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LD1454 • 2025

An Act to Redefine "Term" in the Law Governing Term Limits for Constitutional Offices

An Act to Redefine "Term" in the Law Governing Term Limits for Constitutional Offices

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Sponsor
Senator Richard Bradstreet
Last action
2025-05-21
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act to Redefine "Term" in the Law Governing Term Limits for Constitutional Offices

An Act to Redefine "Term" in the Law Governing Term Limits for Constitutional Offices Sponsor: Senator Richard Bradstreet Reference committee: State and Local Government Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Redefine "Term" in the Law Governing Term Limits for Constitutional Offices Sponsor: Senator Richard Bradstreet Reference committee: State and Local Government Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-21 Senate

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

  2. 2025-05-19 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP

  3. 2025-04-23 Committee

    Work Session Held

  4. 2025-04-23 Committee

    Voted; ONTP

  5. 2025-04-08 House

    The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT . In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  6. 2025-04-08 Committee

    Referred to Committee on State and Local Government.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Redefine "Term" in the Law Governing Term Limits for Constitutional Offices
Sponsor:
Senator Richard Bradstreet
Reference committee:
State and Local Government
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1454
S.P. 595 In Senate, April 3, 2025
An Act to Redefine "Term" in the Law Governing Term Limits for
Constitutional Offices
Reference to the Committee on State and Local Government suggested and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator BRADSTREET of Kennebec.
Cosponsored by Senators: BICKFORD of Androscoggin, MARTIN of Oxford,
Representatives: COLLINS of Sidney, DRINKWATER of Milford.

Page 1 - 132LR1152(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 21-A MRSA §552, sub-§2, as amended by PL 2023, c. 289, §1, is further
3 amended to read:
42. Term. "Term" means, for the purposes of the term of a state Senator or member of
5 the House of Representatives, a full term of office or any portion of a term that began before
6 the 3rd Wednesday in June in an odd‑numbered year served by an elected official in an
7 office subject to the provisions of this chapter. For the purposes of the term of the Secretary
8 of State, Treasurer of State, Attorney General or State Auditor, "term" means a full term of
9 office or any portion of a term that began before the first Wednesday in December in an
10 odd-numbered year served by an elected official in an office subject to the provisions of
11 this chapter.
12SUMMARY
13 This bill changes the earliest starting point of a partial term that the Secretary of State,
14 Treasurer of State, Attorney General or State Auditor may serve without it being considered
15 a term for purposes of term limits from the 3rd Wednesday in June in an odd-numbered
16 year to the first Wednesday in December in an odd-numbered year.
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