An Act To Ensure the Confidentiality of Concealed Handgun Permit Holder Personal Information Act To
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 0345
Committee Amendment CA_A_H89 (House)
Amends: 25 MRSA §2006

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A " to H.P. 250, L.D. 345, BiII, "An 
Ensure the Confidentiality of Concealed Weapons Permit Holder Information" 
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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'An Act To Ensure the Confidentiality of Concealed Handgun Permit Holder 
Personal Information' 
Act To 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and before the summary and 
inserting the following: 
'Mandate preamble. This measure requires one or more local units of government 
to expand or modifY activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures from local 
revenues but does not provide funding for at least 90% of those expenditures. Pursuant to 
the Constitution of Maine, Article IX, Section 21, 2/3 of all of the members elected to 
each House have determined it necessary to enact this measure. 
Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legislature do not 
become effective unti190 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and 
Whereas, the lists of a11 holders of concealed handgun permits in the State, which 
include personal information of the permit holders such as name, full current address and 
often date of birth, will revert to being public on April 30, 2013; and 
Whereas, the public dissemination of personal information of concealed handgun 
permit holders may subject a holder to possible identity theft and may put the holder's and 
the holder's family's we11-being at risk; and 
Whereas, public access to information about concealed handgun permits that does 
not include information that personally identifies permit holders is consistent with the 
underlying principles of the Freedom of Access Act relating to understanding and 
monitoring how the government carries out its responsibilities; and 
Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within 
the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as 
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immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, 
therefore, 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 25 MRSA §2006, as amended by PL 2011, c. 662, §15, is repealed and the 
following enacted in its place: 
§2006. Access to information and proceedings 
1. Application, refusals and collected information; proceedings. All applications 
for a permit to carry concealed handguns and documents made a part of the application, 
refusals and any information of record collected by the issuing authority during the 
process of ascertaining whether an applicant is of good moral character and meets the 
additional requirements of sections 2003 and 2005 are confidential and are not public 
records for the purposes of Title 1, chapter 13, subchapter l. The applicant may waive 
this confidentiality by written notice to the issuing authority. All proceedings relating to 
the issuance, refusal, suspension or revocation of a permit to carry concealed handguns 
are not public proceedings under Title 1, chapter 13, unless otherwise requested by the 
applicant. 
2. Permanent record of permit. The issuing authority shall make a permanent 
record of each permit to carry concealed handguns in a suitable book or file kept for that 
purpose. The record must include the information contained in the permit itself. The 
record is confidential except that the following information about each permit holder is 
not confidential and is a public record: 
A. The municipality of residence; 
B. The date the permit was issued: and 
C. The date the permit expires. 
This subsection does not limit disclosure of confidential information for criminal justice 
purposes or permitting purposes to law enforcement officers and issuing authorities. 
Sec. 2. Statistical information; plan; report. In order to provide meaningful 
statistical information about concealed handgun permits in this State, the Chief of the 
State Police shall prepare a plan that meets the requirements of this section. The Chief of 
the State Police shall submit a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice 
and Public Safety no later than January 15, 2014 that contains the plan along with any 
proposed implementing legislation. The Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice 
and Public Safety may report out legislation to the Second Regular Session of the 126th 
Legislature upon receipt of the report. The plan must include the following elements. 
1. Statistical information. The plan must propose a process that results in the 
availability of statistical information about concealed handgun permits in this State. The 
information must include at a minimum the following data: 
A. About the permitting process: 
(1) The number of permit applications; 
(2) The number of permits issued; 
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(3) The number of applications refused or denied; and 
(4) The number of suspensions and revocations; and 
B. About applicants and permit holders: 
(1) Gender; 
(2) Age, in 5-year or 10-year ranges; and 
(3) Municipality or zip code of residence. 
The proposal may include any additional data that may be useful in the analysis of 
concealed handgun permits and the issuing process, as long as personally identifying 
information about applicants or permit holders is not disclosed as a public record. The 
plan must include appropriate reporting periods. 
2. Permit. The Chief of the State Police shall review the form of the permits used 
by issuing authorities and determine if a single model permit form would be desirable. 
The plan may include a model pennit, which may include the integration of a photograph. 
The plan may recommend the use of a model permit as either advisory or mandatory for 
all issuing authorities. 
3. Statewide information. The plan must include a process for identifying and 
collecting information from all issuing authorities to provide complete statewide 
statistical information as required in subsection I. The Chief of the State Police shall 
invite issuing authorities to provide suggestions and comments. The plan may eliminate 
the responsibility of municipal issuing authorities to make information available to the 
public if the identical information is available from a central state source. The plan must 
provide for the public availability of statistical information and must provide for an 
annual report of statewide statistical information. 
4. Additional information and recommendations. The Chief of the State Police 
may include in the report any additional information or recommendations that the chief 
determines may be useful to the Legislature in addressing issues concerning concealed 
handgun permits. 
Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this Act takes 
effect April 30, 2013.' 
SUMMARY 
This amendment is the majority report of the Joint Standing Committee on judiciary. 
This amendment replaces the bill. 
It clarifies the current law concerning the 
confidentiality of concealed handgun permit information. 
It also provides that the 
permanent record that an issuing authority is required to make when issuing a concealed 
handgun permit is confidential, except that the municipality of residence of the permit 
holder, the date the permit was issued and the date the permit expires are public. The 
confidential information may be disclosed for criminal justice purposes or permitting 
purposes to law enforcement officers or issuing authorities. 
The amendment directs the Chief of the State Police to develop a plan for the 
availability of statistical information about concealed handgun permits and the issuing 
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process. 
The Chief of the State Police shall submit a report to the Joint Standing 
Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety no later than January 15, 2014 that 
contains the plan along with any proposed implementing legislation. The Joint Standing 
Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety may report out legislation to the Second 
Regular Session of the 126th Legislature upon receipt of the report. The plan must 
address specific data clements, whether a model permit would be desirable and a process 
to collect and make available statewide statistics and may include any other infOlmation 
or recommendations concerning issues about concealed handgun permits. 
This amendment includes a mandate preamble to exempt the identified mandate on 
local government issuing authorities from the finding requirement. 
This amendment provides an effective date of April 30, 2013, which is immediately 
after Resolve 2013, chapter 1 is repealed. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
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Revised: 04111113 
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LD 345 
LR 880(02) 
An Act To Ensure the Confidentiality of Concealed Weapons Permit Holder Information 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment'~ L H 
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Committee: Judiciary 
State Mandates 
Required Activity 
Fiscal Note Req uired: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
State Mandate - Exempted 
Requires municipalities to manually redact certain information from concealed 
handgun permits. 
Unit Affected 
Local Cost 
Municipality 
Insignificant 
statewide 
Pursuant to the Mandate Preamble, the two-thirds vote of all members elected to each House exempts the state from 
the constitutional requirement to fund 90% of the additional costs. 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Additional costs to the Department of Public Safety associated with manually redacting concealed handgun permit 
information, preparing the required plan and reporting the results can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources. 
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