An Act to Correct Inconsistencies, Conflicts and Errors in the Laws
Maine Legislature, Session 132, LD 1984
Committee: Judiciary
Amends: 2 MRSA §6, 2 MRSA §9, 5 MRSA §1, 5 MRSA §130, 5 MRSA §201, 5 MRSA §244, 5 MRSA §1541, 5 MRSA §1746, 5 MRSA §7030-E, 5 MRSA §9054, 5 MRSA §11113, 5 MRSA §17001, 5 MRSA §17107, 5 MRSA §19001, 10 MRSA §1044, 10 MRSA §1211, 10 MRSA §3263, 10 MRSA §3601, 10 MRSA §3801, 10 MRSA §3855, 11 MRSA §5, 11 MRSA §9, 12 MRSA §13068-A, 15 MRSA §3307, 16 MRSA §705, 20-A MRSA §5001-A, 20-A MRSA §7209-A, 22 MRSA §1812-G, 22 MRSA §2127, 22 MRSA §2423-A, 22 MRSA §2843, 22 MRSA §2900-A, 23 MRSA §4210-B, 24 MRSA §2902, 26 MRSA §351, 26 MRSA §852, 26 MRSA §853, 26 MRSA §854, 26 MRSA §855, 26 MRSA §968, 26 MRSA §1227, 26 MRSA §1228, 26 MRSA §1230, 28-B MRSA §201, 28-B MRSA §703, 30 MRSA §6203, 32 MRSA §85, 32 MRSA §19312, 34-A MRSA §5806, 34-B MRSA §3613, 34-B MRSA §3614, 36 MRSA §5202-E, 38 MRSA §342, 38 MRSA §486-A, 11 MRSA §2

Legislative Document
No. 1984
H.P. 1328
House of Representatives, May 28, 2025
An Act to Correct Inconsistencies, Conflicts and Errors in the Laws 
of Maine
(EMERGENCY)
Reported by Representative KUHN of Falmouth for the Revisor of Statutes pursuant to the 
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 1, section 94.
Reference to the Committee on Judiciary suggested and ordered printed pursuant to Joint 
Rule 218.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Emergency preamble.  Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legislature do not 
become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and 
Whereas, acts of this and previous Legislatures have resulted in certain technical 
inconsistencies, conflicts and errors in the laws of Maine; and
Whereas, these inconsistencies, conflicts and errors create uncertainties and 
confusion in interpreting legislative intent; and
Whereas, it is vitally necessary that these uncertainties and this confusion be resolved 
in order to prevent any injustice or hardship to the citizens of Maine; 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 
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:
PART A
Sec. A-1.  2 MRSA §6, sub-§3, as amended by PL 2023, c. 643, Pt. DD, §1, is 
further amended to read:
3.  Range 89.  The salaries of the following state officials and employees are within 
salary range 89:
Director, Bureau of General Services;
Director, Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations;
State Budget Officer;
State Controller;
Director, Bureau of Forestry;
Director, Office of Policy Innovation and the Future;
Director, Governor's Energy Resources Office;
State Human Resources Officer;
Director, Bureau of Parks and Lands;
Director of the Governor's Office of Communications;
Director, Bureau of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources;
Director, Bureau of Resource Information and Land Use Planning; 
Director, Office of Cannabis Policy;
Executive Director, Office of Affordable Health Care; and
Director, Maine Office of Community Affairs.
Sec. A-2.  2 MRSA §9, sub-§3, ¶C, as amended by PL 2013, c. 541, §1, is further 
amended by amending subparagraph (1), division (c), subdivision (vi) to read:
(vi)  Projections of wind energy developers' plans, as well as technology 
trends and their state policy implications; and
Sec. A-3.  2 MRSA §9, sub-§3, ¶C, as amended by PL 2013, c. 541, §1, is further 
amended by amending the first blocked paragraph to read:
The joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over utilities and 
energy matters may report out legislation by February 1st of each odd-numbered year 
relating to the content of the plan. The joint standing committee of the Legislature 
having jurisdiction over natural resources matters may make recommendations 
regarding that legislation to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having 
jurisdiction over energy matters.;
Sec. A-4.  5 MRSA §1, as amended by PL 1975, c. 771, §23, is further amended to 
read:
§1.  Appointment of temporary officials; removal; salary
In order to provide for the uninterrupted and orderly functioning of any agency, board, 
commission or department of the State Government during a vacancy in the office of the 
appointive or elective head thereof and whenever there is no state official, deputy, assistant 
or other state employee duly authorized by law to exercise the powers and perform the 
duties of such the appointive or elective head during such the vacancy, the Governor is 
empowered to appoint a temporary deputy commissioner to exercise the powers and 
perform the duties of the appointive or elective head of such the office during such the 
vacancy.  The term of office of such a temporary deputy commissioner so appointed shall 
be is at the pleasure of the Governor and shall may not extend beyond the date of 
qualification of a successor to the office of appointive or elective head of such the agency, 
board, commission or department or 60 days from the date of his the temporary deputy 
commissioner's appointment, whichever shall first occur occurs first.  The term of office of 
such a temporary deputy commissioner so appointed to an office to which appointments 
are by law subject to confirmation by the Legislature shall be is at the pleasure of the 
Governor and shall may not extend beyond the date of qualification of a successor 
appointed to such the office or 6 months from the date of the temporary deputy 
commissioner's appointment, whichever shall first occur occurs first.  Such A temporary 
deputy commissioner shall is not be eligible for reappointment.  Such A temporary deputy 
commissioner shall must be appointed from the personnel of the agency, board, 
commission or department in which such the vacancy occurs.
During the term of such the temporary deputy commissioner's appointment, the 
temporary deputy commissioner shall must be paid a salary to be determined by the 
Governor but not to exceed that received by the appointive or elective head at the 
termination of his the head's services with the State Government.
In the event an employee in the classified service of the State Government is appointed 
as a temporary deputy commissioner he shall, the employee, during the term of his the 
employee's appointment as temporary deputy commissioner, retain retains all of the rights 
and all of the retirement benefits to which he the employee may be entitled as a classified 
employee of the State Government.
Sec. A-5.  5 MRSA §130, first ¶, as corrected by RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. B, §20, is 
amended to read:
A public officer or a person, firm, association or corporation paying money into the 
State Treasury may make the payment by delivering to the Treasurer of State a check, draft, 
certificate of deposit or money order drawn, endorsed and payable to the Treasurer of State 
or the Treasurer of State's order, or may make the payment by delivering to the Treasurer 
of State the proper amount of lawful currency.  The Treasurer of State shall keep a record 
of all drafts, checks, certificates of deposit, money orders and cash received by the 
Treasurer of State and upon receipt thereof shall immediately cause the same to be placed 
to the credit of the State in some state depository.  If any check, draft or certificate of deposit 
is not paid on presentation, the Treasurer of State shall proceed to collect the amount 
thereof, with costs, from the person drawing same who drew the check, draft or certificate 
of deposit.  The Treasurer of State shall daily transmit to the State Controller a statement 
of all receipts into the State Treasury, giving such details thereof as the State Controller 
may require.
Sec. A-6.  5 MRSA §201 is amended to read:
§201.  Attendance of witnesses; recognizances
When a criminal prosecution in which he the Attorney General appears is continued, 
the Attorney General shall cause the witnesses in on behalf of the State to recognize to 
appear at the next term, unless otherwise directed by the court, and may procure the 
attendance of a witness living out of the State deemed determined by him the Attorney 
General to be material in procuring an indictment or conviction.  The court shall allow such 
the witness a reasonable compensation beyond his the witness's legal fees.
Sec. A-7.  5 MRSA §244, first ¶, as amended by PL 2003, c. 450, §4, is further 
amended to read:
The State Auditor may not perform the accounting functions for the State, but shall 
audit the accounts, books, records and other evidences of financial transactions kept in the 
Department of Financial and Administrative and Financial Services or in the other 
departments and agencies of State Government.  The State Auditor shall prepare and 
publish a report for each fiscal year, setting forth the essential facts of such audits in 
summary form, within the following fiscal year after the books of the State Controller have 
been officially closed.  If the State Auditor finds in the course of an audit evidences of 
improper transactions, or of unacceptable practices in keeping accounts or handling funds 
or of any other improper practice of financial administration, the State Auditor shall report 
the same to the Governor and the Legislature immediately.  After reporting evidence of 
material weaknesses or reportable conditions, the State Auditor shall provide for 
subsequent review to ensure that those conditions are addressed in a timely manner and 
report to the Governor and the Legislature to confirm the status of the correction of those 
conditions.  If the State Auditor finds evidences of illegal transactions, the State Auditor 
shall immediately report those transactions both to the Governor and to the Attorney 
General.  All such evidences must be included in the annual reports of the State Auditor, 
and the State Auditor may, at the State Auditor's discretion, make them public at any time 
during the fiscal year.
Sec. A-8.  5 MRSA §1541, sub-§9 is amended to read:
9.  Illegality of expenditures.  To report to the Attorney General for such action, civil 
or criminal, as he may deem the Attorney General considers necessary, all facts showing 
illegality in the expenditure of public moneys money or the misappropriation of public 
properties;
Sec. A-9.  5 MRSA §1746, 3rd ¶, as corrected by RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. B, §59, is 
amended to read:
The Treasurer of State shall collect all interest or income when due on the obligations 
so deposited and shall pay the same that total sum, when and as collected, to the contractor 
who deposited the obligations.  If the deposit is in the form of coupon bonds, the Treasurer 
of State shall deliver each coupon as it matures to the contractor.  The Treasurer of State 
may enter into a contract or agreement with any national bank, trust company or safe 
deposit company located in New England or New York City for custodial care and 
servicing of any securities deposited with the Treasurer of State pursuant to this section.  
Those services must consist of the safekeeping of those securities and of all services 
required to effectuate the purposes of this section.
Sec. A-10.  5 MRSA §7030-E, as enacted by PL 2009, c. 191, §1, is amended by 
amending the section headnote to read:
§7030-E.  Meetings; compensation
Sec. A-11.  5 MRSA §9054, sub-§1, as corrected by RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. B, §80, is 
amended to read:
1.  Intervention.  On timely application made pursuant to agency rules, the agency 
conducting the proceedings shall allow any person showing that the person is nor or may 
be, or is a member of a class that is or may be, substantially and directly affected by the 
proceeding, or any other agency of federal, state or local government, to intervene as a 
party to the proceeding.
Sec. A-12.  5 MRSA §11113, first ¶, as corrected by RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. B, §85, is 
amended to read:
The executive director shall, upon receipt of an application for review, determine the 
appropriate joint standing committee of the Legislature responsible for review of the rule 
in question and send the application and a copy of the rule in question to each member of 
the committee.  Each member of the committee shall individually review the application to 
determine whether the applicant is qualified and whether the public interest would be 
served by a review of the rule in question by the full committee.  If a committee member 
decides that the review should be made, the committee member shall notify the director 
within 15 days after notice was sent.  If 1/3 or more of the full committee notify the director 
that a review of the rule should be made, the director shall advise the chair chairs of the 
committee, who shall schedule a meeting of the committee to review the rule.  If the 
committee votes not to review the rule, a report to that effect must be prepared by the 
director and sent to the applicant and the Legislative Council.
Sec. A-13.  5 MRSA §17001, sub-§17, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 801, §§5 and 7, 
is repealed.
Sec. A-14.  5 MRSA §17001, sub-§22, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 801, §§5 and 7, 
is repealed.
Sec. A-15.  5 MRSA §17001, sub-§26, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 801, §§5 and 7, 
is amended to read:
26.  Parent.  "Parent" means mother or father a natural or adoptive parent or stepparent.
Sec. A-16.  5 MRSA §17107, sub-§2, ¶E, as amended by PL 2007, c. 491, §81, is 
further amended to read:
E.  The actuary shall make whatever investigations the actuary considers necessary of 
the experience of each of the programs of the retirement system with respect to the 
factors that affect the cost of the benefits provided by the those programs.
(1)  The purpose of the investigations is to determine the actuarial assumptions to 
be recommended to the board for adoption in connection with actuarial 
determinations required under this Part.
(2-A)  These investigations must be made whenever the board, on recommendation 
of the actuary, determines an investigation to be necessary to the actuarial 
soundness or prudent administration of the program or programs to which the 
investigation is related.  The determination must take into account program 
demographics and changes in program demographics, employment patterns and 
projections, relevant economic measures and expectations and other factors that 
the board or actuary considers significant.  With respect to the retirement system 
program for state employees and teachers, if 6 fiscal years have elapsed without an 
investigation being conducted, the board must either conduct an investigation 
within the next fiscal year or must record in the official minutes of a meeting of 
the board, in each fiscal year until the year in which an investigation is conducted, 
its decision not to do so and the reason or reasons for its decision.
Sec. A-17.  5 MRSA §19001, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 801, §§5 and 7, is amended 
to read:
§19001.  Declaration of policy
In order to extend to employees of the political subdivisions of the State of Maine, and 
to the civilian employees of the Maine National Guard who are employed pursuant to 
section 90 of the National Defense Act of June 3, 1916 (32 U.S.C., sec. 42), whether 
members of existing retirement or pension systems or not, the benefits of social security, 
provided under the Federal federal Social Security Act enacted by the Congress of the 
United States, it is declared to be the policy of the Legislature, subject to the limitations of 
this chapter, that such steps be taken as to provide such protection those benefits to such 
employees on as broad a basis as is permitted under the federal Social Security Act.  This 
chapter shall apply applies to employees of the Maine Maritime Academy who are 
members of an existing retirement or pension system.  This chapter shall does not apply to 
teachers who are under a state or local government pension or retirement plan, except 
teachers at the Maine Maritime Academy.  For the purposes of bringing To bring sheriffs 
and their deputies under social security, these law enforcement officers shall be deemed 
are considered "policemen" for the purposes of the federal Social Security Act.
Sec. A-18.  10 MRSA §1044, sub-§12, ¶B, as corrected by RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. C, 
§10, is amended to read:
B.  Revenue obligation securities of the authority may not be issued until the Director 
of the Governor's Energy Resources Office has reviewed and commented upon the 
project proposal.  The director shall make comments within 30 days after receipt of a 
notification and copy of the project proposal from the authority.  The authority shall 
take the comments into consideration in its processing of the project.
Sec. A-19.  10 MRSA §1211, sub-§8, as corrected by RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. C, §23, is 
amended to read:
8.  Trade name.  "Trade name" means a work word, name, symbol, device or any 
combination of the foregoing in any form or arrangement used by a person to identify the 
person's business, vocation or occupation and distinguish it from the business, vocation or 
occupation of others.
Sec. A-20.  10 MRSA §3263, as amended by PL 1981, c. 585, §7, is further amended 
to read:
§3263.  Petition for release
Any owner of a building, wharf, pier or real estate upon which a lien is claimed may 
petition in writing the judge or justice of the court in which the lien action is filed setting 
forth the name of the lienor, the court and county or division in which the action is pending, 
the fact that a lien is claimed thereon under sections 3251 to 3254, the particular building, 
wharf, pier or real estate, and his the owner's interests therein in the building, wharf, pier 
or real estate, its value and his the owner's desire to have it released from said the lien.  The 
judge or justice shall issue a written notice, which shall must be served on the lienor or his 
the lienor's attorney 10 days at least prior to the time fixed therein in the notice for a hearing.  
At the hearing, the judge or justice may order such the owner to give bond to the lienor in 
such an amount and with such sureties as he the judge or justice may approve, conditioned 
to pay the amount for which such the lienor may be entitled to a lien as determined by the 
court, with his the lienor's costs in the action, within 30 days after final decree or judgment.  
The clerk shall give the plaintiff an attested copy of the complaint and proceedings, with a 
certificate under seal of the court attached thereto to the copy of the complaint and 
proceedings, that such the bond has been duly filed in his the clerk's office.  The record of 
such the copy and certificate in the registry of deeds, in the county or district where such 
the real estate or interest therein in the real estate lies, vacates the lien.
Sec. A-21.  10 MRSA §3601 is amended to read:
§3601.  Logs and lumber generally
Whoever A person who labors at cutting, hauling, rafting or driving logs or lumber, or 
at cooking for persons engaged in such labor, or in shoeing horses or oxen, or repairing 
property while thus employed, has a lien on the logs and lumber for the amount due for his 
that person's personal services and the services performed by his that person's team, and 
for the use of his that person's truck, motor vehicle or other mechanical equipment, which 
takes precedence of all other claims except liens reserved to the State.  Whoever A person 
who both shores and runs logs by himself, his or whose servants or agents shore and run 
logs has a lien thereon on the logs for the price of such that shoring and running.  Such The 
liens continue for 60 days after the logs or lumber arrive at the place of destination for sale 
or manufacture and may be enforced by attachment.
Sec. A-22.  10 MRSA §3801 is amended to read:
§3801.  Vehicles, aircraft and parachutes
Whoever A person who performs labor by himself or his or whose employees perform 
labor in manufacturing or repairing the ironwork or woodwork of wagons, carts, sleighs 
and other vehicles, aircraft or component parts thereof, and parachutes, or so performing 
labor furnishes materials therefor or provides storage therefor by direction or consent of 
the owner thereof, shall have has a lien on such the vehicle, aircraft or component parts 
thereof, and parachutes for his that person's reasonable charges for said that labor, and for 
materials used in performing said that labor, and for said that storage, which takes 
precedence of all other claims and incumbrances on said those vehicles, aircraft or 
component parts thereof, and parachutes not made to secure a similar lien, and may be 
enforced by attachment at any time within 90 days after such the labor is performed or such 
the materials or storage furnished and not afterwards, provided as long as a claim for such 
the lien is duly filed as required in section 3802.  Said The lien shall must be dissolved if 
said the property has actually changed ownership prior to such the filing.
Sec. A-23.  10 MRSA §3855 is amended to read:
§3855.  Attachment of vessels on stocks; sale
If the vessel at the time is on the stocks, the attachment shall must be made by filing in 
the office of the clerk of the town in which such the vessel is located, within 48 hours 
thereafter after the attachment, a copy of so much of his the officer's return on the writ of 
attachment as relates to the attachment, with the name of the plaintiff, the name of the 
person liable for the debt, the description of the vessel as given in the writ of attachment, 
the date of the writ of attachment, the amount claimed and the court to which it is returnable, 
and by leaving a copy of such certificate with one of the owners of the vessel, if known to 
him the officer and residing within his the officer's precinct, or with the master workman 
thereon worker on the vessel.  If the attachment is so made, the officer need not does not 
need to take possession of the vessel before it is launched unless specially directed by the 
plaintiff or his the plaintiff's attorney to do so;, but he the officer shall, as soon as may be 
possible, afterwards.  He The officer may take possession at any time before it the vessel 
is launched; but if he the officer does, he shall the officer may not hinder the work thereon 
on the vessel or prevent or delay the launching.  If at the time of attachment the vessel is 
launched, it shall must be attached like other personal property.  Whenever a vessel has 
been attached and the expense of retaining possession of said the vessel is great, or the 
vessel is liable to depreciate in value by reason thereof of retaining possession, any 
attaching creditor or an owner of said the vessel may bring an action in the Superior Court 
by complaint praying that said the vessel attached may be sold, and said the court may 
order a hearing thereon on the complaint.  Due notice shall must be given to all parties in 
interest of the time and place appointed for said the hearing, and a hearing on said the 
complaint shall must be had before said the court.  If it appears to said the court to be for 
the benefit of all parties in interest that said the vessel should be sold, it the court shall issue 
to the officer in possession of the same vessel, or to the sheriff of the county in which said 
the vessel has been attached, an order to sell it at public auction, and shall designate in said 
the order the notice to be given of the time and place of said that sale.  Said The vessel shall 
must be sold pursuant to said the order, and the proceeds of such the sale, after deducting 
necessary expenses, shall must be held by the first attaching officer or the sheriff, subject 
to the successive attachments, as if sold on execution.  If said the parties do not consent to 
a sale as provided, Title 14, sections 4158 and 4352 to 4355, so far as the same those 
sections are applicable, shall apply to proceedings under this section.
Sec. A-24.  11 MRSA §5-1106, sub-§(2-A), as enacted by PL 2023, c. 669, Pt. A, 
§53 and affected by Pt. E, §1, is reallocated to 11 MRSA §5-1116, sub-§(2-A).
Sec. A-25.  Effective date. That section of this Part that reallocates the Maine 
Revised Statutes, Title 11, section 5-1106, subsection (2-A) takes effect July 1, 2025.
Sec. A-26.  11 MRSA §9-1102, sub-§(80), ¶(d), as amended by PL 2023, c. 669, 
Pt. A, §83 and affected by Pt. E, §1, is further amended by amending the first blocked 
paragraph to read:
"Control" as provided in section 7‑1106 and the following definitions in other 
Articles apply to this Article:
"Applicant"
Section 5‑1102.
"Beneficiary"
Section 5‑1102.
"Broker"
Section 8‑1102.
"Certificated security"
Section 8‑1102.
"Check"
Section 3‑1104.
"Clearing corporation"
Section 8‑1102.
"Contract for sale"
Section 2‑106.
"Controllable electronic record"
Section 12‑102.
"Customer"
Section 4‑104.
"Entitlement holder"
Section 8‑1102.
"Financial asset"
Section 8‑1102.
"Holder in due course"
Section 3‑1302.
"Issuer" (with respect to a letter of 
credit or letter-of-credit right)
Section 5‑1102.
"Issuer" (with respect to a security)
Section 8‑1201.
"Issuer" (with respect to documents of 
title)
Section 7‑1102.
"Lease"
Section 2‑1103.
"Lease agreement"
Section 2‑1103.
"Lease contract"
Section 2‑1103.
"Leasehold interest"
Section 2‑1103.
"Lessee"
Section 2‑1103.
"Lessee in ordinary course of 
business"
Section 2‑1103.
"Lessor"
Section 2‑1103.
"Lessor's residual interest"
Section 2‑1103.
"Letter of credit"
Section 5‑1102.
"Merchant"
Section 2‑104.
"Negotiable instrument"
Section 3‑1104.
"Nominated person"
Section 5‑1102.
"Note"
Section 3‑1104.
"Proceeds of a letter of credit"
Section 5-114 5-1114.
"Protected purchaser"
Section 8‑1303.
"Prove"
Section 3‑1103.
"Qualifying purchaser"
Section 12‑102.
"Sale"
Section 2‑106.
"Securities account"
Section 8‑1501.
"Securities intermediary"
Section 8‑1102.
"Security"
Section 8‑1102.
"Security certificate"
Section 8‑1102.
"Security entitlement"
Section 8‑1102.
"Uncertificated security"
Section 8‑1102.
Sec. A-27.  Effective date. That section of this Part that amends the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 11, section 9-1102, subsection (80), paragraph (d) takes effect July 1, 2025.
Sec. A-28.  11 MRSA §9-1306-B, sub-§(1), as enacted by PL 2023, c. 669, Pt. A, 
§101 and affected by Pt. E, §1, is amended to read:
(1).   Except as provided in subsection (2), the local law of the controllable electronic 
record's jurisdiction specified in section 12‑107, subsection 3 (3), paragraphs (c) and (d) 
governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection and the priority of a security 
interest in a controllable electronic record and a security interest in a controllable account 
or controllable payment intangible evidenced by the controllable electronic record.
Sec. A-29.  Effective date. That section of this Part that amends the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 11, section 9-1306-B, subsection (1) takes effect July 1, 2025.
Sec. A-30.  12 MRSA §13068-A, sub-§10, ¶A, as amended by PL 2023, c. 583, 
§1 and c. 646, Pt. A, §18, is further amended by repealing the first blocked paragraph and 
enacting the following in its place:
As used in this paragraph, "motorboat" does not include an airboat as defined in 
subsection 10‑A.
Sec. A-31.  15 MRSA §3307, sub-§3, as amended by PL 2021, c. 365, §10 and 
affected by §37, is further amended to read:
3.  Record.  A verbatim record must be made of all detention, bind over bind-over, 
adjudicatory and dispositional hearings.
Sec. A-32.  16 MRSA §705, sub-§4, as enacted by PL 2023, c. 560, Pt. B, §2, is 
amended to read:
4.  Confidential criminal history record information of person whose legal name 
has been changed.  Regardless of whether the order changing a person's name was made 
confidential under Title 18‑C, section 1‑701, subsection 3‑A or any other provision of law, 
a Maine criminal justice agency may disseminate confidential criminal history record 
information associated with each former and current legal name of a person whose name 
has been changed to any person or public or private entity that is authorized to receive 
confidential criminal history record information under subsection 1‑A 1.
Sec. A-33.  20-A MRSA §5001-A, sub-§2, ¶B, as amended by PL 2009, c. 330, 
§1, is further amended by amending subparagraph (5) to read:
(5)  Agreed in writing with that person's parent and the school board or its designee 
to meet annually until that person's 17th birthday to review that person's 
educational needs. When the request to be excused from school has been denied 
pursuant to this paragraph, the student's parent may appeal to the commissioner; or
Sec. A-34.  20-A MRSA §5001-A, sub-§2, ¶D, as amended by PL 2009, c. 330, 
§2, is further amended to read:
D.  A person who has matriculated and is attending an accredited, post-secondary, 
degree-granting institution as a full-time student.  An exception to attendance in public 
school under this paragraph must be approved by the commissioner; or.
Sec. A-35.  20-A MRSA §5001-A, sub-§2, ¶E, as amended by PL 2015, c. 448, 
§9, is repealed.
Sec. A-36.  20-A MRSA §7209-A, sub-§5, as enacted by PL 2023, c. 643, Pt. W, 
§17, is amended to read:
5.  Transition of Child Development Services System regional sites to regional 
support and service hubs.  When a school administrative unit is responsible for child find 
activities and for ensuring a free, appropriate public education, the Child Development 
Services System site in that region shall transition to serve as a regional support and service 
hub to meet the requirements of section 7212 7211 and to make necessary services and 
supports available in accordance with a memorandum of understanding developed between 
the department and the school administrative unit before the transition of responsibility 
occurs.  The regional support and service hubs must be aligned with the 9 superintendent 
regions established by the statewide association of superintendents.
Sec. A-37.  22 MRSA §1812-G, sub-§1-B, ¶E, as amended by PL 2023, c. 241, 
§1, is further amended to read:
E.  "Disqualifying offense" means a substantiation for abuse, neglect or 
misappropriation of property, or a criminal conviction identified in rules adopted by 
the department that prohibits employment as a certified nursing assistant or a direct 
care worker an immediate supervisor in accordance with subsection 2‑C.
Sec. A-38.  22 MRSA §1812-G, sub-§2-C, as amended by PL 2023, c. 241, §7 
and c. 309, §24, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
2-C.  Registry notations.  The registry must include for a certified nursing assistant 
and an immediate supervisor listed on the registry a notation of:
A.  Disqualifying criminal convictions;
B.  Nondisqualifying criminal convictions, except that a notation is not required on the 
registry for Class D and Class E criminal convictions over 10 years old that did not 
involve as a victim of the act a patient, client or resident; and
C.  Substantiated findings, including but not limited to the following information:
(1)  Documentation of an investigation of the certified nursing assistant or 
immediate supervisor, including the nature of the allegation and evidence 
supporting a determination that substantiates the allegation of abuse, neglect or 
misappropriation of property of a client, patient or resident;
(2)  Documentation of substantiated findings of abuse, neglect or misappropriation 
of property of a client, patient or resident;
(3)  If the certified nursing assistant or immediate supervisor appealed the 
substantiated finding, the date of the hearing; and
(4)  The statement of the certified nursing assistant or immediate supervisor 
disputing the allegation of abuse, neglect or misappropriation of property of a 
client, patient or resident if the certified nursing assistant or immediate supervisor 
submitted such a statement.
Sec. A-39.  22 MRSA §1812-G, sub-§4, as amended by PL 2023, c. 241, §10 and 
c. 309, §25, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
4.  Department verification of credentials and training.  The department may verify 
the credentials and training of certified nursing assistants and immediate supervisors listed 
on the registry.
Sec. A-40.  22 MRSA §1812-G, sub-§4-A, as amended by PL 2023, c. 241, §11 
and c. 309, §26, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
4-A.  Provider verification fee.  The department may establish a provider verification 
fee not to exceed $25 annually per provider for verification of a certified nursing assistant's 
or an immediate supervisor's credentials and training.  Providers may not pass the cost on 
to the individual certified nursing assistant or immediate supervisor.  Provider verification 
fees collected by the department must be placed in a special revenue account to be used by 
the department to operate the registry, including but not limited to the cost of criminal 
history record checks.  The department may adopt rules necessary to implement this 
subsection.  Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules as defined 
in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2‑A.
Sec. A-41.  22 MRSA §1812-G, sub-§6, as amended by PL 2023, c. 241, §13 and 
c. 309, §27, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
6.  Prohibited employment based on disqualifying offenses.  An individual with a 
disqualifying offense, including a substantiated complaint or a disqualifying criminal 
conviction, may not work as a certified nursing assistant, a direct access worker or an 
immediate supervisor, and an employer is subject to penalties for employing a disqualified 
or otherwise ineligible person in accordance with applicable federal or state laws.
Sec. A-42.  22 MRSA §1812-G, sub-§6-A, as amended by PL 2023, c. 241, §14 
and c. 309, §28, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
6-A.  Background check.  Certified nursing assistants and immediate supervisors are 
subject to a background check pursuant to chapter 1691 and according to the following.
A.  A training program for certified nursing assistants must secure or pay for a 
background check on each individual who applies for enrollment.  The individual's 
current name and all previous names are subject to the background check.  A copy of 
the background check is given to the individual who, upon successful completion of 
the training, submits it with an application to be listed on the registry as a certified 
nursing assistant.
(1)  Prior to enrolling an individual, a training program for certified nursing 
assistants must notify individuals that a background check will be conducted and 
that certain disqualifying offenses, including criminal convictions, may prohibit an 
individual from working as a certified nursing assistant.
B.  Pursuant to sections 1717, 1724, 2137, 2149‑A, 7706, 8606, 9005 and 9054 and 
Title 34‑B, section 1225, licensed, certified or registered providers shall secure and pay 
for a background check prior to hiring an individual who will work in direct contact 
with clients, patients or residents, including a certified nursing assistant or an 
immediate supervisor.
C.  The department may secure a background check on certified nursing assistants and 
immediate supervisors on the registry.
D.  A person or other legal entity that is not otherwise licensed by the department and 
that employs or places a certified nursing assistant to provide services allowing direct 
access shall secure and pay for a background check in accordance with state law and 
rules adopted by the department.
Sec. A-43.  22 MRSA §1812-G, sub-§6-B, as repealed by PL 2023, c. 241, §15 
and amended by c. 309, §29, is repealed.
Sec. A-44.  22 MRSA §1812-G, sub-§6-C, ¶A, as amended by PL 2023, c. 241, 
§16 and c. 309, §30, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
A.  A disqualifying criminal conviction prohibits employment as a certified nursing 
assistant, a direct access worker or an immediate supervisor.
(1)  An individual with a disqualifying criminal conviction is subject to an 
employment ban of 5, 10 or 30 years.  The department shall adopt rules that specify 
disqualifying criminal convictions that prohibit employment for 5 years, 
disqualifying criminal convictions that prohibit employment for 10 years and 
disqualifying criminal convictions that prohibit employment for 30 years.
Sec. A-45.  22 MRSA §1812-G, sub-§6-C, ¶B, as amended by PL 2023, c. 241, 
§17 and c. 309, §30, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
B.  Nondisqualifying criminal convictions do not prohibit employment as a certified 
nursing assistant, a direct access worker or an immediate supervisor.
Sec. A-46.  22 MRSA §1812-G, sub-§6-D, as repealed by PL 2023, c. 241, §18 
and amended by c. 309, §31, is repealed.
Sec. A-47.  22 MRSA §1812-G, sub-§10, as amended by PL 2023, c. 241, §20 and 
c. 309, §32, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
10.  Complaint investigation.  The department may investigate complaints and 
allegations against certified nursing assistants, direct access workers or immediate 
supervisors of abuse, neglect or misappropriation of property of a client, patient or resident.
Sec. A-48.  22 MRSA §1812-G, sub-§13, as amended by PL 2023, c. 241, §22 and 
c. 309, §34, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
13.  Substantiated finding; lifetime employment ban.  A certified nursing assistant, 
a direct care worker or an immediate supervisor with a notation on the registry of a 
substantiated finding of abuse of a patient, client or resident is banned for life from 
employment as a certified nursing assistant, a direct care worker or an immediate 
supervisor.
Sec. A-49.  22 MRSA c. 415, as amended, is repealed.
Sec. A-50.  22 MRSA §2127, sub-§6, as amended by PL 2023, c. 597, §2, is further 
amended to read:
6.  Coordination with Medicaid and the Cub Care program Children's Health 
Insurance Program.  The department shall coordinate assistance under this chapter with 
Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program under section 3174‑T in a manner 
most likely to obtain and maximize federal matching funds.
Sec. A-51.  22 MRSA §2423-A, sub-§10, ¶E, as repealed and replaced by PL 
2023, c. 646, Pt. A, §25 and c. 679, Pt. A, §7, is repealed and the following enacted in its 
place:
E.  A cannabis testing facility shall obtain and must be able to produce, upon demand 
of the office or a municipal code enforcement officer, documentation of the facility's 
accreditation pursuant to standard ISO/IEC 17025 of the International Organization for 
Standardization by a 3rd-party accrediting body.
Sec. A-52.  22 MRSA §2843, first ¶, as amended by PL 2023, c. 676, §10, is further 
amended to read:
Except as authorized by the department, a dead human body may not be buried, 
cremated, subjected to natural organic reduction or otherwise disposed of or removed from 
the State until a funeral director or other authorized person in charge of the disposition of 
the dead human body or its removal from the State has obtained a permit from the State 
Registrar of Vital Statistics or the clerk of the municipality where death occurred or where 
the establishment of a funeral director having custody of the dead human body is located 
as specified by department rule.  The permit is sufficient authority for final disposition in 
any place where dead human bodies are disposed of in this State, as long as the 
requirements of section 2900-A and Title 32, sections section 1405 and 2900‑A are met in 
appropriate cases.  The permit may not be issued to anyone other than a funeral director 
until the state registrar or the clerk of the municipality receives a medical certificate that 
has been signed by a physician or a medical examiner that indicates that the physician or 
medical examiner has personally examined the body after death.  A permit must also be 
issued if a nurse practitioner or physician assistant has signed the medical certificate 
indicating that the nurse practitioner or physician assistant has knowledge of the deceased's 
recent medical condition or was in charge of the deceased's care and that the nurse 
practitioner or physician assistant has personally examined the body after death.  The 
authorized person may transport a dead human body only upon receipt of this permit.
Sec. A-53.  22 MRSA §2843, sub-§3-A, as repealed by PL 2023, c. 67, §4 and 
amended by c. 676, §13, is repealed.
Sec. A-54.  22 MRSA §2900-A, sub-§8, as enacted by PL 2023, c. 676, §19, is 
amended to read:
8.  Certificate from medical examiner or medicolegal death investigator.  The body 
of a deceased person may not be subjected to natural organic reduction within 48 hours 
after death unless the person died of a contagious or infectious disease, and in no event may 
the body of a deceased person be subjected to natural organic reduction until the natural 
organic reduction facility in charge of the disposition has received a certificate from a duly 
appointed medical examiner or medicolegal death investigator appointed pursuant to Title 
22, section 3023‑A that the medical examiner or medicolegal death investigator has made 
personal inquiry into the cause and manner of death and is satisfied that further examination 
or judicial inquiry concerning the cause and manner of death is not necessary.  This 
certificate, a certified copy of the death certificate and a burial transit permit, if necessary, 
when presented by the authorized person as defined in Title 22, section 2846 is sufficient 
authority for the body to be subjected to natural organic reduction, and the natural organic 
reduction facility in charge of the disposition may not refuse to subject the body to natural 
organic reduction solely because these documents are presented by such an authorized 
person.  The certificate must be retained for a period of 15 years by the natural organic 
reduction facility in charge of subjecting the body to natural organic reduction.  For the 
certificate, the medical examiner must receive a fee of $25 payable by the person requesting 
the certificate.  This fee may be waived at the discretion of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Sec. A-55.  23 MRSA §4210-B, sub-§5, as amended by PL 2011, c. 649, Pt. E, §2, 
is further amended to read:
5.  Other fund sources.  The Multimodal Transportation Fund may accept funds from 
other sources, including, but not limited to, the Federal Rail Railroad Administration, to 
carry out the provisions of this section.
Sec. A-56.  24 MRSA §2902, as amended by PL 2013, c. 329, §2, is further amended 
by amending the section headnote to read:
§2902.  Statute of limitations for health care providers and health care practitioners 
excluding claims based on sexual acts
Sec. A-57.  24 MRSA §2902, first ¶, as amended by PL 2013, c. 329, §2, is further 
amended to read:
Except as provided in section 2902‑B, actions Actions for professional negligence must 
be commenced within 3 years after the cause of action accrues.  For the purposes of this 
section, a cause of action accrues on the date of the act or omission giving rise to the injury. 
Notwithstanding the provisions of Title 14, section 853, relating to minority, actions for 
professional negligence by a minor must be commenced within 6 years after the cause of 
action accrues or within 3 years after the minor reaches the age of majority, whichever first 
occurs.  This section does not apply when the cause of action is based upon the leaving of 
a foreign object in the body, in which case the cause of action accrues when the plaintiff 
discovers or reasonably should have discovered the harm.  For the purposes of this section, 
the term "foreign object" does not include a chemical compound, prosthetic aid or object 
intentionally implanted or permitted to remain in the patient's body as a part of the health 
care or professional services.
Sec. A-58.  26 MRSA §351, as enacted by PL 1987, c. 594, §1, is amended to read:
§351.  Rules
The Commissioner of Labor shall adopt rules in accordance with the Maine 
Administrative Procedure Act, Title 5, chapter 375, relating to sanitation on railroad 
property as it affects the safety and health of railroad employees, including, but not limited 
to, enginemen, trainmen, yardmen, engineers, yard workers, maintenance-of-way 
employees, clerical employees, carmen and enginehouse employees.
Sec. A-59.  26 MRSA §852, as corrected by RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. E, §34, is amended 
to read:
§852.  Employment of replacements prohibited
A person, partnership, union, agency, firm or corporation or officer, employee or agent 
thereof may not recruit, procure, supply or refer any person for employment who 
customarily and repeatedly offers to accept employment in place of any employee involved 
in a labor dispute, strike or lockout in which that person, partnership, union, agency, firm 
or corporation is not directly involved.
Sec. A-60.  26 MRSA §853, as corrected by RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. E, §35, is amended 
to read:
§853.  Arrangements
A person, partnership, union, firm or corporation involved in a labor dispute, strike or 
lockout may not, directly or indirectly, employ in the place of an employee involved in that 
labor dispute, strike or lockout any person who customarily and repeatedly offers to accept 
employment in the place of employees involved in a labor dispute, strike or lockout or 
contract or arrange with any other person, partnership, union, agency, firm or corporation 
to recruit, procure, supply or refer persons for employment who customarily and repeatedly 
offer to accept employment in place of employees involved in a labor dispute, strike or 
lockout.
Sec. A-61.  26 MRSA §854, as corrected by RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. E, §36, is amended 
to read:
§854.  Offers
A person who customarily and repeatedly offers to accept employment in place of 
employees involved in a labor dispute, strike or lockout may not take or offer to take the 
place of employment of any employee involved in a labor dispute, strike or lockout.
Sec. A-62.  26 MRSA §855, as corrected by RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. E, §37, is amended 
to read:
§855.  Evidence
It is prima facie evidence that a person customarily and repeatedly offers to accept 
employment in place of employees involved in a labor dispute, strike or lockout if the 
person has 2 times before offered to take the place of employment of persons involved in 
labor disputes, strikes or lockouts.
Sec. A-63.  26 MRSA §968, sub-§2, as corrected by RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. E, §56, is 
amended by amending the first blocked paragraph to read:
The salary of the executive director must be established by the board within salary range 
and may be adjusted periodically by the board within the limits for salary review 
procedures established in Title 2, section 6, subsection 5.
Sec. A-64.  26 MRSA §1227, sub-§1, as corrected by RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. E, §116, 
is amended by amending the first blocked paragraph to read:
The foregoing remedies in this subsection are in addition to all other remedies.
Sec. A-65.  26 MRSA §1228, as corrected by RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. E, §117, is amended 
to read:
§1228.  Liability of successor
An individual or organization, including the types of organizations described in section 
1043, subsection 10, whether or not an employing unit, that acquires the organization, trade 
or business or a substantial part of the assets thereof from an employer, is liable, in an 
amount not to exceed the reasonable value of the organization, trade, business or assets 
acquired, for any contributions or interest due or accrued and unpaid by the employer, and 
the amount of the liability must, in addition, be a lien against the property or assets 
acquired, which must be prior to all other liens.  The lien may not be valid as against a 
person who acquires from the successor any interest in the property or assets in good faith, 
for value and without notice of the lien.  Upon written request made after the acquisition is 
completed, the commissioner shall furnish the successor with a written statement of the 
amount of contributions and interest due or accrued and unpaid by the employer as of the 
date of the acquisition, and the amount of the liability of the successor or the amount of the 
lien may not exceed the liability disclosed by the statement.  The foregoing remedies in this 
section are in addition to all other existing remedies against the employer or the employer's 
successor.
Sec. A-66.  26 MRSA §1230, sub-§3, as corrected by RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. E, §119, 
is amended to read:
3.  Warrant effective as lien.  An abstract or copy of the warrant may be filed for 
record in the registry of deeds of any county.  From the time of the filing, the amount 
specified in the warrant constitutes a lien upon all real property and other tangible assets in 
the county or town owned by the liable employer or acquired by the liable employer during 
the period of the lien.  The lien has the force, effect and priority of a judgment lien and 
continues for 5 years from the date of recording, unless sooner released or otherwise 
discharged or extended as prescribed herein in this subsection.  The lien may be extended 
for an additional 5-year period by filing, for record in the registry of deeds, an abstract or 
copy of the warrant within the original 5-year period or within 5 years from the date of the 
last extension of the lien.
Sec. A-67.  28-B MRSA §201, sub-§4, as amended by PL 2019, c. 676, §5 and 
amended by PL 2021, c. 669, §5, is further amended to read:
4.  Cannabis store.  Consistent with the restrictions of section 205, subsection 2, 
paragraph C, a A cannabis store license; or
Sec. A-68.  28-B MRSA §703, sub-§1, ¶D, as repealed and replaced by PL 2023, 
c. 641, §1 and c. 679, Pt. B, §127, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
D.  Unless determined impracticable by the office by rule, must be stamped or 
embossed with a universal symbol on each serving of the edible cannabis product or 
each serving must be individually wrapped or blister packaged with a universal symbol 
clearly included on the wrapping or packaging.  In the event the office determines by 
rule that stamping, embossing, individual wrapping or blister packaging for a particular 
type of edible cannabis product is impracticable, each serving of the product must be 
packaged together with the universal symbol affixed to the packaging.  For purposes 
of this chapter, edible cannabis products that are determined to be impracticable to 
stamp, emboss, individually wrap or blister package include but are not limited to:
(1)  Potato or corn chips;
(2)  Popcorn;
(3)  Pretzels;
(4)  Loose granola; and
(5)  Gummies;
Sec. A-69.  30 MRSA §6203, sub-§1-A, ¶B, as enacted by PL 2023, c. 369, Pt. D, 
§1 and affected by §8, is amended to read:
B.  All Houlton Band Trust Land acquired after the effective date of this subjection 
subsection that is both within Aroostook County and within 50 miles of land described 
in paragraph A.
Sec. A-70.  32 MRSA §85, sub-§9, as enacted by PL 2023, c. 587, §1, is amended 
to read:
9.  Dogs.  Notwithstanding section 4860, an emergency medical services person 
licensed under this chapter may provide emergency medical treatment to a law enforcement 
dog, as defined in Title 14, section 164‑B, subsection 1, paragraph B, or to a search and 
rescue dog, as defined in Title 14, section 164‑B, subsection 1, paragraph D, in accordance 
with protocols adopted by the Medical Direction and Practices Board.
Sec. A-71.  32 MRSA §19312, sub-§2, ¶D, as enacted by PL 2023, c. 580, §8, is 
amended to read:
D.  The dispensing party may dispense contact lenses only upon receipt of a written 
prescription, except that an optometrist may fill a prescription of another optometrist 
or a physician without a copy of the prescription.  Mail order contact lens suppliers 
must be licensed by and register with the Maine Board of Pharmacy pursuant to Title 
32, section 13751 and are subject to discipline by that board for violations of that 
board's rules and the laws governing the board.  An individual who fills a contact lens 
prescription shall maintain a copy of that prescription for a period of 5 years.
Sec. A-72.  34-A MRSA §5806, as enacted by PL 1983, c. 459, §6, is amended to 
read:
§5806.  Violations of parole
A probation-parole officer may arrest and charge a parolee with violation of parole and 
take him the parolee into his the probation-parole officer's custody in any place he the 
parolee may be found, and detain the parolee in any jail, pending the issuance of a parole 
violation warrant, which.  The detention shall may not extend beyond the next business day 
of the office of the director commissioner.  In the event a warrant is not issued in that time, 
the parolee shall must be released from arrest and detention forthwith immediately.  A 
parolee so arrested and detained shall have no does not have a right of action against the 
probation-parole officer or any other persons because of that arrest and detention.
When a parolee violates a condition of his the parolee's parole or violates the law, the 
director commissioner may issue a warrant for his the parolee's arrest.  A probation-parole 
officer, or any other law enforcement officer within the State authorized to make arrests, 
may arrest the parolee on the warrant and return him the parolee to the institution from 
which he the parolee was paroled.  At its next meeting at that institution, the board shall 
hold a hearing.  The parolee is entitled to appear and be heard.  If the board, after hearing, 
finds that the parolee has violated his the parolee's parole or the law, it shall revoke his the 
parolee's parole, set the length of time he shall the parolee must serve of the unexpired 
portion of his the parolee's sentence before he can the parolee may again be eligible for 
hearing by the board, and remand him the parolee to the institution from which he the 
parolee was released; except that, when a parolee from the Maine Correctional Center 
violates the law and is sentenced by the court to the Maine State Prison, any length of time 
set by the board to be served of the unexpired portion of his the parolee's correctional center 
sentence may be served at the Maine State Prison.
1.  Forfeits deductions.  Upon revocation of parole by the board, the prisoner forfeits 
any deductions for good behavior earned while on parole.
2.  May earn deductions.  While serving the unexpired portion of his the prisoner's 
sentence after parole has been revoked, the prisoner may earn deductions for good conduct.
Whenever a warrant is issued under this section for the arrest of a parolee, the running 
of the parolee's sentence shall must be interrupted and shall must remain interrupted until 
the parolee is returned to the institution from which he the parolee was paroled.  
Interruption of the running of his the parolee's sentence shall must include any time served 
prior to such return, after conviction for a crime committed while on parole.
In the event of the withdrawal of the warrant by authority of the director commissioner, 
or in the event that the board at the hearing on the alleged violation finds that the parolee 
did not violate the conditions of his the parolee's parole, or the law, he shall the parolee 
must be credited with the time lost by the interruption of the running of his the parolee's 
sentence.
Sec. A-73.  34-B MRSA §3613, as enacted by PL 2023, c. 643, Pt. KKK, §1, is 
repealed.
Sec. A-74.  34-B MRSA §3613, as enacted by PL 2023, c. 675, §9, is reallocated to 
34-B MRSA §3614.
Sec. A-75.  36 MRSA §5202-E, sub-§1, ¶D, as enacted by PL 2023, c. 627, §1, is 
amended to read:
D.  The percentage of corporations that filed corporate income taxes doing business in 
the State that reported total corporate income tax due of zero or less for the 4 most 
recent tax years for which there is complete data; and
Sec. A-76.  38 MRSA §342, first ¶, as enacted by PL 1971, c. 618, §8, is amended 
to read:
The Commissioner of Environmental Protection shall have has the following duties:.
Sec. A-77.  38 MRSA §486-A, sub-§2-A, as enacted by PL 2023, c. 644, §11 and 
c. 660, §13, is repealed and the following enacted in its place:
2-A.  Developer; route analysis; public participation.  The department shall require 
an applicant who has submitted an application pursuant to section 485‑A related to the 
development and construction of a transmission line or lines requiring approval under this 
article to demonstrate to the department that the applicant conducted one or more public 
meetings regarding the transmission line or lines prior to the submission of its application.  
The public meetings must include the presentation of information regarding the proposed 
transmission line or lines, including but not limited to proposed route information, and 
provide an opportunity for public participation and comment.  Information presented and 
public comments received at the public meetings must be made publicly available and be 
part of the record of any department or board proceeding.
Sec. A-78.  PL 2023, c. 669, Pt. A, §22 is repealed and the following enacted in its 
place:
Sec. A-22. 11 MRSA §2-1102, as enacted by PL 1991, c. 805, §4, is repealed and 
the following enacted in its place:
§2-1102. Scope
(1).   This Article applies to any transaction, regardless of form, that creates a lease 
and, in the case of a hybrid lease, it applies to the extent provided in subsection (2).
(2).   In a hybrid lease:
(a). If the aspects of the lease that relate to the lease of goods do not predominate:
(i) Only the provisions of this Article that relate primarily to those aspects of the 
transaction apply and the provisions that relate primarily to the transaction as a 
whole do not apply;
(ii) Section 2-1209 applies if the lease is a finance lease; and
(iii) Section 2-1407 applies to the promises of the lessee in a finance lease to the 
extent the promises are consideration for the right to possession and use of the 
leased goods; and
(b). If the aspects of the lease that relate to the lease of goods predominate, this Article 
applies to the transaction but does not preclude application in appropriate 
circumstances of other law to aspects of the lease that do not relate to the lease of goods.
Sec. A-79.  Effective date. That section of this Part that repeals and replaces Public 
Law 2023, chapter 669, Part A, section 22 takes effect July 1, 2025.
Sec. A-80.  PL 2023, c. 669, Pt. A, §53 is amended to read:
Sec. A-53.  11 MRSA §5-1106 §5-1116, sub-§(2-A) is enacted to read:
(2-A).  A branch of a bank is considered to be located at the address indicated in the 
branch's undertaking.  If more than one address is indicated, the branch is considered to be 
located at the address from which the undertaking was issued.
Sec. A-81.  Effective date. That section of this Part that amends Public Law 2023, 
chapter 669, Part A, section 53 takes effect July 1, 2025.
Emergency clause.  In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this legislation 
takes effect when approved, except as otherwise indicated.
SUMMARY
Part A does the following.
Section 1 corrects a reference to the Director of the Governor's Energy Office.
Section 2 makes a technical correction.
Section 3 makes a technical correction.
Section 4 corrects gender-specific language and makes grammatical changes.
Section 5 updates outdated language.
Section 6 corrects gender-specific language and makes grammatical changes.
Section 7 corrects a reference to the Department of Administrative and Financial 
Services and makes a grammatical change.
Section 8 corrects gender-specific language and makes a grammatical change.
Section 9 clarifies an ambiguous term.
Section 10 corrects a headnote.
Section 11 makes a grammatical correction.
Section 12 makes a technical correction.
Section 13 repeals an obsolete definition that is not gender neutral.
Section 14 repeals an obsolete definition that is not gender neutral.
Section 15 corrects gender-specific language.
Section 16 corrects a clerical error.
Section 17 adds a cross-reference to address a gender-specific term and makes 
technical corrections and grammatical changes.
Section 18 corrects a reference to the Director of the Governor's Energy Office.
Section 19 corrects a clerical error.
Section 20 corrects gender-specific language and makes grammatical changes.
Section 21 corrects gender-specific language and makes grammatical changes.
Section 22 corrects gender-specific language and makes grammatical changes.
Section 23 corrects gender-specific language and makes grammatical changes.
Sections 24 and 25 correct the allocation of a subsection enacted in Public Law 2023, 
chapter 669.
Sections 26 and 27 correct a cross-reference.
Sections 28 and 29 make a technical correction.
Section 30 corrects a conflict created by Public Law 2023, chapters 583 and 646, which 
affected the same provision of law, by repealing the provision and replacing it with the 
chapter 583 version.
Section 31 makes a technical correction.
Section 32 corrects a cross-reference.
Sections 33 to 35 repeal an obsolete provision.
Section 36 corrects a cross-reference.
Section 37 makes a technical correction.
Sections 38 to 48 correct a conflict created by Public Law 2023, chapters 241 and 309, 
which affected the same provisions of law, by incorporating the changes made by both 
laws.
Section 49 repeals an obsolete chapter.
Section 50 corrects a reference to the Children's Health Insurance Program.
Section 51 corrects a conflict created by Public Law 2023, chapters 646 and 679, which 
affected the same provision of law, by repealing the provision and replacing it with the 
chapter 679 version.
Section 52 corrects a cross-reference.
Section 53 corrects a conflict created by Public Law 2023, chapters 67 and 676, which 
affected the same provision of law, by repealing the provision.
Section 54 makes technical corrections.
Section 55 corrects a reference to the United States Department of Transportation, 
Federal Railroad Administration.
Sections 56 and 57 remove an obsolete cross-reference.
Section 58 corrects gender-specific language and makes a technical correction.
Section 59 makes a technical correction.
Section 60 makes technical corrections.
Section 61 makes technical corrections.
Section 62 makes technical corrections.
Section 63 corrects a cross-reference.
Section 64 corrects a reference.
Section 65 corrects a reference.
Section 66 corrects a reference.
Section 67 removes an obsolete cross-reference.
Section 68 corrects a conflict created by Public Law 2023, chapters 641 and 679, which 
affected the same provision of law, by repealing the provision and replacing it with the 
chapter 679 version.
Section 69 corrects a clerical error.
Section 70 corrects cross-references.
Section 71 makes a technical correction.
Section 72 removes an obsolete reference, corrects gender-specific language and 
makes grammatical changes.
Sections 73 and 74 correct a numbering problem created by Public Law 2023, chapters 
and 675, which enacted 3 substantively different provisions with the same section 
number.
Section 75 makes a technical correction.
Section 76 makes a grammatical change and a technical correction.
Section 77 corrects a conflict created by Public Law 2023, chapters 644 and 660, which 
enacted 2 substantively different provisions with the same subsection number, by repealing 
the provision and replacing it with the chapter 660 version.
Sections 78 and 79 make technical corrections.
Sections 80 and 81 correct the allocation of a subsection enacted in Public Law 2023, 
chapter 669.