LD1459 • 2025

An Act to Make General Assistance Officers Mandated Reporters

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Sponsor: Representative Rachel Henderson
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 Make General Assistance Officers Mandated Reporters

An Act to Make General Assistance Officers Mandated Reporters Sponsor: Representative Rachel Henderson Reference committee: Health and Human Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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An Act to Make General Assistance Officers Mandated Reporters Sponsor: Representative Rachel Henderson Reference committee: Health and Human Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

2025-05-20 Senate
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
2025-05-16 Committee
Reported Out; ONTP
2025-05-14 Committee
Work Session Held
2025-05-14 Committee
Voted; ONTP
2025-04-08 Committee
Referred to Committee on Health and Human Services.
2025-04-03 House
Committee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed. The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Make General Assistance Officers Mandated Reporters
Sponsor:
Representative Rachel Henderson
Reference committee:
Health and Human Services
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1459
H.P. 951 House of Representatives, April 3, 2025
An Act to Make General Assistance Officers Mandated Reporters
Reference to the Committee on Health and Human Services suggested and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative HENDERSON of Rumford.
Cosponsored by Senator MARTIN of Oxford.

Page 1 - 132LR0780(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 22 MRSA §3477, sub-§1, ¶A, as amended by PL 2011, c. 291, §2 and c.
3 657, Pt. W, §5, is further amended by amending subparagraph (28) to read:
4 (28) A court-appointed guardian or conservator; or
5Sec. 2. 22 MRSA §3477, sub-§1, ¶A, as amended by PL 2011, c. 291, §2 and c.
6 657, Pt. W, §5, is further amended by amending subparagraph (29) to read:
7 (29) A chair of a professional licensing board that has jurisdiction over mandated
8 reporters; or
9Sec. 3. 22 MRSA §3477, sub-§1, ¶A, as amended by PL 2011, c. 291, §2 and c.
10 657, Pt. W, §5, is further amended by enacting a new subparagraph (30) to read:
11 (30) A municipal general assistance officer.
12Sec. 4. 22 MRSA §4011-A, sub-§1, ¶A, as amended by PL 2009, c. 211, Pt. B,
13 §18 and PL 2011, c. 657, Pt. W, §5, is further amended by amending subparagraph (31) to
14 read:
15 (31) A family or domestic violence victim advocate; and
16Sec. 5. 22 MRSA §4011-A, sub-§1, ¶A, as amended by PL 2009, c. 211, Pt. B,
17 §18 and PL 2011, c. 657, Pt. W, §5, is further amended by amending subparagraph (32) to
18 read:
19 (32) A school bus driver or school bus attendant; and
20Sec. 6. 22 MRSA §4011-A, sub-§1, ¶A, as amended by PL 2009, c. 211, Pt. B,
21 §18 and PL 2011, c. 657, Pt. W, §5, is further amended by enacting a new subparagraph
22 (33) to read:
23 (33) A municipal general assistance officer.
24SUMMARY
25 This bill makes municipal general assistance officers mandated reporters of the
26 suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation of incapacitated or dependent adults and of the
27 suspected abuse or neglect of children or a suspicious child death.
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