Each submitted bill has a primary sponsor, a legislator who supports the bill and advocates for it. Bills often have co-sponsors, additional legislators who back the legislation. Bills are first submitted to the revisor's office, who work to ensure the bill language follows legal verbiage requirements, and that the bill will accomplish what it sets out to do. It's a big job!
Next, bills are sent to the clerks of the Maine House and Senate. They review the bills and send them to one of the legislative committtees. Committees review the bills, receive public comments, workshop the drafts, and approve (or oppose) the bills, and finally, send them back to the House or Senate. As the legislative session kicks off, we encourage you to bookmark a few helpful pages: - When you want to look up a bill, you can use this search feature.
- The League also provides bill tracking on our website for bills concerning our priority areas.
- Here is the legislative calendar. It provides public information on all legislative meetings. You'll notice that House and Senate sessions are only scheduled on Tuesdays for now.
- The bills that the League works on appear before the State and Local Government (SLG) and Veterans and Legal Affairs (VLA) Committees. Check them out here: SLG and VLA.
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