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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - LD965 An Act Concerning Nondisclosure Agreements in Employment

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 - 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