LD1048 • 2025

An Act to Require Certain Notice Requirements for Whistleblower Protections

Energy Technology

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Representative Sophia Warren
Last action: 2025-06-22
Official status: Became Law without Governor's Signature
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Require Certain Notice Requirements for Whistleblower Protections

An Act to Require Certain Notice Requirements for Whistleblower Protections Sponsor: Representative Sophia Warren Reference committee: Energy, Utilities and Technology Governor action: Became Law without Governor's Signature

What This Bill Does

An Act to Require Certain Notice Requirements for Whistleblower Protections Sponsor: Representative Sophia Warren Reference committee: Energy, Utilities and Technology Governor action: Became Law without Governor's Signature

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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C-A (H-513)

Adopted by House & Senate

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR1835(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

Page 1 - 132LR1835(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
1048 2 Date: (Filing No.
H- ) 3ENERGY, UTILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY 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

2025-06-22 Governor
Became Law without Governor's Signature
2025-06-10 House
PASSED TO BE ENACTED . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
2025-06-10 Senate
PASSED TO BE ENACTED , in concurrence.
2025-06-05 Committee
Reported Out; OTP-AM/ONTP
2025-05-21 Committee
Work Session Held
2025-05-21 Committee
Voted; Divided Report
2025-05-20 Committee
Work Session Held; TABLED
2025-03-12 Committee
Referred to Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Require Certain Notice Requirements for Whistleblower Protections
Sponsor:
Representative Sophia Warren
Reference committee:
Energy, Utilities and Technology
Governor action:
Became Law without Governor's Signature

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

Page 1 - 132LR1835(03)
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE
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H.P. 677 - L.D. 1048
An Act to Require Certain Notice Requirements for Whistleblower
Protections
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §1316, sub-§10, as repealed and replaced by PL 2023, c. 405,
Pt. A, §124, is amended to read:
10. Notice of rights required. A public utility and a competitive electricity provider
shall notify the public utility's and the competitive electricity provider's employees,
affiliated interests and utility contractors of their rights under this section. A public utility
and a competitive electricity provider shall send an annual notice of the rights under this
section, which must be written in plain English, be in at least 12-point type and be sent
separately from any other communication, to:
A. Persons at the time of the notice performing a service for wages or other
remuneration under a contract of hire, expressed or implied, for the public utility or
competitive electricity provider; and
B. The public utility's and the competitive electricity provider's affiliated interests and
utility contractors.
LAW WITHOUT
GOVERNOR'S
SIGNATURE

JUNE 22, 2025
CHAPTER
407
PUBLIC LAW