Policy Action
What you’ll find on this page:
Policy Action 2025: Resources, updates, and relevant materials
Policy Action 2023: Testimony and legislative scorecard
LEGISLATIVE TOOLKIT to help you advocate for the smart growth issues that matter to you
Legislative Calendars
As the bills travel to the House and Senate Chambers, you can check out each day’s calendar:
Senate Advance Calendar
House Advance Calendar
For more information on the Legislative process in general, CLICK HERE.
Commission Reports
Click here for more information on the public input sessions we held to help shape Policy Action 2025
legislative toolkit
FIND YOUR LEGISLATORS Not sure who your legislators are? Find a list of all your state and federal elected officials HERE. Or visit the Legislature website to find a full list of all Maine Senators and Maine Representatives.
SUBMIT PUBLIC TESTIMONY: All bills and state agency commissioner nominees are assigned to one of 19 standing joint committees and receive a public hearing. Members of the public can offer testimony in support or opposition to a bill in person or via Zoom during the public hearing or in writing. If you want to testify during the hearing via Zoom, you must register at least 30 minutes before the hearing begins. You do not need to register to testify in person.
To register for Zoom or to submit your testimony in writing, follow these steps:
- Visit the legislative testimony page HERE.
- Select Public hearing
- Select the committee that is hearing the bill
- Select the date and time of the hearing
- Select the appropriate bill number
- To register for Zoom, select “I would like to testify electronically over Zoom.”
- To submit written testimony, upload your file or enter the testimony in the field.
- If you plan to testify in person, you are asked to bring 20 copies of your testimony to distribute to committee members.
You can find committee assignments and public hearing dates and times on the bill’s website. While you can submit testimony at any time and it will be shared with committee members and become part of the public record, only testimony submitted online by midnight on the day of the bill’s public hearing will be included on the bill’s web page.
People with special needs who require accommodations to participate in a hearing should contact the Legislative Information Office as soon as possible by phone (207) 287-1692 or email lio@legislature.maine.gov.
2023 POLICY ACTION
PROBLEM STATEMENT: Maine’s current uncoordinated approach to building places is causing real, unintended, and significant social, environmental, financial, economic, and cultural challenges and requires the creation of a cohesive approach to land development, redevelopment, and placemaking.
Policy Action 2023 is a set of sixteen proposals aligned within eight working groups, each of which provides a single step—some incremental, some quite significant—toward the shared goal developed within the Policy Action 2023 process last spring: to address barriers to and create incentives for equitable, sustainable growth and development that strengthens downtowns and villages of all sizes while pulling development pressure away from productive and open natural areas. We do so acknowledging that Maine has urban, rural, and suburban settings for which any solution may or may not be a fit and a variety of people who deserve to be welcomed into their communities.
In Support of LD 2214, Supplemental Budget, Parts DD and EE
In Support of LD 2214, Supplemental Budget, Parts DD and EE
In Support Of LD 602
An Act To Provide Regional Support To Deliver State And Federal Programs To Cities And Towns In The State
In Support Of LD 1257
An Act To Increase Housing Capacity And Protect The Municipal Tax Base And Working Lands
In Support Of LD 1672
An Act To Establish An Affordable Housing Permitting Process
In Support Of The Sponsor’s Amendment To LD 1976
An Act to Update the Growth Management Law.
In Support of LD 1934
Resolve, to Improve the Coordination and Delivery of Planning Grants and Technical Assistance to Communities in Maine
In Support of LD 1864
An Act to Increase Maine’s Housing Supply by Prohibiting Certain Zoning Requirements in Areas Where Public Sewer and Water Infrastructure Are Available and in Designated Growth Areas
In Support of LD 1673
An Act to Encourage Affordable Housing and Mixed-use Development by Establishing a Thriving Corridors Program
In Support of LD 1810
An Act to Expand the Maine Historic Rehabilitation Tax Credit
In Support of LD 1787
Resolve Directing the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry to convene a stakeholder group tasked with a Comprehensive overhaul and modernization of the State Subdivision Statutes