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---
type: "Bill"
title: "An Act To Ensure That The Maine Electric Grid Provides Additional Benefits To Maine Ratepayers"
description: "An Act To Ensure That The Maine Electric Grid Provides Additional Benefits To Maine Ratepayers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/me"
legislature: "Maine Legislature"
session: "131"
identifier: "LD 589"
citation: "Maine LD 589 (131)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BENEFITS TO RATEPAYERS", "POWERS", "PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nicole GROHOSKI"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2024-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f12cf30-2f09-4a58-8866-e5efaa13db9c"
source_url: "https://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/dockets.asp?ID=280086156"
source_hash: "57c8aed1aaac0408218fecfcdba9e2c05b96f7f8ab1d79f0601cd2588a5d4530"
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 589 (131) — An Act To Ensure That The Maine Electric Grid Provides Additional Benefits To Maine Ratepayers
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Adopted Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=SP0257&item=2&snum=131)
2. **Documents and Disposition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=SP0257&item=1&snum=131)
3. **Final Disposition** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/getPDF.asp?paper=SP0257&item=3&snum=131)
## Sponsors
- Nicole GROHOSKI — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-14** Committee on ENERGY, UTILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY suggested and ordered printed REFERENCE to the Committee on ENERGY, UTILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY Ordered sent down forthwith for concurrence
- **2023-02-14** The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on ENERGY, UTILITIES AND TECHNOLOGY. `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
- **2023-03-30** CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to a subsequent special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 594.
- **2023-07-26** CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to any special or regular session of the 131st Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 847.
- **2024-03-05** Reports READ
- **2024-03-05** Senator LAWRENCE of York moved to ACCEPT the Majority Ought to Pass as Amended Report .
- **2024-03-05** On motion by Senator STEWART of Aroostook TABLED until Later in Today's Session pending motion by Senator LAWRENCE of York to ACCEPT the Majority Ought to Pass as Amended Report .
- **2024-03-05** Taken from the table by the President
- **2024-03-05** Subsequently The Majority Ought to Pass As Amended Report ACCEPTED
- **2024-03-05** READ ONCE `reading-1`
- **2024-03-05** Committee Amendment "A" (S-553) READ and ADOPTED `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-05** ASSIGNED FOR SECOND READING NEXT LEGISLATIVE DAY.
- **2024-03-06** COMMITTEE ON BILLS IN THE SECOND READING REPORTS NO FURTHER VERBAL AMENDMENTS NECESSARY. REPORT ACCEPTED.
- **2024-03-06** READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED BY Committee Amendment "A" (S-553) `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** Ordered sent down forthwith for concurrence.
- **2024-03-07** Reports READ.
- **2024-03-07** On motion of Representative ZEIGLER of Montville, the Majority Ought to Pass as Amended Report was ACCEPTED.
- **2024-03-07** The Bill was READ ONCE. `reading-1`
- **2024-03-07** Committee Amendment "A" (S-553) was READ and ADOPTED. `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-03-07** Under suspension of the rules, the Bill was given its SECOND READING without REFERENCE to the Committee on Bills in the Second Reading.
- **2024-03-07** The Bill was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (S-553). `reading-3`
- **2024-03-07** In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
- **2024-03-12** PASSED TO BE ENACTED. `passage`
- **2024-03-12** Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.
- **2024-03-13** PASSED TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence. `passage`
- **2024-03-19** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-01T04:00:00+00:00** Carry Over Requested
- **2023-07-25T04:00:00+00:00** Carry Over Approved
- **2024-01-16T05:00:00+00:00** Work Session Held
- **2024-01-16T05:00:00+00:00** Voted - Divided Report
- **2024-02-29T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out - OTP-AM/ONTP
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2f12cf30-2f09-4a58-8866-e5efaa13db9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Maine legislature records).