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Judiciary committee unanimously advances errors bill to fix statutory inconsistencies
Summary
The Joint Standing Committee on the Judiciary voted unanimously (14–0) to report LD2170, the annual "errors" bill that corrects cross-references and other technical inconsistencies across Maine law; committee members credited staff and the revisor's office for substantial behind-the-scenes work.
The Joint Standing Committee on the Judiciary voted unanimously to report LD2170 "ought to pass as amended," moving an omnibus errors bill forward after the committee accepted subcommittee recommendations to amend and remove provisions that would conflict with other legislation.
Janet, committee staff, told members the binder before them contains a chart that walks through each provision proposed for the errors bill and the subcommittee's recommendations, noting one disputed item — part A, section 38 — had to be removed because the labor committee's LD2110 will make the same grammatical fix and also a substantive change.
Senator Ann Carney, a Senate chair who moved the committee amendment, asked members to adopt the subcommittee's proposals while leaving out A38. "I would like to move 'ought to pass as amended' with the yellow amendments incorporated into the errors bill minus the reference to LD 2110," she said.
The committee praised nonpartisan staff and the revisor's office for their work. Members said the subcommittee had met multiple times to review the binder and chart and recommended deleting provisions that would create conflicts with other bills. After a roll call/show-of-hands, the chair announced the result: 14 yes, 0 no, 0 absent — a unanimous committee vote.
The committee closed the LD2170 work session after the vote. The bill, as amended by the committee, will proceed to the next step in the legislative process.
