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LD236 • 2025

An Act to Provide Legislative Oversight of the Rule-making Petition Process

An Act to Provide Legislative Oversight of the Rule-making Petition Process

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Sponsor
Representative Richard Campbell
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 Provide Legislative Oversight of the Rule-making Petition Process

An Act to Provide Legislative Oversight of the Rule-making Petition Process Sponsor: Representative Richard Campbell Reference committee: State and Local Government Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Provide Legislative Oversight of the Rule-making Petition Process Sponsor: Representative Richard Campbell 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. 2025-05-07 Committee

    Work Session Held

  4. 2025-05-07 Committee

    Voted; ONTP

  5. 2025-03-21 House

    Carried over, in the same posture, to the next special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 519.

  6. 2025-01-16 Committee

    Referred to Committee on State and Local Government.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Provide Legislative Oversight of the Rule-making Petition Process
Sponsor:
Representative Richard Campbell
Reference committee:
State and Local Government
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 236
H.P. 159 House of Representatives, January 21, 2025
An Act to Provide Legislative Oversight of the Rule-making Petition
Process
Received by the Clerk of the House on January 16, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
State and Local Government pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint
Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative CAMPBELL of Orrington.
Cosponsored by Representatives: SOBOLESKI of Phillips, THORNE of Carmel.

Page 1 - 132LR0004(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §8055, sub-§3, as amended by PL 1985, c. 506, Pt. A, §4, is further
3 amended to read:
43. Receipt of petition. Within 60 days after receipt of a petition, the agency shall
5 either notify the petitioner in writing of its denial, stating the reasons therefor, or initiate
6 appropriate rule-making proceedings. Whenever a petition to adopt or modify a rule is
7 submitted by 150 or more registered voters of the State, the agency shall initiate appropriate
8 rulemaking rule-making proceedings within 60 days after receipt of the petition. The
9 petition must be verified and certified in the same manner provided in Title 21‑A, section
10 354, subsection 7, prior to its presentation to the agency. Notwithstanding any provision
11 of law to the contrary, a rule-making proceeding initiated under this section by an agency
12 based on a petition to adopt or modify a rule submitted by 150 or more registered voters of
13 the State must be conducted by the agency through major substantive rulemaking in
14 accordance with the requirements of subchapter 2-A.
15SUMMARY
16 This bill amends the law governing petition-based rulemaking by an agency to provide
17 that a rule-making proceeding initiated by an agency based on a petition to adopt or modify
18 a rule submitted by 150 or more registered voters of the State must be conducted by the
19 agency through major substantive rulemaking in accordance with the requirements of the
20 Maine Revised Statutes, Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.
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