Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development

ME - Senator John Patrick (U)

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Chair

ME - Senator John Cleveland (U)

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Member

ME - Senator Andre Cushing (U)

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Member

ME - Representative Erin D. Herbig (D)

Title:

Chair

ME - Representative Paul E. Gilbert (D)

Title:

Member

ME - Representative Scott M. Hamann (D)

Title:

Member

ME - Representative Andrew T. Mason (D)

Title:

Member

ME - Representative Anne-Marie Mastraccio (D)

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Member

ME - Representative Amy Fern Volk (R)

Title:

Ranking Minority Member

ME - Representative Brian M. Duprey (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Lawrence E. Lockman (R)

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Member

ME - Representative Ellen A. Winchenbach (R)

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Member

ME - Representative James J. Campbell, Sr. (I)

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Member

ME - LD1565 An Act To Preserve Code Enforcement Officer Training and Certification

ME - LD1554 An Act To Increase International Cross-border Partnerships To Benefit Maine's Economy

ME - LD1506 An Act To Require Disclosures by 3rd-party Vendors Contracted To Perform Fund-raising

ME - LD1499 Resolve, To Direct the Department of Economic and Community Development To Adopt Certain Eligibility Requirements Regarding Community Development Block Grants

ME - LD1498 An Act To Amend the Labor Laws as They Relate to Payment for Required Medical Examinations

ME - LD1482 An Act To Amend the Motor Vehicle Franchise Laws

ME - LD1476 An Act To Protect Local Input in Economic Development and Redevelopment Efforts

ME - LD1458 An Act To Enact the Maine Small Business Investment Protection Act

ME - LD1436 An Act To Avoid Conflicts of Interest in State Government Labor Relations

ME - LD1451 An Act To Require the Membership of the State Workforce Investment Board To Include Representatives of the Local Workforce Investment Boards

ME - LD1437 An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding Licensure of Physicians and Physician Assistants

ME - LD1420 An Act To Return to Building Code Requirements in Effect Prior to the Adoption of the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code

ME - LD1390 An Act Regarding the Cancellation of Subscription Services

ME - LD1381 An Act To Promote Rural Job Creation and Workforce Development

ME - LD1380 Resolve, To Establish a Consistent Workers' Compensation Classification for Pharmacies

ME - LD1376 An Act To Ensure the Choice of a Pharmacy for Injured Employees under the Workers' Compensation Act of 1992

ME - LD1373 An Act To Update the Polygraph Examiner Licensing Laws

ME - LD1368 An Act To Temporarily Restore Boxing Rules

ME - LD1360 An Act To Amend the Motor Fuel Distribution and Sales Act

ME - LD1351 An Act To Attract Military Families to Maine

ME - LD1341 An Act Directing the Department of Economic and Community Development To Establish a Program To Promote Economic Growth and Development

ME - LD1329 An Act To Provide Equity for Seasonal Public School Employees Concerning Unemployment

ME - LD1328 An Act To License Home Building and Improvement Contractors

ME - LD1315 An Act To Ensure the Safety of Compounded Drugs

ME - LD1313 An Act To Amend Licensing Requirements for Professional Engineers

ME - LD1311 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Unemployment Compensation To Ensure Conformity with the Federal Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act of 2011

ME - LD1310 An Act To Improve Access to Dental Care through the Establishment of the Maine Board of Oral Health

ME - LD1295 An Act To Require the Use of Preapproved Subcontractors for Publicly Funded Construction Projects

ME - LD1288 An Act Regarding Impairment of Health of a Correctional Employee Caused by Infectious Disease

ME - LD1281 An Act To Provide for Licensing of Recreational Therapists

ME - LD1259 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Portions of Chapter 17: Rules Regarding Proof of Ownership and Recruitment by Employers Employing Foreign Laborers To Operate Logging Equipment, a Major Substantive Rule of the Department of Labor

ME - LD1238 An Act To Improve Professional Training for Licensed Mental Health Clinicians

ME - LD1199 An Act Regarding Mobile Home Ownership

ME - LD1151 An Act Regarding the Administration and Financial Transparency of the Citizen Trade Policy Commission

ME - LD1150 An Act To Require Prevailing Wages To Be Paid on All Public Works Projects Receiving State Funding

ME - LD1149 An Act To Establish a Rebuttable Presumption Regarding a Corrections Employee That Contracts Hypertension or Cardiovascular Disease

ME - LD1103 An Act To Encourage Development in the Logging Industry

ME - LD1276 An Act To Provide Stable Funding for Research and Development in Maine

ME - LD1267 An Act To Recodify the Land Surveyor Licensing Laws

ME - LD1250 An Act To Revise Maine's Unemployment Compensation Laws

ME - LD1230 An Act To Improve Access to Oral Health Care

ME - LD1221 An Act To Preserve the Dynamic Status Quo Pending Expiration of Collective Bargaining Agreements

ME - LD1217 An Act To Modify Franchise Territories for Personal Sports Mobile Dealerships

ME - LD1203 An Act To Encourage Financing of Manufactured Housing for the Workforce

ME - LD1202 An Act To Update the Maine Veterinary Practice Act

ME - LD1201 An Act To Protect Employees from Abusive Work Environments

ME - LD1198 An Act To Protect Earned Pay

ME - LD1197 An Act To Allow Stores under 10,000 Square Feet To Be Open on Certain Holidays

ME - LD1196 An Act To Amend the Postgraduate Education Requirements for Physicians Who Have Completed an Accredited Residency Program in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

ME - LD1195 An Act To Protect the Privacy of Job Applicants

ME - LD1179 An Act To Create the Brunswick Landing Job Increment Financing Fund

ME - LD1156 An Act To Update a Reference Contained in the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code

ME - LD1154 An Act To Establish the Maine Length of Service Award Program

ME - LD1137 An Act To Facilitate Veterans' and Their Spouses' Access to Employment, Education and Training

ME - LD1134 An Act To Allow Collaborative Practice Agreements between Authorized Practitioners and Pharmacists

ME - LD1108 An Act To Modify the Qualifications for a Person To Be Able To Teach Driver's Education

ME - LD1087 An Act Concerning Workers' Compensation and Short-term Disability Insurance in Maine

ME - LD1072 An Act To Provide Accountability in the Handling of Affordable Housing Tenants' Security Deposits

ME - LD1070 Resolve, Directing the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation To Conduct a Sunrise Review Regarding the Proposal To License Certain Mechanical Trades

ME - LD1069 An Act To Provide Flexibility in the State Prevailing Wage and Benefit Rates

ME - LD1041 An Act To Modify the Mandatory Enforcement of the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code for a Municipality without a Building Code

ME - LD993 Resolve, To Amend Maine Board of Pharmacy Rules Regarding Automated Pharmacy Systems in Hospitals

ME - LD949 An Act To Ensure the Proportional Offset against Retirement Benefits of Workers' Compensation Awards

ME - LD1071 An Act Regarding Qualifications for Real Estate Licensees

ME - LD1035 An Act To Report Certain Information in Response to Growing Financial Inequality

ME - LD1033 An Act To Help the Unemployed Find Work

ME - LD1017 An Act Relating to Employee Leasing Company Registration

ME - LD992 An Act To Create a State-sponsored 401(k) Retirement Plan for Participation by Private Employers

ME - LD977 An Act To Restore Uniformity to the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code

ME - LD976 An Act To Reform Employer-provided Benefits

ME - LD952 An Act To Ensure Increased Wages for Wabanaki Tribal Members

ME - LD934 An Act To Amend the Laws on Extended Warranties for Used Cars To Make Terms of Coverage Transparent

ME - LD914 An Act To Certify Nuclear Medicine Technologists in Computed Tomography

ME - LD890 An Act To Buy American-made Products

ME - LD867 An Act To Streamline, Amend and Clarify Certain Professional and Occupational Licensing Statutes

ME - LD865 An Act Regarding Contract Indemnification

ME - LD853 Resolve, Requiring the Department of Labor To Establish a Fund To Assist Unemployed Individuals Lacking Transportation to Job Interviews

ME - LD831 An Act To Prohibit Mandatory Membership in a Union or Payment of Agency Fees as a Condition of Employment

ME - LD809 An Act To Create a License for Metal Dealers

ME - LD786 An Act To Ensure the Voluntary Membership of Public Employees in Unions

ME - LD747 An Act To Protect Doctors Who Prescribe a Complementary Course of Treatment and To Provide Insurance Coverage for That Treatment

ME - LD732 An Act To Impose a Holding Period during Which a Dealer in Secondhand Precious Metals Must Retain Property

ME - LD808 An Act To Amend the Laws Concerning Metal Dealers

ME - LD788 An Act To Provide Vehicle Owners and Repair Facilities Access to Vehicle Diagnostic and Repair Information and Equipment

ME - LD761 An Act To Clarify the Agricultural Exemption to the Workers' Compensation Laws

ME - LD739 Resolve, To Establish a Task Force To Study Economic Development in Rural Areas

ME - LD722 Resolve, To Establish a Task Force To Review Section 8 Housing Construction Standards

ME - LD700 An Act To Require Elevators To Be Accessible for Ambulance Stretchers

ME - LD1846 An Act To Require the Licensure of Scrap Metal Recyclers and Mobile Scrap Metal Dealers

ME - LD461 An Act To Allow Businesses with More than 5,000 Square Feet of Interior Customer Selling Space To Open on Easter Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day

ME - LD449 An Act To Ensure Consumer Choice in the Purchase of Prescription Drugs

ME - LD445 An Act To Improve Efficiencies in Dental Offices

ME - LD444 An Act To Improve Workers' Compensation Coverage for All Injured Workers

ME - LD431 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Work Permit Process for Minors and To Conform the Laws Governing Allowable Places of Work for Minors to Federal Law

ME - LD426 An Act To Provide for the Continuity of a Veterinary Practice Subsequent to the Death or Incapacitation of the Owner

ME - LD418 An Act To Enforce Wage Laws by Preventing Misclassification of Employees

ME - LD416 An Act To Allow Complainants in Disciplinary Actions To Attend Informal Conferences Held by the State Board of Nursing in Executive Session

ME - LD414 An Act To Restructure the Licensing and Regulation of Boilers and Pressure Vessels and Elevators and Tramways

ME - LD411 An Act To Amend the Health Care Practitioner Licensing, Disciplinary and Reporting Laws Regarding Alcohol and Drug Abuse

ME - LD364 An Act To Amend the Laws Regulating Suppliers of Agricultural, Construction, Industrial and Forestry Equipment

ME - LD348 An Act Concerning the Scope of Practice of Cardiovascular Technologists

ME - LD293 An Act To Ensure Parity in the Collective Bargaining Process among State Institutions of Higher Education

ME - LD235 An Act To Improve Insurance Coverage for Volunteer First Responders

ME - LD314 An Act To Create the Office of Marketing

ME - LD249 Resolve, Directing the Board of Dental Examiners To Amend Its Rules To Improve Access to Oral Health Care in Maine

ME - LD263 An Act To Require Dealers of Secondhand Precious Metals To Keep Records To Aid Law Enforcement

ME - LD260 An Act To Extend Funding for the Loring Job Increment Financing Fund

ME - LD246 An Act To Provide for the 2013 and 2014 Allocations of the State Ceiling on Private Activity Bonds

ME - LD237 An Act To Establish Uniform Quorum, Meeting and Chair Requirements for Professional and Occupational Licensing Boards

ME - LD149 An Act To Make Gold and Silver Coins and Bars Legal Tender

ME - LD118 An Act To Ensure the Authenticity of Items Reported To Have Been Crafted by Native Americans

ME - LD171 An Act To Facilitate the Licensing of International Mail Order Prescription Pharmacies by the Maine Board of Pharmacy

ME - LD103 An Act To Correct an Inconsistency in Maine's Apprenticeship Laws

ME - LD159 An Act Regarding the Laws Governing Unemployment Compensation Benefits for Employees of Temporary Staffing Agencies

ME - LD32 An Act To Expand the Types of Vaccines That May Be Administered by Pharmacists

ME - LD148 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Drugs and Vaccines Administered by Pharmacists

ME - LD117 An Act To Change the Composition of the Board of Dental Examiners

ME - LD116 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Pine Tree Development Zones To Require Payment of a Livable Wage

ME - LD36 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Record Keeping for Pawn Transactions

ME - LD35 An Act To Amend the Law Concerning the Membership of the Maine Economic Growth Council

ME - LD1 An Act To Amend the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992

ME - LD1677 An Act To Make Minor Technical Changes to the Laws Governing the Department of Labor

ME - LD1624 An Act Concerning Pricing Disclosure Requirements and Oversight of Pharmacy Benefits Managers

ME - LD1622 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Firefighter Absence from Work for Emergency Response

ME - LD1710 An Act To Retain Call Centers in Maine

ME - LD1701 An Act To Amend the Work-sharing Program To Conform with Federal Law

ME - LD1700 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 13: Fees for Boxing Events and Authorized Participants, a Major Substantive Rule of the Combat Sports Authority of Maine

ME - LD1698 An Act To Streamline the Work Permitting Process for Minors and To Conform Allowable Places That Minors May Work to Federal Law

ME - LD690 An Act To Ensure Efficiency in the Unemployment Insurance System

ME - LD1724 An Act To Conform Licensing Requirements for Real Estate Appraisers with Federal Law

ME - LD1725 An Act To Provide for the 2014 and 2015 Allocations of the State Ceiling on Private Activity Bonds

ME - LD1735 An Act To Amend Forester Licensing Requirements

ME - LD1743 Resolve, Directing the Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management To Develop a Portable Voucher System To Subsidize Rental Housing for Veterans in the State

ME - LD1766 An Act To Clarify and Update a Nurse's Authority To Administer Medication

ME - LD1275 An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Maine Economic Growth Council Regarding Prosperity

ME - LD1799 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Charitable Solicitations

ME - LD1802 An Act To Allocate a Portion of the Reed Act Distribution of 2002 To Use for the Administration of the Unemployment Insurance and Employment Services Programs

ME - LD1798 An Act To Implement the Recommendations of the Task Force Convened by the Maine Labor Relations Board Regarding Compensation for the Panel of Mediators

ME - LD1790 An Act To Designate Maine State Housing Authority To Receive Funds from the National Housing Trust Fund

ME - LD1793 Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 12: Rules for Mixed Martial Arts, a Late-filed Major Substantive Rule of the Combat Sports Authority of Maine

ME - LD1352 An Act To Provide Integrated Community-based Employment and Customized Employment for Persons with Disabilities

ME - LD696 An Act To Include Raising Equines in the Definition of Agriculture for the Purpose of the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992

ME - LD691 An Act To Prohibit Enforcement of Federal Laws Regulating Commerce in Violation of the Constitution of the United States

ME - LD689 An Act To Clarify Compensation for the Panel of Mediators

ME - LD443 An Act To Amend the Maine Workers' Compensation Act of 1992 To Provide Benefits to Seriously Injured Workers

ME - LD656 Resolve, Requiring the Department of Economic and Community Development To Develop Incentives for Industries in the State To Increase Employment of Maine Residents

ME - LD555 Resolve, Directing the Nursing Home Administrators Licensing Board To Amend Its Rules To Permit Certain Registered Nurses To Serve as Administrators of Nursing Facilities and To Change Provisions Governing Continuing Education Requirements

ME - LD611 An Act To Adjust Maine's Minimum Wage Annually Based on Cost-of-living Changes

ME - LD509 An Act To Exempt Certain Supervised Medical Assistants from Licensing under the Medical Radiation Health and Safety Laws

ME - LD605 An Act To Allow a Minor in the Police Explorer Program To Assist with Traffic Control at Civic Events

ME - LD556 An Act To Modernize the Statutes Governing Physician Assistants

ME - LD554 Resolve, Requiring the Department of Economic and Community Development To Market the Positive Attributes of the State of Maine

ME - LD553 An Act To Remove the Statement of Oral Condition as a Requirement for Denturists Making Partial Dentures

ME - LD491 An Act Regarding Timber Harvesting on Land Managed by the Division of Parks and Public Lands

ME - LD71 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Pawn Transactions

ME - LD1668 An Act To Expedite Training Waiver Decisions for Unemployment Claimants by Transferring Original Jurisdiction from the Unemployment Insurance Commission to the Bureau of Unemployment Compensation

ME - LD1669 An Act To Standardize and Simplify the Process for Employers To Provide a Drug-free Workplace

ME - LD1666 An Act To Simplify the Audit Procedures of the Maine Rural Development Authority

ME - LD1659 An Act To Amend the Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act

ME - LD1658 An Act To Expand and Improve Employment Opportunities in the State

ME - LD1650 An Act To Create a Program To Provide Training for Unemployed Workers

ME - LD1648 An Act To Protect Maine Consumers from Abusive and Deceptive Debt Collection Practices

ME - LD1641 An Act To Amend the Workers' Compensation Laws as They Pertain to Employee Representation

ME - LD1643 An Act To Enable the Bureau of Labor Standards To Access Federal Reimbursement by Amending State Law To Conform to Federal Law

ME - LD1633 An Act To Extend the Date for a Business in a Tier 2 Location To Qualify for Pine Tree Development Zone Benefits

ME - LD1832 An Act To Increase Employment Opportunities for Veterans

ME - LD1833 An Act To Improve Workers' Compensation Protection for Injured Workers Whose Employers Have Wrongfully Not Secured Workers' Compensation Insurance

ME - LD1835 An Act To Improve Maine's Ability To Attract Major Private Investments

ME - LD1836 An Act To Establish the Commission on Promoting Manufacturing in Maine