---
type: "Bill"
title: "Resolve, Authorizing The Bureau Of General Services Within The Department Of Administrative And Financial Services To Assume Ownership Of The Forest City Project"
description: "Resolve, Authorizing The Bureau Of General Services Within The Department Of Administrative And Financial Services To Assume Ownership Of The Forest City Project"
jurisdiction: "us/states/me"
legislature: "Maine Legislature"
session: "128"
identifier: "LD 1626"
citation: "Maine LD 1626 (128)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["STATE GOVERNMENT", "LAND CONVEYANCES", "FOREST CITY DAM"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["TURNER"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-06-01"
last_action: "2017-07-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8189190f-17a9-4275-8456-44d0c560e3ea"
source_url: "http://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/dockets.asp?ID=280065793"
source_hash: "f858ead60276cdb778c1b0f5511e6da991754ea87d049c702a0e75dc161ac098"
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 1626 (128) — Resolve, Authorizing The Bureau Of General Services Within The Department Of Administrative And Financial Services To Assume Ownership Of The Forest City Project

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Initial Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_128th/billtexts/HP112101.asp)

## Sponsors

- TURNER — primary (person)
- ALLEY — cosponsor (person)
- CARPENTER — cosponsor (person)
- FREDETTE — cosponsor (person)
- JACKSON — cosponsor (person)
- MAKER — cosponsor (person)
- PERRY — cosponsor (person)
- SHERMAN — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-06-01** Committee on State and Local Government suggested and ordered printed.
- **2017-06-01** The Resolve was REFERRED to the Committee on INLAND FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-01** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
- **2017-06-01** On motion by Senator Cyrway of Kennebec, REFERRED to the Committee on Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, in concurrence. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** Reports READ.
- **2017-06-20** On motion of Representative DUCHESNE of Hudson, the Majority Ought to Pass as Amended Report was ACCEPTED.
- **2017-06-20** The Resolve was READ ONCE. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-20** Committee Amendment "A" (H-524) was READ and ADOPTED. `passage`
- **2017-06-20** Under suspension of the rules, the Resolve was given its SECOND READING without REFERENCE to the Committee on Bills in the Second Reading.
- **2017-06-20** The Resolve was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (H-524).
- **2017-06-20** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
- **2017-06-20** Reports Read
- **2017-06-20** On motion by Senator CYRWAY of Kennebec the Majority Ought to Pass as Amended Report ACCEPTED. in concurrence
- **2017-06-20** READ ONCE `reading-1`
- **2017-06-20** Committee Amendment "A" (H-524) READ and ADOPTED
- **2017-06-20** Under suspension of the Rules, READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED by Committee Amendment "A" (H-524) in concurrence `reading-2`
- **2017-06-21** FINALLY PASSED. `passage`
- **2017-06-21** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
- **2017-06-21** On motion by Senator HAMPER of Oxford PLACED ON THE SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TABLE pending FINAL PASSAGE in concurrence
- **2017-07-20** On Motion by Senator HAMPER of Oxford taken from the SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TABLE.
- **2017-07-20** Subsequently FINALLY PASSED in concurrence `passage`
- **2017-07-24** 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/8189190f-17a9-4275-8456-44d0c560e3ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maine legislature records).