Resolve, To Appoint Members to and Establish Terms for the Workers' Compensation Board
Maine Legislature, Session 123, LD 2318
Committee: Labor
Sponsors: TUTTLE

Legislative Document 
No. 2318 
H.P.1677 
House of Representatives, April 10,2008 
Resolve, To Appoint Members to and Establish Terms for the 
Workers' Compensation Board 
Reference to the Committee on Labor suggested and ordered printed . 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative TUTTLE of Sanford. (GOVERNOR'S BILL) 
PrllltetJ on rt'<.:yded paper 
Sec. 1. Workers' Compensation Board. Resolved: That, notwithstanding the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 39-A, section 151 and Public Law 2003, chapter 608, 
section 14, the membership and terms of the Workers' Compensation Board are governed 
by this section. 
1. Recommendations; nomination. No later than July 20, 2008, the employer and 
labor organizations designated in Title 39-A, section 151, subsection 1 shall each submit 
to the Governor a list of no fewer than 12 names of proposed board members to the 
Workers' Compensation Board. From the lists submitted pursuant to this subsection, the 
Governor shall, by February 1,2009, nominate 3 management representatives and 3 labor 
representatives to serve on the Workers' Compensation Board. 
2. Resignation of incumbent board members. 
In order to ensure an orderly 
transition, the members of the Workers' Compensation Board representing management 
and labor that are serving on the effective date of this resolve shall resign their positions 
on the board effective no later March 1, 2009. 
3. Eligibility of incumbents for appointment. 
Members of the Workers' 
Compensation Board representing management and labor serving on the effective date of 
this resolve are eligible for appointment under this section in accordance with this 
subsection. 
A. A board member may not be appointed for a term under this resolve that, if 
completed, would result in that board member's serving more than 8 consecutive 
years on the Workers' Compensation Board, except that in the interest of ensuring 
continuity on the board, 2 board members, one of whom represents management and 
one of whom represents labor, who have served on the board since 2002 and who are 
serving on the effective date of this resolve may be appointed to fill 2-year terms. 
4. Terms. Of the 6 board members appointed pursuant to this resolve, the Governor 
shall designate one labor appointment and one management appointment for a 2-year 
term, one labor appointment and one management appointment for a 3-year term and one 
labor appointment and one management appointment for a 4-year term. 
SUMMARY 
This resolve: 
1. Requires the employer and labor organizations designated in the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 39-A, section 151, subsection 1 to each submit to the Governor, no later 
than July 20, 2008, a list of no fewer than 12 names of proposed board members to the 
Workers' Compensation Board; 
2. 
Requires the Governor to nominate, by February 1, 2009, 
management 
representatives and 3 labor representatives to serve on the Workers' Compensation Board; 
3. Requires incumbent members of the Workers' Compensation Board representing 
management and labor to resign their positions on the board effective no later March 1, 
2009; 
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4. Establishes the conditions under which incumbent members of the board may be 
appointed under this resolve; and 
5. Establishes the terms of the members appointed to the Workers' Compensation 
Board pursuant to this resolve.