LD1253 • 2025

An Act to Authorize the Commissioner of Marine Resources to Add Limited-access Area Fishing Days During the Scallop Season

Enacted

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

Sponsor: Representative Billy Bob Faulkingham
Last action: 2025-05-30
Official status: Signed by the Governor
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act to Authorize the Commissioner of Marine Resources to Add Limited-access Area Fishing Days During the Scallop Season

An Act to Authorize the Commissioner of Marine Resources to Add Limited-access Area Fishing Days During the Scallop Season Sponsor: Representative Billy Bob Faulkingham Reference committee: Marine Resources Governor action: Signed by the Governor

What This Bill Does

An Act to Authorize the Commissioner of Marine Resources to Add Limited-access Area Fishing Days During the Scallop Season Sponsor: Representative Billy Bob Faulkingham Reference committee: Marine Resources Governor action: Signed by the Governor

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Amendments

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C-A (H-219)

Adopted by House & Senate

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR0995(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

Page 1 - 132LR0995(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
1253 2 Date: (Filing No.
H- ) 3MARINE RESOURCES 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

2025-05-30 Governor
Signed by the Governor
2025-05-27 House
PASSED TO BE ENACTED . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
2025-05-27 Senate
PASSED TO BE ENACTED , in concurrence.
2025-05-20 Committee
Reported Out; OTP-AM
2025-04-24 Committee
Work Session Held
2025-04-24 Committee
Voted; OTP-AM
2025-03-25 Committee
Referred to Committee on Marine Resources.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Authorize the Commissioner of Marine Resources to Add Limited-access Area Fishing Days During the Scallop Season
Sponsor:
Representative Billy Bob Faulkingham
Reference committee:
Marine Resources
Governor action:
Signed by the Governor

Current Bill Text

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Page 1 - 132LR0995(03)
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE
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H.P. 828 - L.D. 1253
An Act to Authorize the Commissioner of Marine Resources to Add Limited-
access Area Fishing Days During the Scallop Season
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §6171, sub-§3, as corrected by RR 2021, c. 2, Pt. B, §35, is
amended to read:
3. Emergency rules. The commissioner may adopt or amend rules under the
emergency procedures provided in Title 5, chapter 375 in the following circumstances:
A. Immediate action is necessary to protect or conserve any marine organism from
unusual damage or imminent depletion;
B. An unusually large concentration of persons who fish might deplete the supply of
any marine organism;
C. Immediate action is necessary to comply with changes to federal or interstate
fisheries management plans; or
D. Immediate action is necessary pursuant to section 6302‑B, subsection 4 to prohibit
elver fishing.; or
E. Immediate action is necessary to add up to a total of 5 limited-access area days
during the scallop season under section 6722 if the commissioner determines that
additional days are necessary to counteract the inability to fish for or take scallops on
certain days due to inclement weather and that the scallop population is sufficient to
allow additional fishing for or taking of scallops in those limited-access areas.
APPROVED
MAY 30, 2025
BY GOVERNOR
CHAPTER
160
PUBLIC LAW