Senate moves dozens of measures: emergency enactments, committee reports and roll‑call votes

The Maine Senate’s March 24 floor session moved a long slate of committee reports and enactments. Clerks read committee engrossed reports and the Senate considered a sequence of first and second readings, suspensions of rules, and votes on emergency measures that require a two‑thirds affirmative vote.

Among items the Senate advanced or enacted were measures to:

- Authorize the Penobscot Nation to use wild game harvested on Penobscot Indian Territory at food venues within the territory (committee action announced on the floor). - Update financial assurance requirements for certain solid waste facilities. - Modify dental care reimbursement methodology to improve anesthesia provision for certain pediatric dental services. - Confirm and finalize a municipal boundary between Kittery and York. - Establish a Healthy Maine Stabilization Fund (emergency measure) — the Senate recorded the necessary supermajority and passed the bill to be enacted. - Update campaign finance laws (emergency measure) — passed and to be presented to the governor. - Expand scope of practice for independent practice dental hygienists (emergency measure) — passed. - Multiple other emergency resolves and acts were read, debated where required, and recorded as passed with tallies where the clerk reported them.

Clerks announced several recorded tallies for emergency items and committee reports where noted in the transcript, including multiple 33–0 and 34–0 tallies recorded on measures requiring supermajority passage; individual roll‑call tallies are recorded on the public floor record.

Next steps: enacted bills will be signed by the president of the Senate and presented by the secretary to the governor for approval; items set aside or tabled were scheduled for further consideration or placement on study/special appropriations tables.