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+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act To Fund Collective Bargaining Agreements With Executive Branch Employees"
+description: "An Act To Fund Collective Bargaining Agreements With Executive Branch Employees"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/me"
+legislature: "Maine Legislature"
+session: "131"
+identifier: "LD 2017"
+citation: "Maine LD 2017 (131)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["EXEC BRANCH COLLECTIVE BARGAINING", "STATE FINANCES", "STATE PERSONNEL"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Melanie SACHS"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-06-27"
+last_action: "2023-07-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da0aaada-bb85-4360-a065-2ca431210c62"
+source_url: "https://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/dockets.asp?ID=280090534"
+source_hash: "4e31cf64ef8586c1b3015930d232847aeac534b9664b9866ce07299fdc770f36"
+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 2017 (131) — An Act To Fund Collective Bargaining Agreements With Executive Branch Employees
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Documents and Disposition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP1299&item=1&snum=131)
+2. **Final Disposition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=HP1299&item=2&snum=131)
+
+## Votes
+
+- ENACTMENT - EMER — **114–15** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Melanie SACHS — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-06-27** Committee on Appropriations and Financial Affairs suggested and ordered printed.
+- **2023-06-27** Under suspension of the rules and WITHOUT REFERENCE to a Committee, the Bill was READ TWICE and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED. `reading-3`
+- **2023-06-27** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2023-07-06** Under suspension of the Rules, READ TWICE and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED, without reference to a Committee in concurrence `reading-3`
+- **2023-07-06** This being an emergency measure, a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to the House was necessary.
+- **2023-07-06** Representative TERRY of Gorham REQUESTED a Roll Call. More than one-fifth of the members present expressed a desire for a roll call, which was ORDERED.
+- **2023-07-06** On further motion of the same Representative, TABLED pending PASSAGE TO BE ENACTED.
+- **2023-07-06** Later today assigned. (Roll Call Ordered)
+- **2023-07-06** Speaker laid before the House
+- **2023-07-06** PASSED TO BE ENACTED. `passage`
+- **2023-07-06** This being an emergency measure, a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to the House being necessary, a total was taken.
+- **2023-07-06** ROLL CALL NO. 351
+- **2023-07-06** (Yeas 114 - Nays 15 - Absent 22 - Excused 0)
+- **2023-07-06** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2023-07-06** PASSED TO BE ENACTED - Emergency - 2/3 Elected Required, in concurrence. `passage`
+- **2023-07-10** 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/da0aaada-bb85-4360-a065-2ca431210c62`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maine legislature records).
+