The legislation that has been carried over until 2020
Budget
•Protect Budget Stabilization “Rainy Day” Fund (LD 1496)
Contracting
•Establish the Maine Buy American and Build Maine Act for construction or repair of State buildings, and require bid preference for any in-state contractor (LD 1280) NFIB HAS CONCERNS
•Protect taxpayers in the privatization of State services (LD 1458) NFIB HAS CONCERNS
•Require comprehensive responsible contracting practices for public construction projects (LD 1639) NFIB OPPOSES
Health Insurance – Benefits
•Require health insurers to cover adult dental services (LD 519)
•Ensure coverage for treatment of PANDAS and PANS, childhood postinfectious neuroimmune disorders (LD 1138)
Health Insurance – Reform
•Create Maine Health Plan to provide universal health care coverage to all residents (LD 1611) NFIB OPPOSES
•Create a single-payer health care system (LD 1617) NFIB OPPOSES
•Change age and geographic rating provisions for individual and small group plans (LD 1650) NFIB OPPOSES
•Seek federal waiver to open MaineCare to any Maine resident not otherwise eligible for the Medicaid program (LD 1755) NFIB OPPOSES
Labor – Employment
•Prohibit use of nondisclosure or other provisions that prevent an employee or intern from disclosing or discussing discrimination or harassment (LD 1529)
•Authorize private lawsuits to enhance enforcement of employment laws (LD 1693) NFIB OPPOSES
Labor – Leave
•Create a Family & Medical Leave Insurance (FMLI) program funded by payroll tax paid by employees (LD 1410) NFIB OPPOSES
Labor – Overtime
•Raise the “white collar” exemption threshold to $54,224 from $33,000 by January 2022 (LD 402) NFIB OPPOSES
Miscellaneous
•Require employers that do not offer a federally-qualified retirement plan to instead offer a state-sponsored plan to their employees (LD 594) NFIB OPPOSES
Taxation – Estates
•Reduce Maine tax exclusion amount to $2 million from $5.6 million (LD 420) NFIB OPPOSES
Taxation – Income
•Require upper income taxpayers to pay a “tax equalization assessment” (LD 1647) NFIB OPPOSES
Taxation – Local Option
•Authorize municipalities, after voter approval in a local referendum, to impose a 1% sales tax on meals and lodging; dedicate a portion of revenues statewide to economic development projects (LD 1254) NFIB OPPOSES
Taxation – Lodging
•Increase tax on lodging to 9% from 8% and return the additional revenues to the municipality to which revenue is attributable (LD609) NFIB OPPOSES
Transportation
•Provide revenue to fix and rebuild Maine’s transportation infrastructure by Increasing the gas tax to 36.5¢ per gallon from 29.5¢ (and the special fuel tax to 37.7¢), raising the short-term auto rental tax to 12% from 10%, and increasing various fees charged by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (LD 1034) NFIB OPPOSES
Voting – Ranked Choice
•Implement ranked-choice voting for president in primary and general elections (LD 1083)
•Amend the Maine Constitution to permit general election use of ranked choice voting for governor and members of the legislature (LD 1477)
