An Act To Nullify the Federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010
Maine Legislature, Session 126, LD 0680
Committee: Insurance and Financial Services
Sponsors: LIBBY, MASON, CRAFTS, CRAY, SANDERSON, SIROCKI, TIMBERLAKE, WALLACE, COLLINS

Legislative Document 
No. 680 
H.P. 472 
House of Representatives, February 26, 2013 
An Act To Nullify the Federal Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act of 2010 
Reference to the Committee on Insurance and Financial Services suggested and ordered 
printed. 
MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Presented by Representative LIBBY of Waterboro. 
Cosponsored by Senator MASON of Androscoggin and 
Representatives: CRAFTS of Lisbon, CRAY of Palmyra, McCLELLAN of Raymond, 
SANDERSON of Chelsea, SIROCKI of Scarborough, TIMBERLAKE of Turner, WALLACE 
of Dexter, Senator: COLLINS of York. 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1.  24-A MRSA c. 93 is enacted to read: 
CHAPTER 93 
PROHIBITION AGAINST ENFORCEMENT OF THE FEDERAL PATIENT 
PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT OF 2010 
§7201.  Findings 
The Legislature finds that: 
1.  Agent of the people.  The people of the several states that compose the United 
States of America created the Federal Government to be their agent for certain 
enumerated purposes; 
2.  Tenth Amendment.  The United States Constitution, Amendment X declares that 
the powers not delegated to the Federal Government by the United States Constitution, 
nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people; 
3.  Interference with regulation of health care.  The assumption of power that the 
Federal Government has made by enacting the federal Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act of 2010 interferes with the right of the people of the State to regulate health care 
as they see fit; 
4.  Rejection of Act.  The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 
2010, Public Law 111-148 is not authorized by the United States Constitution and 
violates the true meaning and intent of the United States Constitution; as such, the federal 
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 is invalid in this State, may not be 
recognized by this State, is specifically rejected by this State and is considered null and 
void and of no effect in this State; and 
5.  Duty of Legislature.  It is the duty of the Legislature to enact all measures as may 
be necessary to prevent the enforcement of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable 
Care Act of 2010 within the boundaries of this State.  
§7202.  Prohibition 
1.  Violation by federal official.  An official, agent or employee of the Federal 
Government or an employee of a corporation providing services to the Federal 
Government who enforces or attempts to enforce the federal Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act of 2010, Public Law 111-148 or any order, law, statute, rule or 
regulation of the Federal Government made in connection with that Act is guilty of a 
Class C crime. 
2.  Violation by state official.  An official, agent or employee of the State who 
enforces or attempts to enforce the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 
2010, Public Law 111-148 or any order, law, statute, rule or regulation of the Federal 
Government made in connection with that Act is guilty of a Class D crime. 
3.  Civil action.  A person aggrieved by a violation of subsection 1 or 2 has a civil 
cause of action against any person violating the provisions of subsection 1 or 2. 
SUMMARY 
This bill expresses the findings of the Legislature that the federal Patient Protection 
and Affordable Care Act of 2010, signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 
23, 2010, is in violation of the United States Constitution, Amendment X and, as such, is 
considered null and void in Maine.  This bill prohibits a federal or state official, agent or 
employee from enforcing the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 
or any other statute, law, rule, regulation or order made in connection with that Act.  
Violation by a federal official is a Class C crime, punishable by up to 5 years in prison 
and a fine of up to $5,000.  Violation by a state official is a Class D crime, punishable by 
less than one year in jail and a fine of up to $2,000.  The bill also allows a civil cause of 
action.