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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act To Grant Plantations The Power To Control Consumer Fireworks"
+description: "An Act To Grant Plantations The Power To Control Consumer Fireworks"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/me"
+legislature: "Maine Legislature"
+session: "128"
+identifier: "LD 3"
+citation: "Maine LD 3 (128)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["FIRE SAFETY", "FIREWORKS", "PLANTATION ORDINANCES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["DEVIN"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-01-04"
+last_action: "2017-03-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3850db6-839e-488c-b113-00430b15639f"
+source_url: "http://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/dockets.asp?ID=280062394"
+source_hash: "d18c398da86b33b0680c673b98fd09f13098dd03b571c12246e5787421665bf7"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-me"]
+---
+
+# Maine LD 3 (128) — An Act To Grant Plantations The Power To Control Consumer Fireworks
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Initial Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_128th/billtexts/HP000501.asp)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Enactment - Emer — **116–26** (pass) · lower
+- ENACT-EMER 2/3 ELECT — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- DEVIN — primary (person)
+- ALLEY — cosponsor (person)
+- DAVIS — cosponsor (person)
+- DILL — cosponsor (person)
+- DOW — cosponsor (person)
+- HIGGINS — cosponsor (person)
+- MAKER — cosponsor (person)
+- MARTIN — cosponsor (person)
+- SKOLFIELD — cosponsor (person)
+- TUELL — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-04** Committee on State and Local Government suggested and ordered printed.
+- **2017-01-04** The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-04** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2017-01-05** REFERRED to the Committee on STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, in concurrence. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-02** CONSENT CALENDAR - FIRST DAY
+- **2017-03-07** Committee on Bills in the Second Reading Reports no further verbal amendments necessary. Report Accepted.
+- **2017-03-07** CONSENT CALENDAR - SECOND DAY.
+- **2017-03-07** The Bill was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED.
+- **2017-03-07** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2017-03-09** Report READ and ACCEPTED in concurrence
+- **2017-03-09** READ ONCE `reading-1`
+- **2017-03-09** ASSIGNED FOR SECOND READING NEXT LEGISLATIVE DAY.
+- **2017-03-14** COMMITTEE ON BILLS IN THE SECOND READING REPORTS NO FURTHER VERBAL AMENDMENTS NECESSARY, Senator Saviello, Senate Chair. REPORT ACCEPTED.
+- **2017-03-14** READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED, in concurrence. `reading-2`
+- **2017-03-14** Ordered sent down forthwith
+- **2017-03-21** This being an emergency measure, a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to the House was necessary.
+- **2017-03-21** PASSED TO BE ENACTED. `passage`
+- **2017-03-21** ROLL CALL NO. 16
+- **2017-03-21** (Yeas 116 - Nays 26 - Absent 8 - Excused 1)
+- **2017-03-21** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2017-03-23** PASSED TO BE ENACTED - Emergency - 2/3 Elected Required, in concurrence. `passage`
+- **2017-03-23** Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 48 Yeas 34 - Nays 0 - Excused 1 - Absent 0 PREVAILED
+- **2017-03-24** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a3850db6-839e-488c-b113-00430b15639f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maine legislature records).
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