LD688 • 2025

An Act to Authorize Department of the Secretary of State Law Enforcement Officers to Initiate a Libel Proceeding Regarding Catalytic Converters

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Sponsor: Senator Timothy Nangle
Last action: 2025-05-28
Official status: Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act to Authorize Department of the Secretary of State Law Enforcement Officers to Initiate a Libel Proceeding Regarding Catalytic Converters

An Act to Authorize Department of the Secretary of State Law Enforcement Officers to Initiate a Libel Proceeding Regarding Catalytic Converters Sponsor: Senator Timothy Nangle Reference committee: Judiciary Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

An Act to Authorize Department of the Secretary of State Law Enforcement Officers to Initiate a Libel Proceeding Regarding Catalytic Converters Sponsor: Senator Timothy Nangle Reference committee: Judiciary Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

2025-05-28 Senate
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
2025-05-27 Committee
Reported Out; ONTP
2025-05-13 Committee
Work Session Reconsidered
2025-05-13 Committee
Voted; ONTP
2025-03-25 Committee
Work Session Held
2025-03-25 Committee
Voted; Divided Report
2025-02-20 Committee
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
House
None

Official Summary Text

An Act to Authorize Department of the Secretary of State Law Enforcement Officers to Initiate a Libel Proceeding Regarding Catalytic Converters
Sponsor:
Senator Timothy Nangle
Reference committee:
Judiciary
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 688
S.P. 305 In Senate, February 25, 2025
An Act to Authorize Department of the Secretary of State Law
Enforcement Officers to Initiate a Libel Proceeding Regarding
Catalytic Converters
Submitted by the Secretary of State pursuant to Joint Rule 204.
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on February 20, 2025. Referred to the Committee
on Judiciary pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator NANGLE of Cumberland.

Page 1 - 132LR0516(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 4 MRSA §807, sub-§3, ¶T, as amended by PL 2019, c. 597, §2, is further
3 amended to read:
4 T. A marine patrol officer who is not an attorney but is representing the Department
5 of Marine Resources in a libel proceeding before a District Court under Title 12, section
6 6207; or
7Sec. 2. 4 MRSA §807, sub-§3, ¶U, as enacted by PL 2019, c. 597, §3, is amended
8 to read:
9 U. Practice, pursuant to a rule of the Supreme Judicial Court, by a law student enrolled
10 in a law school accredited by the American Bar Association. ; or
11Sec. 3. 4 MRSA §807, sub-§3, ¶V is enacted to read:
12 V. A sworn law enforcement officer who is employed by the Department of the
13 Secretary of State who is not an attorney but is representing the State in a libel action
14 brought pursuant to Title 29-A, section 1113, subsection 15.
15SUMMARY
16 This bill exempts a sworn law enforcement officer employed by the Department of the
17 Secretary of State who is not an attorney but is representing the State in a libel action related
18 to seized catalytic converters brought pursuant to the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 29-A,
19 section 1113, subsection 15 from the prohibition on the unauthorized practice of law.
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