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March 3, 2023
NFIB Maine Legislative Update for March
- Develop and implement new rate structures for electric utilities (LD 542)
- Reduce electricity rates (LD 683)
- Promote electricity price stability for Standard-offer Service (LD 987)
- Mandate coverage of various tests, exams, procedures (LDs 267, 278, 663)
- Ensure health care for all Maine residents (LD 329)
- Establish a Constitutional right to Health Care (LD 590)
- Require progressive discipline and just cause in firing workers (LD 324)
- Improve labor conditions (LD 373)
- Increase overtime eligibility for Maine workers (LD 513)
- Establish a paid family and medical leave system (LD 738)
- Allow employees to request flexible work schedules (LD 827; LD 961)
- Use three-year inflation average for minimum wage indexing (LD 855)
- Reduce recurring workplace harassment (LD 856)
- Pay ranges disclosure and pay history record keeping (LD 936)
- Create tax incentives to employers to provide on-site childcare (LD 103)
- Impose a surcharge of 3% or 6% on high taxable incomes (LD 667)
- Establish a 4-day sales tax holiday weekend just prior to Labor Day (LD 708)
- Phase out the individual income tax; reduce state expenditures accordingly (LD 835)
- Establish a new top individual income tax bracket and rate (LD 843)
- Eliminate the ban on single-use plastic bags (LD 425)
- Remove the 5-cent fee for bags in retail stores (LD 572)
- Evaluate strategies for improving the returnable bottle laws (LD 972)
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