An Act To Eliminate Profiling in Maine
Maine Legislature, Session 129, LD 1475
Committee Amendment CA_A_H581 (House)
Amends: 5 MRSA §200-K, 25 MRSA §2803-B, 25 MRSA §2804-C

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "fl" to H.P. 1077, L.D. 1475, Bill, "An Act To 
Eliminate Profiling in Maine" 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the 
following: 
'Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §200-K is enacted to read: 
§200-K. Attorney General procedures and programs to eliminate profiling 
1. Complaints. The Attorney General shall implement procedures for receiving, 
investigating and responding to complaints alleging profiling by law enforcement officers 
or law enforcement agencies. 
2. Rules. In consultation with interested parties, including law enforcement agencies 
and community. professional. research. civil liberties and civil rights organizations. the 
Attorney General may adopt rules for the operation of administrative complaint 
procedures and independent audit programs to ensure that programs and procedures 
provide an appropriate response to allegations of profiling by law enforcement officers or 
law enforcement agencies. 
Rules may contain guidelines and ensure the fairness, 
effectiveness and independence of the administrative complaint procedures and 
independent auditor programs. Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine 
technical rules as defined in chapter 3751 subchapter 2-A. 
Sec. 2. 25 MRSA §2803-B, sub-§1, ,rE, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 744, §5, is 
amended to read: 
E. Hate or bias crimes. A policy adopted under this paragraph must include a policy 
statement that prohibits stops. detentions, searches or asset seizures and forfeitures 
efforts based on race. ethnicity. gender. sexual orientation. gender identity. religion. 
socioeconomic status. age. national origin or ancestry by members of the law 
enforcement agency. states that individuals may be stopped or detained only when 
legal authority exists to do so and states that members of the law enforcement agency 
must base their enforcement actions solely on an individual's conduct and behavior or 
specific suspect information; 
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Sec. 3. 25 MRSA §2804-C, sub-§2-E is enacted to read: 
2-E. Training regarding bias-based profiling. The board shall include in the basic 
law enforcement training program a block of instruction aimed specifically at the 
prohibition of bias-based profiling that prohibits stops, detentions. searches or asset 
seizures and forfeitures efforts based on race, ethnicity, gender. sexual orientation, gender 
identity, religion, socioeconomic status, age. national origin or ancestry by members of a 
law enforcement agency, that provides that individuals may be stopped or detained only 
when legal authority exists to do so and that provides that members of a law enforcement 
agency must base their enforcement actions solely on an individual's conduct and 
behavior or specific suspect information. 
Sec. 4. Collection and compilation of data on profiling. The Attorney 
General, in consultation with interested parties, including law enforcement agencies and 
community, professional, research, civil liberties and civil rights organizations, shall 
explore available techniques for the collection and compilation of profiling data and shall 
report findings and recommendations to the Joint Standing Committee on Judiciary no 
later than March 15, 2020. The joint standing committee may report out legislation based 
on the recommendations to the Second Regular Session of the 129th Legislature.' 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or 
section number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
The bill prohibits profiling on the basis of actual or perceived race, gender, ethnicity, 
religion, socioeconomic status, ancestry or national origin by law enforcement and 
requires data collection to provide information about whether profiling is occurring and, 
if so, the extent to which it is occurring. This amendment retains the prohibition on 
profiling on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, 
religion, socioeconomic status, age, national origin or ancestry by requiring the 
establishment of anti-profiling policies but removes the data collection requirement and 
instead directs the Attorney General to explore data collection techniques and report to 
the Joint Standing Committee on Judiciary findings and recommendations by March 15, 
2020. The committee may report out legislation to the Second Regular Session of the 
129th Legislature. 
The amendment requires that training of law enforcement officers include anti-
profiling education and instruction. 
The amendment directs the Attorney General to establish procedures for receiving, 
investigating and responding to complaints alleging profiling by law enforcement officers 
or law enforcement agencies. The Attorney General may adopt rules to address the 
operation of administrative complaint procedures and independent audit programs to 
ensure that programs and procedures provide an appropriate response to allegations of 
profiling by law enforcement officers or law enforcement agencies. 
FISCAL NOTE REQl.JIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Approved: 06/09/19 ;tb/ac. 
LD 1475 
LR2018(02) 
An Act To Eliminate Profiling in Maine 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment A ( H-5& /) 
Committee: Judiciary 
Fiscal Note Reg uired: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Minor cost increase - General Fund 
Additional costs to the Department of Public Safety associated with updating law enforcement training requirements, 
as well as additional costs to the Office of the Attorney General to adopt rules and explore data collection techniques, 
can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources. 
LR2018(02) - Fiscal Note - Page 1 ofl