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Voted yes on LD 1730, a bill about small plug-in solar panels. Maine residents may plug a small solar panel or battery into an ordinary outlet to offset the electricity they use at home. A system up to 420 watts can simply be plugged in; one between 420 and 1,200 watts must be installed by a Maine-licensed electrician on its own dedicated circuit, and the electric utility must be told within 30 days. All qualifying systems must meet recognized safety certification and are excused from some of the requirements that apply to larger rooftop solar. The Maine Senate passed it 25-8 and it became law.

March 17, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted yes on LD 556, a bill about who decides what heats your home. A Maine town or city may no longer pass a rule that stops a person or business from picking any safe heating or energy system sold on the market. Towns also may not block someone from hiring a fuel or energy company to install, service, or refill that system. Towns may still encourage one kind of system and spend money to promote it. In practice this stops a town from banning natural gas or oil heat in new buildings. This was the final passage vote. The Maine Senate passed it 18-14 and it became law.

June 25, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted yes on LD 1934, a bill about outdoor lighting and the night sky. Starting in October 2026, when a state agency, city, town, or county installs or replaces outdoor lighting, fixtures brighter than 1,000 lumens must be shielded so the light points down rather than into the night sky. The lighting also may not be bluer or brighter than the standards allow. Decorative, sign, facade and other nonessential public lighting must be switched off during nighttime hours. Lighting for sports fields has its own limits on how far the light may spread. The rules do not apply where federal aviation or highway rules require something different, during emergencies, for road work, for historic-style fixtures, or at ski areas. The Maine Senate passed it 24-7 and it became law.

June 11, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted yes on LD 1117, a bill about job training grants. Maine gives grants to preapprenticeship programs, which prepare people to enter a registered apprenticeship. The grants may pay for child care, transportation, tools, safety gear, and other costs that would otherwise keep someone from taking part, as well as cash stipends. At least 51 percent of the grant money must go to programs that meet all three of the law's tests. They must have a record of enrolling people from historically marginalized communities and moving them into apprenticeships. They must also place people in apprenticeships worth at least $35 an hour in pay and benefits, and provide strong support services. The Maine Senate passed it 24-8 and it became law.

June 3, 2025Supports Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted yes on LD 1145, a bill about residents' chance to buy their mobile home park. When the owner of a mobile home park plans to sell, the residents get a real chance to buy it first. The owner must mail a complete notice to every homeowner and to the state housing authority, and the residents' 60-day window to make an offer does not start until that notice is complete and received. The notice must give the price and terms, including a signed copy of any offer the owner is ready to accept. If the buyer plans to fold the park into an investment portfolio, the notice must give the terms for that park on its own. The Maine Senate passed it 25-7 and it became law.

June 5, 2025Supports Housing Affordability

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Voted no on LD 613, a bill about the waiting period in Maine's Death with Dignity law. Maine's Death with Dignity Act lets a terminally ill adult who meets the law's conditions ask a doctor for medication to end their own life. The patient must make two spoken requests at least 15 days apart and sign a written request. At least 48 hours must pass between signing that request and the doctor writing the prescription. Under this bill a doctor may shorten part of that wait if, in the doctor's medical opinion, it is in the patient's best interest given their condition. The total wait can never fall below 7 days, and the doctor must record what was shortened and why. The Senate had rejected this bill three days earlier and reversed itself. The Maine Senate passed it 18-15 and it became law.

June 12, 2025

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Voted no on LD 1519, a bill about who cleans up used electronic cigarettes. A company that owns the brand of an electronic cigarette sold in Maine, or imports one for a foreign brand, must set up and pay for a program that collects used devices and disposes of them safely. A company may run the program on its own, together with other companies, or through a shared organization. Stores that sell the devices must serve as collection points within three years of the plan being approved. The plan has to be approved by the state environmental agency. Once a program is running, no one may throw an electronic cigarette in the trash; it must go to the program or to a licensed hazardous waste hauler. This was the final passage vote. The Maine Senate passed it 21-13 and it became law.

April 14, 2026

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Voted no on LD 493, a bill about testing well water for forever chemicals. PFAS are long-lasting industrial chemicals, often called forever chemicals. The state's recommended list of things to test a private drinking water well for now includes them. A landlord whose rental building gets water from a private well must test for everything on that list, not just arsenic as before. This was the final passage vote. The Maine Senate passed it 21-13 and it became law.

April 14, 2026

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Voted no on LD 785, a bill about tribal representation and taxes. The Mi'kmaq Nation may elect a representative to the Maine House of Representatives, beginning with the Legislature elected in November 2026. The Penobscot Nation, the Passamaquoddy Tribe, and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians already have that right. The law also exempts from state income tax the wages the four nations pay their own tribal members, and it adjusts sales, use, and property tax rules on tribal land. The Maine Senate passed it 22-11 and it became law.

April 13, 2026

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Voted no on LD 2106, a bill about immigration agents at schools, clinics, and libraries. The Attorney General must write model rules to keep public buildings open to everyone, whatever their immigration status. The rules limit when staff may let immigration agents into areas that are closed to the public, and when staff may hand over private records for immigration enforcement. They go only as far as state and federal law allow. Public schools, colleges, state institutions, and state libraries must adopt them. Private schools, clinics, day cares, town libraries, and houses of worship may adopt them if they choose. The Maine Senate passed it 20-14 and it became law.

April 8, 2026

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Voted no on LD 2231, a bill about manufactured housing, mobile homes and tiny homes. The owner of a mobile home park may raise lot rent only once a year. Lot rent is what a homeowner pays for the ground their home sits on. Residents can force the owner into mediation, a meeting with a neutral third person, when a rent increase runs more than 1 point above the region's rise in everyday prices. If the park owner demands that homeowners sign a secrecy agreement during that mediation, the owner is treated as acting in bad faith. The law also cuts the minimum lot sizes a town may require in a mobile home park, and lets the title to a tiny home be cancelled so the home becomes real property. The Maine Senate passed it 20-14 and it became law.

April 8, 2026

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Voted no on LD 2176, a bill about tenants' private information. A landlord may not hand out a tenant's or applicant's private information without their permission when the point is to scare or pressure them into moving out, and there is no real business reason for it. Doing so costs the landlord $1,000. The bill also raises the fine for a landlord who walks into a tenant's home without proper notice from $100 to $250. The Maine Senate passed it 20-14 and it became law.

April 7, 2026

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Voted no on LD 1966, a bill about what electric bills must show and how small solar is billed. Large electric utilities must now disclose any administrative charge they add on top of materials and labor when a customer pays directly for work such as a new connection or line extension. Bills must show the state consumer-assistance phone number, may not label recoverable costs as public policy charges, and must describe those costs objectively. If a utility puts misleading information on a bill, regulators can order a correction. Companies that share solar power with customers must follow standard billing and savings disclosures, and breaking them is an unfair trade practice. The state must also buy up to 4 megawatts from small solar projects owned by low- and moderate-income customers or their cooperatives, and customers who own a share of a solar project get relief from some net energy billing limits. The Maine Senate passed it 20-12 and it became law.

April 6, 2026

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Voted no on LD 2146, a bill about which vaccines the state buys in bulk. Maine buys vaccines in bulk through a state program and supplies them to doctors' offices. The board that picks which vaccines the program buys must now also weigh what the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommend. Those recommendations count only if they keep or widen access, rest on scientific evidence, and are not meant to weaken federal immunization standards. The board may also ask the state to pay for children's vaccines, which the Legislature must approve. The law also protects a pharmacist from negligence lawsuits for giving a vaccine outside federal CDC advisory committee guidelines, so long as the pharmacist follows state or those three medical groups' guidelines. The Maine Senate passed it 23-10 and it became law.

April 2, 2026

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Voted no on LD 2058, a bill about jails and federal immigration holds. Maine's town and county jails must be available at all times to hold people arrested by any law enforcement officer. This law adds an exception. That duty does not apply when the person is being held solely for a civil violation of federal immigration law. Where a town does not staff its jail full time, the arresting officer still carries responsibility for anyone held there. The Maine Senate passed it 20-12 and it became law.

March 30, 2026

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Voted no on LD 2051, a bill about food aid for immigrants. Maine will pay for food help for some households that cannot get SNAP because of their immigration status. SNAP is the federal program that helps people with low incomes buy groceries. To qualify, a person must be lawfully in the country, such as a refugee, an asylum seeker, or someone with Temporary Protected Status, including people who lost federal food help under a 2025 federal law. The person must also face a hardship. That means being elderly or disabled, being a victim of domestic violence or trafficking, or being unable to work or unemployed while getting work papers. The Maine Senate passed it 20-12 and it became law.

March 30, 2026

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Voted no on LD 2107, a bill about security grants for nonprofits. Maine set up a grant program to help nonprofit organizations improve security at buildings they own or use, so they are better protected against hate crimes and terror attacks. The state emergency management agency runs it. A hate crime here means one where the victim or the property was chosen because of race, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or homelessness. The Maine Senate passed it 21-14 and it became law.

March 25, 2026

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Voted no on LD 2057, a bill about state loans to build affordable housing. The Maine State Housing Authority may now make construction loans for low-income housing on its own. Before this it generally needed a Maine bank to take part in the loan, at least as escrow agent. It could already lend on its own to public bodies and nonprofits, or where it was funding more than 60 percent of a project. The Maine Senate passed it 22-13 and it became law.

March 24, 2026

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Voted no on LD 2114, a bill about preschool for 3-year-olds. Public preschool in Maine may now take 3-year-olds, not just 4-year-olds. The bill writes 3-year-olds into the legal definition of a public preschool program and into the programs the state urges districts to build. A child who turns 3 by October 15 of the school year may enroll where a program serves 3-year-olds without disabilities. A 3-year-old identified as having a disability may enroll in an available program at any time before kindergarten, and the state may pay start-up costs for such programs. The Maine Senate passed it 18-14 and it became law.

March 19, 2026

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Voted no on LD 517, a bill about fake audio and video in campaign ads. A political ad that uses fake audio, video, or images of a candidate must carry a warning saying the content was changed. The law calls this synthetic media, meaning a doctored clip that would fool a reasonable person about what a candidate said or did. Satire and parody do not need the warning. Neither do edits that only sharpen the picture or sound, add captions, or highlight part of a clip, so long as they do not change the impression a viewer gets. The Maine Senate passed it 20-14 and it became law.

March 12, 2026

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Voted no on LD 1949, a bill about electricity costs for households. The Public Utilities Commission must now weigh the effect on household bills when it carries out its duties, while still keeping the power system reliable. It must publish data on large utilities' credit and collection activity on its website. It must also review every part of electric delivery rates to see whether the design could hold down costs, steady bills, and make them easier to understand, and report by the end of 2027. The Maine Senate passed it 21-12 and it became law.

March 5, 2026

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Voted no on LD 1587, a bill about enforcing labor laws. The head of Maine's Bureau of Labor Standards may now open an investigation whenever the director believes a person or a business has broken Maine's employment practices or wage laws. The director may look at records, take sworn statements, and issue subpoenas, which are legal orders to hand over documents or testify. The director may order penalties and order violations fixed, plus an extra fine of up to $1,000 a day for every day a payment is late or a violation goes uncorrected. The director may also seize money or property held for the violator by a bank or other third party. Notices of violation must be posted at the workplace and given to the employees covered. The Maine Senate passed it 18-14 and it became law.

February 26, 2026

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Voted no on LD 2037, a bill about power plant pollution limits. Maine limits how much carbon dioxide its power plants may release, under a program it runs with other states. Carbon dioxide is the main gas driving climate change. The old law shrank that limit by 2.5 percent a year. The bill replaces it with a set schedule that falls from 2,065,595 tons in 2027 to 221,314 tons in 2037 and every year after. The Maine Senate passed it 19-13 and it became law.

February 12, 2026

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Voted no on LD 166, a bill about tobacco sales in pharmacies. A pharmacy, or a store with a pharmacy inside it, may no longer hold a license to sell tobacco. Selling or giving away tobacco anyway is a civil violation with a fine of up to $2,000, and each day counts as a separate offense. The law also ends a discount cigarette distributors got when buying tax stamps. This was the final passage vote. The Maine Senate passed it 17-16 and it became law.

June 25, 2025

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Voted no on LD 1126, a gun bill. A serial number is the maker's ID number that lets police trace a gun. Starting January 1, 2027, having a gun with no serial number is a civil violation with a fine of up to $50 the first time, and a crime for repeat offenses. Bringing one into Maine, selling it, or handing it over is a crime from the first offense. The rules also cover the frame, the core part a gun is built on. Buying one that already has a number requires a background check. Guns made before 1968, antiques, collector pieces, and guns that can no longer fire are left out. The bill also bans guns built to slip past metal detectors. This was the final passage vote. The Maine Senate passed it 17-16 and it became law.

June 25, 2025

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Voted no on LD 1971, a bill about local police and federal immigration agents. Maine police, sheriffs, and jails may no longer spend their money or their officers' time helping enforce federal civil immigration law. They may not hold someone in jail past their release time just because federal agents ask. They may not tell those agents a person's release date or home address unless that information is already public. They may still share someone's immigration status when federal law calls for it, and they may still run normal criminal investigations. This was the final passage vote. The Maine Senate passed it 20-14 and it became law.

June 18, 2025

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Voted no on LD 1849, a bill about the youngest age a child can be charged with a crime. Maine now sets a youngest age for being charged as a juvenile. A child under 11 cannot be charged with a juvenile crime. The exception is murder, felony murder, or manslaughter, or an attempt at one of those, where no minimum age applies. The law also sends juveniles to juvenile court for any offense under Maine law, including hunting and driving offenses that used to go to adult court. The Maine Senate passed it 20-15 and it became law.

June 17, 2025

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Voted no on LD 93, a bill about who gets state-bought vaccines. Maine buys vaccines in bulk and hands them to doctors' offices, and that program used to cover only children. The bill opens it to every Maine resident, adults included. Health insurance companies pay for it through fees set by a state board. That board also picks which vaccines the program buys. The bill takes the federal vaccine advisory committee out of the board's criteria: the board used to have to consider the vaccines that committee recommended, and now looks at vaccines available through any low-cost bulk purchase option. The Maine Senate passed it 20-13 and it became law.

June 17, 2025

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Voted no on LD 1868, a clean electricity bill. Companies that sell electricity in Maine must start buying power the state counts as clean. The share starts at 1 percent of what they sell in 2031 and climbs to 10 percent by 2040. Nuclear plants count. So do hydroelectric dams that meet the state's rules for letting fish swim past. So does any power the state certifies as giving off almost no greenhouse gas. This was the final passage vote. The Maine Senate passed it 19-16 and it became law.

June 17, 2025

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Voted no on LD 670, a bill about domestic abuse protection orders. Maine's domestic abuse law counts it as abuse to force someone to do something they have a right to refuse, or to stop doing something they have a right to do. Until now the law reached force, threat of force, and intimidation. The bill adds coercion to that list, which is the kind of pressure used in controlling relationships. The Maine Senate passed it 20-12 and it became law.

June 16, 2025

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Voted no on LD 1871, a bill about clearing criminal records. Someone who was a victim of sex trafficking or sexual exploitation may ask a court to seal a conviction, if the crime happened largely as a result of that trafficking. Sealing keeps the record from public view. The request may be filed at any time after the conviction. The law also sets rules for background-check companies. They may report only complete and up-to-date records, and must fix or delete records that are wrong or sealed. The Maine Senate passed it 22-12 and it became law.

June 16, 2025

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Voted no on LD 1784, a bill about police rulebooks. Every Maine law enforcement agency, including town and city police, county sheriffs, and the State Police, must publish the rules its officers work under, written in plain language. They go on a public website that costs nothing and needs no password, or on paper handed over within seven business days of a request. Agencies must train their officers on those rules and confirm to the state each year that they have done it. Confidential investigation files stay private, and an agency may charge a fair price for photocopies. The Maine Senate passed it 17-16 and it became law.

June 16, 2025

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Voted no on LD 1723, a bill about rent increases in manufactured housing communities. The owner of a manufactured housing community must give at least 90 days' written notice before raising lot rent or fees. Lot rent is what a homeowner pays for the ground their home sits on. The notice must state the increase in dollars and compare it to average rent and fees at similar communities nearby. If the new rent or fees go above what similar communities nearby charge, adjusted upward by the region's inflation rate plus 1 percent, homeowners may ask for mediation, a meeting with a neutral third person. Owners of at least 51 percent of the homes must sign that request. The Maine Senate passed it 20-12 and it became law.

June 13, 2025

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Voted no on LD 911, a bill about ranked-choice elections when a candidate drops out. Maine uses ranked-choice voting in some elections, where voters rank the candidates in order of preference. If a candidate dies, is disqualified, or withdraws fewer than 70 days before such an election, the election still stays a ranked-choice election. The law also spells out how the count works in that situation. The Maine Senate passed it 21-13 and it became law.

June 13, 2025

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Voted no on LD 215, a bill about housing aid in large recovery homes. Recovery residences are group homes for people recovering from substance use. Towns must now cap general assistance for someone living in a recovery residence with 26 or more beds at 70 percent of what they would allow at a smaller residence. The state reimburses towns the full cost of that assistance. The health department also had to convene a stakeholder group and report back on managing these costs. The Maine Senate passed it 22-13 and it became law.

June 12, 2025

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Voted no on LD 427, a bill about town parking rules. The version the Senate voted on went further than the law that ended up passing. It would also have barred a town from requiring any off-street parking within a quarter mile of a transit stop. Off-street parking means spaces on the property rather than on the street. It capped required parking at one space per home in areas marked for growth, and made towns accept parking rented in a nearby lot. The Senate dropped the transit-stop piece later the same day, and the smaller version became law. The Maine Senate passed the broader version 19-16.

June 12, 2025

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Voted no on LD 1937, a bill about free and reduced hospital care. Maine hospitals must run a program that helps patients pay, and must give free care to patients whose family income is at or below twice the federal poverty level. The federal poverty level is the income line the government uses to decide who counts as poor. A hospital has 45 days to answer a completed application. Patients earning up to four times that line must be offered a payment plan that never takes more than 4 percent of their monthly family income. The Maine Senate passed it 21-14 and it became law.

June 12, 2025

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Voted no on LD 913, a bill about ticket resale fees. A ticket seller must show the full price up front, including every required fee, and show it more prominently than any other price. Selling a ticket the seller does not actually have is banned, along with using bots to grab tickets and using copycat web addresses. A resale marketplace may not charge more than 10 percent of the original ticket price for its service. The Attorney General enforces this, and breaking the rules counts as an unfair trade practice. The Maine Senate passed it 21-10 and it became law.

June 11, 2025

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Voted against accepting the House's final version of LD 1016. The bill charges the buyer of a manufactured housing community or mobile home park $10,000 for each lot when the deed is recorded. That money funds a state program helping homeowners, resident co-ops, and nonprofits buy these parks and keep them affordable. Housing authorities and co-ops of the home owners do not pay. Buyers worth under $50 million, counting related companies, are also exempt if they file a sworn statement of net worth. The Senate agreed 18-15, and the governor signed it as Public Law Chapter 398.

June 11, 2025

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Voted no on LD 598, a bill about pay when a shift is cancelled. If a worker shows up for a scheduled shift and the boss then cancels it or cuts it short, the boss must still pay them. The pay is two hours at the worker's normal rate, or the pay for the shift they were scheduled for, whichever is less. This covers employers with at least 10 workers. It does not apply when bad weather, a disaster, the worker's own illness, or a workplace injury stops the work. Seasonal-industry workers and public employees covered by a union contract are also outside the law. A boss who made a documented, good-faith try to call the worker off does not owe the pay. But if the worker still turns up, the boss must give them duties they can do, and must pay them if there is no work to assign. This was the final passage vote. The Maine Senate passed it 18-16 and it became law.

June 11, 2025

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Voted no on LD 537, a bill about posting a child's private information online. A family can now sue someone who shares a child's private information, whether online or any other way. This is often called doxing. The person must have shared the information on purpose, knowing the risk, or by ignoring an obvious one. The sharing must also have actually led to stalking, physical harm, serious damage to property, or a real fear for someone's safety. The Maine Senate passed it 18-14 and it became law.

June 10, 2025

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Voted no on LD 1078, a bill about needle exchange programs. Needle exchange programs let people trade used syringes for clean ones, which cuts the spread of disease. Certified programs in Maine may now run mobile sites on rotating schedules and deliver syringes within their service area, instead of working only from a fixed location. The state health agency must approve the general terms first, and programs get no extra money for the added sites. The Maine Senate passed it 20-11 and it became law.

June 9, 2025

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Voted no on LD 1900, a bill about tribal authority. The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, the Mi'kmaq Nation, the Penobscot Nation, and the Passamaquoddy Tribe may form power districts on their land, with the same rights Maine towns already have. A power district can supply and distribute electricity. The law also lets the Penobscot Nation's and the Maliseet tribal courts use the same license-suspension tool the state uses against parents who fall behind on child support. The Maine Senate passed it 20-12 and it became law.

June 5, 2025

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Voted no on LD 1366, a bill about cocaine sentencing. Maine used to punish crack cocaine at lower amounts than powder cocaine, so the same charge took far less crack. The bill erases that split. For the Class B crime of unlawful possession by a person who already has a drug conviction, the old 4-gram line for crack is gone and one 14-gram line now applies to cocaine in any form. For aggravated importing of cocaine into the state, the old 32-gram line for crack is gone and a single 112-gram line applies. The Maine Senate passed it 16-15 and it became law.

June 3, 2025

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Voted no on LD 1768, a bill about a housing fund and mobile home parks. The state's Housing Opportunities for Maine Fund may now be spent on keeping mobile home parks affordable. The stated purpose is to support parks owned by the residents themselves, through homeowner associations, cooperatives, or nonprofits acting for the homeowners. The law also frees such a sale from the real estate transfer tax when a park owner sells the park to a majority of its residents or to a mobile home owners' association. The Maine Senate passed it 23-11 and it became law.

June 2, 2025

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Voted no on LD 589, a bill about pay for farm workers. Farm workers in Maine must be paid at least the state minimum wage. The law sets a base of $14.65 an hour and raises it with the cost of living each year, which made the wage $15.10 an hour when it took effect on January 1, 2026. Family members who live with the farm owner and depend on the owner are not covered. The Maine Senate passed it 22-12 and it became law.

June 2, 2025

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Voted no on LD 21, a bill about school threat assessment policies. School boards must have policies for handling students who are disruptive or violent or who threaten to harm others. The law reframes those policies around identifying, assessing, and stepping in with students who may pose a threat of violence to themselves or others. The policies must cover student supports as well as discipline and placement, up to removing a student from a classroom or a school bus. The Maine Senate passed it 18-14 and it became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted no on LD 538, a bill about what goes on a prescription label. A pharmacy may now print the name of the health care facility on the label instead of the name of the prescriber, meaning the doctor, nurse practitioner, or other provider who wrote the prescription. This applies to mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs used for medication abortion, and to their generic versions. It happens only if the prescriber asks for it. Normally Maine law requires the prescriber's own name on every drug label. The Maine Senate passed it 19-13 and it became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted no on LD 784, a bill about insurance denials for first responders' medical tests. First responders here include paid and volunteer fire, emergency medical, dispatch, corrections, and police staff. The law applies when a first responder's health plan already covers one of the listed screening tests and the person's own provider has found the test medically appropriate with real potential to prevent illness. If the insurer then denies coverage for that test, a court starts from the assumption that the insurer failed to use ordinary care. The insurer can still rebut that assumption with evidence. The listed tests include screening for cancers tied to on-the-job exposure, standard blood panels, and mammograms, colonoscopies, and prostate exams at any age. The Maine Senate passed it 20-12 and it became law.

May 20, 2025

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Voted no on LD 1080, a bill about utility deposits. A utility may no longer demand a deposit from someone signing up for home service just because of how much that person earns. The rule covers applicants, meaning people who have not been that utility's customer in the past 30 days. The state's Public Utilities Commission, which oversees power and water companies, must start writing the detailed rules within 30 days. The Maine Senate passed it 19-13 and it became law.

May 20, 2025

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Voted no on LD 163, a bill about insurance coverage for birth control. Health insurance sold in Maine must cover over-the-counter birth control pills and over-the-counter emergency contraception, with no copay or deductible. Over-the-counter means you can buy it without a prescription. The person buys it at a pharmacy, and the insurer must offer a choice: pay nothing at checkout, or pay out of pocket at the pharmacy counter and be reimbursed. The law does not apply to drugs meant to end a pregnancy. The Maine Senate passed it 21-13 and it became law.

May 14, 2025

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Voted no on LD 54, a bill about telling job applicants what a job pays. An employer with 10 or more workers must list the pay range in any job posting. The pay range is what the employer expects to pay for that job. A job paid only on commission just has to say so. The employer must also tell a current worker the pay range for their own job if asked, and must keep a record of each worker's jobs and pay history. The Maine Senate passed it 21-13 and it became law.

May 14, 2025

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Voted no on LD 1185, a bill about the minimum age to marry. Maine no longer lets anyone under 18 marry. The old law had an exception that let some people under 18 marry. That exception is repealed, and a town clerk may not issue a marriage license to anyone under 18. This was the final passage vote. The Maine Senate passed it 19-11 and it became law.

April 23, 2025

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 30, 2026

Voted no on LD 585, a bill about spending power-grid money on heat pumps and electric cars. Efficiency Maine, the state agency that pays for energy-saving upgrades, gets money from the regional power grid for keeping electricity supply available. That money must go toward helping people switch to electric equipment that pays for itself and lowers electricity bills over its lifetime, such as high-efficiency heat pumps and electric cars. The old law only required this through the 2024-25 budget year. The bill makes it permanent. The Maine Senate passed it 19-15 and it became law.

April 10, 2025

Source: legiscan.com · researched August 30, 2026