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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act To Help Municipalities Prepare For Sea Level Rise"
+description: "An Act To Help Municipalities Prepare For Sea Level Rise"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/me"
+legislature: "Maine Legislature"
+session: "129"
+identifier: "LD 563"
+citation: "Maine LD 563 (129)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["LAND USE", "COMPREHENSIVE PLANS", "SEA LEVEL CHANGE PLANNING"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lydia BLUME"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2019-02-05"
+last_action: "2019-05-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c105e410-e4cb-4ac9-abe3-b53ee08c6dd4"
+source_url: "http://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/dockets.asp?ID=280071458"
+source_hash: "fe4a9b396e48a13e0c37407cd928450ccaebc5276d73d74544f0b7e46b7b5d6b"
+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 563 (129) — An Act To Help Municipalities Prepare For Sea Level Rise
+
+## 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=HP0407&item=2&snum=129)
+2. **Documents and Disposition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP0407&item=1&snum=129)
+3. **Final Disposition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP0407&item=3&snum=129)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Enactment — **100–36** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lydia BLUME — primary (person)
+- Catherine BREEN — cosponsor (person)
+- Daniel HOBBS — cosponsor (person)
+- Deane RYKERSON — cosponsor (person)
+- Diane DENK — cosponsor (person)
+- Donna BAILEY — cosponsor (person)
+- Erik JORGENSEN — cosponsor (person)
+- Joyce McCREIGHT — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark BRYANT — cosponsor (person)
+- Patricia HYMANSON — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-05** Committee on State and Local Government suggested and ordered printed.
+- **2019-02-05** The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-05** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2019-02-05** The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT in concurrence `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-02** Reports READ.
+- **2019-05-02** On motion of Representative MARTIN of Sinclair, the Majority Ought to Pass as Amended Report was ACCEPTED.
+- **2019-05-02** The Bill was READ ONCE. `reading-1`
+- **2019-05-02** Committee Amendment "A" (H-180) was READ and ADOPTED. `passage`
+- **2019-05-02** Under suspension of the rules, the Bill was given its SECOND READING without REFERENCE to the Committee on Bills in the Second Reading.
+- **2019-05-02** The Bill was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (H-180).
+- **2019-05-02** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2019-05-07** Reports Read
+- **2019-05-07** On motion by Senator CLAXTON of Androscoggin the Majority Ought to Pass as Amended Report ACCEPTED.
+- **2019-05-07** READ ONCE `reading-1`
+- **2019-05-07** Committee Amendment "A" (H-180) READ and ADOPTED
+- **2019-05-07** Under suspension of the Rules, READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED by Committee Amendment "A" (H-180) in concurrence `reading-2`
+- **2019-05-09** PASSED TO BE ENACTED. `passage`
+- **2019-05-09** ROLL CALL NO. 86
+- **2019-05-09** (Yeas 100 - Nays 36 - Absent 13 - Excused 1 Vacant 1)
+- **2019-05-09** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2019-05-14** PASSED TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence. `passage`
+- **2019-05-24** 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/c105e410-e4cb-4ac9-abe3-b53ee08c6dd4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maine legislature records).
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