Opponents of a dozen new laws aim to erase them with ‘people’s veto’ campaigns

With a short time to collect 63,067 signatures, special interest groups and individuals file more than a dozen requests to challenge newly signed laws.

‘People’s veto’ campaigns target new Maine abortion and vaccination laws

The groups behind the campaigns want voters to decide on laws that require insurers to cover abortion and that eliminate broad exemptions for childhood vaccinations.

Winners and losers of the 2019 legislative session

Democrats used their legislative majority and control of the Blaine House to push through many bills in health care, education and the environment, but some measures still fell by the wayside.

Health care has dominated legislative session

Democrats control the House and Senate and have a governor who's on their side. Their priority has been health care, both in policy changes and spending priorities

Senate vote sends bill to end vaccine exemptions to governor’s desk

A recent measles case in Maine was cited by both supporters and opponents of the measure to end all non-medical exemptions to school-required vaccinations.

Vaccinated child had Maine’s first case of measles in 2 years, say health officials

The case was confirmed Monday in a school-aged child in Somerset County, and the agency says others may have been exposed at schools in Madison and the hospital in Skowhegan.

There’s no vaccine to prevent an epidemic of legislative stupidity

Maine Senate reverses course, ends religious exemption for vaccines

The bill – expected to be signed by Gov. Mills – is one of the most controversial to move through the Legislature in recent years.

Vaccine bill again splits Maine House and Senate over religious exemption

The House votes to restore a ban on religious exemptions for vaccinations required for school-age children, bouncing the measure back to the Senate.

Senate passes bill that keeps religious exemptions to vaccines but clashes with House bill

The version that won initial approval in the Senate on Thursday would eliminate only philosophical exemptions to school-required vaccinations.