An Act Relating to Political Action Committees in Maine
Maine Legislature, Session 125, LD 0814
Committee: Veterans and Legal Affairs
Sponsors: CAREY, ALFOND, CAIN, DILL, MARTIN, ROTUNDO, CRAVEN, GOODALL, HILL, PATRICK
Amends: 21-A MRSA §1052, 21-A MRSA §1056, 21-A MRSA §1056-C

Legislative Document 
No. 814 
H.P. 610 
House of Representatives, March 3, 2011 
An Act Relating to Political Action Committees in Maine 
Reference to the Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs suggested and ordered printed. 
HEATHER J.R. PRIEST 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative CAREY of Lewiston. 
Cosponsored by Senator ALFOND of Cumberland and 
Representatives: CAIN of Orono, DILL of Cape Elizabeth, MARTIN of Eagle Lake, 
ROTUNDO of Lewiston, Senators: CRAVEN of Androscoggin, GOODALL of Sagadahoc, 
HILL of York, PATRICK of Oxford. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  21-A MRSA §1052 sub-§1-A is enacted to read: 
1-A.  Candidate political action committee.  "Candidate political action committee" 
means a political action committee that makes contributions or expenditures for the 
purpose of promoting, supporting, opposing or defeating the nomination or election of 
any person to political office. 
Sec. 2.  21-A MRSA §1056, sub-§3 is enacted to read: 
3.  Candidate political action committees.  A committee may make contributions to 
candidate political action committees as long as these contributions in the aggregate do 
not exceed $25,000 in any biennial election cycle. 
Sec. 3.  21-A MRSA §1056-C is enacted to read: 
§1056-C.  Contribution limits 
A contributor to a candidate political action committee shall comply with the 
following contribution limits. 
1.  One-thousand-dollar limit.  A person that is not a political action committee may 
not contribute more than $1,000 to any one candidate political action committee per 
biennial election cycle. 
2.  Ten-thousand-dollar limit.  A person that is not a political action committee may 
not contribute more than a total of $10,000 to candidate political action committees per 
biennial election cycle. 
3.  Twenty-five-thousand-dollar limit.  A political action committee may not 
contribute more than a total of $25,000 to candidate political action committees per 
biennial election cycle. 
This section may not be construed as establishing contribution limits on political 
action committees or ballot question committees that do not make contributions or 
independent expenditures as defined in section 1019-B, subsection 1 in candidate races. 
SUMMARY 
This bill limits the amount a person, other than a political action committee, may 
contribute to a political action committee during a 2-year election cycle; limits the 
aggregate amount that a person, other than a political action committee, may give to 
candidate political action committees during a 2-year election cycle; and limits the 
amount that political action committees may give to candidate political action committees 
during a 2-year election cycle.  The bill defines "candidate political action committee" as 
a political action committee that makes contributions or expenditures for the purpose of 
promoting, supporting, opposing or defeating the nomination or election of any person to 
political office.