Legislation: batch B — IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/me/131/ld-2032.md

@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "An Act To Improve Maine'S Labor Laws By Changing The Laws Governing Elections Of Collective Bargaining Agents For Certain Public Employees"
+description: "An Act To Improve Maine'S Labor Laws By Changing The Laws Governing Elections Of Collective Bargaining Agents For Certain Public Employees"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/me"
+legislature: "Maine Legislature"
+session: "131"
+identifier: "LD 2032"
+citation: "Maine LD 2032 (131)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["COLLECTIVE BARGAINING", "LABOR RELATIONS", "MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Michael TIPPING"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2023-12-11"
+last_action: "2024-03-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5277b5b5-6094-4b3f-a608-651c05ec4de4"
+source_url: "https://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/dockets.asp?ID=280091313"
+source_hash: "997a62eb37386e5fd4cd04bc03de97afe6d3df29b86158678233e078fb08f49e"
+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 2032 (131) — An Act To Improve Maine'S Labor Laws By Changing The Laws Governing Elections Of Collective Bargaining Agents For Certain Public 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=SP0860&item=1&snum=131)
+2. **Final Disposition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=SP0860&item=3&snum=131)
+
+## Votes
+
+- ACCEPT MAJORITY OUGHT TO PASS REPORT — **20–11** (pass) · upper
+- ACC MAJ OUGHT TO PASS REP — **85–55** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Michael TIPPING — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-12-11** Received by the Secretary of the Senate on December 11, 2023 and REFERRED to the Committee on LABOR AND HOUSING pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 `receipt, referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-27** Reports READ
+- **2024-02-27** Senator TIPPING of Penobscot moved to ACCEPT the Majority Ought to Pass Report .
+- **2024-02-27** On motion by Senator STEWART of Aroostook TABLED until Later in Today's Session pending motion by Senator TIPPING of Penobscot to ACCEPT the Majority Ought to Pass Report . Roll Call Ordered
+- **2024-02-28** Taken from the table by the President
+- **2024-02-28** Subsequently The Majority Ought to Pass Report ACCEPTED
+- **2024-02-28** Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 564 Yeas 20 - Nays 11 - Excused 4 - Absent 0 PREVAILED
+- **2024-02-28** READ ONCE `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-28** ASSIGNED FOR SECOND READING NEXT LEGISLATIVE DAY.
+- **2024-02-29** COMMITTEE ON BILLS IN THE SECOND READING REPORTS NO FURTHER VERBAL AMENDMENTS NECESSARY. REPORT ACCEPTED.
+- **2024-02-29** READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED. `reading-2, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-29** Ordered sent down forthwith for concurrence.
+- **2024-03-05** Reports READ.
+- **2024-03-05** On motion of Representative ROEDER of Bangor, the Majority Ought to Pass Report was ACCEPTED.
+- **2024-03-05** ROLL CALL NO. 390
+- **2024-03-05** (Yeas 85 - Nays 55 - Absent 10 - Excused 0 - Vacant 1)
+- **2024-03-05** The Bill was READ ONCE. `reading-1`
+- **2024-03-05** Under suspension of the rules, the Bill was given its SECOND READING without REFERENCE to the Committee on Bills in the Second Reading.
+- **2024-03-05** The Bill was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-05** In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2024-03-06** PASSED TO BE ENACTED. `passage`
+- **2024-03-06** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
+- **2024-03-07** PASSED TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence. `passage`
+- **2024-03-14** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2024-01-23T05:00:00+00:00** Work Session Held - TABLED
+- **2024-01-25T05:00:00+00:00** Work Session Held
+- **2024-01-25T05:00:00+00:00** Voted - Divided Report
+- **2024-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out - OTP/ONTP
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5277b5b5-6094-4b3f-a608-651c05ec4de4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maine legislature records).
+