LAW WITHOUT
GOVERNOR'S CHAPTER
SIGNATURE
573
MARCH 26, 2024 PUBLIC LAW
STATE OF MAINE
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IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD
TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR
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H.P. 522 - L.D. 833
An Act to Establish Separate Inauguration and Transition Committees for a
Governor-elect and to Limit Donations to Each
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 1 MRSA §1051, as amended by PL 2019, c. 564, §1, is further amended by
amending the section headnote to read:
§1051. Gubernatorial transition committee inauguration and transition committees
Sec. 2. 1 MRSA §1051, sub-§2, as amended by PL 2019, c. 564, §1, is further
amended to read:
2. Transition and inaugural activities Inauguration committee; funding. A person
may solicit and accept donations for the purpose of financing costs related to the transition
to office and inauguration of a Governor-elect. A person who accepts donations for these
purposes must this purpose shall establish a committee and appoint a treasurer who is
responsible for keeping records of donations and for filing a financial disclosure statement
required by this section. All donations received must be deposited in a separate and
segregated account and may not be commingled with any contributions received by any
candidate or political committee or, any personal or business funds of any person or
donations received by a committee established under subsection 2-A. All donations
received by the committee established under this subsection must be used for expenses
related to the transition to office or inauguration; any surplus funds must be disposed of
pursuant to subsection 7. A person may make donations to the committee established under
this subsection aggregating no more than the amount that an individual may contribute to
a gubernatorial candidate under Title 21-A, section 1015, subsection 1.
Sec. 3. 1 MRSA §1051, sub-§2-A is enacted to read:
2-A. Transition committee; funding. A person may solicit and accept donations for
the purpose of financing costs related to the transition to office of a Governor-elect. A
person who accepts donations for this purpose shall establish a committee and appoint a
treasurer who is responsible for keeping records of donations and for filing a financial
disclosure statement required by this section. All donations received must be deposited in
a separate and segregated account and may not be commingled with any contributions
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received by any candidate or political committee, any personal or business funds of any
person or donations received by a committee established under subsection 2. All donations
received by the committee established under this subsection must be used for expenses
related to the transition to office; any surplus funds must be disposed of pursuant to
subsection 7. A person may make donations to the committee established under this
subsection aggregating no more than the amount that an individual may contribute to a
gubernatorial candidate under Title 21-A, section 1015, subsection 1, except that the
appropriation from the Governor-elect's Expense Account under Title 2, section 3 may be
transferred, in whole or in part, to the committee established under this subsection.
Sec. 4. 1 MRSA §1051, sub-§4, as amended by PL 2019, c. 564, §1, is further
amended to read:
4. Limitation on fund-raising activity. A committee established pursuant to this
section may accept donations until March 31st of the year following the gubernatorial
election. The commission may authorize the acceptance of donations after March 31st of
the year following the gubernatorial election if the a committee requests such authorization
in order to pay a debt or loan related to the transition to office for a committee established
under subsection 2-A or inauguration for a committee established under subsection 2.
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Statutes affected:
Bill Text LD 833, HP 522: 3.318
Bill Text ACTPUB , Chapter 573: 1.1051