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State Senate and House Members 2003
The link below will take you to the letters of the alphabet. You click on the first letter of the name of your TOWN and a list of all Maine towns starting with that letter will appear. After the name of your town you will find the names of  both the Maine Senator and Maine Representative who represent your town. Click on either name and a picture and full information about that member of the Legislature will appear.
http://janus.state.me.us/house/townlist.htm

NOTE: You will find (as of 2006) your legislator only if her or she is still in the Legislature.

MAINE HOUSE LABOR VOTES 2003

 
LABOR VOTE INFORMATION
 

(1) LD 126, SRC 139, HRC40, An Act to Amend the Membership of the Propane and Natural Gas Board-Adds a member of a labor organization in the building and construction industry to the Board (enacted).

(2) LD 240, SRC140, HRC204, An Act to Ensure that Maine’s Unemployment System is Responsive to the Needs of Today’s Workforce-Extends eligibility of unemployment benefits to workers only available part time. Previously only workers with full-time available were eligible for benefits (enacted).

(3) LD361, SRC72, HRC73, An Act to Amend the Laws Governing Wage and Benefit Records Kept by Contractors Working on Public Works Projects-Makes wage and benefit records of contractors and sub-contractors in charge of construction of a public works project available to the public (enacted).

(4) LD 389, SRC161, HRC250, An Act to Amend the Laws Governing Municipal Citizen Initiatives and Referenda-Would have limited municipal citizen initiative or referenda (defeated).

(5) LD 510, SRC151, HRC218, An Act to Reimburse Employees for Attorney’s Fees and Costs When Forced to Pursue Petitions for Payment of Medical Services-Would have required employers to pay reasonable attorney fees incurred by employees if employers’ refusal to pay medical bills is determined to not be based on reasonable grounds (failed).

(6) LD 1131, SRC128, HRC134, An Act to Require Certain Employees Be Paid on a Weekly Basis-Would have required that minimum wage workers be paid on a weekly basis (failed).

(7) LD 1206, SRC181, HRC191, An Act to Encourage Responsible Employment Practices-Requires that the State Purchasing Agent adopt rules that establish a fair basis for bid price comparison among businesses that provide health and retirement benefits against those whom do not provide these benefits (failed).

(8) LD 476, HRC102, An Act to Protect Maine Families When Workplace Fatalities Occur-Provides additional death benefits under workers’ compensation laws to surviving families of workers killed on the job (enacted).

(9) LD 1318, HRC161, an Act to Provide Collective Bargaining Rights to Certain Forest Products Workers-Allows individual loggers and trucker, now considered “independent contractors” to voluntarily collectively bargain with their employers, forest land owners, if that land owner owns more than 400,000 acres in a specified labor market area (enacted).

(10) LD1626, HRC245, Resolve, To Authorize the State to Purchase a Landfill in the City of Old Town-allows the state to buy Georgia-Pacific’s waste disposal facility in Old Town to allow continued operation of the mill and protect hundreds of union jobs (enacted).