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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1359H.P. 882 House of Representatives, April 1, 2025
Resolve, to Direct the Department of Transportation to Develop
Practices Regarding Public Transit
Received by the Clerk of the House on March 28, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Transportation pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative CRAFTS of Newcastle.
Cosponsored by Senator FARRIN of Somerset and
Representatives: ANKELES of Brunswick, MONTELL of Gardiner, RAY of Lincolnville,
Senator: NANGLE of Cumberland. Page 1 - 132LR2261(01)1
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3 regarding public transit, including:
4 1. Increasing transparency in the allocation and distribution of funding for public transit
5 operators by publishing annual transit distributions in print form and on a publicly
6 accessible website, including the total amount made available for operations and the
7 amounts allocated to each recipient;
8 2. Reducing the local match requirement for funding rural public transit operators; and
9 3. Increasing collaboration and coordination with the Department of Health and Human
10 Services to improve public transit services between health care providers and consumers
11 of the health care providers' services.
12 That, by December 3, 2025, the Department of
13 Transportation shall report on its progress in carrying out this resolve and resulting
14 practices to the Joint Standing Committee on Transportation.
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16 This resolve directs the Department of Transportation to develop practices regarding
17 public transit, including:
18 1. Increasing transparency in the allocation and distribution of funding for public transit
19 operators by publishing annual transit distributions in print form and on a publicly
20 accessible website, including the total amount made available for operations and the
21 amounts allocated to each recipient;
22 2. Reducing the local match requirement for funding rural public transit operators; and
23 3. Increasing collaboration and coordination with the Department of Health and Human
24 Services to improve public transit services between health care providers and consumers
25 of the health care providers' services.
26 The resolve directs the Department of Transportation, by December 3, 2025, to report
27 on its progress in carrying out this resolve and resulting practices to the Joint Standing
28 Committee on Transportation.
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