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MaineLD 1094132nd Maine Legislature (2025-2026)HouseWALLET

An Act to Prohibit a Person from Obtaining an Elver Dealer's License for a Minimum of 5 Years in Cases of Repeat Violations of License Conditions

Sponsored By: Abden Simmons (Republican)

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FISHFISH - EELS

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Bill Overview

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Suspended elver dealers face broad bans

The law blocks anyone with a suspended license from doing any licensed activity. You cannot let others handle lobster traps, buoys, or vehicles marked with your suspended license. You also cannot work as crew for a Class II lobster and crab license holder. For violations that happen after this paragraph takes effect, you cannot crew for any license holder in activities covered by your suspended license. If your elver dealer license is suspended or revoked, you cannot hold a direct, substantial financial interest in any business that buys, moves, or sells elvers.

Elver licenses: 5-year address ban, Feb 1 deadline

The department does not issue new or supplemental elver dealer licenses after February 1 of the current licensing year. Apply on or before February 1 to be licensed that year. The department also denies a license to anyone using the same business address as a person who violated section 6404-K(1) for at least five years after that violation. Check the violation date to know when the five-year bar ends.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Abden Simmons

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

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Actions Timeline

  1. ACTPUB Chapter 370

    5/1/2026

  2. PASSED TO BE ENACTED, in concurrence.

    6/5/2025Senate

  3. PASSED TO BE ENACTED. Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

    6/4/2025House

  4. Report READ and ACCEPTED, in concurrence.READ ONCE.Committee Amendment "A" (H-475) READ and ADOPTED, in concurrence.Under suspension of the Rules, READ A SECOND TIME and PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED AS AMENDED BY Committee Amendment "A" (H-475), in concurrence.Ordered sent down forthwith.

    6/4/2025Senate

  5. CONSENT CALENDAR - FIRST DAYUnder suspension of the rules CONSENT CALENDAR - SECOND DAY.The Bill was PASSED TO BE ENGROSSED as Amended by Committee Amendment "A" (H-475).Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

    6/3/2025House

  6. Carried over, in the same posture, to the next special or regular session of the 132nd Legislature, pursuant to Joint Order SP 519.

    3/21/2025House

  7. Received by the Clerk of the House on March 14, 2025.The Bill was REFERRED to the Committee on MARINE RESOURCES pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to Joint Rule 401.

    3/14/2025House

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