Bill Watch List / 2025 Session

Updated: 4/25/2025 1:41 PM

SUPPORT:

• LD525 – REFERRED to the Committee on EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS. – Amends current laws regarding the discharge of firearms on private property within 500 feet of school property, allowing such actions to a person in self-defense of premises.

• LD253 – DIVIDED REPORT by Joint House & Senate Committee – Removes the requirement that the Department of Health and Human services or the State of Maine must fund abortion services that aren’t covered by Medicaid.
• LD682 – DIVIDED REPORT by Joint House & Senate Committee – Requires abortion reports to include more personal details, limits when abortions can be done after viability to cases where it’s necessary for the mother’s health, and reintroduces penalties for performing abortions without a license or after viability.
• LD886 – DIVIDED REPORT by Joint House & Senate Committee – Bans online purchases of abortion pills, requires a prescription and in-person supervision from a licensed doctor, and mandates that the doctor inform the patient about the procedure and its risks.
• LD887 – DIVIDED REPORT by Joint House & Senate Committee – Makes it a Class C crime for a health care provider to provide an abortion drug without a physical exam, being present during the procedure, scheduling a follow-up, and giving the patient necessary supplies.
• LD975 – ONTP – Ought Not To Pass by Joint House & Senate Committee – Makes abortion illegal, stating that a human life begins at conception.
• LD1007 – DIVIDED REPORT by Joint House & Senate Committee – Requires a health care professional who is obtaining a woman’s informed consent to a drug-induced abortion to provide the woman with specific information about the potential ability of qualified health care professionals to reverse the effects of the abortion.

• LD660 – DIVIDED REPORT by Joint House & Senate Committee – Requires schools to follow approved curricula, post student data for the past 3 years, maintain records of professional development programs, and create an online portal for student information.

• LD868 – REFERRED to the Committee on JUDICIARY in concurrence – Requires sports teams in schools and colleges to be labeled as male, female, or coed, bans males from joining female teams, and requires gender-specific restrooms and facilities.

• LD208 – TABLED by Joint House & Senate Committee – Repeals the requirement that a seller of firearms wait 72 hours before delivering a purchased firearm to the buyer.

• LD743 – DIVIDED REPORT by Joint House & Senate Committee – Aims to increase access to and reduce the cost of healthcare by removing the Certificate of Need (CON) requirements, which currently restrict healthcare providers from opening or expanding services without approval from the government.

• LD233 – REFERRED to the Committee on JUDICIARY. – Prohibits any school that receives state funding from allowing a person whose biological sex assigned at birth is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for females.
• LD380 – REFERRED to the Committee on JUDICIARY – Repeals provisions enacted last year protecting persons who seek, health care practitioners who provide, and those who assist health care practitioners in providing gender-affirming health care services and reproductive health care services.

• LD230 – REFERRED to the Committee on CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY – Requires parental consent for the use of a picture or an AI generated picture of a minor in an advertisement. Also, clarifies that a person is guilty of dissemination of sexually explicit material if the person is a minor under age 16, even if the image was generated by AI.
• LD492 – DIVIDED REPORT by Joint House & Senate Committee – Amendment to the Maine Constitution asserting that the natural rights of minor children belong to their parents or guardians, with the state only intervening in cases of abuse, neglect, or criminal acts.

• LD844 – REFERRED to the Committee on JUDICIARY. – Requires social media companies to prevent users under 14 from having accounts, verify the age of new users, and obtain parental consent for users aged 14 or 15.

OPPOSE:

• LD94 – Passed House & Senate – Eliminates the requirement that health care professionals must report to the Department of Health and Human Services the occurrence of a miscarriage less than 20 weeks gestation.
• LD143 – Passed House & Senate – waiting for budget approval – Provides 6.1 million dollars of funding annually for Planned Parenthood.

• LD613 – REFERRED to the Committee on HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES – Allows a physician to waive all or a portion of the waiting time for qualified patients to access end-of-life medication.

• LD544 – REFERRED to the Committee on VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS – Exempts the sale of cannabis for medical use from sales tax.

• LD950 – CARRIED OVER to the next special or regular session – Allows trained staff and volunteers at domestic violence service organizations to be legally protected from having their communications with clients used against them in court; and enables children to file for a protection from abuse order independently.

• LD260 – Passed House & Senate – placed on SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TABLE – Resolution to the State Constitution stating that no one can have their rights denied or limited by the state or any local government based on characteristics like: race or color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, age, physical or mental disability, ancestry or national origin.

WATCH:

• LD104 – REFERRED to the Committee on VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS – Creates rules and regulations regarding the mandatory testing of cannabis.