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STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-THREE
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H.P. 727 - L.D. 1155
An Act to Address Legislative Salaries
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 3 MRSA §2, first ¶, as amended by PL 2023, c. 2, §2, is further amended
to read:
Each member of the Senate and House of Representatives, beginning with the first
Wednesday of December 2000 and thereafter until the day before the first Wednesday of
December 2024, is entitled to $10,815 in the first year and $7,725 in the 2nd year of each
biennium, except that if a Legislator who is a recipient of retirement benefits from the
federal Social Security Administration files a written request with the Executive Director
of the Legislative Council within one week after the biennium commences, the Legislator
is entitled to $9,270 in each year of the biennium. Beginning with the first Wednesday of
December 2024, each member of the Senate and House of Representatives is entitled to
$25,000 in the first year and $20,000 in the 2nd year of each biennium, except that if a
Legislator who is a recipient of retirement benefits from the federal Social Security
Administration files a written request with the Executive Director of the Legislative
Council within one week after the biennium commences, the Legislator is entitled to
$22,500 in each year of the biennium. Each member of the Senate and the House of
Representatives must receive a cost-of-living adjustment in annual legislative salary,
except that the percentage increase may not exceed 5% in any year, and except that the
percentage increase may not exceed 3% beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30,
2014. Beginning December 1, 2001, the salary for each legislative session must be adjusted
each December 1st by the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for the most
recently concluded fiscal year; except that a member of the Senate or the House of
Representatives may not receive a cost-of-living adjustment in annual legislative salary for
the Second Regular Session of the 124th Legislature, and except that a member of the
Senate or the House of Representatives may not receive a cost-of-living adjustment in
annual legislative salary for the Second Regular Session of the 125th Legislature and the
First Regular Session and the Second Regular Session of the 126th Legislature, and any
percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for the fiscal years ending June 30, 2011,
June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2013 may not be applied to the base salary. In addition, each
Legislator is entitled to be paid mileage for travel at each legislative session to and from
APPROVED
JULY 26, 2023
BY GOVERNOR
CHAPTER
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that Legislator's place of abode at a rate of 55¢ per mile or the federal standard mileage
rate, whichever is lower, the mileage to be determined by the most reasonable direct route,
except that Legislators may be reimbursed for tolls paid for travel on the Maine Turnpike
as long as they have a receipt for payment of the tolls, such tolls to be reimbursed when
Legislators use the Maine Turnpike in traveling to and from sessions of the Legislature or
in performance of duly authorized committee assignments. Each Legislator is entitled to
mileage on the first day of the session, and those amounts of salary and expenses at such
times as the Legislature may determine during the session, and the balance at the end of the
session.
Sec. 2. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and
allocations are made.
LEGISLATURE
Legislature 0081
Initiative: Provides funding for the costs of increasing Legislator salaries starting with the
132nd Legislature to $25,000 in the first year of each biennium and to $20,000 in the 2nd
year of each biennium.
GENERAL FUND
2023-24 2024-25Personal Services $0 $1,660,000
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GENERAL FUND TOTAL
$0 $1,660,000