LD 1229

132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
  FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document  No. 1229
H.P. 804  House of Representatives, March 25, 2025
  An Act to Create Equity in Maine's Campaign Finance Laws
  Between Enrolled and Unenrolled Candidates
   Reference to the Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs suggested and ordered printed.
  ROBERT B. HUNT
  Clerk
Presented by Representative FAULKINGHAM of Winter Harbor.
Cosponsored by Senator HICKMAN of Kennebec and
Representatives: BOYER of Poland, CHAPMAN of Auburn, EDER of Waterboro, FROST of
Belgrade, SUPICA of Bangor.
  Printed on recycled paper
1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2     Sec. 1. 21-A MRSA §1015, sub-§3-A is enacted to read:
3     3-A. Contributions to gubernatorial and legislative candidates; no primary
4 election. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, for the purposes of
5 contribution limits under subsections 1 and 2-B:
6     A. For a gubernatorial candidate who is not on a ballot in a primary election, the
7     contribution limit in any one election cycle is the same as a gubernatorial candidate
8     who is on the ballot in a primary election; and
9     B. For a legislative candidate who is not on a ballot in a primary election, the
10     contribution limit in any one election cycle is the same as a legislative candidate who
11     is on the ballot in a primary election.
12SUMMARY
13      This bill applies the same contribution limit in any one election cycle to a gubernatorial
14 or legislative candidate who is not on the ballot in a primary election as a gubernatorial or
15 legislative candidate who is on the ballot in primary election.
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