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LD59 • 2025

An Act to Ban the Drug Tianeptine

An Act to Ban the Drug Tianeptine

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Sponsor
Representative Michael Lemelin
Last action
2025-06-05
Official status
Reports Read On motion by Senator BEEBE-CENTER of Knox Report B Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence. PREVAILED Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 386 Yeas 19 - Nays 13 - Excused 3 - Absent 0 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
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An Act to Ban the Drug Tianeptine

An Act to Ban the Drug Tianeptine Sponsor: Representative Michael Lemelin Reference committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety Latest committee action: Reported Out; OTP-AM/ONTP/OTP-AM

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Ban the Drug Tianeptine Sponsor: Representative Michael Lemelin Reference committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety Latest committee action: Reported Out; OTP-AM/ONTP/OTP-AM

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Amendments

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Filed

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR0426(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR0426(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 59 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • H- ) 3CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY 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.
Filed

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR0426(03) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR0426(03) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 59 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • H- ) 3CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY 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. 2025-06-05 House

    Reports READ . On motion of Representative HASENFUS of Readfield, REPORT B Ought Not to Pass was ACCEPTED . ROLL CALL NO. 351 (Yeas 71 - Nays 68 - Absent 10 - Excused 2) Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  2. 2025-06-05 Senate

    Reports Read On motion by Senator BEEBE-CENTER of Knox Report B Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED in concurrence. PREVAILED Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 386 Yeas 19 - Nays 13 - Excused 3 - Absent 0 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  3. 2025-06-04 Committee

    Reported Out; OTP-AM/ONTP/OTP-AM

  4. 2025-02-12 Committee

    Work Session Held

  5. 2025-02-12 Committee

    Voted; Divided Report

  6. 2025-01-06 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Ban the Drug Tianeptine
Sponsor:
Representative Michael Lemelin
Reference committee:
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; OTP-AM/ONTP/OTP-AM

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 59
H.P. 23 House of Representatives, January 8, 2025
An Act to Ban the Drug Tianeptine
(EMERGENCY)
Received by the Clerk of the House on January 6, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Criminal Justice and Public Safety pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to
Joint Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative LEMELIN of Chelsea.

Page 1 - 132LR0426(01)
1Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legislature do not
2 become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and
3Whereas, tianeptine is a highly addictive drug; and
4Whereas, the use of tianeptine increases the risk of overdose deaths; and
5Whereas, the drug should be prohibited as soon as possible to prevent overdose
6 deaths; and
7Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within
8 the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as
9 immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now,
10 therefore,
11Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
12Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §1102, sub-§1, ¶O, as amended by PL 2013, c. 194, §7, is
13 further amended by amending subparagraph (14) to read:
14 (14) Paramethoxyethylamphetamine, PMEA; and
15Sec. 2. 17-A MRSA §1102, sub-§1, ¶P, as enacted by PL 2013, c. 194, §8, is
16 amended by amending subparagraph (15) in the first blocked paragraph to read:
17 This subparagraph does not include a drug listed in section 1102 or a drug approved
18 by the United States Food and Drug Administration. ; and
19Sec. 3. 17-A MRSA §1102, sub-§1, ¶Q is enacted to read:
20 Q. Tianeptine.
21Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this legislation
22 takes effect when approved.
23SUMMARY
24 This bill adds tianeptine as a Schedule W drug.24