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Bill	An Act To Authorize Municipalities To Allow Firefighters To Have Increased Lighting On Their Personal Vehicles	An Act To Authorize Municipalities To Allow Firefighters To Have Increased Lighting On Their Personal Vehicles	us/states/me	Maine Legislature	131	LD 1296	Maine LD 1296 (131)	bill	EMERGENCY VEHICLES LIGHTS PERSONAL VEHICLES	enacted	Caleb NESS	3	23	0	2023-03-23	2023-06-05	openstates	ocd-bill/5876a14c-592a-41bf-a9b9-067c2c40c29c	https://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/dockets.asp?ID=280087964	4f9b3a66272b4541d007cf5b448411e4a43103f52b92019a4c51103db3a9f168	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-me

Maine LD 1296 (131) — An Act To Authorize Municipalities To Allow Firefighters To Have Increased Lighting On Their Personal Vehicles

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

Sponsors

• Caleb NESS — primary (person)
• Aaron DANA — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel NEWMAN — cosponsor (person)
• James WHITE — cosponsor (person)
• Michel LAJOIE — cosponsor (person)
• Nina MILLIKEN — cosponsor (person)
• Richard BENNETT — cosponsor (person)
• Richard MASON — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy GUERRETTE — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-23 Committee on Transportation suggested and ordered printed.
• 2023-03-23 The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on TRANSPORTATION. referral-committee
• 2023-03-23 Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
• 2023-03-28 The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on TRANSPORTATION in concurrence referral-committee
• 2023-03-30 Carried over, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 594.
• 2023-05-16 CONSENT CALENDAR - FIRST DAY
• 2023-05-16 Under suspension of the rules, the Bill was given its SECOND READING without REFERENCE to the Committee on Bills in the Second Reading.
• 2023-05-16 The Bill was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (H-139). reading-3
• 2023-05-16 Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
• 2023-05-18 Report READ and ACCEPTED in concurrence
• 2023-05-18 READ ONCE reading-1
• 2023-05-18 Committee Amendment "A" (H-139) READ and ADOPTED committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 ASSIGNED FOR SECOND READING NEXT LEGISLATIVE DAY.
• 2023-05-23 COMMITTEE ON BILLS IN THE SECOND READING REPORTS NO FURTHER VERBAL AMENDMENTS NECESSARY. REPORT ACCEPTED.
• 2023-05-23 READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED BY Committee Amendment "A" (H-139), in concurrence. reading-2, reading-3
• 2023-05-23 Ordered sent down forthwith.
• 2023-05-30 PASSED TO BE ENACTED. passage
• 2023-05-30 Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
• 2023-06-01 PASSED TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence. passage
• 2023-06-05 Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2023-04-26T04:00:00+00:00 Work Session Held
• 2023-04-26T04:00:00+00:00 Voted - OTP-AM
• 2023-05-15T04:00:00+00:00 Reported Out - OTP-AM

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5876a14c-592a-41bf-a9b9-067c2c40c29c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maine legislature records).