LD717 • 2025

An Act to Amend the Maine Criminal Code Governing Restitution to Include the Costs of All Analyses of Suspected Illegal Drugs

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Sponsor: Representative Steven Bishop
Last action: 2025-04-22
Official status: Reports Read On motion by Senator BEEBE-CENTER of Knox the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED . in concurrence PREVAILED Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 118 Yeas 17 - Nays 15 - Excused 3 - Absent 0 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date: Not listed

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An Act to Amend the Maine Criminal Code Governing Restitution to Include the Costs of All Analyses of Suspected Illegal Drugs

An Act to Amend the Maine Criminal Code Governing Restitution to Include the Costs of All Analyses of Suspected Illegal Drugs Sponsor: Representative Steven Bishop Reference committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP

What This Bill Does

An Act to Amend the Maine Criminal Code Governing Restitution to Include the Costs of All Analyses of Suspected Illegal Drugs Sponsor: Representative Steven Bishop Reference committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP

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Bill History

2025-04-22 Senate
Reports Read On motion by Senator BEEBE-CENTER of Knox the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report ACCEPTED . in concurrence PREVAILED Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 118 Yeas 17 - Nays 15 - Excused 3 - Absent 0 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
2025-04-17 House
Speaker laid before the House Subsequently, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED . ROLL CALL NO. 90 (Yeas 75 - Nays 68 - Absent 7 - Excused 0 - Restricted - 1) Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
2025-04-10 Committee
Reported Out; ONTP/OTP
2025-04-02 Committee
Work Session Reconsidered
2025-04-02 Committee
Voted; Divided Report
2025-03-26 Committee
Work Session Held
2025-03-26 Committee
Voted; Divided Report
2025-02-20 Committee
Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Amend the Maine Criminal Code Governing Restitution to Include the Costs of All Analyses of Suspected Illegal Drugs
Sponsor:
Representative Steven Bishop
Reference committee:
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP/OTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 717
H.P. 456 House of Representatives, February 25, 2025
An Act to Amend the Maine Criminal Code Governing Restitution
to Include the Costs of All Analyses of Suspected Illegal Drugs
Received by the Clerk of the House on February 20, 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 BISHOP of Bucksport.
Cosponsored by Senator HAGGAN of Penobscot and
Representatives: ARDELL of Monticello, LIBBY of Auburn, PAUL of Winterport, PERKINS
of Dover-Foxcroft, WHITE of Guilford, WHITE of Ellsworth.

Page 1 - 132LR1275(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 17-A MRSA §2002, sub-§3, ¶B, as amended by PL 2021, c. 296, §1, is
3 further amended to read:
4 B. "Critical investigation expense" means a necessary expense incurred by a
5 government or by a victim while investigating or prosecuting suspected criminal
6 conduct. "Critical investigation expense" is limited to the cost of an audit or other
7 financial analysis when that analysis is necessary to determine whether and to what
8 extent a victim has suffered financial harm from criminal conduct by an employee or
9 other person in a position of trust and the cost of analysis of suspected illegal drugs if
10 the defendant is convicted of trafficking a scheduled drug under chapter 45 and the
11 court in sentencing the defendant makes a finding that the conduct underlying the
12 conviction was motivated by profit.
13SUMMARY
14 This bill removes the provision in the Maine Criminal Code regarding economic loss
15 in the law governing restitution that the cost of analysis of suspected illegal drugs be
16 considered a critical investigation expense only if the defendant is convicted of trafficking
17 a scheduled drug and the court in sentencing the defendant makes a finding that the conduct
18 underlying the conviction was motivated by profit.
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