The $850 checks passed as part of the most recent supplemental budget deal will begin arriving in the mailboxes of…
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On April 27, Gov. Janet Mills signed LD 2003 into law. The bill was finally passed by the legislature on…
Both chambers of the Maine Legislature met on April 25 for the final regular meeting of the 130th Legislature. Lawmakers…
Both the House of Representative and the Senate convened on April 19 for the penultimate day of the 130th Legislature’s…
The Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs (AFA) met late on the evening of April 14 and voted unanimously to…
With one week left in the legislative session and work on the supplemental budget still unfinished, both the Senate and…
The 130th Maine Legislature is currently scheduled to adjourn its second session on April 20, giving legislators a little more…
During a work session on a bill proposing to return surplus money to taxpayers, Democrats on the Maine Legislature’s Committee…
Gov. Janet Mills unveiled her change package to the supplemental budget on March 18, which spends all but $20 million…
On February 15, Gov. Janet Mills released her supplemental budget proposal, which includes $850 million in proposed spending and provides…
During her annual State of the State address, Gov. Janet Mills announced her intention to return $411 million of the…
On February 7, Gov. Janet Mills unveiled an $8 million proposal intended to strengthen Maine’s child welfare system that will…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills will deliver the State of the State address on February 10. She will not release her…
When the 130th Maine Legislature reconvenes for its second session in January 2022, it will debate the state’s next supplemental…
At the Appropriation and Financial Affairs (AFA) Committee meeting on December 7, Department of Administrative and Financial Services (DAFS) Commissioner…
In late November, the Revenue Forecasting Committee (RFC), a branch of the Maine Legislature’s Office of Fiscal and Program Review,…
The administration of Gov. Janet Mills announced on November 10 it will soon begin distributing “disaster relief payments” passed as…
The bill passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 123-23 and the Senate by a vote of 32-3. It received bipartisan support in both chambers.
The Legislature’s Appropriations Committee voted unanimously Sunday to advance a supplemental budget, and lawmakers in the House and Senate approved…
A measure that would have compensated for the expected loss in revenue from banning flavored tobacco was not included in…
This week, Maine lawmakers will vote on LD 221, Governor Janet Mills’ supplemental budget proposal. Also known as the governor’s…
On June 17, the Maine Legislature is expected to adjourn a special session without voting on the supplemental budget or…
Governor Janet Mills unveiled a new supplemental budget last week that would grow state spending in Maine to record levels,…
Maine lawmakers convened at the Augusta Civic Center on Tuesday to tackle the state’s next two-year spending plan. The budget…
It appears Maine Democrats are looking to advance a majority budget in the next week to avoid working with their…
The Maine Legislature convened in person on Wednesday at the Augusta Civic Center to tackle the state’s supplemental budget and…
Maine lawmakers will convene in-person in Augusta this week for the first time since December 2, when legislators met at…
The Paycheck Protection Program, part of the federal CARES Act passed last year, was crafted by Congress to provide loans…
Governor Janet Mills wants to balance her bloated budget on the backs of struggling small business owners, forcing them to…
Last week, Governor Janet Mills issued a “curtailment order,” a tool Maine governors can wield to balance budgets after the…
The Maine Legislature adjourned Tuesday evening after a marathon session where the body spent most of its time working on…
A little over one year into her tenure as governor, Janet Mills is responsible for an explosion of new spending…
Governor Janet Mills released a supplemental budget proposal Monday that calls for $127 million in additional spending, which comes in…