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An Act to Update Funding for the Board of Environmental Protection

An Act to Update Funding for the Board of Environmental Protection

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Sponsor
Representative Daniel Ankeles
Last action
2025-04-24
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3, Placed in Legislative Files ( DEAD ).
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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An Act to Update Funding for the Board of Environmental Protection

An Act to Update Funding for the Board of Environmental Protection Sponsor: Representative Daniel Ankeles Reference committee: Environment and Natural Resources Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Update Funding for the Board of Environmental Protection Sponsor: Representative Daniel Ankeles Reference committee: Environment and Natural Resources Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

  1. 2025-04-24 Senate

    Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3, Placed in Legislative Files ( DEAD ).

  2. 2025-04-22 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP

  3. 2025-04-16 Committee

    Work Session Reconsidered

  4. 2025-04-16 Committee

    Voted; ONTP

  5. 2025-03-21 House

    Carried over, in the same posture, to the next special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 519.

  6. 2025-01-27 Committee

    Work Session Held

  7. 2025-01-27 Committee

    Voted; OTP

  8. 2025-01-06 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Environment and Natural Resources.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Update Funding for the Board of Environmental Protection
Sponsor:
Representative Daniel Ankeles
Reference committee:
Environment and Natural Resources
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 75
H.P. 39 House of Representatives, January 8, 2025
An Act to Update Funding for the Board of Environmental
Protection
Submitted by the Department of Environmental Protection pursuant to Joint Rule 204.
Received by the Clerk of the House on January 6, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Environment and Natural Resources pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant
to Joint Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative ANKELES of Brunswick.

Page 1 - 132LR0161(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 38 MRSA §341-G, first ¶, as amended by PL 2003, c. 245, §2, is further
3 amended to read:
4 There is established the The Board of Environmental Protection Fund is established to
5 be used by the board as a nonlapsing fund to carry out its duties under this Title.
6 Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the funds identified in
7 subsection 1 transfer annually to the Board of Environmental Protection Fund in an amount
8 not to exceed $325,000 $450,000. Money in the Board of Environmental Protection Fund
9 may only be expended in accordance with allocations approved by the Legislature.
10SUMMARY
11 This bill increases from $325,000 annually to $450,000 annually the cap on the amount
12 that may be transferred to the Board of Environmental Protection Fund from the Maine
13 Environmental Protection Fund, the Maine Ground and Surface Waters Clean-up and
14 Response Fund, the Maine Hazardous Waste Fund and the Uncontrolled Sites Fund.
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