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2025 Maine legislative session
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| 2025 Maine legislative session |
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| General information |
| Scheduled session start: January 8, 2025 Scheduled session end: March 21, 2025 |
| Leadership |
| Senate President Matthea Daughtry (D) House Speaker |
| Elections |
| Next Election: November 3, 2026 Last Election: November 5, 2024 |
| Previous legislative sessions |
| 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 |
| Other 2025 legislative sessions |
In 2025, the Maine State Legislature was scheduled to convene on January 8 and adjourn on March 21, 2025.
The legislators serving in this session took office following the 2024 elections. Democrats won a 20-15 majority in the Senate and a 76-73 majority with two independent members in the House. The party also controlled the governorship, creating a Democratic state government trifecta. At the start of the 2025 session, Maine was one of 23 state legislatures where neither party had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers.
Leadership in 2025
Maine State Senate
- Senate president: Matthea Daughtry (D)
- Majority leader: Teresa Pierce (D)
- Minority leader: Harold Stewart (R)
Maine House of Representatives
- Speaker of the House: Ryan Fecteau (D)
- Majority leader: Matthew Moonen (D)
- Minority leader: Billy Bob Faulkingham (R)
Partisan control in 2025
- See also: State government trifectas
Maine was one of 15 Democratic state government trifectas at the start of 2025 legislative sessions. A state government trifecta occurs when one political party holds the governor's office, a majority in the state Senate, and a majority in the state House. For more information about state government trifectas, click here.
Maine was also one of 23 state legislatures where neither party had a veto-proof supermajority in both chambers. Veto overrides occur when a legislature votes to reverse a veto issued by an executive such as a governor or the president. If one party has a majority in a state legislature that is large enough to override a gubernatorial veto without any votes from members of the minority party, it is called a veto-proof majority or, sometimes, a supermajority. To read more about veto-proof supermajorities in state legislatures, click here.
The following tables show the partisan breakdown of the Maine State Legislature in the 2025 legislative session.
Maine State Senate
| Party | As of January 2025 | |
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| Democratic Party | 20 | |
| Republican Party | 15 | |
| Total | 35 | |
Maine House of Representatives
| Party | As of January 2025 | |
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| Democratic Party | 76 | |
| Republican Party | 73 | |
| Independent | 1 | |
| Unenrolled | 1 | |
| Total | 151 | |
Regular session
The list below shows up to 25 pieces of legislation in the 2025 legislative session that most recently passed both chambers of the legislature, were signed by the governor, or were approved by the legislature in a veto override. If no bills are displayed below, no legislation has met these criteria yet in 2025. This information is provided by BillTrack50.
Legislation trackers
- See also: Legislation Trackers
Ballotpedia’s legislation trackers are your go-to resource for staying on top of key legislative topics. We capture any bill introduced on the topic across all of the 50 state legislatures, and we track the movement of the bill every step of the way. We provide real-time updates and translate legislative legalese into easily understandable language. As of the 2025 session, Ballotpedia provided tracking on the following topics. Click on the links below to view related bills from the 2025 session:
Standing legislative committees
A standing committee of a state legislature is a committee that exists on a more-or-less permanent basis, from legislative session to session, that considers and refines legislative bills that fall under the committee's subject matter.
At the beginning of the 2025 legislative session, there were 34 standing committees in Maine's state government, including 23 joint legislative committees, five state Senate committees, and six state House committees.
Joint legislative committees
- Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee
- Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee
- Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee
- Education and Cultural Affairs Committee
- Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee
- Environment and Natural Resources Committee
- Government Oversight Committee
- Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Committee
- Health and Human Services Committee
- Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Committee
- Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business Committee
- Insurance and Financial Services Committee
- Joint Rules Committee
- Judiciary Committee
- Labor and Housing Committee
- Legislative Council
- Marine Resources Committee
- Personnel Committee
- State House Facilities Committee
- State and Local Government Committee
- Taxation Committee
- Transportation Committee
- Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee
Senate committees
- Bills in Second Reading Committee
- Conduct and Ethics Committee
- Senate Engrossed Bills Committee
- Senate Rules Committee
- Senatorial Vote Committee
House committees
- Bills in the Second Reading Committee
- Elections Committee
- Ethics Committee
- House Engrossed Bills Committee
- Leaves of Absence Committee
- Rules and Business of the House Committee
Legislatively referred constitutional amendments
In every state but Delaware, voter approval is required to enact a constitutional amendment. In each state, the legislature has a process for referring constitutional amendments before voters. In 18 states, initiated constitutional amendments can be put on the ballot through a signature petition drive. There are also many other types of statewide measures.
The methods by which the Maine Constitution can be amended:
The Maine Constitution may be amended in two ways—through the legislative process, or a state constitutional convention. Maine residents cannot put a constitutional amendment on the ballot through the power of initiative. Maine does feature the power of initiative for initiated state statutes.
Legislature
A two-thirds majority (66.67%) vote is required during one legislative session for the Maine State Legislature to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot. That amounts to a minimum of 101 votes in the Maine House of Representatives and 24 votes in the Maine State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments do not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.
Convention
According to Section 15 of Part III of Article IV, the legislature can, by a two-thirds concurrent vote of both branches, call a constitutional convention. Maine has never called such a convention; however, two "constitutional commissions" were impaneled, one in 1876 and one in 1962, but neither led to significant changes.
Historical partisan control
The table below depicts the historical trifecta status of Maine.
Maine Party Control: 1992-2025
Fifteen years of Democratic trifectas • Two years of Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
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| Governor | R | R | R | I | I | I | I | I | I | I | I | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| Senate | D | D | D | R | R | D | D | D | D | S | S | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | D | D | R | R | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| House | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
Historical Senate control
Democrats won control of the Maine State Senate in 2018. In 2024, they won a 20-15 majority.
The table below shows the partisan history of the Maine Senate following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.
Maine State Senate election results: 1992-2024
| Year | '92 | '94 | '96 | '98 | '00 | '02 | '04 | '06 | '08 | '10 | '12 | '14 | '16 | '18 | '20 | '22 | '24 |
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| Democrats | 20 | 16 | 19 | 20 | 17* | 18 | 18 | 18 | 20 | 14 | 21 | 15 | 17 | 21 | 22 | 22 | 20 |
| Republicans | 15 | 18 | 15 | 14 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 20 | 13 | 20 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 15 |
| Other | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
*Chamber controlled by power-sharing agreement
Historical House control
Democrats won control of the Maine House of Representatives in 2012. In 2024, they won an 82-67-2 majority.
The table below shows the partisan history of the Maine House following every general election from 1992 to 2024. All data from 2006 or earlier comes from Michael Dubin's Party Affiliations in the State Legislatures (McFarland Press, 2007). Data after 2006 was compiled by Ballotpedia staff.
Maine House of Representatives election results: 1992-2024
| Year | '92 | '94 | '96 | '98 | '00 | '02 | '04 | '06 | '08 | '10 | '12 | '14 | '16 | '18 | '20 | '22 | '24 |
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| Democrats | 90 | 77 | 81 | 79 | 88 | 80 | 76 | 89 | 96 | 72 | 86 | 79 | 77 | 89 | 80 | 82 | 76 |
| Republicans | 61 | 74 | 69 | 71 | 63 | 67 | 73 | 60 | 54 | 78 | 61 | 68 | 72 | 57 | 67 | 67 | 73 |
| Other | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Analysis
Adopted legislation, 2013-2024
- See also: The State Legislative Decade - Maine
In 2024, Ballotpedia released analysis of bills enacted in each state in the preceding decade. The charts and table below detail legislation passed each year by party sponsorship.
See also
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