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Bill	An Act To Make Ballot Questions Easier To Read And Understand For Maine Voters	An Act To Make Ballot Questions Easier To Read And Understand For Maine Voters	us/states/me	Maine Legislature	129	LD 534	Maine LD 534 (129)	bill	ELECTIONS BALLOTS BALLOT QUESTION LANGUAGE	enacted	John ANDREWS	3	21	1	2019-01-31	2019-06-20	openstates	ocd-bill/9de39431-2a94-4964-9f8c-d6f96d8e9576	http://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/dockets.asp?ID=280071411	449bab6d6d51064ba1c3a7f8e6dc01659750d8314e4ac9c4170c54967166408e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-me

Maine LD 534 (129) — An Act To Make Ballot Questions Easier To Read And Understand For Maine Voters

Version chain

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

1. Adopted Amendments (committee substitute) — source
2. Documents and Disposition (committee substitute) — source
3. Final Disposition (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• ENACT-EMER 2/3 ELECT — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• John ANDREWS — primary (person)
• Craig HICKMAN — cosponsor (person)
• Harold STEWART — cosponsor (person)
• Kathleen DILLINGHAM — cosponsor (person)
• Lisa KEIM — cosponsor (person)
• Louis LUCHINI — cosponsor (person)
• Matthew MOONEN — cosponsor (person)
• Nathan LIBBY — cosponsor (person)
• Richard PICKETT — cosponsor (person)
• Scott STROM — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-31 Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs suggested and ordered printed.
• 2019-01-31 The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS. referral-committee
• 2019-01-31 Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
• 2019-01-31 The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on VETERANS AND LEGAL AFFAIRS in concurrence referral-committee
• 2019-05-21 CONSENT CALENDAR - FIRST DAY
• 2019-05-21 Under suspension of the rules CONSENT CALENDAR - SECOND DAY.
• 2019-05-21 The Bill was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (H-277).
• 2019-05-21 Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
• 2019-05-23 Report READ and ACCEPTED, in concurrence.
• 2019-05-23 READ ONCE. reading-1
• 2019-05-23 Committee Amendment "A" (H-277) READ and ADOPTED, in concurrence. passage
• 2019-05-23 Under suspension of the Rules, READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED BY Committee Amendment "A" (H-277), in concurrence. reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Ordered sent down forthwith.
• 2019-05-28 This being an emergency measure, a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to the House was necessary.
• 2019-05-28 PASSED TO BE ENACTED. passage
• 2019-05-28 Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
• 2019-05-29 On motion by Senator BREEN of Cumberland PLACED ON THE SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TABLE pending PASSAGE TO BE ENACTED - Emergency - 2/3 Elected Required, in concurrence.
• 2019-06-18 On Motion by Senator BREEN of Cumberland taken from the SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TABLE.
• 2019-06-18 Subsequently PASSED TO BE ENACTED - Emergency -2/3 Elected Required in concurrence passage
• 2019-06-18 Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 325 Yeas 34 - Nays 0 - Excused 1 - Absent 0
• 2019-06-20 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9de39431-2a94-4964-9f8c-d6f96d8e9576. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maine legislature records).