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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act To Extend Internet Availability In Rural Maine"
+description: "An Act To Extend Internet Availability In Rural Maine"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/me"
+legislature: "Maine Legislature"
+session: "129"
+identifier: "LD 147"
+citation: "Maine LD 147 (129)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "BROADBAND SERVICES", "LIBRARY ACCESS PROGRAM"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Robert ALLEY"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-01-17"
+last_action: "2019-04-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/582d5140-3e09-4433-b20d-d9e8c20c575a"
+source_url: "http://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/dockets.asp?ID=280070899"
+source_hash: "555a183ba7fa5845c6b8872470d093d8f53f70560cfed6f09e5a69c432cd09ce"
+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 147 (129) — An Act To Extend Internet Availability In Rural Maine
+
+## 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=HP0129&item=2&snum=129)
+2. **Documents and Disposition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP0129&item=1&snum=129)
+3. **Final Disposition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP0129&item=3&snum=129)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Enactment - Emer — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Robert ALLEY — primary (person)
+- Anne PERRY — cosponsor (person)
+- Arthur VEROW — cosponsor (person)
+- David MIRAMANT — cosponsor (person)
+- Marianne MOORE — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael SYLVESTER — cosponsor (person)
+- Norman HIGGINS — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan TIPPING — cosponsor (person)
+- Seth BERRY — cosponsor (person)
+- William TUELL — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-17** Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology suggested and ordered printed.
+- **2019-01-17** The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on ENERGY, UTILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-17** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2019-01-17** The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on ENERGY, UTILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY in concurrence `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-28** CONSENT CALENDAR - FIRST DAY
+- **2019-03-28** Under suspension of the rules CONSENT CALENDAR - SECOND DAY.
+- **2019-03-28** The Bill was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (H-43).
+- **2019-03-28** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2019-03-28** Report READ and ACCEPTED in concurrence
+- **2019-03-28** READ ONCE `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-28** Committee Amendment "A" (H-43) READ and ADOPTED in concurrence
+- **2019-03-28** ASSIGNED FOR SECOND READING NEXT LEGISLATIVE DAY.
+- **2019-04-02** COMMITTEE ON BILLS IN THE SECOND READING REPORTS NO FURTHER VERBAL AMENDMENTS NECESSARY. REPORT ACCEPTED.
+- **2019-04-02** READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED BY Committee Amendment "A" (H-43), in concurrence. `reading-2`
+- **2019-04-02** Ordered sent down forthwith.
+- **2019-04-04** This being an emergency measure, a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to the House was necessary.
+- **2019-04-04** PASSED TO BE ENACTED. `passage`
+- **2019-04-04** ROLL CALL NO. 36
+- **2019-04-04** (Yeas 139 - Nays 0 - Absent 10 - Excused 1 Vacant 1)
+- **2019-04-04** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2019-04-11** PASSED TO BE ENACTED - Emergency - 2/3 Elected Required, in concurrence. `passage`
+- **2019-04-23** 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/582d5140-3e09-4433-b20d-d9e8c20c575a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maine legislature records).
+