An Act to Return the Name of the Maine Community College System to the Maine Technical College System
Maine Legislature, Session 131, LD 0174
Committee: Education and Cultural Affairs
Sponsors: CAMPBELL, LYFORD, BOYLE, DRINKWATER, SOBOLESKI, TALBOT ROSS, THORNE, BLACK, JACKSON

Legislative Document
No. 174
H.P. 115
House of Representatives, January 13, 2023
An Act to Return the Name of the Maine Community College 
System to the Maine Technical College System
Reference to the Committee on Education and Cultural Affairs suggested and ordered 
printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative CAMPBELL of Orrington.
Cosponsored by Senator LYFORD of Penobscot and
Representatives: BOYLE of Gorham, DRINKWATER of Milford, SOBOLESKI of Phillips, 
Speaker TALBOT ROSS of Portland, THORNE of Carmel, Senators: BLACK of Franklin, 
President JACKSON of Aroostook.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  Transition provisions.  The Maine Technical College System, formerly the 
Maine Community College System, is hereby established. All of the duties, functions, 
responsibilities, mission and goals and privileges of the Maine Community College System 
become the duties, functions, responsibilities, mission and goals and privileges of the 
Maine Technical College System. The Maine Technical College System, including all of 
its component entities, is the successor in every way to the Maine Community College 
System, including all of its component entities on the effective date of this Act. These 
powers, duties and functions include, but are not limited to, the following. 
1. The members of the Board of Trustees of the Maine Community College System 
shall serve as members of the Board of Trustees of the Maine Technical College System 
until their appointed terms expire. 
2. All accrued expenditures, assets, liabilities, balances, allocations, transfers, revenues 
and all other available funds of the Maine Community College System are authorized for 
use by the Maine Technical College System. 
3. All existing rules, regulations and procedures in effect, in operation or adopted in or 
by the Maine Community College System or officers continue in effect until rescinded, 
revised or amended by the pertinent authority within the Maine Technical College System.
4. All existing contracts, agreements, bonds, insurances, leases and compacts currently 
in effect in the Maine Community College System continue in effect until rescinded, 
revised or amended by the pertinent authority within the Maine Technical College System. 
5. The Maine Technical College System shall serve as the successor employer to, and 
shall assume the obligations of, the Maine Community College System. 
6. All buildings, automobiles, real property, equipment and other property previously 
belonging to or allocated for the use of the Maine Community College System become the 
property of the Maine Technical College System. 
7. The Maine Technical College System succeeds the Maine Community College 
System as a recipient of federal vocational funding. 
8. All existing forms, licenses, letterheads, signs and similar items bearing the name of 
or referring to the Maine Community College System may be utilized by the Maine 
Technical College System until existing supplies of those items are exhausted.
Sec. 2.  Maine Revised Statutes amended; revision clause.  Wherever in the 
Maine Revised Statutes the words "Maine Community College System" or "community 
college system" appear or reference is made to those words, they are amended to read and 
mean "Maine Technical College System" or "technical college system," and the Revisor of 
Statutes shall implement this revision when updating, publishing or republishing the 
statutes.
SUMMARY
This bill requires the transition of the Maine Community College System into the 
Maine Technical College System.