Bioscience Association of Maine Legislative Tracker
132nd Maine Legislature - First Regular Session
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 5:07 AM
| LD | TITLE | SPONSOR | SUMMARY | COMM | POSITION | STATUS | ACTION / NOTES |
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| An Act To Require Health Insurance Coverage For Biomarker Testing (HP 72) | Samuel ZAGER of Portland | This bill requires insurance coverage, including coverage in the MaineCare program, for biomarker testing. | HCIFS |
Monitor | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | ||
| An Act To Support Maine Businesses By Establishing A Pass-through Entity Tax And Tax Credit (HP 124) | Tavis HASENFUS of Readfield | This bill establishes, for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, a pass-through entity tax on the income of partners and shareholders of S corporations to permit certain entities to elect to pay Maine income tax at the entity level. The effect of Full Summary |
TAX |
Monitor | 03/04/26 10:00 AM in State House, Room 127 - Work Session |
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| An Act To Create The Small Business Capital Savings Account Program (SP 95) | Harold STEWART of Aroostook | This bill establishes the Small Business Capital Savings Account Program in the Department of Economic and Community Development to certify small businesses engaged in commercial agricultural production, commercial fishing or commercial wood harvesting eligible to claim a tax deduction for contributions made to qualifying small Full Summary |
HED |
Monitor | CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | ||
| An Act To Provide Support For Certain Maine Discovery Museum Science, Technology, Engineering And Mathematics Educational Programming Throughout The State (SP 131) | Joseph BALDACCI of Penobscot | This bill provides ongoing funds to the Maine Discovery Museum to support the Maine Science Festival, the Maine Invention Convention and the Science Around ME program. | EDU |
CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | |||
| An Act To Promote Economic Development In Maine (SP 156) | Glenn CURRY of Waldo | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to enact measures to foster economic growth and development in the State. | HED |
03/03/26 1:00 PM in Cross Building, Room 206 - Public Hearing |
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| An Act To Authorize A General Fund Bond Issue To Secure Prosperity For Maine Families And Businesses (HP 312) | Speaker Ryan FECTEAU of Biddeford | The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $300,000,000, will be used to support the State's tax credit for affordable housing and the Maine State Housing Authority's rural affordable housing rental program and first-time homebuyer program, create child care-public school partnerships for Full Summary |
AFA |
Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | |||
| An Act To Authorize A General Fund Bond Issue For Research And Development And Commercialization (SP 224) | Teresa PIERCE of Cumberland | The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $50,000,000, will be used to provide funds for research and development and commercialization as prioritized by the Maine Innovation Economy Advisory Board's most recent innovation economy action plan and the Department of Economic and Full Summary |
AFA |
CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | |||
| An Act To Authorize A General Fund Bond Issue For Further Investment In Maine-based Businesses (SP 308) | Teresa PIERCE of Cumberland | The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $25,000,000, will be used for the Small Enterprise Growth Fund to support operations and make direct investments into small, independent Maine companies in order to accelerate their growth and enable additional investment programs aimed Full Summary |
AFA |
CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | |||
| An Act Regarding The Laws Of The State Of Maine (SP 312) | Teresa PIERCE of Cumberland | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to make changes regarding the laws of the State. | SLG |
03/04/26 11:00 AM in Cross Building, Room 214 - Work Session |
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| An Act Providing Appropriations And Allocations For State Government Operations (SP 316) | Margaret ROTUNDO of Androscoggin | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to provide appropriations and allocations necessary for the operation of State Government. | AFA |
CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | |||
| An Act To Provide Appropriations And Allocations For The Operations Of State Government (HP 444) | Drew GATTINE of Westbrook | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to provide for appropriations and allocations for the operation of State Government. | AFA |
Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | |||
| An Act To Fund State Government (SP 338) | Margaret ROTUNDO of Androscoggin | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to make appropriations and allocations necessary to fund State Government. | AFA |
CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | |||
| An Act To Provide For Appropriations And Allocations (SP 339) | Margaret ROTUNDO of Androscoggin | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to provide for appropriations and allocations. | AFA |
CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | |||
| An Act To Authorize A General Fund Bond Issue To Fund Mass Timber Manufacturing (HP 505) | Samuel ZAGER of Portland | The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $50,000,000, will be used to help finance the design and construction or the retrofitting of a manufacturing facility to produce mass timber in the State using sustainably harvested Maine forest products. | AFA |
Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | |||
| An Act To Establish A Grant Program To Provide For Statewide And Equitable Access To Experiential Science, Technology, Engineering And Mathematics Competition Programs (SP 337) | David HAGGAN of Penobscot | This bill authorizes the Maine Technology Institute to provide grants for statewide experiential science, technology, engineering and mathematics competition programs. | EDU |
CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | |||
| An Act To Promote Research And Development In The State By Amending The Research Expense Tax Credit (HP 591) | Daniel SAYRE of Kennebunk | This bill increases the research expense tax credit by increasing the amount of expenditures eligible for the credit, doubling the rate by which the credit is calculated, doubling the maximum amount of the credit that may be claimed and halving the base amount used to Full Summary |
TAX |
Committee Docket: Work Session Held - TABLED (1/21/2026) | |||
| An Act To Reinvigorate Maine's Workforce And Ensure Student Job Readiness By Providing Funds For The Career Exploration Program (HP 627) | John EDER of Waterboro | This bill provides ongoing funds to continue and make permanent one Public Service Coordinator I position to support the Career Exploration Program in the Department of Economic and Community Development effective July 1, 2026. | HED |
CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | |||
| An Act To Ensure The Proper Operation Of The State (HP 651) | Matt MOONEN of Portland | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill proposes to make changes to the laws to ensure the proper operations of the State. | SLG |
Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | |||
| An Act To Authorize A General Fund Bond Issue To Develop Maine Talent And Innovation By Improving The Infrastructure Of The University Of Maine System (SP 431) | Teresa PIERCE of Cumberland | The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $100,000,000, will be used to improve infrastructure at all University of Maine System campuses to enhance education and economic development activities and meet the needs of Maine employers for more skilled workers and research-driven Full Summary |
AFA |
CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | |||
| An Act To Authorize A General Fund Bond Issue To Strengthen The Resilience And Growth Of Maine's Agricultural Economy (SP 471) | President Matthea DAUGHTRY of Cumberland | The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $45,000,000, will be used to strengthen and expand infrastructure investments in the State's agricultural, food and forest products economy; to support the State's dairy sector; to protect working farmland; and for farmer disaster relief. | AFA |
CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | |||
| An Act To Establish The Maine Community Development Financial Institution Fund To Support Small Businesses, Rural Economic Development And Affordable Housing (HP 984) | Melanie SACHS of Freeport | This bill establishes the Maine Community Development Financial Institution Fund and the Maine Community Development Financial Institution Program within the Department of Economic and Community Development. The program will provide loans and grants to community development financial institutions to provide financing to underserved communities in Full Summary |
HED |
Law Without Signature (1/7/2026) | |||
| An Act To Establish The Maine Life Science Innovation Center (SP 651) | Teresa PIERCE of Cumberland | This bill establishes the Maine Life Science Innovation Center to leverage and expand the State's growing life science sector and appropriates $2,000,000 of one-time funds in fiscal years 2025-26 and 2026-27 for the center's start-up costs. | HED |
Recalled by Legislature (1/7/2026) | |||
| An Act To Establish The Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts And Mathematics Education Matching Grant Program (HP 1158) | Daniel SAYRE of Kennebunk | This bill establishes the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics Education Matching Grant Program within the Department of Education to provide grant funding to schools, museums and other entities that apply to support programs that offer hands-on learning experiences in science, technology, engineering, the arts Full Summary |
EDU |
CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 800. (6/25/2025) | |||
| An Act To Increase Transparency In State Government By Amending Laws Regarding Persons Attempting To Influence The Competitive Bidding Process And Lobbyist Reporting During Rule-making Processes (SP 708) | Craig HICKMAN of Kennebec | This bill requires any person who is specifically employed by another person for the purpose of attempting to influence the competitive bidding process to register with the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices for each employer and to submit monthly reports regarding activity, expenditures Full Summary |
VLA |
Committee Docket: Reported Out - ONTP (3/2/2026) | |||
| An Act To Allow For The Transferability Of The Biofuel Production And Renewable Chemicals Tax Credits (SP 837) | Teresa PIERCE of Cumberland | This bill provides for the transfer of the biofuel production and renewable chemical tax credits to 3rd parties. | TAX |
Committee Docket: Voted - Divided Report (2/12/2026) | |||
| An Act To Authorize A General Fund Bond Issue To Support Maine's Agricultural And Forestry Sectors (HP 1409) | William PLUECKER of Warren | The funds provided by the bond issue, in the amount of $40,000,000, will be used to support the agricultural and forestry sectors in the State. | AFA |
01/20/26 1:00 PM in State House, Room 228 - Public Hearing |
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| An Act To Update Employer Substance Use Testing Policy Requirements (HP 1425) | Charles SKOLD of Portland | This bill updates and clarifies certain statutes governing employers administering substance use tests, including the following: 1. Requiring that an applicant or employee must be given an opportunity to contest a non-negative result; 2. Requiring that results must be reported to an employer by a Full Summary |
LAH |
Committee Docket: Work Session Held - TABLED (3/3/2026) | |||
| An Act To Correct Inconsistencies, Conflicts And Errors In The Laws Of Maine (HP 1458) | Part A does the following. Section 1 removes an obsolete cross-reference and makes a technical correction. Section 2 makes a technical correction. Section 3 corrects a cross-reference. Section 4 corrects a cross-reference and makes a technical correction. Section 5 corrects a cross-reference and makes a Full Summary |
JUD |
02/03/26 1:00 PM in State House, Room 438 - Public Hearing |
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| An Act Making Supplemental Appropriations And Allocations From The General Fund And Other Funds For The Expenditures Of State Government And Changing Certain Provisions Of The Law Necessary To The Proper Operations Of State Government For The Fiscal Years Ending June 30, 2026 And June 30, 2027 (HP 1491) | Drew GATTINE of Westbrook | This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208. This bill, as emergency legislation, proposes to make supplemental appropriations and allocations from the General Fund and other funds for the expenditures of State Government and change certain provisions of the law necessary to Full Summary |
AFA |
03/04/26 1:00 PM in State House, Room 228 - Work Session 03/06/26 10:00 AM in State House, Room 228 - Work Session |
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| An Act To Establish The Maine Blue Economy Center (SP 903) | This bill is reported out by the Joint Standing Committee on Housing and Economic Development pursuant to Resolve 2025, chapter 114. The bill establishes the Maine Blue Economy Center as a body corporate and politic and a public instrumentality of the State to leverage and Full Summary |
HED |
03/05/26 1:15 PM in Cross Building, Room 206 - Public Hearing |