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LD1104 • 2025

An Act to Limit the Liability of Persons Who Provide Firearm Hold Agreements

An Act to Limit the Liability of Persons Who Provide Firearm Hold Agreements

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Sponsor
Representative Victoria Doudera
Last action
2025-06-13
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Limit the Liability of Persons Who Provide Firearm Hold Agreements

An Act to Limit the Liability of Persons Who Provide Firearm Hold Agreements Sponsor: Representative Victoria Doudera Reference committee: Judiciary Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Limit the Liability of Persons Who Provide Firearm Hold Agreements Sponsor: Representative Victoria Doudera Reference committee: Judiciary Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

  1. 2025-06-13 Senate

    Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  2. 2025-06-12 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP

  3. 2025-05-07 Committee

    Work Session Held

  4. 2025-05-07 Committee

    Voted; ONTP

  5. 2025-03-21 House

    Carried over, in the same posture, to the next special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 519.

  6. 2025-03-20 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Limit the Liability of Persons Who Provide Firearm Hold Agreements
Sponsor:
Representative Victoria Doudera
Reference committee:
Judiciary
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1104
H.P. 723 House of Representatives, March 18, 2025
An Act to Limit the Liability of Persons Who Provide Firearm Hold
Agreements
Reference to the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety suggested and ordered
printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative DOUDERA of Camden.
Cosponsored by Senator TALBOT ROSS of Cumberland and
Representatives: ARATA of New Gloucester, HASENFUS of Readfield, WHITE of Guilford,
Senator: MARTIN of Oxford.

Page 1 - 132LR2105(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 25 MRSA §2017 is enacted to read:
3§2017. Limitation of liability of holder of firearm under firearm hold agreement
4 A cause of action may not be taken against a person who agreed to hold a firearm under
5 a firearm hold agreement for returning the firearm to the firearm owner at the termination
6 of the agreement. The immunity provided in this section does not apply to otherwise
7 unlawful conduct of the person returning the firearm to the firearm owner under this
8 section. For purposes of this section, "firearm hold agreement" means a written or oral
9 agreement between a firearm owner and another person in which the person at the owner's
10 request takes physical possession of a firearm lawfully possessed by the owner and holds
11 the firearm for an agreed-upon period of time.
12SUMMARY
13 This bill provides immunity to the holder of a firearm pursuant to a firearm hold
14 agreement who returns the firearm to the firearm owner at the termination of the agreement
15 unless the conduct of the holder is otherwise unlawful.
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