Both chambers of the Maine Legislature met on April 25th for the final regular meeting of the 130th Legislature. Lawmakers were supposed to adjourn on Wednesday, April 20th, statutory adjournment day, but voted to extend session one extra day to address $12...

  The Second Regular Session of the 130th Maine Legislature has been extended. Statutory adjournment was on Wednesday, but with so much work still left to do Democrats and Republicans finally agreed on the issue and have given themselves one more day to finish...

There is now less than a week to go before the end of the session, leaders of the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee- the budget writing committee have been working through some of the more substantive and contentious pieces of the governor’s supplemental budget...

The 130th Maine Legislature is currently scheduled to adjourn its second session on April 20, giving legislators a little more than two weeks to negotiate and pass a supplemental budget in addition to finally dispensing with the remaining work before them. In...

Republican legislators agreed to send one-time payments to more Maine taxpayers and are calling for a weekend-long sales tax holiday in October as part of their list of priorities for an estimated $1.2 billion revenue surplus. Republican leaders released a list of...

The full Legislature convened twice this week, on Tuesday and Thursday and will meet on Tuesday and Thursday of next week. Committees are wrapping up the remaining bills that they have, but there is still plenty of work left to complete before statutory adjournment on...

The Maine State House was shut down for the week, forcing the canceling of Thursday’s legislative session. The building was evacuated Monday when pipes burst, flooding the first floor and the tunnel to the Cross Office Building. Workers have been repairing the damage...

Statutory Adjournment is Around the Corner Statutory adjournment is five weeks away and the Maine Legislature still has a lot of work to complete. Bills are still being printed, committees are still meeting daily and there are still controversial bills remaining to be...

Maine lawmakers begin reviewing Janet Mills’ supplemental budge Members of the Maine Legislature began debating Governor Janet Mills' supplemental budget proposal this week, which includes sending $500 refund payments to many taxpayers. Gov. Mills released...

Pursuant to Maine law (Maine statute 26 MRS 664), effective January 1, 2022, the state minimum wage will increase from $12.15 to $12.75 per hour, based on data recently made available by the U.S. Department of Labors Bureau of Labor Statistics. Maine law requires...