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LD1270 - Clean Energy Jobs

(2025)

An Act to Establish the Department of Energy Resources

LD1270 bill text Maine AFL-CIO Supported

Sponsored by Sponsored by Walter Runte (D-York)

What is the bill?

LD 1270 will help ensure that the thousands of clean energy jobs created in Maine will be high-quality jobs that retain a well-trained, skilled workforce. The bill improves prevailing wages statewide by limiting the wide fluctuation in prevailing wages that often occurs in rural counties in Maine. It incentivizes project developers to enter into Project Labor Agreements (PLA) that utilize registered apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs. This new law requires all contractors, whether union or non-union, to pay rates that guarantee fair wages, including healthcare and retirement packages.

What happened?

Enacted into law (Passed by the Legislature, Signed by the Governor)

Votes

Senate

19 Pro-labor 15 Anti-labor

House

77 Pro-labor 69 Anti-labor