Labor and Housing

ME - Senator Stacey Guerin (U)

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Member

ME - Senator David Miramant (U)

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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 Scott W. Cuddy (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Gary A. Drinkwater (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Traci Gere (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Joshua Morris (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Sarah Pebworth (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Dwayne W. Prescott (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Amy J. Roeder (D)

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Member

ME - LD29 An Act To Conform the Maine Apprenticeship Program to the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972

ME - LD37 An Act To Amend the Laws Concerning the Retired County and Municipal Law Enforcement Officers and Municipal Firefighters Health Insurance Program

ME - LD52 An Act Regarding Collective Bargaining Negotiations by Public Employers of Teachers

ME - LD61 An Act To Include Grandparents under Maine's Family Medical Leave Laws

ME - LD97 An Act To Ensure the Right To Work without Payment of Dues or Fees to a Labor Union

ME - LD99 An Act To Require the State To Divest Itself of Assets Invested in the Fossil Fuel Industry

ME - LD111 An Act To Allow Career Educators To Retire without Penalty

ME - LD117 An Act To Preserve the Health Care of University of Maine System Retirees

ME - LD137 An Act Regarding Absence from Work for Emergency Response

ME - LD151 An Act To Protect Farm Workers by Allowing Them To Organize for the Purpose of Collective Bargaining

ME - LD177 An Act To Improve Labor Laws for Workers in Maine

ME - LD182 An Act To Expand the Definition of "Essential Worker" To Include Retail and Food Service Workers

ME - LD189 An Act To Permit All Public Employers To Implement Payroll Deductions for Disability and Life Insurance Policies

ME - LD190 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Retirement Benefit Reductions for Corrections Officers Currently Included in the 1998 Special Plan

ME - LD211 An Act To Support Emergency Shelter Access for Persons Experiencing Homelessness

ME - LD213 An Act To Require Coverage for Female Firefighters Facing Reproductive System Cancer

ME - LD225 An Act Regarding the Treatment of Vacation Time upon the Cessation of Employment

ME - LD248 An Act Regarding the Board of Occupational Safety and Health

ME - LD275 An Act To Amend the Retirement Laws Pertaining to Certain Educational Technicians

ME - LD305 An Act To Include Forest Rangers and Forest Fire Prevention Specialists in the Bureau of Forestry's Forest Protection Unit in the Laws Concerning Cancer Suffered by Firefighters

ME - LD341 An Act To Address the Windfall Elimination Provision

ME - LD317 An Act To Create Equality in Retirement for Forest Rangers with That of Employees of State Conservation Law Enforcement Agencies

ME - LD319 An Act To Promote Socially Responsible Investing by the Maine Public Employees Retirement System by Prohibiting Investment in the Fossil Fuel Industry or For-profit Prisons

ME - LD358 An Act To Protect Workers from Unsafe Working Conditions with Regard to Indoor Temperatures

ME - LD397 An Act To Recalculate Retirement Benefits for Certain State Employees Adversely Affected by Merit Pay Freezes

ME - LD399 An Act To Clarify Retirement Benefits under the Maine Public Employees Retirement System

ME - LD425 Resolve, Directing the Department of Labor To Establish a State Unemployment Program for Self-employed Workers and Independent Contractors

ME - LD447 An Act To Require Equivalent Paid Parental Leave for All Parents Employed by Companies Offering Paid Parental Leave

ME - LD449 An Act To Strengthen the Ability of Public Employers and Unions To Negotiate

ME - LD455 An Act To Give the State the Sole Authority To Establish a Minimum Wage and Hazard Pay with Certain Exceptions

ME - LD460 An Act To Amend Certain Employment Laws To Help Front-line and Other Workers

ME - LD463 An Act To Better House Maine Residents

ME - LD464 An Act To Change Certain Labor Laws

ME - LD467 An Act To Support E-9-1-1 Dispatchers and Corrections Officers Diagnosed with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

ME - LD468 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Labor and Housing

ME - LD469 An Act To Ensure Safety across Maine's Construction Industry

ME - LD473 An Act To Create the Maine Rental Assistance and Voucher Guarantee Program

ME - LD494 An Act To Change the Compensation Structure of the Maine Labor Relations Board and the State Board of Arbitration and Conciliation

ME - LD509 An Act To Protect Teachers from a Decrease in Retirement Benefits Arising from the COVID-19 Pandemic

ME - LD575 An Act To Establish a Conditional Presumption of Compensability for Certain Employees in Cases of Impairment from Hypertension or Heart Disease

ME - LD543 An Act To Provide That the Minimum Wage Increases by the Cost of Living Every 3 Years

ME - LD548 An Act Regarding Penalties for Early Retirement for Certain Members of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System

ME - LD553 An Act To End At-will Employment

ME - LD555 An Act To Expand the Rights of Public Sector Employees

ME - LD567 An Act To Amend the Penalty for Early Retirement for Certain Members of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System

ME - LD581 Resolve, To Expedite Processing of Applications for Certification under the Federal Work Opportunity Tax Credit

ME - LD594 Resolve, Directing the Department of Labor To Submit to the United States Secretary of Labor a Plan for a Self-employment Assistance Program

ME - LD607 An Act To Restore Overtime Protections for Maine Workers

ME - LD609 Resolve, To Establish a Commission To Increase Housing Opportunities in Maine by Studying Zoning and Land Use Restrictions

ME - LD610 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Employer Recovery of Overcompensation Paid to an Employee

ME - LD616 An Act To Increase Accountability for Wage Violations

ME - LD620 Resolve, To Develop a Plan for Teachers To Collect Social Security

ME - LD648 An Act To Improve the Lives of Maine Workers by Supporting Apprenticeships That Lead to Good-paying Jobs

ME - LD654 An Act To Create a 24-hour Shelter Capital Project Funding Program

ME - LD677 An Act To Improve Public Sector Labor Relations by Amending the Laws Governing Arbitration under Certain Public Employees Labor Relations Laws

ME - LD703 An Act To Increase the Amount to Which a State Employee or Teacher Retiree's Cost-of-living Adjustment Is Applied from $20,000 to the Retiree's Actual Retirement Benefit

ME - LD711 An Act To Allow Certain Police Officers To Return to Participation in the Maine Public Employees Retirement System

ME - LD824 An Act To Extend the Protections Provided to State Employees upon the Expiration of Labor Contracts to Other Public Sector Employees

ME - LD734 An Act To Set a Minimum Wage for School Support Staff

ME - LD773 An Act To Assist Public School Students and Families Who Are Homeless

ME - LD774 An Act To Promote Minimum Wage Consistency

ME - LD775 An Act To Include within the Definitions of "Public Employee" and "Judicial Employee" Those Who Have Been Employed for Less Than 6 Months

ME - LD786 An Act To Direct the Department of Labor To Work with the Department of Education and Colleges and Universities and Career and Technical Education Centers To Develop a Preapprenticeship Program and Career Ladder for the Direct Care Workforce

ME - LD787 An Act To Comprehensively Address Homelessness and Affordable Housing in Maine

ME - LD831 An Act To Aid Workforce Development

ME - LD832 An Act To Promote Immigrant Workforce Development and Community Integration

ME - LD838 An Act To Exempt Substitutes, Coaches and Temporary Employees in the Education System from Paid Sick Leave Requirements

ME - LD839 An Act To Address Unemployment Issues Facing School Employees

ME - LD865 An Act Regarding the University of Maine System Hiring Practices

ME - LD886 Resolve, To Encourage Employment in the Direct Care Workforce

ME - LD898 An Act To Provide Incentives to Unemployed Workers To Become Part of the Caregiver Workforce

ME - LD907 An Act Concerning State Pension Funds and Climate Change

ME - LD912 An Act To Extend Family Medical Leave to Hourly School Employees

ME - LD938 An Act To Ensure Maine Workers' Right To Request a Schedule Change at Their Places of Employment

ME - LD956 An Act To Amend the Eligibility Criteria for Creditable Service in the Armed Forces of the United States under the State Retirement System

ME - LD959 An Act To Protect Small Businesses by Ensuring That a Prevailing Wage Is Paid on Public Works Construction Projects

ME - LD965 An Act Concerning Nondisclosure Agreements in Employment

ME - LD993 An Act To Prevent the Spread of Infectious Disease in Schools

ME - LD997 An Act To Support Maine's Corrections Officers and E-9-1-1 Dispatchers

ME - LD1002 An Act Regarding the Availability of Health Insurance Coverage for Dependents of Certain State Employees

ME - LD1020 An Act To Promote the Integrity of the Unemployment Insurance Program

ME - LD1022 An Act To Make Agricultural Workers and Other Workers Employees under the Wage and Hour Laws

ME - LD1024 Resolve, Directing the Workers' Compensation Board To Study the Impact of Workers' Compensation Laws on Certain Public Sector Employees

ME - LD1032 An Act To Promote the Sustainability of the State's Unemployment Insurance System by Linking the Duration of Benefits to the State's Average Unemployment Rate

ME - LD1041 An Act To Include Certain Mental Health Workers under the 1998 Special Plan for Retirement

ME - LD1047 An Act To Create an Alternate Minimum Wage Applicable to Student Employees Who Are under 20 Years of Age and to Employees Who Are under 18 Years of Age

ME - LD1101 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 - LD1103 An Act To Allow a 5-year Open Enrollment in the Participating Local District Retirement Program for Certain Law Enforcement Officers, Firefighters and Other Municipal Employees

ME - LD1105 Resolve, Directing the Maine Public Employees Retirement System To Convene a Working Group To Investigate Public Pension Options

ME - LD1106 An Act To Prohibit an Employer from Charging an Employee for Direct Deposit for Wages

ME - LD1167 An Act Relating to Fair Chance in Employment

ME - LD1201 Resolve, Directing the Maine State Housing Authority To Engage Stakeholders in an Examination of Fair Chance Housing Policy Options

ME - LD1231 An Act Concerning Climate and Community Investment Projects

ME - LD1233 An Act To Determine How Many Employees of Large Companies in Maine Receive Public Benefits

ME - LD1239 An Act Establishing Employers' Right To File a Complaint To Enforce Payment of Workers' Compensation Premiums

ME - LD1240 Resolve, To Review Barriers to Regional Solutions for Housing Choices

ME - LD1246 Resolve, To Study Best Practices and Different Area Needs for Development of Affordable Homes and Expanding Home Ownership in Maine Communities

ME - LD1260 An Act To Promote the Sustainability of Unemployment Insurance by Linking the Duration of Benefits to the State's Average Unemployment Rate

ME - LD1269 An Act To Preserve Fair Housing in Maine

ME - LD1279 An Act To Increase the Minimum Wage

ME - LD1312 An Act To Remove Barriers to Accessory Dwelling Units and Allow Accessory Dwelling Units where Single-family Houses Are Allowed

ME - LD1322 Resolve, Directing the Maine State Housing Authority To Allow Rental Housing Owners To Apply for Emergency Rental Relief Assistance

ME - LD1338 An Act To Protect Employees' Exercise of Workplace Rights

ME - LD1339 An Act To Clarify That Municipal Firefighters, Volunteer First Responders and Substitute Teachers Are Excluded from Maine Earned Paid Leave

ME - LD1397 An Act Directing the Maine State Housing Authority To Create a Commission To Develop a Comprehensive Rental Registry for Multifamily Housing

ME - LD1402 An Act To Remove a Requirement Regarding Payment of Union Fees

ME - LD1430 An Act Regarding the Waiting Period for Compensation for Incapacity To Work under the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992

ME - LD1436 An Act To Protect Certain Essential Workers from Infectious Disease

ME - LD1453 An Act To Protect Small Employers by Prohibiting Municipalities from Adopting Ordinances Regarding Employee Work Benefits Other Than Ordinances Regarding Minimum Wage Rates

ME - LD1461 An Act Relating to Heat Illness Prevention

ME - LD1464 An Act To Improve Accessibility of Affordable Housing Data

ME - LD1489 An Act To Update the Classification of Service Employees

ME - LD1509 An Act To Provide That Maine's School Bus Drivers Are Eligible for Unemployment Insurance in Certain Circumstances

ME - LD1519 An Act To Increase Workplace Transparency with Regard to Arbitration Agreements, the Rights of Employees and Legal Remedies

ME - LD1530 An Act To Allow People To Live in Tiny Homes as a Primary or Accessory Dwelling

ME - LD1559 Resolve, To Create the Commission To Develop a Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits Program

ME - LD1546 An Act To Prevent Homelessness by Establishing the Rental Relief Fund within the Maine State Housing Authority

ME - LD1571 An Act To Strengthen the Unemployment Insurance System To Better Serve Maine Workers

ME - LD1564 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Unemployment Compensation

ME - LD1590 An Act To Define Commercial and Noncommercial Purveyors of Accommodations for Short-term Rental

ME - LD1613 Resolve, Directing the Department of Economic and Community Development, the Department of Labor and the Department of Transportation To Develop Partnerships with Businesses, Unions and Educational Programs and Institutions To Provide Training and Transportation for Workers

ME - LD1580 An Act To Provide Protections for Mobile Home Park Residents

ME - LD1633 An Act To Require Responsible Contracting Practices for Public Construction Projects

ME - LD1644 An Act To Improve the Disability Retirement Program of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System

ME - LD1656 An Act To Promote Energy-efficient Affordable Housing

ME - LD1673 An Act To Create a Comprehensive Permit Process for the Construction of Affordable Housing

ME - LD1711 An Act To Enhance Enforcement of Employment Laws

ME - LD1724 An Act To Create a Logging Dispute Resolution Board and To Require Proof of Ownership Documents To Be Available within 14 Days of Request

ME - LD1746 An Act To Expand the 1998 Special Retirement Plan To Include Employees Who Work for the Office of Chief Medical Examiner

ME - LD1753 An Act Regarding the Retirement of Law Enforcement Officers under the Participating Local District Retirement Program

ME - LD1808 An Act To Address Employee Retention at the Maine State Police Crime Laboratory and the Computer Crimes Unit in the Department of Public Safety

ME - LD1823 An Act To Amend the Enforcement Provisions of the Law Governing Earned Paid Leave

ME - LD1840 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Retirement Benefit Reductions for Corrections Supervisors Currently Included in the 1998 Special Plan

ME - LD1874 An Act To Clarify COVID-19 Paid Leave for School Employees

ME - LD1878 An Act To Support Restaurants in the State through Service Charge Revenues

ME - LD1879 An Act To Support Law Enforcement Officers, Corrections Officers, E-9-1-1 Dispatchers, Firefighters and Emergency Medical Services Persons Diagnosed with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

ME - LD1881 An Act To Clarify the Laws Related to the Use of Medical Marijuana and Workers' Compensation

ME - LD1884 An Act To Create Affordable Agricultural Homesteads

ME - LD1889 An Act To Amend the Whistleblowers' Protection Act To Ensure Coverage in Unionized Workplaces

ME - LD1891 An Act To Continue Supporting Safe Drinking Water for Maine Families

ME - LD1901 An Act To Protect Funding for Health Care for Retired Teachers by Establishing an Investment Trust Fund

ME - LD1922 An Act To Amend Certain Laws Pertaining to the Maine Public Employees Retirement System

ME - LD1925 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 9: Rules Governing Administrative Civil Money Penalties for Labor Law Violations, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Standards

ME - LD1952 Resolve, To Extend the Commission To Develop a Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits Program

ME - LD1961 An Act To Help Alleviate Maine's Housing Shortage and Change the Membership of the Maine State Housing Authority

ME - LD1966 An Act To Facilitate Access to Heating Assistance

ME - LD1969 An Act Concerning Equity in Renewable Energy Projects and Workforce Development

ME - LD1997 An Act To Implement Certain Recommendations of the Committee To Study the Feasibility of Creating Basic Income Security

ME - LD2003 An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Commission To Increase Housing Opportunities in Maine by Studying Zoning and Land Use Restrictions

ME - LD2006 An Act To Improve the Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program