LEGISLATIVE STUDIES
119th Maine Legislature
Second Regular Session
The Maine Legislature has convened a number of interim study committees and study commissions to examine certain
complex issues and to formulate recommendations and propose legislation for consideration during the First Regular
Session of the120th Legislature. The study committees identified below are staffed by the Office of Policy and
Legal Analysis. For more information about one of these studies, please contact our office at (207)287-1670. For
information on meeting dates, please refer to the Weekly
Legislative Calendar found at http://janus.state.me.us/house/wlc_list.htm
- Access to Private and Public Lands - Committee to Study Access
to Private and Public Lands (HP 1951)
- Bomb Threats - Joint Study Committee
to Study Bomb Threats in Maine Schools (HP 1938)
- Child Abuse - Commission on the Study and Prevention of Child Abuse
(HP 1930)
- Compensation Program for Victims of Abuse - Committee
to Develop a Compensation Program for Victims of Abuse at the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf and to Continue
Oversight of Multi-agency Cooperation (Resolves
1999, c. 127)
- Criminal Laws of Maine - Committee
to Study the Further Decriminalization of the Criminal Laws of Maine
(HP 1914)
- Domestic Violence -
Commission to Study Domestic Violence(Resolves
1999, c. 126)
- Educational Programming at Juvenile Correctional Facilities
- Task Force on Improving Educational Programming at Juvenile Correctional Facilities (PL
1999, c. 770)
- Environmental Leadership Program - Commission to Study the Establishment of an Environmental
Leadership Program (Resolves
1999, c. 134)
- Foreign Investments and Foreign Purchasing - Commission to Study Economically and Socially Just Policies for Foreign Investments and Foreign Purchasing
by the State (Resolves
1999, c. 135)
- Forest Products Industry - Round Table to Study Economic and Labor Issues
Relating to the Forest Products Industry (Resolves
1999, c.124)
- Future of Maine's Fish and Wildlife - Citizens Advisory Committee to Secure the Future of Maine's Fish and Wildlife
(Resolves 1999,
c. 86)
- Gasoline and Fuel Prices - Committee on Gasoline
and Fuel Prices (HP 1774)
- Gas Tax Revenues -
Commission to Study Equity in the Distribution of Gas Tax Revenues
Attributable to Snowmobiles, All-terrain
Vehicles and Watercraft (Resolves
1999, c. 131)
- Growth Management - Task Force to Study
Growth Management (JO SP
1090)
- Internet Policy - Blue Ribbon Commission
to Establish a Comprehensive Internet Policy (PL
1999, c. 762)
- Learning Technology Endowment - Task Force
on Maine Learning Technology Endowment (P.L.
1999, c. 731, pt. FFF)
- Public/Private Purchasing Alliance - Joint Select Committee to Study the Creation of
a Public/Private Purchasing Alliance to Ensure Access to Health Care for All Maine Citizens (HP 1857)
- Salmonoid Sport Fish - Commission to Study the Needs and Opportunities
Associated with the Production of Salmonoid Sport Fish in Maine
(Resolves 1999,
c. 82)
- School-based Health Care Services - Joint Select Committee on School-based Health Care
Services (HP 1864)
- Solid Waste Hauling and Disposal - Task
Force to Study Market Power Issues Related to the Solid Waste Hauling and Disposal
Industry
(PL 1999,
c. 773)
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