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LD112 • 2025

An Act to Promote Opportunities by Establishing a Student Wage

An Act to Promote Opportunities by Establishing a Student Wage

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Sponsor
Representative Mathew McIntyre
Last action
2025-05-28
Official status
Reports Read On motion by Senator TIPPING of Penobscot the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence. Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
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Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Promote Opportunities by Establishing a Student Wage

An Act to Promote Opportunities by Establishing a Student Wage Sponsor: Representative Mathew McIntyre Reference committee: Labor Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Promote Opportunities by Establishing a Student Wage Sponsor: Representative Mathew McIntyre Reference committee: Labor Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Filed

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR0487(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR0487(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 112 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • H- ) 3LABOR 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. 2025-05-28 Senate

    Reports Read On motion by Senator TIPPING of Penobscot the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence. Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  2. 2025-05-27 House

    Reports READ . On motion of Representative ROEDER of Bangor, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED . ROLL CALL NO. 195 (Yeas 77 - Nays 61 - Absent 13 - Excused 0) Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  3. 2025-05-22 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

  4. 2025-03-25 Committee

    Work Session Held

  5. 2025-03-25 Committee

    Voted; Divided Report

  6. 2025-01-08 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Labor.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Promote Opportunities by Establishing a Student Wage
Sponsor:
Representative Mathew McIntyre
Reference committee:
Labor
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. 112
H.P. 77 House of Representatives, January 8, 2025
An Act to Promote Opportunities by Establishing a Student Wage
Reference to the Committee on Labor suggested and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative MCINTYRE of Lowell.
Cosponsored by Senator BRADSTREET of Kennebec and
Representative: BOYER of Poland.

Page 1 - 132LR0487(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 26 MRSA §664, sub-§1-A is enacted to read:
31-A. Minimum wage for students. Notwithstanding subsection 1, for an employee
4 who is a secondary student the minimum hourly wage is 50% of the amount specified in
5 subsection 1 for a period of at least 2 years beginning with the first day of employment,
6 except that an employee who graduates secondary school must be paid at least a minimum
7 hourly wage in accordance with subsection 1.
8 For the purposes of this subsection, "secondary student" has the same meaning as in Title
9 20-A, section 1, subsection 33 and "secondary school" has the same meaning as in Title
10 20-A, section 1, subsection 32.
11SUMMARY
12 This bill provides that, for an employee who is a secondary school student, the
13 minimum hourly wage is 50% of the state's minimum wage for a period of at least 2 years
14 unless that employee graduates secondary school.
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