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Cases
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Constitution
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Bills
- Bills
for current session
- Directory of current session bills by bill number (Legislative Document number) with a link for a bill text search.
Includes proposed amendments.
Bills
for previous sessions
- Links for bill directories and bill text search
forms for finding legislative documents from recent prior sessions.
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Bill status
- Search
the default current session for bill and paper numbers, committee, and sponsor.
(From the Advanced Search page you can select the previous session
to search as well.)
Bill summaries (Office of Policy and Legal Analysis)
- Links to PDF documents containing bill summaries arranged by committee.
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Bill
summaries
(Office
of Fiscal and Program Review)
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PDF documents summarizing bills considered by the Appropriations and
Financial Affairs committee and the Taxation committee back to the
118th Legislature. Summaries describe each bill (LD), primary
sponsor/s, committee amendments and other relevant amendments, final
action taken on the bill and, if the bill was enacted, its chaptered
law number.
Bill text search
- Search
the current session for words in the bill text.
Maine's Path of Legislation
- Detailed description of how a bill becomes a law in Maine.
Bills
- Votes at referenda
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People's
Vetoes 1909-
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Votes on
Bond Issues 1910-
Votes on Initiated Bills 1910-
Votes on Referenda on Acts of the Maine Legislature 1910-
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Session laws
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Laws of the State of Maine
- Text of the public laws, private and special laws, resolves, constitutional
resolutions and revisor's reports. Accessible by legislative session then
by law chapter number.
Private and Special Laws
- Description of private and special laws and discussion of the indexes used for finding
them.
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Statutes
- Maine Revised Statutes
- List of links for each title in the statutes and a link to a search form for keyword and title and section searches.
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Legislative history
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Chapter/LD Cross Reference Tables
- PDF documents upon which you can do a "find" to identify
corresponding LD or chapter numbers. Information on enacted amendments is also
available unless where noted. Covers 1965-1985.
Compiling a Legislative History in Maine
- Description of documents that make up a Maine legislative history and how to find them with links for documents on the Internet.
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- History
and Final Disposition
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the final status of all Legislative Documents. Includes sponsor and
committee names, as well as identifies any adopted amendments to the original
bill or new drafts. Published by the Legislative Information Office
and available online from 1997 on, except for 2001-2002.
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- Legislative
Histories Compiled by the Staff of Maine State Law and Legislative Reference
Library
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A title and call number list of all the compiled and catalogued legislative
histories, of major issues such as the bottle bill, casino gambling and term
limits, available for loan.
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- Legislative Record - Verbatim transcript of debates and proceedings in the House and Senate for each legislative
day.
Legislative Study Reports
- Choose to view either studies staffed by the Office of Policy and Legal Analysis from the 117th Legislature (1995-1996) forward and the Office of Fiscal and Program Review from the 118th Legislature (1997-1998) forward.
The State of Online Legislative Research and What Makes a Good Legislative History
/ By Susan H. Paschell. Maine and New Hampshire legislative history
processes and resources explained by an attorney.
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Cases
For Maine cases decided in the federal courts see the
Federal Law and Legislation page
- Maine
 Superior Court Cases
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Simple search for Maine Supreme Court opinions or orders on the Maine
Judiciary's website.
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Maine Supreme Court - Search form and links for lists of cases and administrative orders.
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Court rules
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Code of Professional Responsibility
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- Court
Rules
- A state court page containing all electronically-available court rules and
amendments, including appellate, civil, criminal and small claims procedure,
bar rules, and family division.
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Regulations- Maine Rules Online - Links for departments and independent agencies leading to lists of rules in word processing format.
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Constitution
- Constitution - Links to the preamble and articles.
Votes on Constitutional Amendments 1911-
Municipal
ordinances- Maine Town & City Ordinances (Garbrecht Law Library)
- List of towns and cities arranged by county with links for those with web sites.
- Municipal Codes Online
(MMA)
- Links to codes adopted under the home rule provisions of the Maine Constitution.
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