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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act To Create An Automatic Voter Registration System"
+description: "An Act To Create An Automatic Voter Registration System"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/me"
+legislature: "Maine Legislature"
+session: "129"
+identifier: "LD 1463"
+citation: "Maine LD 1463 (129)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ELECTIONS", "REGISTRATION OF VOTERS", "AUTOMATIC REGISTRATION"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sara GIDEON"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-04-02"
+last_action: "2019-06-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2be821f-ad8d-4e27-8aba-3cc4199c1792"
+source_url: "http://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/dockets.asp?ID=280072915"
+source_hash: "01911b0aaa00f22f4deed33b1853d118d8927729cf6e6430dde3812983868239"
+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 1463 (129) — An Act To Create An Automatic Voter Registration System
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Adopted Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP1070&item=2&snum=129)
+2. **Documents and Disposition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP1070&item=1&snum=129)
+3. **Final Disposition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP1070&item=3&snum=129)
+
+## Votes
+
+- ACC MAJ OTP AS AMENDED REP — **88–56** (pass) · lower
+- ACCEPT MAJ OTP-A RPT — **19–14** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sara GIDEON — primary (person)
+- Bruce BICKFORD — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher KESSLER — cosponsor (person)
+- Craig HICKMAN — cosponsor (person)
+- Dana DOW — cosponsor (person)
+- Erik JORGENSEN — cosponsor (person)
+- John SCHNECK — cosponsor (person)
+- Justin CHENETTE — cosponsor (person)
+- Kent ACKLEY — cosponsor (person)
+- Kristen CLOUTIER — cosponsor (person)
+- Louis LUCHINI — cosponsor (person)
+- Marianne MOORE — cosponsor (person)
+- Rachel TALBOT ROSS — cosponsor (person)
+- Shenna BELLOWS — cosponsor (person)
+- Troy JACKSON — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-04-02** Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs suggested and ordered printed.
+- **2019-04-02** The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-02** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2019-04-02** The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS in concurrence `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-05** Reports READ.
+- **2019-06-05** On motion of Representative SCHNECK of Bangor, the Majority Ought to Pass as Amended Report was ACCEPTED.
+- **2019-06-05** ROLL CALL NO. 181
+- **2019-06-05** (Yeas 88 - Nays 56 - Absent 4 - Excused 2 Vacant 1)
+- **2019-06-05** The Bill was READ ONCE. `reading-1`
+- **2019-06-05** Committee Amendment "A" (H-458) was READ and ADOPTED. `passage`
+- **2019-06-05** Under suspension of the rules, the Bill was given its SECOND READING without REFERENCE to the Committee on Bills in the Second Reading.
+- **2019-06-05** The Bill was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (H-458).
+- **2019-06-05** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2019-06-06** Reports READ
+- **2019-06-06** Senator LUCHINI of Hancock moved to ACCEPT the Majority Ought to Pass as Amended Report.
+- **2019-06-06** On further motion by same Senator TABLED until Later in Today's Session pending his motion to ACCEPT the Majority Ought to Pass as Amended Report,
+- **2019-06-10** Taken from the table by the President
+- **2019-06-10** Subsequently The Majority Ought to Pass As Amended Report ACCEPTED
+- **2019-06-10** Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 238 Yeas 19 - Nays 14 - Excused 2 - Absent 0
+- **2019-06-10** READ ONCE `reading-1`
+- **2019-06-10** Committee Amendment "A" (H-458) READ and ADOPTED
+- **2019-06-10** Under suspension of the Rules, READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED by Committee Amendment "A" (H-458) in concurrence `reading-2`
+- **2019-06-11** PASSED TO BE ENACTED. `passage`
+- **2019-06-11** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2019-06-11** PASSED TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence. `passage`
+- **2019-06-19** 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/a2be821f-ad8d-4e27-8aba-3cc4199c1792`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maine legislature records).
+