---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act To Clarify Laws Regarding Maine'S Community Colleges"
description: "An Act To Clarify Laws Regarding Maine'S Community Colleges"
jurisdiction: "us/states/me"
legislature: "Maine Legislature"
session: "128"
identifier: "LD 1073"
citation: "Maine LD 1073 (128)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM", "ADMINISTRATION", "PROVISIONS REVISED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["LANGLEY"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-03-16"
last_action: "2017-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4712fbad-ceea-43e2-9904-95ce8ddd4396"
source_url: "http://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/dockets.asp?ID=280064090"
source_hash: "81b9422f964e3a4323971e41b65dd048c4f8d3e47806f9a0a204a72fde893d81"
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 1073 (128) — An Act To Clarify Laws Regarding Maine'S Community Colleges

## 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/SP035501.asp)

## Sponsors

- LANGLEY — primary (person)
- DOW — cosponsor (person)
- KORNFIELD — cosponsor (person)
- LIBBY — cosponsor (person)
- MAKER — cosponsor (person)
- MALABY — cosponsor (person)
- TUELL — cosponsor (person)
- WHITTEMORE — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-03-16** Committee on EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS suggested and ordered printed
- **2017-03-16** REFERENCE to the Committee on EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS
- **2017-03-16** Ordered sent down forthwith for concurrence
- **2017-03-16** The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on EDUCATION AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-16** In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
- **2017-06-06** Report READ and ACCEPTED.
- **2017-06-06** READ ONCE. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-06** Committee Amendment "A" (S-194) READ and ADOPTED. `passage`
- **2017-06-06** Under suspension of the Rules, READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED BY Committee Amendment "A" (S-194). `reading-2`
- **2017-06-06** Ordered sent down forthwith for concurrence.
- **2017-06-07** CONSENT CALENDAR - FIRST DAY
- **2017-06-07** Under suspension of the rules CONSENT CALENDAR - SECOND DAY.
- **2017-06-07** The Bill was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (S-194).
- **2017-06-07** In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
- **2017-06-08** PASSED TO BE ENACTED. `passage`
- **2017-06-08** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
- **2017-06-09** PASSED TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence. `passage`
- **2017-06-12** 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/4712fbad-ceea-43e2-9904-95ce8ddd4396`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maine legislature records).