Maine’s Legislative Council voted unanimously on March 3 to change its requirement that legislators and staff wear masks inside the…
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The Legislative Council met on January 27 and considered after-deadline bill requests to be introduced during the Maine Legislature’s ongoing…
In March 2021, Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill into law requiring the Legislative Council to study the best method…
On November 18, the Legislative Council met to consider appeals to legislative requests that were rejected at its October 25…
On October 25 the Legislative Council met to consider bill requests for the 130th Maine Legislature’s upcoming second session. The…
Maine’s Legislative Council voted to reinstate its COVID-19 Prevention Policy, which requires face masks to be worn in the State…
Seven Maine lawmakers were stripped of their committee assignments on Monday by House Speaker Ryan Fecteau following a spat at…
Senate President Troy Jackson and Speaker of the House Sara Gideon began polling Maine lawmakers on Tuesday to gauge their…
The leaders of the minority Republicans in the Maine Senate on Wednesday sent a letter to the presiding officers of…
Maine’s Legislative Council convened last Friday to consider appeals made by lawmakers regarding so-called “emergency” bills for the second session.…
The majority members of Maine’s Legislative Council voted Friday to kill along party lines a pair of nonpartisan emergency bill…
The Legislative Council convened Wednesday to consider roughly 400 bill requests submitted by lawmakers for consideration in the Second Session.…
It is everyone’s favorite time of the legislative cycle – preparing for the second session, or the emergency session, as…
Legislation in the second session of each Maine Legislature is reserved for the Governor’s bills, budgetary matters and emergency legislation…