This session’s supplemental budget funded crucial family, care and housing programs, but also fell short in some areas including inclusion of all qualifying Mainers in MaineCare regardless of immigration status.
This bill would allow some 16 and 17-year-old Mainers who have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria to receive gender-affirming hormone therapy even if they have parents who would attempt to deny them this care.
This bill would have lowered the income level below which individuals do not have to pay estate tax to $3 million for individuals. It would have also created a higher threshold of $4 million for family farms and some types of Maine businesses.
The original version of LD 1364 would have allowed communities the choice to approve safe consumption sites for previously obtained drugs, but the version final version creates a working group on harm reduction centers.
MPA is scoring a vote AGAINST LD 1365, which would have required voters to present an approved form of photographic identification in order to vote. MPA did not support this bill.