The bill now heads to Gov. Janet Mills, who expressed concerns over its sweep.
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Legislature passes first reform of Maine’s school funding formula in 2 decades
Gov. Mills plans to sign the bill — which would change the EPS formula by accounting for local poverty rates in state funding calculations and modernizing outdated regional adjustments — into law.
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Maine hearing on transgender athletes sets up high-profile November election
The ballot initiative seeks to restrict transgender athlete participation in sports and require separate bathrooms and locker rooms for students based on the sex they were assigned at birth.
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Maine trans athlete bill faces a test before the Legislature today. Here’s how to watch.
Lawmakers will debate the measure, which has been approved as a statewide referendum, on Tuesday morning.
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Janet Mills signs $519M supplemental budget into law. Did she get what she wanted?
The state’s free community college program, previously funded on a one-time basis, is now permanent under the spending plan Mills signed Friday.
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Maine lawmakers make last-minute changes to school funding formula bill
Following concerns over costs, lawmakers on the education committee supported an amended version of the bill. It now goes to the full Legislature.
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Maine lawmakers send $519M budget add-on, including $300 checks, to Gov. Mills
The Senate voted 18-16 to approve the budget, which includes $300 ‘affordability checks’ for eligible residents, a new income tax surcharge for millionaires and a ban on cellphones in schools.
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Will Maine lawmakers agree on their $500M+ budget proposal?
The spending package includes a new tax on millionaires and $300 relief checks, and would spend down the state’s ‘rainy day’ fund by about $292 million in an election year.
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Fix for gray area in Maine’s modular housing industry dies, leaving uncertainty
A bill to fix an ‘arcane’ code issue in modular housing development failed in committee last month, putting nearly 250 units in limbo and threatening the growing momentum around multifamily modular housing.
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Maine Senate votes to keep controversial data privacy bill alive
LD 1822, which was rejected in the House of Representatives last week, passed the Senate 18-14 Monday night.