Sponsor: Senator Joseph Rafferty

Sponsor: Representative Melanie Sachs | Current Status: Passed to Be Enacted

This bill prohibits a person from engaging in conduct that constitutes doxing when the target of the doxing is a minor. It also authorizes a family member, legal guardian or representative of a minor who is a target of doxing in violation of that prohibition to bring a civil action on behalf of the minor for injunctive relief, actual damages, compensatory damages, punitive damages, any combination of those remedies or any other appropriate relief.

Sponsor: Senator Timothy Nangle | Current Status: PLACED ON THE SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS TABLE pending ENACTMENT in concurrence

This bill appropriates funds to the Northern New England Poison Center to ensure continued access to 24-hour expert medical treatment advice and information on potentially harmful substances.

Sponsor: Rep. Nina Milliken | Current Status: DEAD

This bill modifies the requirements for notification to the Department of Health and Human Services when an infant is born affected by substance use or has withdrawal symptoms that require medical monitoring or care beyond standard newborn care when those symptoms have resulted from or have likely resulted from prenatal drug exposure. If the infant is affected by substances because the infant is born to a person who is receiving medication-assisted treatment but there is no apparent risk of abuse or neglect, the health care provider may not notify the department and must develop a plan of care for the infant. If the health care provider notifies the department anyway, the department may not take further action. The bill also prohibits a mandated reporter from notifying the department that a parent or other person responsible for the child is receiving medication-assisted treatment when there is no suspicion of abuse or neglect.

Sponsor: Rep. Amy Kuhn | Current Status: PASSED TO BE ENACTED.

This bill makes several changes in the Maine Criminal Code to protect children and adults from sexual abuse that is facilitated by technology, including modified images or videos of children or artificially created images of children. First, the bill defines the terms "child sexual abuse material," "identifiable child," "image," "obscene material" and "generative AI or machine learning" and amends the definition of "minor" for purposes of the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 17-A, chapter 12 to ban the possession and dissemination of child sexual abuse material. The bill expands the crime of sexual exploitation of a minor by specifying that a person is guilty of sexual exploitation of a minor if knowing or intending that the conduct will be used to create an image and, for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire of that person or another person, the person intentionally or knowingly employs, solicits, entices, persuades or uses an identifiable child to engage in sexually explicit conduct or create child sexual abuse material. The bill further expands the crime of sexual exploitation of a minor to include a person who intentionally or knowingly modifies or alters an image to depict child sexual abuse material and the identifiable child depicted is a minor. The bill also expands that crime to prohibit a person from intentionally or knowingly manufacturing or creating an image, including generative AI or machine learning, and the person knows or should know that the material depicts child sexual abuse material and is obscene material.