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LD1305 • 2025

An Act to Improve Access to Transportation to Work for Forestry Workers and Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers

An Act to Improve Access to Transportation to Work for Forestry Workers and Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers

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Sponsor
Senator Harold Stewart
Last action
2025-05-20
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act to Improve Access to Transportation to Work for Forestry Workers and Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers

An Act to Improve Access to Transportation to Work for Forestry Workers and Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers Sponsor: Senator Harold Stewart Reference committee: Transportation Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Improve Access to Transportation to Work for Forestry Workers and Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers Sponsor: Senator Harold Stewart Reference committee: Transportation Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-20 Senate

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

  2. 2025-05-14 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP

  3. 2025-05-08 Committee

    Work Session Held

  4. 2025-05-08 Committee

    Voted; ONTP

  5. 2025-03-25 House

    The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on TRANSPORTATION . In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  6. 2025-03-25 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Transportation.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Improve Access to Transportation to Work for Forestry Workers and Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers
Sponsor:
Senator Harold Stewart
Reference committee:
Transportation
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1305
S.P. 535 In Senate, March 25, 2025
An Act to Improve Access to Transportation to Work for Forestry
Workers and Migrant and Seasonal Farm Workers
Reference to the Committee on Transportation suggested and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator STEWART of Aroostook.

Page 1 - 132LR1736(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 29-A MRSA §1413 is enacted to read:
3§1413. Temporary license; forestry worker or migrant and seasonal farm worker
41. Transportation; forestry worker or migrant and seasonal farm worker. For
5 the purpose of driving workers between workers' lodging and work sites each day at no
6 cost to the workers as provided in Title 26, section 643, subsection 1, the Secretary of State
7 may issue a temporary license to an applicant who:
8 A. Provides documentary evidence that the applicant meets driver qualifications under
9 Title 26, section 643, subsection 1, paragraph B; and
10 B. Possesses a valid or recently expired driver's license from the operator's home
11 country.
12 The temporary license issued pursuant to this subsection is considered a Class B license
13 under Title 29-A, section 1252 and is valid only for the purposes described in this
14 subsection.
152. "Worker" defined. For purposes of this section, "worker" has the same meaning
16 as in Title 26, section 642, subsection 6.
17SUMMARY
18 This bill allows a forestry worker or migrant and seasonal farm worker who meets
19 federal driver qualifications and possesses a valid or recently expired driver's license in the
20 worker's home country to operate a motor vehicle in this State for the purpose of driving
21 workers between the workers' lodgings and work sites each day. If a worker provides
22 documentary evidence that the worker meets the driver qualifications under the Maine
23 Revised Statutes, Title 26, section 643, subsection 1, paragraph B and possess a valid or
24 recently expired driver's license from the operator's home country, the Secretary of State is
25 required to issue the worker a temporary driver's license. The license issued to a forestry
26 worker or migrant and seasonal farm worker is considered a Class B license and is valid
27 only for driving workers between the workers' lodgings and work sites each day.
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