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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 930H.P. 595House of Representatives, March 11, 2025
An Act to Amend the Law Governing Items Identified as Prison
Contraband
Received by the Clerk of the House on March 5, 2025. Referred to the Committee on
Criminal Justice and Public Safety pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to
Joint Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative O'HALLORAN of Brewer.
Cosponsored by Representatives: BABIN of Fort Fairfield, BISHOP of Bucksport, DILL of
Old Town, DRINKWATER of Milford, HENDERSON of Rumford, MCINTYRE of Lowell,
PERKINS of Dover-Foxcroft, Senator: HAGGAN of Penobscot. Page 1 - 132LR1246(01)
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2 as enacted by PL 1975, c. 499, ยง1, is amended
3 to read:
4 Except as provided in subsection 4, trafficking in prison contraband is
5 a Class C crime.
6 is enacted to read:
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8 contraband is a Class D crime. For purposes of this subsection:
9 A. "Electronic contraband" means a mobile telephone or other handheld electronic
10 communication device not authorized or issued by the custodial authority; and
11 B. "Vaping device" means a device, also known as a vape, e-cigarette, electronic
12 cigarette or electronic vaporizer, that simulates smoking using an atomizer, a power
13 source such as a battery and a container such as a cartridge or a tank and is used for
14 ingesting any substance, including a drug identified in section 1101, subsection 11.
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16 This bill makes trafficking in prison contraband a Class D crime if the contraband is a
17 mobile telephone or other handheld electronic communication device not authorized or
18 issued by the custodial authority or a vaping device, also known as a vape, e-cigarette,
19 electronic cigarette or electronic vaporizer.
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