Approved: 04/01/25
LD 266 LR 456(01)
FY 2025-26 FY 2026-27
Projections
FY 2027-28
Projections
FY 2028-29
Net Cost (Savings)
General Fund $493,500 $4,375 $4,375 $4,375
Appropriations/Allocations
General Fund $493,500 $4,375 $4,375 $4,375
State Mandates
Unit Affected Local Cost
Municipality Moderate
statewide
Fiscal Detail and Notes
Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement
The bill provides General Fund appropriations of $493,500 in fiscal year 2025-26 and $4,375 in fiscal year 2026-27
for one-time computer programming costs and ongoing postage and other expenses to update voter registration
signatures every 5 years.
132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
An Act to Require the Updating of Voter Registration Signatures
Preliminary Fiscal Impact Statement for Original Bill
Sponsor: Rep. Smith of Palermo
Committee: Veterans and Legal Affairs
Fiscal Note Required: Yes
Potential State Mandate - Unfunded
Required Activity
Requires registrars to annually notify voters whose signatures expire in that calendar
year and provide them with a voter signature registration update form.
The required local activities in this bill may represent a state mandate pursuant to the Constitution of Maine. If the bill
does require a local unit of government to expand or modify its activities so as to necessitate additional expenditures
from local revenue, the state mandate provisions of the Constitution of Maine require either: (1) General Fund
appropriations be provided to fund at least 90% of any additional necessitated local costs of the mandate; or (2) a
Mandate Preamble be added to the bill and two-thirds of the members of each House vote to exempt the mandate from
the funding requirement. If the bill does represent a state mandate and neither one of these actions occurs, the local
units of government will not be required to implement the mandated activities.
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