including in response to a hold request, immigration detainer or administrative warrant issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security, or allowing the United States Department of Homeland Security access to inmates or inmate information or providing law enforcement agency resources or personnel to assist immigration enforcement activities; 2. Clarifies that a law enforcement agency upon a request from the United States Department of Homeland Security may arrest and detain a person and perform other law enforcement duties due to suspected criminal activity or other reasons not solely based on the person's immigration status; 3. Establishes the permissible scope of collaboration of a law enforcement agency with a joint law enforcement task force; 4. Requires a law enforcement agency to release as soon as possible and detain no longer than 48 hours a person determined to be held solely for immigration enforcement purposes; 5. Establishes duties and prohibitions for law enforcement agencies regarding immigration issues of inmates, including requiring the agency to inform an inmate of the inmate's rights prior to interview by an immigration authority and whether the agency intends to comply with a hold request and prohibiting an agency from restricting access to educational programming and good conduct credits or determining an inmate's custodial status based upon the inmate's immigration status; and 6. Prohibits state employees other than law enforcement officers from inquiring into immigration status unless the inquiry is required by law or necessary to provide the service sought by the resident.	Committee: JUDICIARY Law Without Signature (1/7/2026)
LD 2005	An Act Regarding Mail Order Delivery Of Prescription Drugs This bill requires pharmacy benefits managers to allow for the dispensing of a covered person's prescriptions at a network pharmacy if the prescription is delayed by more than one day after the expected delivery date provided by a mail order pharmacy or if the prescription drug arrives in an unusable condition.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Committee Docket: Voted - OTP-AM (2/4/2026)
LD 2082	An Act To Regulate The Use Of Artificial Intelligence In Providing Certain Mental Health Services This bill allows certain licensed professionals to use artificial intelligence to assist in providing administrative support or supplementary support in therapy or psychotherapy services. The bill provides requirements for the use of artificial intelligence as well as prohibitions on its use. The bill also provides for the enforcement of the provisions and penalties for violations.	02/17/26 10:00 AM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Public Hearing
LD 2170	An Act To Correct Inconsistencies, Conflicts And Errors In The Laws Of Maine Part A does the following. Section 1 removes an obsolete cross-reference and makes a technical correction. Section 2 makes a technical correction. Section 3 corrects a cross-reference. Section 4 corrects a cross-reference and makes a technical correction. Section 5 corrects a cross-reference and makes a technical correction. Section 6 removes an obsolete cross-reference. Section 7 removes an obsolete cross-reference. Section 8 makes grammatical changes. Section 9 removes an obsolete cross-reference. Section 10 corrects a cross-reference and makes a grammatical change. Section 11 corrects a cross-reference. Section 12 corrects a cross-reference and makes a grammatical change. Section 13 corrects a cross-reference. Section 14 corrects a cross-reference. Section 15 corrects a cross-reference. Section 16 corrects a cross-reference. Section 17 corrects a cross-reference. Section 18 corrects a cross-reference and makes technical corrections. Section 19 corrects a cross-reference. Section 20 makes a technical correction. Section 21 corrects a cross-reference. Section 22 corrects a clerical error. Section 23 corrects a clerical error. Sections 24 and 25 correct a clerical error and make a technical correction. Sections 26, 27 and 28 make grammatical changes. Section 29 makes a grammatical change. Section 30 corrects a cross-reference. Section 31 corrects a cross-reference. Section 32 corrects a clerical error. Section 33 makes a technical correction. Section 34 corrects a conflict created by Public Law 2025, chapters 219 and 344, which affected the same provision of law, by repealing the provision and replacing it with the chapter 219 version. Section 35 makes a technical correction. Section 36 corrects a lettering problem created by Public Law 2025, chapters 219 and 344, which enacted 2 substantively different provisions with the same paragraph letter. Section 37 makes a technical correction. Section 38 makes grammatical changes. Section 39 makes a technical correction. Section 40 corrects a cross-reference. Section 41 corrects a conflict created by Public Law 2025, chapters 388 and 393, which affected the same provision of law, by repealing the provision. Section 42 corrects a cross-reference. Section 43 corrects a conflict created by Public Law 2025, chapters 388 and 393, which affected the same provision of law, by repealing the provision. Section 44 corrects a conflict created by Public Law 2025, chapters 388 and 393, which affected the same provision of law, by repealing the provision. Section 45 corrects a conflict created by Public Law 2025, chapters 385 and 388, which affected the same provision of law, by repealing the provision and replacing it with the chapter 388 version. Section 46 corrects a conflict created by Public Law 2025, chapters 385 and 388, which affected the same provision of law, by incorporating the changes made by both laws. Section 47 corrects a cross-reference. Section 48 makes a technical correction and a grammatical change. Section 49 corrects a cross-reference. Section 50 makes a grammatical change. Section 51 corrects a reference to the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. Section 52 corrects a reference to the Director of the Bureau of Parks and Lands within the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry and makes a grammatical change. Section 53 corrects a conflict created by Public Law 2025, chapters 367 and 388, which affected the same provision of law, by repealing the provision. Section 54 removes an obsolete cross-reference. Section 55 removes an obsolete cross-reference. Section 56 modifies a provision to reflect the intent of the revision clause in Public Law 2025, chapter 316, section 3 by replacing a phrase that was based on the term "physician assistant." Section 57 corrects a clerical error.	02/03/26 1:00 PM in State House, Room 438 - Public Hearing
LD 2172	Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review Of Portions Of Chapter 33: Rule Governing Physical Restraint And Seclusion, A Major Substantive Rule Of The Department Of Education, State Board Of Education This resolve provides for legislative review of portions of Chapter 33: Rule Governing Physical Restraint and Seclusion, a major substantive rule of the Department of Education, State Board of Education.	Committee: EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (2/11/2026)
LD 2177 TBD	An Act To Update And Improve The Mainecare Reimbursement System This bill updates certain definitions and rule-making requirements related to the establishment of a MaineCare payment model and the determination of MaineCare reimbursements for covered services.	02/11/26 10:00 AM in Cross Building, Room 209 - Public Hearing
LD 2197	An Act To Prohibit The Sale And Leaseback Of A Health Care Entity's Main Campus To A Real Estate Investment Trust As Recommended By The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State This bill is reported out by the Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services pursuant to Resolve 2025, chapter 106 to implement a recommendation from the Commission to Evaluate the Scope of Regulatory Review and Oversight over Health Care Transactions That Impact the Delivery of Health Care Services in the State. The joint standing committee has not taken a position on the substance of this bill. By reporting this bill out, the joint standing committee is not suggesting and does not intend to suggest that it agrees or disagrees with any aspect of this bill; instead, the joint standing committee is reporting the bill out for the sole purpose of having a bill printed that can be referred to a joint standing committee for an appropriate public hearing and subsequent processing in the normal course. The joint standing committee is taking this action to ensure clarity and transparency in the legislative review of the proposals contained in the bill. This bill prohibits the department from licensing a health care entity that enters into any arrangement with a real estate investment trust for the sale and leaseback of the health care entity?s main campus or primary location to the real estate investment trust. The bill provides an exemption to a hospital that was leasing its main campus from a real estate investment trust prior to July 1, 2026 and provides that a hospital maintains its exempt status after any subsequent transfer.	02/18/26 10:01 AM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Public Hearing
LD 2198	An Act To Implement Certain Recommendations Related To The Ratio Of Debt To Equity In Transactions Involving Health Care Entities From The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State This bill is reported out by the Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services pursuant to Resolve 2025, chapter 106 to implement a recommendation from the Commission to Evaluate the Scope of Regulatory Review and Oversight over Health Care Transactions That Impact the Delivery of Health Care Services in the State. The joint standing committee has not taken a position on the substance of this bill. By reporting this bill out, the joint standing committee is not suggesting and does not intend to suggest that it agrees or disagrees with any aspect of this bill; instead, the joint standing committee is reporting the bill out for the sole purpose of having a bill printed that can be referred to a joint standing committee for an appropriate public hearing and subsequent processing in the normal course. The joint standing committee is taking this action to ensure clarity and transparency in the legislative review of the proposals contained in the bill. This bill prohibits any transaction involving a health care entity in which the ratio of debt to equity is greater than 50%.	02/18/26 10:01 AM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Public Hearing
LD 2199	An Act To Prohibit Interference With The Professional Judgment And Clinical Decisions Of Licensed Health Care Professionals As Recommended By The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State This bill is reported out by the Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services pursuant to Resolve 2025, chapter 106 to implement a recommendation from the Commission to Evaluate the Scope of Regulatory Review and Oversight over Health Care Transactions That Impact the Delivery of Health Care Services in the State. The joint standing committee has not taken a position on the substance of this bill. By reporting this bill out, the joint standing committee is not suggesting and does not intend to suggest that it agrees or disagrees with any aspect of this bill; instead, the joint standing committee is reporting the bill out for the sole purpose of having a bill printed that can be referred to a joint standing committee for an appropriate public hearing and subsequent processing in the normal course. The joint standing committee is taking this action to ensure clarity and transparency in the legislative review of the proposals contained in the bill. This bill prohibits any person from interfering with the professional judgment or clinical decision of a licensed health care professional with independent practice authority.	02/18/26 10:01 AM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Public Hearing
LD 2200	An Act To Prohibit Noncompete Clauses For Health Care Professionals As Recommended By The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State This bill is reported out by the Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services pursuant to Resolve 2025, chapter 106 to implement a recommendation from the Commission to Evaluate the Scope of Regulatory Review and Oversight over Health Care Transactions That Impact the Delivery of Health Care Services in the State. The joint standing committee has not taken a position on the substance of this bill. By reporting this bill out, the joint standing committee is not suggesting and does not intend to suggest that it agrees or disagrees with any aspect of this bill; instead, the joint standing committee is reporting the bill out for the sole purpose of having a bill printed that can be referred to a joint standing committee for an appropriate public hearing and subsequent processing in the normal course. The joint standing committee is taking this action to ensure clarity and transparency in the legislative review of the proposals contained in the bill. This bill prohibits noncompete agreements for health care practitioners.	02/18/26 10:01 AM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Public Hearing
LD 2201	An Act To Implement Certain Recommendations Related To The Regulatory Review And Approval Of Certain Health Care Transactions Involving Private Equity Companies, Hedge Funds Or Management Services Organizations From The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State This bill is reported out by the Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services pursuant to Resolve 2025, chapter 106 to implement a recommendation from the Commission to Evaluate the Scope of Regulatory Review and Oversight over Health Care Transactions That Impact the Delivery of Health Care Services in the State. The joint standing committee has not taken a position on the substance of this bill. By reporting this bill out, the joint standing committee is not suggesting and does not intend to suggest that it agrees or disagrees with any aspect of this bill; instead, the joint standing committee is reporting the bill out for the sole purpose of having a bill printed that can be referred to a joint standing committee for an appropriate public hearing and subsequent processing in the normal course. The joint standing committee is taking this action to ensure clarity and transparency in the legislative review of the proposals contained in the bill. This bill establishes a process for review and approval of transactions when a private equity company, hedge fund or management services organization acquires a majority ownership interest in a health care entity or when a private equity company, hedge fund or management services organization takes operational control over a health care entity.	02/18/26 10:01 AM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Public Hearing
LD 2202	An Act To Require Notice To The Attorney General Prior To The Merger Of Certain Health Care Entities As Recommended By The Commission To Evaluate The Scope Of Regulatory Review And Oversight Over Health Care Transactions That Impact The Delivery Of Health Care Services In The State This bill is reported out by the Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services pursuant to Resolve 2025, chapter 106 to implement a recommendation from the Commission to Evaluate the Scope of Regulatory Review and Oversight over Health Care Transactions That Impact the Delivery of Health Care Services in the State. The joint standing committee has not taken a position on the substance of this bill. By reporting this bill out, the joint standing committee is not suggesting and does not intend to suggest that it agrees or disagrees with any aspect of this bill; instead, the joint standing committee is reporting the bill out for the sole purpose of having a bill printed that can be referred to a joint standing committee for an appropriate public hearing and subsequent processing in the normal course. The joint standing committee is taking this action to ensure clarity and transparency in the legislative review of the proposals contained in the bill. The bill requires a health care entity to provide notice to the Attorney General about a pending merger or acquisition at the same time the health care entity is required to notify the Federal Trade Commission or the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division in accordance with federal laws and regulations.	02/18/26 10:01 AM in Cross Building, Room 220 - Public Hearing
LD 2206	An Act Expanding Access To Oral Health Care By Creating A New Path For Obtaining A License To Practice Dentistry This bill is reported out by the Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services to implement a recommendation from the Commission to Expand Access to Oral Health Care by Studying Alternative Pathways for Obtaining a License to Practice Dentistry pursuant to Resolve 2025, chapter 107. The joint standing committee has not taken a position on the substance of this bill. By reporting this bill out, the joint standing committee is not suggesting and does not intend to suggest that it agrees or disagrees with any aspect of this bill; instead, the joint standing committee is reporting the bill out for the sole purpose of having a bill printed that can be referred to a joint standing committee for an appropriate public hearing and subsequent processing in the normal course. The joint standing committee is taking this action to ensure clarity and transparency in the legislative review of the proposals contained in the bill. The bill establishes a new dentist license category, an associate dentist license, which allows a qualified dentist who lacks the board-determined educational equivalency to a United States doctoral degree in dentistry, such as a dentist trained outside of the United States with a bachelor of dentistry degree, to obtain a license to practice dentistry under the general supervision of a licensed dentist through a written practice agreement signed by both parties. The bill also establishes a pathway to be licensed as a dentist after practicing with an associate dentist license in good standing for 6 consecutive years.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Report READ and ACCEPTED, in concurrence. On motion by Senator Bailey of York REFERRED to Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services, in concurrence. (2/10/2026)
LD 2208	An Act To Offset Federal Cuts To Health Insurance For Certain Maine Families And Seniors This bill does the following. 1. It establishes the Rural Hospital Stabilization Program to provide grants to defray operating costs for health care providers and health care facilities in rural areas, including start-up costs, incurred in providing inpatient, outpatient, primary, specialty or behavioral health care services to residents of the State and to stabilize the provision of existing health care services when those services are at risk of reduction or elimination. 2. It establishes the Health Care Premium Stabilization Fund to maintain coverage for residents of the State through the Maine Health Insurance Marketplace, Medicaid or other federal assistance programs if the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is repealed or is administered in a way that reduces access to comprehensive health coverage for residents in the State. 3. It establishes the MaineCare Federal Response Fund to supplement funding for the MaineCare program in the event of funding revenue shortfalls due to reductions in federal contributions that support MaineCare programs.	Committee: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES; HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES in concurrence (2/10/2026)
LD 2209	Resolve, To Direct The Department Of Health And Human Services To Develop Innovative Models For The Delivery Of Dental Services To Expand Access To Oral Health Care Throughout The State This bill is reported out by the Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services pursuant to Resolve 2025, chapter 107 to implement a recommendation from the Commission to Expand Access to Oral Health Care by Studying Alternative Pathways for Obtaining a License to Practice Dentistry. The joint standing committee has not taken a position on the substance of this bill. By reporting this bill out, the joint standing committee is not suggesting and does not intend to suggest that it agrees or disagrees with any aspect of this bill; instead, the joint standing committee is reporting the bill out for the sole purpose of having a bill printed that can be referred to a joint standing committee for an appropriate public hearing and subsequent processing in the normal course. The joint standing committee is taking this action to ensure clarity and transparency in the legislative review of the proposals contained in the bill. Based on the recommendation of the Commission to Expand Access to Oral Health Care by Studying Alternative Pathways for Obtaining a License to Practice Dentistry pursuant to Resolve 2025, chapter 107, the bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to consider the development of a hub-and-spoke model to expand access to dental services throughout the State and to explore options to establish dental specialist residency programs in the State, especially for pediatric dentists, oral surgeons and orthodontists. The bill requires the department to invite the participation of stakeholders, including, but not limited to, representatives from the University of New England College of Dental Medicine, the Maine Public Health Association, the Board of Dental Practice, the Maine Dental Association and the Maine Dental Hygienists' Association. The bill requires the department to submit a report that includes its findings and recommendations, including suggested legislation, to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health coverage, insurance and financial services matters and the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over health and human services matters no later than February 15, 2027 and authorizes each joint standing committee to report out legislation to the 133rd Legislature in 2027.	Committee: HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES Report READ and ACCEPTED, in concurrence. On motion by Senator Bailey of York REFERRED to Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services, in concurrence. (2/10/2026)