KLS Keeping Law Simple Legislation in plain English

Straight-ahead summaries built from the official bill text. We keep the source links front and center and leave the decision up to you.

Back to Maine

LD286 • 2025

An Act to Allow County Commissioners Greater Flexibility When Establishing a Payment Schedule for Municipalities to Pay County Tax Bills

An Act to Allow County Commissioners Greater Flexibility When Establishing a Payment Schedule for Municipalities to Pay County Tax Bills

Taxes
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Representative William Bridgeo
Last action
2025-05-23
Official status
Signed by the Governor
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

An Act to Allow County Commissioners Greater Flexibility When Establishing a Payment Schedule for Municipalities to Pay County Tax Bills

An Act to Allow County Commissioners Greater Flexibility When Establishing a Payment Schedule for Municipalities to Pay County Tax Bills Sponsor: Representative William Bridgeo Reference committee: State and Local Government Governor action: Signed by the Governor

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Allow County Commissioners Greater Flexibility When Establishing a Payment Schedule for Municipalities to Pay County Tax Bills Sponsor: Representative William Bridgeo Reference committee: State and Local Government Governor action: Signed by the Governor

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Amendments

These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.

Adopted by House & Senate

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR0662(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR0662(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 286 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • H- ) 3STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT 4 Reproduced and distributed under the direction of the Clerk of the House.
  • 5STATE OF MAINE 6HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 7132ND LEGISLATURE 8FIRST SPECIAL SESSION 9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT “ ” to H.P.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-23 Governor

    Signed by the Governor

  2. 2025-05-21 Senate

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED , in concurrence.

  3. 2025-05-20 House

    PASSED TO BE ENACTED . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  4. 2025-05-06 Committee

    Reported Out; OTP-AM

  5. 2025-03-26 Committee

    Work Session Held

  6. 2025-03-26 Committee

    Voted; OTP-AM

  7. 2025-01-28 Committee

    Referred to Committee on State and Local Government.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Allow County Commissioners Greater Flexibility When Establishing a Payment Schedule for Municipalities to Pay County Tax Bills
Sponsor:
Representative William Bridgeo
Reference committee:
State and Local Government
Governor action:
Signed by the Governor

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
Page 1 - 132LR0662(03)
STATE OF MAINE
_____
IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE
_____
H.P. 186 - L.D. 286
An Act to Allow County Commissioners Greater Flexibility When
Establishing a Payment Schedule for Municipalities to Pay County Tax Bills
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 30-A MRSA §706, as amended by PL 2009, c. 625, §1, is further amended
to read:
§706. Apportionment of county tax; warrants
When a county tax is authorized, the county commissioners shall apportion it upon the
municipalities, unorganized territory and other places in that county according to the most
recent state valuation. They may add to the sum authorized an amount not exceeding 2%
of that sum, if a fractional division necessitates that addition and if they demonstrate that
necessity in the record of that apportionment. The county commissioners shall establish
the date or dates for the payment of the tax. The date may not be earlier than the first day
of the following September.
No later than the 15th of July preceding the date established for payment of the tax, the
county commissioners shall issue their warrant to the assessors of the municipalities and
other places and to the State Tax Assessor for the unorganized territory within that county.
Those officers shall assess the sum apportioned to their tax jurisdiction and commit their
assessment for collection in the same manner as other amounts to be raised by the property
tax during the tax year to which the county tax warrant applies.
If a municipality or place or the State Tax Assessor must make a supplemental
assessment due to failure by the county commissioners to issue their warrant by July 15th,
the county must bear the costs of that supplemental assessment. Those costs may be
recovered by the tax jurisdiction through an offset against the county tax that the tax
jurisdiction would otherwise be required to pay over to the county.
The county may collect delinquent county taxes and charge interest on delinquent
county taxes as provided under Title 36, sections 891 and 892‑A.
APPROVED
MAY 23, 2025
BY GOVERNOR
CHAPTER
100
PUBLIC LAW