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Bill	An Act To Establish The Crimes Of Criminal Forced Labor And Aggravated Criminal Forced Labor In The Maine Criminal Code	An Act To Establish The Crimes Of Criminal Forced Labor And Aggravated Criminal Forced Labor In The Maine Criminal Code	us/states/me	Maine Legislature	128	LD 1740	Maine LD 1740 (128)	bill	CRIMES NEW FORCED LABOR	enacted	VOLK	1	22	2	2017-12-19	2018-05-02	openstates	ocd-bill/2bc86d7c-a327-4863-86b0-25e2bf47924e	http://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/dockets.asp?ID=280067188	b7357e5fed7b66f05d1360801a1bad33692b2466c7b60424d3f584abf3b8b828	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-me

Maine LD 1740 (128) — An Act To Establish The Crimes Of Criminal Forced Labor And Aggravated Criminal Forced Labor In The Maine Criminal Code

Version chain

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

1. Initial Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reconsideration - Veto — 136–12 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration - Veto — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• VOLK — primary (person)
• GIDEON — cosponsor (person)
• HERBIG — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-12-19 Received by the Secretary of the Senate on December 19, 2017 and REFERRED to the Committee on CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 referral-committee
• 2018-03-20 Report READ and ACCEPTED.
• 2018-03-20 READ ONCE. reading-1
• 2018-03-20 Committee Amendment "A" (S-385) READ and ADOPTED. passage
• 2018-03-20 Under suspension of the Rules, READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED BY Committee Amendment "A" (S-385). reading-2
• 2018-03-20 Ordered sent down forthwith for concurrence.
• 2018-03-22 CONSENT CALENDAR - FIRST DAY
• 2018-03-22 Under suspension of the rules CONSENT CALENDAR - SECOND DAY.
• 2018-03-22 The Bill was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (S-385).
• 2018-03-22 In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
• 2018-03-27 PASSED TO BE ENACTED. passage
• 2018-03-27 Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
• 2018-03-28 On motion by Senator HAMPER of Oxford PLACED ON THE SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TABLE pending PASSED TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence. passage
• 2018-04-11 On Motion by Senator HAMPER of Oxford taken from the SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TABLE.
• 2018-04-11 Subsequently PASSED TO BE ENACTED in concurrence passage
• 2018-05-02 LD 1740 In Senate, May 2, 2018, this Bill, having been returned by the Governor, together with objections to the same pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution of the State of Maine, after reconsideration, the Senate proceeded to vote on the question: "Shall this Bill become a law notwithstanding the objections of the Governor?" 34 IN FAVOR and 0 AGAINST, accordingly it was the vote of the Senate that the Bill become law and the VETO was OVERRIDDEN. veto-override-passage
• 2018-05-02 Ordered sent down forthwith for concurrence
• 2018-05-02 This Bill, having been returned by the Governor, together with objections to the same pursuant to Article IV, Part Third, Section 2 of the Constitution of the State of Maine, after reconsideration, the House proceeded to vote on the question: "Shall this Bill become a law notwithstanding the objections of the Governor?"
• 2018-05-02 ROLL CALL NO. 660V
• 2018-05-02 136 having voted in the affirmative and 12 in the negative, with 3 being absent, and accordingly it was the vote of the House that the Bill become a law notwithstanding the objections of the Governor, since two-thirds of the members of the House so voted.
• 2018-05-02 In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
• 2018-05-02 Sent to the Engrossing Department. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2bc86d7c-a327-4863-86b0-25e2bf47924e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maine legislature records).