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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 53H.P. 17 House of Representatives, January 8, 2025
An Act to Establish the November General Election Day as a State
Holiday
Received by the Clerk of the House on January 6, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
State and Local Government pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint
Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative POIRIER of Skowhegan. Page 1 - 132LR0304(01)
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2 as repealed and replaced by PL 2021, c. 676, Pt. A,
3 ยง2, is amended to read:
4 Court may not be held on Sunday or any day designated for the annual Thanksgiving;
5 New Year's Day, January 1st; Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, the 3rd Monday in January;
6 Washington's Birthday, the 3rd Monday in February; Patriot's Day, the 3rd Monday in
7 April; Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, but if the Federal Government designates
8 May 30th as the date for observance of Memorial Day, the 30th of May; Juneteenth, June
9 19th; the 4th of July; Labor Day, the first Monday of September; Indigenous Peoples Day,
10 the 2nd Monday in October; the day of the general election, as defined in Title 21-A, section
11 1, subsection 19; Veterans Day, November 11th; or on Christmas Day. The Chief Justice
12 of the Supreme Judicial Court may order that court be held on a legal holiday when the
13 Chief Justice finds that the interests of justice and judicial economy in any particular case
14 will be served. The public offices in county buildings may be closed to business on the
15 holidays named in this section. When any one of the holidays named in this section falls
16 on Sunday, the Monday following must be observed as a holiday, with all the privileges
17 applying to any of the days named in this section.
18 is enacted to read:
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20 The day of the general election, as defined in Title 21-A, section 1, subsection 19, is a
21 state holiday. All nonessential state offices must be closed on the day of the general
22 election.
23 is enacted to read:
24 I-1. The day of the general election, as defined in Title 21-A, section 1, subsection 19;
25 is enacted to read:
26 E-1. The day of the general election, as defined in Title 21-A, section 1, subsection
27 19;
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29 This bill designates the day of the general election, which is the day of the regular
30 election of state and county officials occurring biennially in November, as a state holiday.
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