---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act To Encourage Maine Consumers To Comparison-Shop For Certain Health Care Procedures And To Lower Health Care Costs"
description: "An Act To Encourage Maine Consumers To Comparison-Shop For Certain Health Care Procedures And To Lower Health Care Costs"
jurisdiction: "us/states/me"
legislature: "Maine Legislature"
session: "128"
identifier: "LD 445"
citation: "Maine LD 445 (128)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["INSURANCE", "HEALTH", "SHARED SAVINGS INCENTIVE PROGRAM"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["WHITTEMORE"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-02-07"
last_action: "2017-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87c8a368-2faa-4690-af27-61558c996ca4"
source_url: "http://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/dockets.asp?ID=280063105"
source_hash: "2767e21252795dc91c8bb94a69086a719f83d2fe39e2f0e68eb361f13001ec8f"
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 445 (128) — An Act To Encourage Maine Consumers To Comparison-Shop For Certain Health Care Procedures And To Lower Health Care Costs

## 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/SP014701.asp)

## Sponsors

- WHITTEMORE — primary (person)
- BRAKEY — cosponsor (person)
- COLLINS — cosponsor (person)
- CUSHING — cosponsor (person)
- FARRIN — cosponsor (person)
- FOLEY — cosponsor (person)
- KATZ — cosponsor (person)
- PICCHIOTTI — cosponsor (person)
- THIBODEAU — cosponsor (person)
- WALLACE — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-07** Committee on INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES suggested and ordered printed
- **2017-02-07** REFERENCE to the Committee on INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES
- **2017-02-07** Ordered sent down forthwith for concurrence
- **2017-02-07** The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES. `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
- **2017-06-12** Report READ and ACCEPTED.
- **2017-06-12** READ ONCE. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-12** Committee Amendment "A" (S-236) READ and ADOPTED. `passage`
- **2017-06-12** Under suspension of the Rules, READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED BY Committee Amendment "A" (S-236). `reading-2`
- **2017-06-12** Ordered sent down forthwith for concurrence.
- **2017-06-12** CONSENT CALENDAR - FIRST DAY
- **2017-06-12** Under suspension of the rules CONSENT CALENDAR - SECOND DAY.
- **2017-06-12** The Bill was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (S-236).
- **2017-06-12** In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
- **2017-06-13** PASSED TO BE ENACTED. `passage`
- **2017-06-13** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
- **2017-06-14** PASSED TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence. `passage`
- **2017-06-19** 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/87c8a368-2faa-4690-af27-61558c996ca4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maine legislature records).