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An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor

Passed

Introduced by Matthew Harrington, District 33

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Official description

An Act to Preserve Heating and Energy Choice by Prohibiting a Municipality from Prohibiting a Particular Energy System or Energy Distributor

Where it stands

Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 646 Yeas 18 - Nays 14 - Excused 3 - Absent 0

June 25, 2025

How did lawmakers vote?

House votes

2 recorded votes · each counted separately

Senate votes

6 recorded votes · each counted separately

SenateStage: Reconsider RC #647 · June 25, 2025

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Yes

31

No

3

Absent or Not Voting

35 senators recorded in this Senate vote. Colors show vote categories only, not whether a vote was good or bad.

See how each senator voted

SenatorDistrictVote
Susan Bernard1No
Harold Stewart2No
Bradlee Farrin3No
Stacey Guerin4No
Russell Black5No
Marianne Moore6No
Nicole Grohoski7No
Michael Tipping8No
Joseph Baldacci9Absent
David Haggan10No

Bill history

  1. Committee on STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT suggested and ordered printed REFERENCE to the Committee on STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT Ordered sent down forthwith for concurrence

  2. The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

  3. In concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  4. CARRIED OVER, in the same posture, to the next special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 519.

  5. Work Session Held

  6. Voted: Divided Report

  7. Reported Out: OTP/ONTP

  8. Reports READ

  9. On motion by Senator BALDACCI of Penobscot Tabled until Later in Today's Session, pending ACCEPTANCE OF EITHER REPORT

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  31. Taken from the table by the President

  32. Motion by Senator BALDACCI of Penobscot to ACCEPT The Majority Ought to Pass Report FAILED.

  33. Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 565 Yeas 17 - Nays 17 - Excused 1 - Absent 0

  34. Motion by Senator STEWART of Aroostook Tabled until Later in Today's Session, pending The Minority Ought Not To Pass Report FAILED

  35. Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 566 Yeas 14 - Nays 20 - Excused 1 - Absent 0

  36. Subsequently, The Minority Ought Not To Pass Report ACCEPTED.

  37. HELD at the Request of Senator STEWART of Aroostook.

  38. Motion by Senator HARRINGTON of York to RECONSIDER whereby the Senate ACCEPTED The Minority Ought Not To Pass Report FAILED

  39. Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 576 Yeas 17 - Nays 18 - Excused 0 - Absent 0

  40. Sent down for concurrence

  41. Reports READ.

  42. On motion of Representative SALISBURY of Westbrook, the Majority Ought to Pass Report was ACCEPTED.

  43. ROLL CALL NO. 553 (Yeas 81 - Nays 67 - Absent 1 - Excused 2)

  44. The Bill was READ ONCE.

  45. Under suspension of the rules, the Bill was given its SECOND READING without REFERENCE to the Committee on Bills in the Second Reading.

  46. The Bill was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED.

  47. In NON-CONCURRENCE and sent for concurrence.

  48. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  49. Senator PIERCE of Cumberland moved The Senate INSIST on ACCEPTANCE of The Minority Ought Not To Pass Report.

  50. On motion by Senator STEWART of Aroostook the Senate RECEDED AND CONCURRED to The Majority Ought to Pass Report and the Bill PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED in concurrence. PREVAILED

  51. Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 620 Yeas 17 - Nays 16 - Excused 2 - Absent 0

  52. PASSED TO BE ENACTED.

  53. ROLL CALL NO. 582 (Yeas 78 - Nays 67 - Absent 4 - Excused 2)

  54. Sent for concurrence.

  55. HELD at the Request of Representative MOONEN of Portland.

  56. RELEASED.

  57. PASSED TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence. PREVAILED

  58. Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 646 Yeas 18 - Nays 14 - Excused 3 - Absent 0

  59. Motion by Senator HARRINGTON of York to RECONSIDER PASSAGE TO BE ENACTED FAILED

  60. Roll Call Ordered Roll Call Number 646 Yeas 18 - Nays 14 - Excused 3 - Absent 0

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