KLS Keeping Law Simple Legislation in plain English

Straight-ahead summaries built from the official bill text. We keep the source links front and center and leave the decision up to you.

Back to Maine

LD1244 • 2025

An Act to Establish Requirements for Warming Shelters

An Act to Establish Requirements for Warming Shelters

Active

The official status still shows this bill as active or still awaiting another formal step.

Sponsor
Representative Nina Milliken
Last action
2025-04-22
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

An Act to Establish Requirements for Warming Shelters

An Act to Establish Requirements for Warming Shelters Sponsor: Representative Nina Milliken Reference committee: State and Local Government Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Establish Requirements for Warming Shelters Sponsor: Representative Nina Milliken Reference committee: State and Local Government Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-04-22 Senate

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

  2. 2025-04-16 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP

  3. 2025-04-09 Committee

    Work Session Held

  4. 2025-04-09 Committee

    Voted; ONTP

  5. 2025-03-25 House

    Committee on State and Local Government suggested and ordered printed. The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  6. 2025-03-25 Committee

    Referred to Committee on State and Local Government.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Establish Requirements for Warming Shelters
Sponsor:
Representative Nina Milliken
Reference committee:
State and Local Government
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
Printed on recycled paper
132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1244
H.P. 819 House of Representatives, March 25, 2025
An Act to Establish Requirements for Warming Shelters
Reference to the Committee on State and Local Government suggested and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative MILLIKEN of Blue Hill.
Cosponsored by Representative: SUPICA of Bangor.

Page 1 - 132LR2007(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 22 MRSA c. 279 is enacted to read:
3CHAPTER 279
4WARMING SHELTERS
5§1700-F. Warming shelters required
6 A county or municipality in this State shall make available a warming shelter, at an
7 appropriate venue accessible to the public, whenever the temperature is expected to be
8 below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. The warming shelter must be open outside the normal
9 operating hours of the venue providing the warming shelter.
10SUMMARY
11 This bill requires each county and municipality in this State to make available a
12 warming shelter, at an appropriate venue accessible to the public, to be open outside the
13 normal operating hours of the venue, whenever the temperature is expected to be below 40
14 degrees Fahrenheit.
11
12
13
14