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LD1032 • 2025

An Act Regarding Court Security

An Act Regarding Court Security

Did Not Pass

The latest official action shows that this bill did not move forward in that session.

Sponsor
Representative James White
Last action
2025-06-11
Official status
Taken from the table by the President Motion by Senator STEWART of Aroostook to INSIST and ASKED for a COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE FAILED Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 456 Yeas 16 - Nays 17 - Excused 2 - Absent 0 Subsequently, the Senate INSISTED whereby The Majority Ought Not To Pass report was READ AND ACCEPTED . Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD.)
Effective date
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Plain English Breakdown

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An Act Regarding Court Security

An Act Regarding Court Security Sponsor: Representative James White Reference committee: Judiciary Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

What This Bill Does

  • An Act Regarding Court Security Sponsor: Representative James White Reference committee: Judiciary Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Adopted by House

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR1443(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR1443(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 1032 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • H- ) 3JUDICIARY 4 Reproduced and distributed under the direction of the Clerk of the House.
  • 5STATE OF MAINE 6HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 7132ND LEGISLATURE 8FIRST SPECIAL SESSION 9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT “ ” to H.P.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-11 Senate

    Taken from the table by the President Motion by Senator STEWART of Aroostook to INSIST and ASKED for a COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE FAILED Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 456 Yeas 16 - Nays 17 - Excused 2 - Absent 0 Subsequently, the Senate INSISTED whereby The Majority Ought Not To Pass report was READ AND ACCEPTED . Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD.)

  2. 2025-06-10 House

    The House INSISTED on ACCEPTANCE of the Minority Ought to Pass as Amended Report and PASSAGE TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (H-467) ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  3. 2025-06-03 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

  4. 2025-04-09 Committee

    Work Session Held

  5. 2025-04-09 Committee

    Voted; Divided Report

  6. 2025-03-12 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Official Summary Text

An Act Regarding Court Security
Sponsor:
Representative James White
Reference committee:
Judiciary
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1032
H.P. 661 House of Representatives, March 14, 2025
An Act Regarding Court Security
Received by the Clerk of the House on March 12, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Judiciary pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative WHITE of Guilford.
Cosponsored by Senator STEWART of Aroostook and
Representatives: CHAPMAN of Auburn, COLLINS of Sidney, DOUDERA of Camden,
DRINKWATER of Milford, NUTTING of Oakland, PARRY of Arundel, PERKINS of Dover-
Foxcroft, WOOD of Norway.

Page 1 - 132LR1443(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 4 MRSA §17, sub-§15, ¶A, as amended by PL 2011, c. 380, Pt. TT, §1, is
3 further amended by enacting at the end a new first blocked paragraph to read:
4 The State Court Administrator shall contract for the services of qualified individuals to
5 perform court security-related functions and services at a court if court operations at
6 that court have been adversely affected by a lack of available court security for more
7 than 2% of scheduled court time in a month at that court.
8Sec. 2. 4 MRSA §17, sub-§15, ¶A, as amended by PL 2011, c. 380, Pt. TT, §1, is
9 further amended by enacting at the end a new last blocked paragraph to read:
10 When the State Court Administrator contracts for the services of qualified individuals
11 to perform court security-related functions and services, the State Court Administrator
12 shall first offer the contract to the appropriate sheriff's office before the contract is
13 offered to another party.
14SUMMARY
15 This bill requires the State Court Administrator to contract for the services of qualified
16 individuals to perform court security-related functions and services at a court if court
17 operations at that court have been adversely affected by a lack of available court security
18 for more than 2% of scheduled court time in a month at that court. It provides that, when
19 the State Court Administrator contracts for the services of qualified individuals to perform
20 court security-related functions and services, the State Court Administrator must first offer
21 the contract to the appropriate sheriff's office before the contract is offered to another party.
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