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LD1263 • 2025

An Act Regarding Penalties for Fentanyl Trafficking When That Trafficking Results in an Overdose Causing Serious Bodily Injury of a Person

An Act Regarding Penalties for Fentanyl Trafficking When That Trafficking Results in an Overdose Causing Serious Bodily Injury of a Person

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Sponsor
Representative Jennifer Poirier
Last action
2025-06-17
Official status
Taken from the table by the President On motion by Senator PIERCE of Cumberland the Senate INSISTED on The Minority Ought to Pass As Amended Report and PASSAGE TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED by Committee Amendment "A" (H-496) Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
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An Act Regarding Penalties for Fentanyl Trafficking When That Trafficking Results in an Overdose Causing Serious Bodily Injury of a Person

An Act Regarding Penalties for Fentanyl Trafficking When That Trafficking Results in an Overdose Causing Serious Bodily Injury of a Person Sponsor: Representative Jennifer Poirier Reference committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

What This Bill Does

  • An Act Regarding Penalties for Fentanyl Trafficking When That Trafficking Results in an Overdose Causing Serious Bodily Injury of a Person Sponsor: Representative Jennifer Poirier Reference committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

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Adopted by Senate

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR1313(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR1313(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 1263 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • H- ) 3CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY 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. 2025-06-17 Senate

    Taken from the table by the President On motion by Senator PIERCE of Cumberland the Senate INSISTED on The Minority Ought to Pass As Amended Report and PASSAGE TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED by Committee Amendment "A" (H-496) Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  2. 2025-06-09 House

    Speaker FECTEAU of Biddeford MOVED to INSIST . Motion of Representative NUTTING of Oakland to RECEDE and CONCUR to ACCEPTANCE of the Minority Ought to Pass as Amended Report and PASSAGE TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (H-496) FAILED . ROLL CALL NO. 354 (Yeas 69 - Nays 73 - Absent 7 - Excused 2) Subsequently, the House INSISTED on ACCEPTANCE of the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  3. 2025-06-04 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

  4. 2025-04-24 Committee

    Work Session Held

  5. 2025-04-24 Committee

    Voted; Divided Report

  6. 2025-03-25 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety.

Official Summary Text

An Act Regarding Penalties for Fentanyl Trafficking When That Trafficking Results in an Overdose Causing Serious Bodily Injury of a Person
Sponsor:
Representative Jennifer Poirier
Reference committee:
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1263
H.P. 838 House of Representatives, March 25, 2025
An Act Regarding Penalties for Fentanyl Trafficking When That
Trafficking Results in an Overdose Causing Serious Bodily Injury of
a Person
Reference to the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety suggested and ordered
printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative POIRIER of Skowhegan.
Cosponsored by Senator FARRIN of Somerset and
Representatives: ARDELL of Monticello, HAGGAN of Hampden, NUTTING of Oakland,
SOBOLESKI of Phillips, WADSWORTH of Hiram, WHITE of Guilford, Senator: HAGGAN
of Penobscot.

Page 1 - 132LR1313(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §1105-A, sub-§1, ¶L, as amended by PL 2017, c. 460, Pt. F,
3 §2, is further amended to read:
4 L. Serious bodily injury of another person is in fact caused by the use of one or more
5 scheduled drugs, the scheduled drug trafficked by the defendant is a contributing factor
6 to the serious bodily injury of the other person and that drug is a schedule W drug. A
7 violation of this paragraph is a Class B crime; or
8Sec. 2. 17-A MRSA §1105-A, sub-§1, ¶L-1 is enacted to read:
9 L-1. Serious bodily injury of another person resulting from an overdose is in fact
10 caused by the use of fentanyl powder and the fentanyl powder trafficked by the
11 defendant is a contributing factor of the serious bodily injury of the other person
12 resulting from the overdose. A violation of this paragraph is a Class A crime; or
13SUMMARY
14 This bill creates a Class A crime of aggravated trafficking in a scheduled drug for when
15 serious bodily injury of another person resulting from an overdose is caused by the use of
16 fentanyl powder and the fentanyl powder trafficked by the defendant is a contributing factor
17 of the serious bodily injury resulting from the overdose.
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