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LD1527 • 2025

An Act to Require Postage Prepaid Envelopes Be Provided for the Return of Absentee Ballots

An Act to Require Postage Prepaid Envelopes Be Provided for the Return of Absentee Ballots

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Sponsor
Senator Richard Bennett
Last action
2025-04-23
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Require Postage Prepaid Envelopes Be Provided for the Return of Absentee Ballots

An Act to Require Postage Prepaid Envelopes Be Provided for the Return of Absentee Ballots Sponsor: Senator Richard Bennett Reference committee: Veterans and Legal Affairs Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Require Postage Prepaid Envelopes Be Provided for the Return of Absentee Ballots Sponsor: Senator Richard Bennett Reference committee: Veterans and Legal Affairs Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

  1. 2025-04-23 Senate

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

  2. 2025-04-22 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP

  3. 2025-04-16 Committee

    Work Session Held

  4. 2025-04-16 Committee

    Voted; ONTP

  5. 2025-04-08 House

    The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS . In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  6. 2025-04-08 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Require Postage Prepaid Envelopes Be Provided for the Return of Absentee Ballots
Sponsor:
Senator Richard Bennett
Reference committee:
Veterans and Legal Affairs
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1527
S.P. 611 In Senate, April 8, 2025
An Act to Require Postage Prepaid Envelopes Be Provided for the
Return of Absentee Ballots
Reference to the Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs suggested and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator BENNETT of Oxford.
Cosponsored by Speaker FECTEAU of Biddeford.

Page 1 - 132LR0779(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 21-A MRSA §752, first ¶, as amended by PL 1985, c. 357, §8, is further
3 amended to read:
4 At least 3 months before any election, the Secretary of State shall furnish each
5 municipality with a reasonable number of dated absentee ballot applications. A reasonable
6 time, not less than 30 days unless an emergency exists, before any election, the Secretary
7 of State shall furnish each municipality with a reasonable number of absentee ballots and
8 postage prepaid return envelopes.
9SUMMARY
10 This bill requires the Secretary of State, when providing municipalities with absentee
11 ballots, to also provide postage prepaid return envelopes for those absentee ballots.
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