An Act to Require the
Maine Legislature, Session 132, LD 0266
Committee Amendment CA_A_H187 (House)
Amends: 21-A MRSA §3

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" A" to H.P. 169, L.D. 266, "An Act to Require the 
Updating of Voter Registration Signatures" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'An Act to Notify Registered Voters When the Voters' Signatures on a Petition 
Contain Material Irregularities' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the 
following: 
'Sec. 1. 21-A MRSA §3, sub-§3 is enacted to read: 
3. Material irregularities in signatures on petitions; notification. If the signature 
of a registered voter on a petition under section 335, 354 or 902 does not match the 
signature for that registered voter in the central voter registration system and results in that 
registered voter's signature being invalidated, the registrar shall notify the registered voter 
and provide the registered voter with information on how to update the registered voter's 
signature in the central voter registration system.' • 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section 
number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
I 
This amendment replaces the bill and changes the title. The amendment requires a 
registrar to notify a registered voter when a signature 111ade by the registered voter on a 
primary petition, nomination petition or petition to initiate proceedings for a people's veto 
referendum or the direct initiative of legislation does not match the signature of the 
registered voter in the central voter registration system. The registrar must provide the 
registered voter with info1mation on how to update the registered voter's signature in the 
central voter registration system. 
The preliminary fiscal impact statement identified a potential unfunded state mandate 
in the requirements that registrars notify voters whose signatures on a petition do not match 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "A" to H.P. 169, L.D. 266 
the signatures in the central voter registration system and to provide the voters with 
information on updating their signature in the central voter registration system. 
The committee members who voted in favor of this report reviewed the preliminary 
fiscal impact statement and dete1111ined that because the impact on municipalities is 
anticipated to be insignificant statewide and that the frequency of such an event occurring 
is likely to be low the requirement likely will not have significant costs and does not require 
an expansion or modification of activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures, 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Revised: 05/12/25 LRL 
LD 266 
LR 456(02) 
An Act to Require the Updating of Voter Registration Signatures 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment 'A' ( l-\--- l ~,--) 
Committee: Veterans and Legal Affairs 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Potential State Mandate Removed- Committee Exception 
h1 the Preliminary Fiscal hnpact Statement (PFIS) for this bill, it was identified as a Potential State Mandate -
Unfunded, The committee reviewed the PFIS and detemrined that because the likelihood of the signatures not 
matching between the petition and the central voter registration system would be so infrequent and the requirement 
likely will not have significant costs and doesn't require an expansion or modification of activities so as to necessitate 
additional expenditures, that this bill was not a mandate. As the committee included this exception in the summary of 
the co1mnittee. amendment, the Potential State Mandate - Unfunded Janguage was removed from the fiscal note for the 
connnittee amendment. 
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