At-a-glance: key Senate roll-call outcomes and confirmations, March 24, 2026
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Summary
The Maine Senate confirmed multiple Marine Resources Advisory Council nominees and recorded roll-call votes that advanced a preschool meals grant and a right-to-repair bill while rejecting an emergency enactment and a probate-court majority report.
The Senate’s March 24 floor session produced a set of recorded outcomes on nominations and bills:
- Nominations confirmed: Geoffrey Reardon (Manchester), Brian Raver (Falmouth), Dana Hammond II (Bristol) and Curtis Haycock (Millbridge) were confirmed to the Marine Resources Advisory Council following roll-call votes sustaining committee recommendations.
- LD 20 64 (grant program to expand public-preschool meals): The Senate accepted the majority "ought to pass" as amended, 23–12, sending the bill to engrossment and House concurrence.
- Right-to-repair bill (consumer repair protections): The Senate accepted the majority report on a right-to-repair bill (committee amendment), 22–13, advancing the measure.
- Emergency fisheries bill: An emergency-enactment motion on a measure concerning reconstruction of storm-damaged commercial fisheries facilities failed (required 2/3; recorded 21–14), so that motion did not carry the emergency preamble.
- LD 17 66 (probate-court incorporation into the judicial branch): The motion to accept the majority report failed on a roll call, 16–19, leaving the proposal unapproved in its current form.
These outcomes were part of a larger floor agenda that included committee reports, recognitions, and procedural motions. Items acted upon were ordered sent forthwith when there was no objection.