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LD964 • 2025

An Act to Change the Definitions of "Sunrise" and "Sunset" in the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Laws to Better Allow for Variations in Timing Across the State

An Act to Change the Definitions of "Sunrise" and "Sunset" in the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Laws to Better Allow for Variations in Timing Across the State

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Sponsor
Representative Abden Simmons
Last action
2025-04-08
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

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An Act to Change the Definitions of "Sunrise" and "Sunset" in the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Laws to Better Allow for Variations in Timing Across the State

An Act to Change the Definitions of "Sunrise" and "Sunset" in the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Laws to Better Allow for Variations in Timing Across the State Sponsor: Representative Abden Simmons Reference committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act to Change the Definitions of "Sunrise" and "Sunset" in the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Laws to Better Allow for Variations in Timing Across the State Sponsor: Representative Abden Simmons Reference committee: Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

  1. 2025-04-08 Senate

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

  2. 2025-04-04 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP

  3. 2025-03-31 Committee

    Work Session Held

  4. 2025-03-31 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. 2025-03-06 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.

Official Summary Text

An Act to Change the Definitions of "Sunrise" and "Sunset" in the Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Laws to Better Allow for Variations in Timing Across the State
Sponsor:
Representative Abden Simmons
Reference committee:
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 964
H.P. 623 House of Representatives, March 11, 2025
An Act to Change the Definitions of "Sunrise" and "Sunset" in the
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Laws to Better Allow for Variations in
Timing Across the State
Received by the Clerk of the House on March 6, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Inland Fisheries and Wildlife pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint
Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative SIMMONS of Waldoboro.

Page 1 - 132LR1379(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 12 MRSA §10001, sub-§60, as affected by PL 2003, c. 614, §9 and
3 amended by c. 655, Pt. B, §10 and affected by §422, is further amended to read:
460. Sunrise. "Sunrise" means, for a given location in the State, the time computed
5 and established for sunrise for Bangor, Maine, by the Nautical Almanac Office that location
6 by the Astronomical Applications Department of the United States Naval Observatory,
7 converted to the legal standard of time in force in this State on that day.
8Sec. 2. 12 MRSA §10001, sub-§61, as affected by PL 2003, c. 614, §9 and
9 amended by c. 655, Pt. B, §10 and affected by §422, is further amended to read:
1061. Sunset. "Sunset" means, for a given location in the State, the time computed and
11 established for sunset for Bangor, Maine, by the Nautical Almanac Office that location by
12 the Astronomical Applications Department of the United States Naval Observatory,
13 converted to the legal standard of time in force in this State on that day.
14SUMMARY
15 This bill amends the inland fisheries and wildlife law to change the entity within the
16 United States Naval Observatory that the State relies upon to determine the times for
17 sunrise and sunset from the Nautical Almanac Office to the Astronomical Applications
18 Department and removes references to Bangor, Maine.
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