LD1180 • 2025

An Act to Prohibit Persons from Providing Incentives to Customers for Opting Out of Paper Billing

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Sponsor: Representative Lydia Crafts
Last action: 2025-04-17
Official status: Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act to Prohibit Persons from Providing Incentives to Customers for Opting Out of Paper Billing

An Act to Prohibit Persons from Providing Incentives to Customers for Opting Out of Paper Billing Sponsor: Representative Lydia Crafts Reference committee: Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

An Act to Prohibit Persons from Providing Incentives to Customers for Opting Out of Paper Billing Sponsor: Representative Lydia Crafts Reference committee: Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

2025-04-17 Senate
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
2025-04-16 Committee
Reported Out; ONTP
2025-04-09 Committee
Work Session Held
2025-04-09 Committee
Voted; ONTP
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.
2025-03-20 Committee
Referred to Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Prohibit Persons from Providing Incentives to Customers for Opting Out of Paper Billing
Sponsor:
Representative Lydia Crafts
Reference committee:
Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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Printed on recycled paper
132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1180
H.P. 785 House of Representatives, March 20, 2025
An Act to Prohibit Persons from Providing Incentives to Customers
for Opting Out of Paper Billing
Reference to the Committee on Housing and Economic Development suggested and
ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative CRAFTS of Newcastle.

Page 1 - 132LR1820(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 10 MRSA §9420, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 2011, c. 226, §1, is amended to
3 read:
41. Prohibition of certain fees. Except as authorized by federal law and regulation, a
5 customer of a person may not be penalized by that person or be required to pay a fee for
6 opting out of receiving from the person a billing statement by electronic record rather than
7 in paper form. A person may offer an incentive to a customer to accept a billing statement
8 from the person by electronic record rather than in paper form.
9Sec. 2. 35-A MRSA §705, sub-§4 is enacted to read:
104. Rules. The Attorney General shall adopt rules to carry out the purposes of this
11 section. Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules as defined in
12 Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.
13SUMMARY
14 This bill prohibits a person from offering an incentive or requiring a fee for the person's
15 customer to opt out of receiving a bill by paper and directs the Attorney General to adopt
16 routine technical rules to carry out the purposes of the bill.
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