A bill seeking an annual cap of $50 seeks to end any influences on the prescribing of opioids, painkillers that are often a precursor to heroin use.
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Maine Democrats’ budget priorities expose huge gap between parties
Democratic leaders tout a humane ‘opportunities agenda,’ but Republicans dismiss it as just more tax-and-spend policies.
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Maine’s attorney general says bill to protect climate change views is unneccessary
A conservative lawmaker who authored the bill says it’s meant to stop Attorney General Janet Mills from suppressing free speech.
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Maine lawmakers backing off long resistance to federal Real ID requirements
The Senate overwhelmingly approves moving to more secure driver’s licenses as the impact of noncompliance starts to cause problems and threatens to get worse.
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Dozens turn out to testify on two Maine ‘death-with-dignity’ bills
The bills would allow patients with less than six months to live to ask their doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs that patients would administer themselves.
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Lawmakers split on how to regulate retail marijuana sales in Maine
The divided committee vote reflects differences in opinion about which state agency – or agencies – should license marijuana businesses.
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Ethics commission identifies lawmakers who may have missed income disclosure deadline
The commission’s director says no further investigation is planned, and lawmakers now are more aware of the requirement.
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House sustains LePage veto of veterans ID bill
The legislation would have provided $15,000 to help pay for passport cards for low-income veterans who now can’t access a New Hampshire VA health clinic.
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Lying-to-Legislature bill narrowed to apply to lobbyists only
A legislative committee excludes the public – and lawmakers themselves – from the measure, which now goes to the Maine House and Senate for debate.
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Gray residents’ effort to secede from town falters in Legislature
A committee votes against two bills seeking authorization for referendums on whether to allow the Little Sebago Lake and Mount Hunger areas to become parts of neighboring towns.