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LD1338 • 2025

Resolve, Directing State Agencies and Semiautonomous State Agencies to Provide a List of Surplus Properties and Properties Eligible for Redevelopment to the Maine Redevelopment Land Bank Authority

Resolve, Directing State Agencies and Semiautonomous State Agencies to Provide a List of Surplus Properties and Properties Eligible for Redevelopment to the Maine Redevelopment Land Bank Authority

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Sponsor
Representative Melanie Sachs
Last action
2025-04-30
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

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Resolve, Directing State Agencies and Semiautonomous State Agencies to Provide a List of Surplus Properties and Properties Eligible for Redevelopment to the Maine Redevelopment Land Bank Authority

Resolve, Directing State Agencies and Semiautonomous State Agencies to Provide a List of Surplus Properties and Properties Eligible for Redevelopment to the Maine Redevelopment Land Bank Authority Sponsor: Representative Melanie Sachs Reference committee: Housing and Economic Development Latest committee action: Reported Out; LTW

What This Bill Does

  • Resolve, Directing State Agencies and Semiautonomous State Agencies to Provide a List of Surplus Properties and Properties Eligible for Redevelopment to the Maine Redevelopment Land Bank Authority Sponsor: Representative Melanie Sachs Reference committee: Housing and Economic Development Latest committee action: Reported Out; LTW

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Bill History

  1. 2025-04-30 Senate

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

  2. 2025-04-28 Committee

    LTW Approved by Chairs; LTW

  3. 2025-04-28 Committee

    Reported Out; LTW

  4. 2025-03-27 House

    Committee on Housing and Economic Development suggested and ordered printed. The Resolve was REFERRED to the Committee on HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  5. 2025-03-27 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Housing and Economic Development.

Official Summary Text

Resolve, Directing State Agencies and Semiautonomous State Agencies to Provide a List of Surplus Properties and Properties Eligible for Redevelopment to the Maine Redevelopment Land Bank Authority
Sponsor:
Representative Melanie Sachs
Reference committee:
Housing and Economic Development
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; LTW

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1338
H.P. 873 House of Representatives, March 27, 2025
Resolve, Directing State Agencies and Semiautonomous State
Agencies to Provide a List of Surplus Properties and Properties
Eligible for Redevelopment to the Maine Redevelopment Land Bank
Authority
Reference to the Committee on Housing and Economic Development suggested and
ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative SACHS of Freeport.
Cosponsored by Senator CURRY of Waldo and
Representatives: Speaker FECTEAU of Biddeford, GERE of Kennebunkport, GOLEK of
Harpswell, JULIA of Waterville, MALON of Biddeford, ROBERTS of South Berwick,
YUSUF of Portland, Senator: BAILEY of York.

Page 1 - 132LR1758(01)
1Sec. 1. Surplus property identified for redevelopment. Resolved: That, by
2 October 1, 2025, each state agency and semiautonomous state agency shall submit to the
3 Maine Redevelopment Land Bank Authority, established in the Maine Revised Statutes,
4 Title 30-A, section 5154 and referred to in this section as "the authority," a list of properties
5 owned by the agency that the agency has determined to be surplus and potentially eligible
6 for redevelopment under Title 30-A, section 5157. The authority shall provide to each
7 agency the information that must be included for each property identified on the agency's
8 list. By December 3, 2025, the authority shall submit a report to the Joint Standing
9 Committee on Housing and Economic Development. The report must include the
10 authority's findings regarding the listed properties and the potential for redevelopment of
11 those properties, including redevelopment for housing and economic development
12 purposes. For the purposes of this section, "semiautonomous state agency" has the same
13 meaning as in Title 5, section 1972, subsection 9.
14SUMMARY
15 This resolve requires each state agency and each agency created by an act of the
16 Legislature that is not a part of the Executive Department to submit to the Maine
17 Redevelopment Land Bank Authority a list of properties owned by the agency that the
18 agency has determined to be surplus and potentially eligible for redevelopment under the
19 Maine Revised Statutes, Title 30-A, section 5157. It also requires the Maine
20 Redevelopment Land Bank Authority to submit a report to the Joint Standing Committee
21 on Housing and Economic Development regarding the properties and their potential for
22 redevelopment.
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