Labor and Housing

ME - Senator Shenna Bellows (D)

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Chair

ME - Senator Stacey Guerin (R)

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Member

ME - Senator Mark Lawrence (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Michael A. Sylvester (D)

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Chair

ME - Representative Richard T. Bradstreet (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Anne M. Carney (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Scott W. Cuddy (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Donna R. Doore (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Michelle Dunphy (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Lawrence E. Lockman (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Joshua Morris (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Deane Rykerson (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Ann E. Peoples (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Ralph L. Tucker (D)

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Member

ME - LD69 An Act To Provide Economic Security to Maine Families through the Creation of a Paid Family Medical Leave System

ME - LD75 An Act To Protect Earned Pay

ME - LD81 An Act To Clarify Maine Law Regarding the Tips of Service Employees

ME - LD122 An Act To Prohibit an Employer from Asking a Prospective Hire about the Person's Compensation History until after a Job Offer Is Made

ME - LD123 An Act To Prohibit the State from Asking a Prospective Hire about the Person's Compensation History until after a Job Offer Is Made

ME - LD139 An Act To Address the Unmet Workforce Needs of Employers and To Improve the Economic Future of Workers

ME - LD140 An Act To Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Substance Use Disorder

ME - LD168 Resolve, To Create a Universal Job Application System for Maine's Career Centers

ME - LD243 An Act To Create an Hourly Rate Compensation System for Loggers and Truckers

ME - LD201 An Act To Protect Jobs in the State by Requiring Advance Notice of Closure of Call Centers

ME - LD219 An Act To Improve Working Conditions for Maine's Veterans and Immigrants

ME - LD220 An Act To Improve Pay for Certain Maine Workers

ME - LD240 An Act To Allow Public Employers of Teachers to Negotiate Regarding Educational Policies

ME - LD278 An Act Regarding Pay Equality

ME - LD298 An Act To Establish a Conditional Presumption of Compensability for Corrections Employees in Cases of Impairment from Hypertension or Heart Disease

ME - LD300 An Act To Protect Hourly School Personnel Pay During School Days Missed Due to Weather or Emergency Closures

ME - LD305 An Act To Protect Job Applicants from Identity Theft

ME - LD308 An Act To Increase Notification Time Periods for Rent Increases and Terminations of Tenancies at Will

ME - LD312 An Act To Reduce the Cost of Workers' Compensation Insurance for Small Employers

ME - LD317 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Appointees to the Maine Labor Relations Board

ME - LD369 An Act To Support Healthy Workplaces and Healthy Families by Providing Earned Paid Sick Leave to Certain Employees

ME - LD402 An Act To Restore Overtime Protections for Maine Workers

ME - LD415 An Act To Enhance the Retired County and Municipal Law Enforcement Officers and Municipal Firefighters Health Insurance Program

ME - LD425 An Act To Strengthen Small Businesses in Rural Maine by Changing the Minimum Wage

ME - LD462 An Act To Provide Paid Family Leave to Public School Employees

ME - LD467 An Act To Amend the Eligibility Criteria for Creditable Service in the Armed Forces of the United States under the State Retirement System

ME - LD473 An Act To Allow Flexibility in Residential Rental Agreements

ME - LD480 An Act To Ensure Pay Transparency and To Reduce Gender and Racial Wage Inequities

ME - LD507 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Employer Recovery of Overcompensation Paid to an Employee

ME - LD522 An Act To Prohibit the Imposition by Municipalities of General Restrictions on Rents and Rental Properties

ME - LD567 An Act To Create a Universal Basic Income

ME - LD580 An Act To Improve the Advocate Program Established by the Workers' Compensation Board

ME - LD584 An Act To Convert Stipends to Base Pay for Child Protective Workers

ME - LD591 An Act To Create Flexibility in Affordable Housing Calculations

ME - LD596 An Act To Prevent the Closure of Maine Businesses

ME - LD600 An Act To Achieve Mental Health Parity in Workers' Compensation

ME - LD601 An Act To Create Fairness by Reinstituting the Cost-of-living Adjustment for Workers' Compensation Benefits

ME - LD612 An Act To Promote Youth Employment

ME - LD622 An Act To Improve Public Sector Labor Relations

ME - LD670 An Act To Increase the Minimum Wage for Large Employers

ME - LD733 An Act To Promote Keeping Workers in Maine

ME - LD734 Resolve, To Expedite the Processing of Applications for Certification under the Federal Work Opportunity Tax Credit

ME - LD739 An Act To Help Small Businesses by Establishing an Alternate Minimum Wage

ME - LD756 An Act To Improve the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992

ME - LD757 An Act To Improve Labor Laws for Maine Workers

ME - LD758 An Act To Clarify Work Search Requirements for Workers' Compensation

ME - LD777 An Act To Establish the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Populations

ME - LD784 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Eligibility for Unemployment Benefits

ME - LD808 An Act To Create a Youth Wage

ME - LD809 An Act To Expand and Clarify the Disqualification from Workers' Compensation Benefits of an Employee Who Is Injured While Under the Influence of Drugs or Alcohol

ME - LD819 An Act To Enhance the Predetermination of Independent Contractors

ME - LD830 An Act To Balance Maine's Minimum Wage for Small and Large Employers

ME - LD833 An Act To Provide the Same Retirement Benefits for State Employees Working in Law Enforcement as Are Provided to Law Enforcement Officers

ME - LD857 An Act To Increase Accountability for Wage Violations

ME - LD883 An Act To Establish the Opt-in Maine Paid Family Leave Insurance Program

ME - LD886 An Act To Protect Volunteer Search and Rescuers Certified by the Maine Association for Search and Rescue from Adverse Employment Actions

ME - LD888 An Act To Provide Workplace Support to Individuals with Hearing Loss

ME - LD900 An Act To Expand the Rights of Public Employees under the Maine Labor Laws

ME - LD901 An Act To Clarify the Statute of Limitations under the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992

ME - LD919 An Act To Establish a Minimum Mileage Reimbursement Rate for Traveling Sales Representatives

ME - LD947 An Act To Extend the Notice of Injury Period in the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992

ME - LD1013 An Act To Clarify the Disqualification from Unemployment Benefits of a Person Who Is Terminated from Employment for Being Under the Influence of Marijuana

ME - LD1017 An Act Regarding the Elimination of Highly Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace

ME - LD1008 An Act To Include State Employee Stipends as Earnable Compensation

ME - LD1041 An Act Regarding Collective Bargaining for Public Employees under the Municipal Public Employees Labor Relations Laws

ME - LD1095 An Act Regarding Workers' Compensation Liens

ME - LD1098 An Act To Help Small Employers by Making the Minimum Wage Increase More Gradual in Nonurban Areas

ME - LD1058 An Act Concerning Liability for Direct Reimbursement of Unemployment Benefits

ME - LD1077 An Act To Ensure Fair Employment Opportunity for Maine Citizens and Legal Residents by Requiring the Use of the Federal Immigration Verification System

ME - LD1104 An Act To Clarify the State's Commitments Concerning Certain Public Service Retirement Benefits

ME - LD1107 An Act To Promote Workforce Development and Community Integration

ME - LD1112 An Act To Provide Employee Vaccination Compensation

ME - LD1177 An Act To Improve Public Sector Labor Relations

ME - LD1184 An Act Regarding Penalties for Early Retirement for Certain Members of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System

ME - LD1201 An Act To Create a Low-barrier, Permanent Housing Rental Subsidy for Individuals in the State Experiencing Long-term Homelessness

ME - LD1203 An Act To Clarify the Retirement Presumption under the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992

ME - LD1204 An Act To Eliminate the Cap on Weekly Benefits in Workers' Compensation Cases

ME - LD1205 An Act To Allow Full Retirement Benefits under the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992

ME - LD1207 An Act To Expand the 1998 Special Retirement Plan To Include Detectives in the Office of Investigations within the Department of the Secretary of State, Bureau of Motor Vehicles

ME - LD1208 An Act To Expand the 1998 Special Retirement Plan To Include Detectives in the Office of the Attorney General

ME - LD1211 An Act To Protect Farm Workers by Allowing Them To Organize for the Purpose of Collective Bargaining

ME - LD1214 Resolve, To Conduct a Comprehensive Study of the Compensation System for State Employees

ME - LD1220 An Act To Remove Certain Restrictions Imposed on Retired State Employees Who Return to Work as Educators

ME - LD1232 An Act To Ensure the Right To Work without Payment of Dues or Fees to a Labor Union as a Condition of Employment

ME - LD1237 An Act To Simplify Municipal Collective Bargaining by Removing the 120-Day Notice Required Prior to Certain Negotiations

ME - LD1239 An Act To Mandate Paid Maternity and Parental Leave

ME - LD1250 An Act To Prohibit Sexual Harassment as a Subject Matter of Mandatory Arbitration in Employment Contracts

ME - LD1251 An Act To Make Agricultural Workers and Other Workers Employees under the Wage and Hour Laws

ME - LD1253 An Act To Fairly Compensate for Fatal Accidents under the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992

ME - LD1319 An Act To Prohibit Employer Disciplinary Action against Firefighters and Emergency Medical Services Persons Responding to an Emergency

ME - LD1324 Resolve, To Establish the Committee To Study the Feasibility of Creating Basic Income Security

ME - LD1325 An Act To Allow Workplace Substance Use Testing for Fentanyl, Hydromorphone, Hydrocodone, Oxycodone and Oxymorphone Use at the Employer's Discretion

ME - LD1339 An Act To Recalculate Retirement Benefits for Certain State Employees Adversely Affected by Merit Pay Freezes

ME - LD1345 An Act To Ensure a Fair Workweek

ME - LD1354 An Act To Eliminate the Penalties for State and Teacher Retirees Who Return to Employment

ME - LD1355 An Act To Expand the 1998 Special Retirement Plan To Include Civilian Employees Who Work for the Department of Public Safety Crime Lab and Computer Crimes Unit

ME - LD1359 An Act Regarding Local Workforce Development Boards

ME - LD1385 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Corrections Officers Who Suffer Certain Injuries, Impairments or Medical Conditions

ME - LD1386 An Act Regarding the Determination of the Prevailing Wage Rate for Public Works Projects

ME - LD1395 An Act To Create Fairness for Dispatchers in the Maine Public Employees Retirement System

ME - LD1400 An Act To Improve Recruitment and Retention in State Law Enforcement by Offering Retirement Service Credit and To Improve Retirement Benefits for Veterans of the Cold War

ME - LD1410 An Act To Create Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits

ME - LD1411 An Act Regarding the Federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

ME - LD1412 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Collective Bargaining Rights of Employees of School Management and Leadership Centers

ME - LD1413 An Act To Reduce Administrative Burdens of Forest Products Harvesters

ME - LD1451 An Act Providing Labor Unions with Reasonable Access to Current and Newly Hired Public Sector Workers

ME - LD1459 An Act To Expand Application of the Maine Agricultural Marketing and Bargaining Act of 1973 to Harvesters and Haulers of Forest Products

ME - LD1480 An Act To Modify Retirement Plans for Fire Investigators and Sergeants

ME - LD1500 An Act To Improve Workers' Compensation Protection for Injured Workers Whose Employers Have Wrongfully Not Secured Workers' Compensation Insurance

ME - LD1501 An Act To Change the Law Governing Occupational Disease Claims under the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992

ME - LD1524 An Act To Prevent Wage Theft and Promote Employer Accountability

ME - LD1529 An Act Concerning Nondisclosure Agreements in Employment

ME - LD1537 An Act To Increase the Portion of Retirement Benefits to Which the Cost-of-living Adjustment Applies

ME - LD1546 An Act To Protect State Employees When Their Contracts Have Expired

ME - LD1572 An Act To Enact the Maine Fair Chance Housing Act

ME - LD1564 An Act To Authorize Project Labor Agreements for Public Works Projects

ME - LD1588 An Act To Create a Registration Process and Permits for Vacation Rentals

ME - LD1600 An Act To Support E-9-1-1 Dispatchers and Corrections Officers Diagnosed with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

ME - LD1605 An Act To Provide Fair Contracts in the Logging Industry

ME - LD1620 An Act To Exclude Collectively Bargained Salary and Job Promotion Increases from the Earnable Compensation Limitation for Retirement Purposes

ME - LD1623 An Act To Improve Employee Representation under the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992 by Amending the Laws Governing Attorney's Fees

ME - LD1624 An Act To Prevent Discrimination under the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992

ME - LD1625 An Act To Eliminate the Durational Cap on Partial Benefits under the Workers' Compensation Laws

ME - LD1639 An Act To Require Comprehensive Responsible Contracting Practices for Public Construction Projects

ME - LD1658 An Act To Clarify Prevailing Wage Rates on State Projects Using Federal Funds

ME - LD1659 An Act To Include Additional Corrections Officers and Mental Health Workers under the 1998 Special Plan for Retirement and To Amend the Laws Governing Retirement Benefits for Capitol Police Officers

ME - LD1664 An Act To Place Funds for the Retired County and Municipal Law Enforcement Officers and Municipal Firefighters Health Insurance Program into a Trust

ME - LD1654 An Act To Create Veteran-friendly Workplaces

ME - LD1674 An Act To Amend the Laws Concerning the Retired County and Municipal Law Enforcement Officers and Municipal Firefighters Health Insurance Program

ME - LD1693 An Act To Enhance Enforcement of Employment Laws

ME - LD1736 An Act To Compensate Corrections and Mental Health Workers for Injuries and Illness Suffered While Working

ME - LD1828 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Overtime

ME - LD1842 An Act Relating to the Computation of Benefits for Correctional Officers in the 1998 Special Retirement Plan

ME - LD1874 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Subminimum Wage

ME - LD1909 An Act To Support Emergency Shelter Access for Persons Experiencing Homelessness in Maine

ME - LD1911 An Act To Amend the Unemployment Compensation Laws

ME - LD1912 An Act To Conform the Maine Apprenticeship Program to the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972

ME - LD1931 An Act To Require Background Investigations for Certain Individuals To Receive Federal Tax Information in Accordance with Federal Standards

ME - LD1949 An Act To Amend the Retirement Laws Pertaining to Certain Educational Technicians

ME - LD1956 Resolve, To Establish a Commission To Increase Housing Opportunities in Maine by Studying Zoning and Land Use Restrictions

ME - LD1959 An Act To Include within the Definition of "Public Employee" Those Who Have Been Employed Less than 6 Months

ME - LD1965 An Act To Set a Minimum Wage for School Support Staff

ME - LD1976 An Act To Help Retain School Bus Drivers

ME - LD1978 An Act To Improve the Disability Retirement Program of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System

ME - LD1986 An Act To Clarify the Law Protecting Job Applicants from Identity Theft

ME - LD2019 An Act To Extend to Other Public Sector Employees the Same Protections Provided to State Employees upon the Expiration of Contracts

ME - LD2015 An Act To Provide for Leave from Work for Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault or Stalking

ME - LD2049 An Act To Amend the Laws Concerning the Retired County and Municipal Law Enforcement Officers and Municipal Firefighters Health Insurance Program

ME - LD2087 An Act Relating to Fair Chance in Employment

ME - LD2090 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Arbitration under Certain Public Employees Labor Relations Laws