Judiciary

ME - Senator Michael Carpenter (D)

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Chair

ME - Senator Shenna Bellows (D)

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Member

ME - Senator Lisa Keim (U)

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Member

ME - Representative Donna Bailey (D)

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Chair

ME - Representative Christopher W. Babbidge (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Barbara A. Cardone (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Richard T. Bradstreet (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Philip A. Curtis (R)

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Member

ME - Representative John DeVeau (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Jeffrey Evangelos (I)

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Member

ME - Representative David G. Haggan (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Thom Harnett (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Lois Galgay Reckitt (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Craig V. Hickman (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Rachel Talbot Ross (D)

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Member

ME - LD8 An Act To Allow and Recognize a Legal Name Change upon Marriage

ME - LD9 An Act To Increase Juror Compensation

ME - LD60 An Act To Require the Disclosure of the Names of Members of a Limited Liability Company

ME - LD82 An Act To Determine the Necessity for a Public Guardian or Conservator Bond

ME - LD89 An Act To Impose Requirements on the Rental of Residential Property That Has Been Used in the Manufacture of Methamphetamine

ME - LD96 An Act To Require Disclosure at the Sale or Transfer whether Real Estate Has Been Used in the Manufacture of Methamphetamine

ME - LD182 An Act To Amend the Maine Bail Code Regarding the Financial Capacity of a Defendant To Post Bond

ME - LD187 An Act To Restore the Laws Governing the Reunification of Parents and Children

ME - LD194 An Act To Allow the Reduction of a MaineCare Lien

ME - LD250 An Act To Establish the Statute of Limitations in Product Liability Cases

ME - LD251 An Act To Amend the Maine Condominium Act by Extending the Lien Period for Nonpayment of Assessments

ME - LD208 An Act Regarding Small Claims Court Jurisdiction

ME - LD214 An Act To Increase Funding for Civil Legal Services

ME - LD229 An Act To Increase the Safety of Home Buyers Concerning Chimney Inspections

ME - LD279 An Act To Raise Juror Pay to $50 per Day

ME - LD287 An Act To Impose on Mental Health Professionals a Duty To Warn and Protect

ME - LD302 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Post-conviction Review in Order To Facilitate the Fair Hearing of All Evidence in Each Case Involving a Claim of Innocence

ME - LD357 An Act Regarding Court Facilities in York County

ME - LD328 An Act To Institute Safe Children Court Team Programs

ME - LD384 Resolve, Directing the Secretary of State To Review the Revised Uniform Law on Notarial Acts

ME - LD409 An Act To Allow Fair Access to Child Advocacy Center Records

ME - LD417 An Act To Allow an Attorney To Copy a Driver's License

ME - LD433 RESOLUTION, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of Maine To Explicitly Prohibit Discrimination Based on the Sex of an Individual

ME - LD471 An Act To Amend the Child and Family Services and Child Protection Act To Require the Department of Health and Human Services To Make Best Efforts To Prevent Removal of a Child from a Home

ME - LD475 An Act To Ensure Caller Access to E-9-1-1 Call Recordings

ME - LD479 An Act To Amend the Law Regarding Cessation of Alimony upon Cohabitation

ME - LD488 An Act To Provide Campground Owners Immunity from Liability for the Inherent Risks of Camping

ME - LD492 An Act To Extend from 6 Months to One Year the Notice Period Required under the Maine Tort Claims Act

ME - LD496 An Act To Extend the Availability of Protection from Abuse and Protection from Harassment Orders

ME - LD545 An Act To Ban Child Marriage

ME - LD506 An Act To Provide Architects, Engineers and Certain Other Professionals Immunity from Civil Liability When Volunteering for Evaluating Damage from Disasters

ME - LD531 An Act To Provide Counsel for a Person Who Is the Subject of an Adult Guardianship, Conservatorship or Other Protective Arrangement Proceeding

ME - LD536 An Act To Direct the Judicial Branch To Establish a Veterans Treatment Court

ME - LD540 An Act Regarding Qualifications for District Attorneys

ME - LD542 An Act To Allow a Person To Enter a Place of Public Accommodation Accompanied by a Medically Necessary Assistance Animal That Is a Dog

ME - LD573 An Act To Extend Time Limits for Placing Land in Trust Status under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement

ME - LD574 An Act To Clarify That Petitions for Certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States Are Included within the Definition of Indigent Legal Services

ME - LD588 An Act To Confer Maine Jurisdiction in Civil Suits Involving Certain Contracts

ME - LD595 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Unlawful Cutting of Trees

ME - LD627 An Act Regarding Portable Electronic Device Content, Location Information and Tracking Devices

ME - LD634 An Act Regarding Implementation of Differentiated Case Management in the Judicial Branch

ME - LD639 An Act To Protect Student Privacy

ME - LD644 An Act To Improve Safety at State Courthouses

ME - LD657 An Act To Reorganize the Probate Courts

ME - LD666 An Act To Protect Pregnant Workers

ME - LD673 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Circumstances of Death That Must Be Reported to the Office of Chief Medical Examiner

ME - LD680 An Act To Clarify the Intent of the Federal Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980 To Ensure the Federal Principle of Inherent Tribal Sovereignty

ME - LD690 An Act To Amend the Maine Uniform Probate Code Regarding Claims for Personal Injury

ME - LD698 An Act To Authorize Maine Courts To Award Attorney's Fees and Costs to Citizens Who Prevail in Civil Litigation against the Executive Branch

ME - LD748 An Act To Provide Relief to Survivors of Economic Abuse

ME - LD759 An Act To Increase Efficiency in Enforcement of the Maine Human Rights Act

ME - LD764 An Act To Limit the Dissemination of Certain Criminal Records

ME - LD766 An Act Regarding the Penobscot Nation's and Passamaquoddy Tribe's Authority To Exercise Jurisdiction under the Federal Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 and the Federal Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013

ME - LD776 An Act Regarding Post-judgment Motion by a Person Seeking To Satisfy the Prerequisites for Obtaining Special Restrictions on the Dissemination and Use of Criminal History Record Information for Certain Criminal Convictions

ME - LD781 An Act To Increase Judicial Compensation

ME - LD787 An Act To Support Victims of Child Sexual Abuse

ME - LD793 An Act To Improve Accountability of Opioid Manufacturers

ME - LD800 An Act To Require Recording of Interviews of Suspects

ME - LD801 An Act Regarding Recording of Witness Interviews

ME - LD831 An Act To Ensure Grandparents and Great-grandparents Have Visitation Rights

ME - LD841 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Damages Awarded for Wrongful Death

ME - LD846 Resolve, To Provide for the Sealing of Records of Convictions for Marijuana-related Violations That Are No Longer Crimes

ME - LD847 An Act To Ensure Persons with Disabilities Have Access to Public Rest Rooms

ME - LD856 An Act To Give Probate Judges Latitude in Permitting Visitation by Grandparents

ME - LD894 An Act To Expressly Allow Nonprofit Corporations To Conduct Electronic Voting

ME - LD868 An Act To Require That the Terms of a Settlement to Which a Local Unit of Government Is a Party Be Made Available to the Public

ME - LD870 An Act To Change the Membership of the Maine Commission on Domestic and Sexual Abuse To Include More Tribal Members

ME - LD907 An Act To Ensure That Defendants in Foreclosure Proceedings Receive Proper Notification

ME - LD916 An Act To Improve the Child Protective Court System

ME - LD954 An Act To Rescind An Act To Implement the Maine Indian Claims Settlement

ME - LD991 Resolve, To Expunge Criminal and Civil Records Related to Marijuana Activities Legalized by the Voters of Maine

ME - LD978 An Act To Clarify Maine's Protection from Abuse Statutes

ME - LD998 Resolve, Requiring the Collection of Data on the Marriage of Minors

ME - LD1021 An Act To Require the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services To Pay Court-appointed Attorneys for Certain Probate Court Cases

ME - LD1045 An Act Regarding Bad Faith Assertions of Patent Infringement

ME - LD1053 An Act To Reduce the Period of Enforcement for Judgments Based upon Consumer Obligations

ME - LD1091 An Act Regarding the Personal Liability of Government Employees

ME - LD1097 An Act To Protect Tenants from Sexual Harassment

ME - LD1100 An Act To Allow Discovery in the Event of a Lawsuit against a State Agency

ME - LD1057 An Act To Streamline the Eviction Process

ME - LD1061 An Act To Establish a Fund To Compensate Unjustly Incarcerated Persons

ME - LD1067 An Act To Promote Fairness and Efficiency in the Delivery of Indigent Legal Services

ME - LD1073 Resolve, To Implement an Intensive Drug Treatment Court Pilot Project in the Midcoast

ME - LD1113 An Act To Change Procedures of the Governor's Board on Executive Clemency and To Seal Marijuana Convictions

ME - LD1133 An Act To Require That Hospital Liens Be Satisfied on a Just and Equitable Basis

ME - LD1175 An Act To Ensure the Timely and Proper Completion of Residential Foreclosures

ME - LD1183 Resolve, To Implement the Recommendations of the Right To Know Advisory Committee Concerning Remote Participation by Members of Public Bodies

ME - LD1212 An Act To Adopt the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act

ME - LD1219 An Act To Establish an Independent Board To Review Law Enforcement Officer-involved Deaths

ME - LD1229 Resolve, To Establish the Committee To Study and Develop Recommendations To Address Guardianship Challenges That Delay Patient Discharges from Hospitals

ME - LD1233 An Act Regarding Offers of Settlement

ME - LD1245 An Act To Protect Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence in Certain Provisions under the Maine Human Rights Act

ME - LD1291 An Act To Update the Maine Parentage Act

ME - LD1294 Resolve, Directing the Maine Human Rights Commission To Implement a Pilot Program To Investigate and Report on Incidents of Harassment Due to Housing Status, Lack of Employment and Other Issues

ME - LD1301 An Act Regarding the Confidentiality of Investigations by the Bureau of Forestry

ME - LD1304 An Act To Ease Financial Burdens for Juveniles Involved in the Justice System

ME - LD1312 An Act Regarding Access to Firearms by Extremely Dangerous and Suicidal Individuals

ME - LD1327 An Act To Require Residential Mortgage Loan Servicers To Act in Good Faith in Dealings with Homeowners

ME - LD1352 An Act To Provide for Consistency Regarding Persons Authorized To Conduct Examinations for Involuntary Hospitalization and Guardianship

ME - LD1366 An Act To Require Information Regarding Implied Warranties When Offering an Extended Warranty at the Point of Sale

ME - LD1380 An Act To Transfer the Violations Bureau from the Courts to the Office of the Secretary of State

ME - LD1381 An Act To Create a Post-judgment Mechanism To Provide Relief to Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking

ME - LD1388 Resolve, Directing the Attorney General To Pursue the State's Claim That It Holds Title to Maine's Intertidal Lands

ME - LD1392 An Act To Establish a Formal Tribal Consultation Process with the State

ME - LD1405 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Foreclosure To Ensure Timely Completion

ME - LD1414 An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Right To Know Advisory Committee Concerning Penalties for Violations of the Freedom of Access Act

ME - LD1416 An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Right To Know Advisory Committee Concerning Freedom of Access Training for Public Officials

ME - LD1421 An Act To Amend the Maine Bail Code

ME - LD1423 An Act To Require Corporate Transparency When Taxpayer Funding Is Provided

ME - LD1426 An Act To Increase Protections for Land Installment Contracts

ME - LD1442 An Act To Provide for Court-appointed Advocates for Justice in Animal Cruelty Cases

ME - LD1449 An Act To Facilitate Compliance with Federal Immigration Law by State and Local Government Entities

ME - LD1457 An Act To Make References to the Governor and Supreme Judicial Court Justices Gender Neutral

ME - LD1468 An Act To Enact the Maine Uniform Directed Trust Act

ME - LD1475 An Act To Eliminate Profiling in Maine

ME - LD1483 An Act To Clarify the Disposition of Funds Presumed Abandoned in a Lawyer's Trust Account

ME - LD1490 An Act To Enhance Tribal-State Collaboration in the Enforcement of Child Support

ME - LD1503 An Act To Establish the Maine False Claims Act

ME - LD1507 An Act Relating to Amateur Radio Service

ME - LD1511 An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Right To Know Advisory Committee Concerning Public Records Exceptions

ME - LD1516 An Act To Improve Efficiency in Communication in the Court System

ME - LD1522 An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding Orders of Abandonment for Residential Properties in Foreclosure

ME - LD1535 An Act To Correct Errors and Inconsistencies Related to the Maine Uniform Probate Code and To Make Other Substantive Changes

ME - LD1544 An Act To Enact the Maine Revised Unclaimed Property Act

ME - LD1573 An Act To Clarify Provisions of the Maine Juvenile Code Regarding Inspection, Disclosure and Dissemination of Juvenile Case Records and To Change Gender-specific Terms

ME - LD1575 An Act To Improve the Freedom of Access Laws of Maine

ME - LD1580 An Act To Protect Licensing Information of Medical Professionals

ME - LD1554 Resolve, Establishing a Commission To Reform Child Protective Services

ME - LD1589 An Act To Protect the Liberty of Immigrants and Asylum Seekers in Maine

ME - LD1596 An Act To Enhance the Long-term Stability of Certain At-risk Youth

ME - LD1598 An Act To Define the Responsibilities of Property Owners for the Maintenance and Repair of Private Roads

ME - LD1609 An Act To Set Off Court Fines, Surcharges and Assessments against Lottery Winnings

ME - LD1612 An Act Regarding the Presumption of Abandonment of Gift Obligations

ME - LD1653 Resolve, Establishing the Conference To Address and Improve Relations between Maine Indian Tribes and the Legislature

ME - LD1670 An Act To Limit the Dissemination of Juvenile Records

ME - LD1672 An Act Regarding the Admissibility of Certain Health Care Records as Evidence

ME - LD1688 An Act To Protect Original Birth Certificates

ME - LD1695 An Act Regarding the Law Governing the Disclosure of Vital Records

ME - LD1684 An Act To Clarify the Right to Counsel for Juveniles and Improve Due Process for Juveniles

ME - LD1701 An Act To Clarify Various Provisions of the Maine Human Rights Act

ME - LD1702 An Act To Enhance the Administration of the Maine Human Rights Act

ME - LD1703 An Act To Improve Consistency within the Maine Human Rights Act

ME - LD1709 An Act To Amend the Act To Implement the Maine Indian Claims Settlement

ME - LD1731 An Act Regarding Representation of the Department of Marine Resources in Libel Proceedings

ME - LD1759 An Act Regarding the Electronic Data and Court Records Filed in the Electronic Case Management System of the Supreme Judicial Court

ME - LD1771 An Act To Amend the Law Governing Name Changes

ME - LD1790 An Act To Amend the Law To Protect the Confidentiality of State and Local Government Employees' Private Information

ME - LD1794 An Act To Amend the Service Fee for Child Support Services

ME - LD1811 An Act To Enhance Personal and Public Safety by Requiring Evaluations of and Judicial Hearings for Persons in Protective Custody Regarding Risk of Harm and Restricting Access to Dangerous Weapons

ME - LD1831 An Act To Correct Inconsistencies, Conflicts and Errors in the Laws of Maine

ME - LD1859 An Act To Increase Access to Justice and Maine's Rural Lawyer Workforce by Expanding Student Attorney Practice Opportunities

ME - LD1862 Resolve, Authorizing the Probate and Trust Law Advisory Commission To Submit Trust Decanting Legislation

ME - LD1863 An Act To Amend the Maine Uniform Probate Code

ME - LD1864 An Act To Correct the Maine Revised Unclaimed Property Act To Reflect Recent Changes

ME - LD1865 An Act To Amend the Protection from Abuse Laws Concerning Consent Agreements

ME - LD1897 An Act To Authorize the Expungement of Records of Nonviolent Crimes

ME - LD1907 An Act To Restore to the Penobscot Nation and Passamaquoddy Tribe the Authority To Exercise Jurisdiction under the Federal Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010

ME - LD1953 An Act Regarding Driver's License Suspensions for Nondriving Violations

ME - LD1960 An Act To Protect Communications between Bargaining Agents and Bargaining Unit Members

ME - LD1963 An Act To Preserve the Value of Abandoned Properties by Allowing Entry by Mortgagees

ME - LD1964 An Act To Limit Access to Juvenile Case Records and Protect the Confidentiality of Juvenile History Record Information

ME - LD1967 Resolve, Authorizing the Establishment of Prosecutorial Districts in Downeast Maine

ME - LD1990 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Access to Prescription Monitoring Information

ME - LD2034 An Act Concerning Name Changes for Minors

ME - LD2038 An Act To Ensure the Safety of State Employees by Allowing Disclosure of Certain Information in Limited Circumstances

ME - LD2039 An Act To Provide for Judicial Review in Compliance with the Federal Legislation Known as the Family First Prevention Services Act

ME - LD2040 An Act To Eliminate the Requirement That Municipalities Retain Paper Copies of Certain Vital Statistics Records

ME - LD2041 An Act To Allow Access to and Ensure the Confidentiality of Records of Child Advocacy Centers

ME - LD2079 An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Family Law Advisory Commission Concerning Adoption and Minor Guardianship

ME - LD2086 Resolve, To Create a Criminal Records Review Committee

ME - LD2094 An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Task Force on Changes to the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Implementing Act

ME - LD2102 An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Right To Know Advisory Committee

ME - LD2103 An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Right To Know Advisory Committee Regarding Public Records Exceptions

ME - LD2118 An Act To Establish an Enhanced Process for Tribal-State Collaboration and Consultation and To Develop a Process for Alternative Dispute Resolution

ME - LD2153 An Act To Establish an Accidental Drug Overdose Death Review Panel

ME - LD2160 An Act Relating to the Statute of Limitations for Injuries or Harm Resulting from Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances

ME - LD2168 An Act To Implement the Attorney General's Recommendations on Data Collection in Order To Eliminate Profiling in Maine

ME - LD2169 An Act To Correct Inconsistencies, Conflicts and Errors in the Laws of Maine

ME - LD2170 An Act Authorizing Rulemaking Concerning Attorney Training, Standards and Qualifications by the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services

ME - LD2171 An Act Concerning Communication between Prosecutors and Unrepresented Defendants