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.
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Bill would let Maine bars keep serving until 2 a.m.
Communities with police departments could decide to push back closing time from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m. if the bill becomes law.
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Services for adults with acute intellectual disabilities feeling painful funding pinch
A bill to raise reimbursement rates for adult group homes after years of cutbacks swelled waiting lists is set for a public hearing Monday.
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Scarborough lawmaker proposes penalty for lying to Legislature
The bill, opposed on free speech grounds, would impose a fine and jail time for the misdemeanor offense.
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Bill would reduce size of Maine Arts Commission
The maximum number of members would drop from 21 to 15 under the proposal before a legislative committee.