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

LD509 • 2025

An Act to Allow a Journeyman Electrician to Supervise 3 Helper Electricians

An Act to Allow a Journeyman Electrician to Supervise 3 Helper Electricians

Active

The official status still shows this bill as active or still awaiting another formal step.

Sponsor
Senator Jeffrey Timberlake
Last action
2025-06-03
Official status
Reports READ On motion by Senator TIPPING of Penobscot The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED Sent down for concurrence
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 a Journeyman Electrician to Supervise 3 Helper Electricians

An Act to Allow a Journeyman Electrician to Supervise 3 Helper Electricians Sponsor: Senator Jeffrey Timberlake Reference committee: Labor Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Allow a Journeyman Electrician to Supervise 3 Helper Electricians Sponsor: Senator Jeffrey Timberlake Reference committee: Labor Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

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.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-03 House

    Reports READ . On motion of Representative ROEDER of Bangor, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED . In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH. Placed in the Legislative Files. ( DEAD )

  2. 2025-06-02 Senate

    Reports READ On motion by Senator TIPPING of Penobscot The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED Sent down for concurrence

  3. 2025-05-30 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

  4. 2025-03-11 Committee

    Work Session Held

  5. 2025-03-11 Committee

    Voted; Divided Report

  6. 2025-02-07 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Labor.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Allow a Journeyman Electrician to Supervise 3 Helper Electricians
Sponsor:
Senator Jeffrey Timberlake
Reference committee:
Labor
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP/OTP-AM

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
Printed on recycled paper
132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 509
S.P. 227 In Senate, February 11, 2025
An Act to Allow a Journeyman Electrician to Supervise 3 Helper
Electricians
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on February 7, 2025. Referred to the Committee
on Labor pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator TIMBERLAKE of Androscoggin.
Cosponsored by Representative LYMAN of Livermore Falls and
Senators: BICKFORD of Androscoggin, BLACK of Franklin, CYRWAY of Kennebec,
FARRIN of Somerset.

Page 1 - 132LR1081(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 32 MRSA §1202-B, sub-§4, ¶A, as enacted by PL 2023, c. 327, §2, is
3 amended to read:
4 A. A journeyman electrician may make electrical installations while employed by a
5 supervising master electrician, limited electrician or electrical company. A person
6 licensed under this subsection may supervise:
7 ( 1) Two helper electricians who are enrolled in, or have completed, a 576-hour
8 course of study as adopted by the board;
9 (2) Two apprentice electricians; or
10 (3) One Three helper electrician electricians.
11SUMMARY
12 This bill changes the number of helper electricians who may be supervised by a
13 journeyman electrician. Under current law, a journeyman electrician may supervise one
14 helper electrician or 2 helper electricians if they are enrolled in or have completed a certain
15 educational program. This bill eliminates this distinction and allows a journeyman
16 electrician to supervise 3 helper electricians.
12
13
14
15
16