130th MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2021
Legislative Document No. 105
H.P. 71 House of Representatives, January 13, 2021
An Act To Adopt the Department of Economic and Community
Development's 10-year Economic Development Strategy for Maine
Received by the Clerk of the House on January 11, 2021. Referred to the Committee on
Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2
and ordered printed pursuant to Joint Rule 401.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative BAILEY of Gorham.
Printed on recycled paper
 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2 CONCEPT DRAFT
3 SUMMARY
4 This bill is a concept draft pursuant to Joint Rule 208.
5 This bill proposes to codify the 10-year economic development strategy for Maine that
6 was developed by the Department of Economic and Community Development in 2019. The
7 bill would provide additional clarity and include requirements for the Maine Economic
8 Growth Council to fulfill its statutory mandate to develop, maintain and evaluate Maine’s
9 long-range strategic economic and community development plan and build out the adopted
10 10-year strategy. It would also include provisions to support the State’s achievement of the
11 adopted goals and objectives by establishing requirements for the Governor, the Legislature
12 and state agencies to engage in the ongoing evaluation, reporting and review of the strategy.
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