An Act to Stabilize Licensing Fees
Maine Legislature, Session 131, LD 1157
Committee: Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business
Sponsors: RUDNICKI, BRAKEY, ANDREWS, CAMPBELL, FREDERICKS, GREENWOOD, MASON, MORRIS, QUINT, SCHMERSAL-BURGESS

Legislative Document
No. 1157
H.P. 729
House of Representatives, March 14, 2023
An Act to Stabilize Licensing Fees
Reference to the Committee on Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and 
Business suggested and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative RUDNICKI of Fairfield.
Cosponsored by Senator BRAKEY of Androscoggin and
Representatives: ANDREWS of Paris, CAMPBELL of Orrington, FREDERICKS of Sanford, 
GREENWOOD of Wales, MASON of Lisbon, MORRIS of Turner, QUINT of Hodgdon, 
SCHMERSAL-BURGESS of Mexico.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  32 MRSA c. 1-A, sub-c. 4 is enacted to read:
SUBCHAPTER 4
LICENSE FEE STABILIZATION
§60-O.  Fee stabilization
1. Review.  The Director of the Office of Professional and Occupational Regulation 
within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, referred to in this section 
as "the director," shall by July 1st of each budget biennium review the revenue derived 
from each license fee collected by a licensing board or entity under this Title.
2. Stabilization.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Title to the contrary, if 
the director determines pursuant to subsection 1 that the amount of revenue collected in the 
previous biennium from the fees of a licensing board or entity exceeds the expenses 
incurred by that licensing board or entity in the performance of its duties over that 
biennium, the director shall by rule reduce the fees by multiplying each fee collected by 
that licensing board or entity by a fraction, the numerator of which is the amount of the 
excess revenue and the denominator of which is total amount of revenue collected.  The 
resulting license fee must remain in place for the ensuing biennium.  If the fees are 
deposited into a nonlapsing fund and there are funds remaining in the fund at the end of the 
budget biennium, the amount of those funds is deemed to be excess revenue. 
Rules adopted pursuant to this section are routine technical rules pursuant to Title 5, chapter 
375, subchapter 2-A.
SUMMARY
This bill requires the Director of the Office of Professional and Occupational 
Regulation within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation by July 1st of 
each fiscal biennium to review the revenue derived from each license fee collected by a 
licensing board or entity.  If the director determines that the amount of revenue collected 
in the previous biennium from the fees of a licensing board or entity exceeds the expenses 
incurred by that licensing board or entity in the performance of its duties, the director shall 
by rule reduce the fees by a fraction calculated by dividing the amount of excess revenue 
by the total amount of revenue collected.  The resulting license fee must remain in place 
for the ensuing biennium.  If the fees are deposited into a nonlapsing fund and there are 
funds remaining in the fund at the end of the budget biennium, the amount of those funds 
is deemed to be excess revenue.