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An Act Regarding an Employer's Authority to Prohibit an Employee from Storing a Firearm in the Employee's Vehicle

An Act Regarding an Employer's Authority to Prohibit an Employee from Storing a Firearm in the Employee's Vehicle

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Sponsor
Representative Alicia Collins
Last action
2025-06-12
Official status
Reports READ On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED PREVAILED in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 510 Yeas 19 - Nays 16 - Excused 0 - Absent 0 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
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Plain English Breakdown

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An Act Regarding an Employer's Authority to Prohibit an Employee from Storing a Firearm in the Employee's Vehicle

An Act Regarding an Employer's Authority to Prohibit an Employee from Storing a Firearm in the Employee's Vehicle Sponsor: Representative Alicia Collins Reference committee: Judiciary Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP

What This Bill Does

  • An Act Regarding an Employer's Authority to Prohibit an Employee from Storing a Firearm in the Employee's Vehicle Sponsor: Representative Alicia Collins Reference committee: Judiciary Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP/OTP

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-06-12 House

    Reports READ . On motion of Representative KUHN of Falmouth, the Majority Ought Not to Pass Report was ACCEPTED . ROLL CALL NO. 455 (Yeas 75 - Nays 69 - Absent 5 - Excused 2) Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  2. 2025-06-12 Senate

    Reports READ On motion by Senator CARNEY of Cumberland The Majority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED PREVAILED in concurrence Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 510 Yeas 19 - Nays 16 - Excused 0 - Absent 0 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  3. 2025-06-11 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP/OTP

  4. 2025-04-03 Committee

    Work Session Held

  5. 2025-04-03 Committee

    Voted; Divided Report

  6. 2025-03-11 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Judiciary.

Official Summary Text

An Act Regarding an Employer's Authority to Prohibit an Employee from Storing a Firearm in the Employee's Vehicle
Sponsor:
Representative Alicia Collins
Reference committee:
Judiciary
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP/OTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 998
H.P. 645 House of Representatives, March 11, 2025
An Act Regarding an Employer's Authority to Prohibit an
Employee from Storing a Firearm in the Employee's Vehicle
Reference to the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety suggested and ordered
printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative COLLINS of Sidney.
Cosponsored by Representative POIRIER of Skowhegan, Senator HAGGAN of Penobscot and
Representatives: DAIGLE of Fort Kent, DRINKWATER of Milford, FLYNN of Albion,
HAGGAN of Hampden, SMITH of Palermo, TUELL of East Machias, Senators:
BRADSTREET of Kennebec, MOORE of Washington.

Page 1 - 132LR1148(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 26 MRSA §600, sub-§1, as amended by PL 2011, c. 537, §1, is further
3 amended to read:
41. Firearms in vehicles. An employer or an agent of an employer may not prohibit
5 an employee who has a valid permit to carry a concealed firearm under Title 25, chapter
6 252 from keeping a firearm in the employee's vehicle as long as the vehicle is locked and
7 the firearm is not visible. This subsection applies to the State as an employer when a state
8 employee's vehicle is on property owned or leased by the State. This subsection does not
9 authorize an employee or state employee to carry a firearm in a place where carrying a
10 firearm is prohibited by law. For purposes of this section, "state employee" means an
11 employee of the State within the executive branch, the legislative branch or the judicial
12 branch performing services within the scope of that employee's employment.
13SUMMARY
14 This bill modifies the provision of law governing an employer's authority to prohibit
15 an employee from storing a firearm in the employee's vehicle. The current law states that
16 an employer is not permitted to prohibit an employee from storing a firearm in the
17 employee's vehicle if the employee has a valid permit to carry a concealed firearm under
18 the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 25, chapter 252, as long as the vehicle is locked and the
19 firearm is stored out of sight. The bill removes the specification that the employee must
20 have a valid permit to carry a concealed firearm.
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