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LD599 • 2025

An Act to Raise the Salary Threshold for Overtime Pay

An Act to Raise the Salary Threshold for Overtime Pay

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Sponsor
Senator Michael Tipping
Last action
2026-04-29
Official status
Died in Possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was PLACED IN THE LEGISLATIVE FILES . (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Raise the Salary Threshold for Overtime Pay

An Act to Raise the Salary Threshold for Overtime Pay Sponsor: Senator Michael Tipping Reference committee: Labor Latest committee action: Reported Out; OTP-AM/ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Raise the Salary Threshold for Overtime Pay Sponsor: Senator Michael Tipping Reference committee: Labor Latest committee action: Reported Out; OTP-AM/ONTP

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Adopted by House & Senate

Plain English: Page 1 - 132LR1509(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.

  • Page 1 - 132LR1509(02) COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 1 L.D.
  • 599 2 Date: (Filing No.
  • S- ) 3LABOR 4 Reproduced and distributed under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate.
  • 5STATE OF MAINE 6SENATE 7132ND LEGISLATURE 8FIRST SPECIAL SESSION 9 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT “ ” to S.P.

Bill History

  1. 2026-04-29 Senate

    Died in Possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was PLACED IN THE LEGISLATIVE FILES . (DEAD)

  2. 2025-05-27 House

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

  3. 2025-05-20 Committee

    Reported Out; OTP-AM/ONTP

  4. 2025-03-26 Committee

    Work Session Held

  5. 2025-03-26 Committee

    Voted; Divided Report

  6. 2025-02-19 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Labor.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Raise the Salary Threshold for Overtime Pay
Sponsor:
Senator Michael Tipping
Reference committee:
Labor
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; OTP-AM/ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 599
S.P. 283 In Senate, February 25, 2025
An Act to Codify the Federal Salary Threshold for Overtime Pay
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on February 19, 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 TIPPING of Penobscot.
Cosponsored by Representative ARCHER of Saco and
Representatives: BECK of South Portland, GEIGER of Rockland, MACIAS of Topsham,
ROEDER of Bangor, SATO of Gorham.

Page 1 - 132LR1509(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 26 MRSA §663, sub-§3, ¶K, as amended by PL 2009, c. 529, §2, is further
3 amended to read:
4 K. A salaried employee who works in a bona fide executive, administrative or
5 professional capacity and whose regular compensation, when converted to an annual
6 rate, exceeds 3000 times the State's minimum hourly wage or the annualized rate
7 established by the United States Department of Labor under the federal Fair Labor
8 Standards Act, whichever is higher; and the highest of:
9 (1) Three thousand times the State’s minimum hourly wage as determined in
10 section 664, subsection 1;
11 (2) A salary level of $58,656 per year;
12 (3) The 35th percentile of weekly earnings for full-time salary workers in the
13 lowest-wage census region as published by the United States Department of Labor,
14 Bureau of Labor Statistics, or its successor agency, as of July 1, 2027, and
15 calculated every 3 years thereafter; and
16 (4) The annualized rate established by the United States Department of Labor
17 under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act; and
18SUMMARY
19 This bill codifies the federal paid overtime salary threshold for a salaried employee by
20 adding the salary level of $58,656 per year and the 35th percentile of weekly earnings for
21 full-time salary workers in the lowest-wage census region as published by the United States
22 Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, or its successor agency, to the existing
23 provision that details the compensation amounts in order for a salaried employee to be
24 exempt from the laws governing minimum wage and overtime pay.
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