Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
5 instruments in Maine. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
132nd Legislature, Second Regular Session · Takes effect
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▲Expands benefitsGives the spouse of a serving member the state employment interview and retention preference that veterans have.
Amended 5 M.R.S. 7054-B so the spouse of a member on active duty or in the Reserves or National Guard is offered an interview for a classified position on meeting the minimum qualifications and is retained in a reduction in force like a veteran. Effective July 29, 2026.
132nd Legislature, Second Regular Session · Takes effect
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▲Expands benefitsLets a moose permit holder transfer the permit to a disabled veteran or return it for reassignment to one.
Enacted 12 M.R.S. 11154(16): a holder may transfer a moose permit to a disabled veteran eligible under 10853(4), or return it for reassignment to one; both lose accumulated points. Effective July 29, 2026.
132nd Legislature, Second Regular Session · Takes effect
IntroducedDone, , step 1 of 6
In committeeDone, , step 2 of 6
Passed one chamberDone, , step 3 of 6
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Signed by the governorDone, , step 5 of 6
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▲Expands benefitsExtends the disabled veteran excise tax exemption to up to three leased automobiles.
Enacted 36 M.R.S. 1483(12-A): up to three automobiles leased by a veteran receiving compensation for total, service-connected disability from a line-of-duty injury or disease are exempt from excise tax, with the veteran named on the lease. An emergency act effective July 1, 2026. Not yet in the Revisor’s online statutes.
▲Expands benefitsExtends the military retirement income deduction to retired members of the NOAA and Public Health Service commissioned corps.
Through tax year 2025 the full deduction covered service in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and Space Force. For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2026 it covers the uniformed services as defined in 37 U.S.C. 101(3), which adds the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service. A retired NOAA Corps or Public Health Service officer who checked this question before 2026 was told the wrong answer for the current tax year.
▼Restricts benefitsRequires the qualifying veteran to be named on the certificate of title, so a vehicle titled only in a spouse's name no longer qualifies for the excise tax exemption.
The qualifying veteran must now be named on the automobile’s certificate of title, and where a vehicle has multiple owners at least one titled owner must meet the requirements. A vehicle titled only in a spouse’s name no longer qualifies. The Bureau of Veterans’ Services page on the exemption still quotes the section as amended in 2009, cites only subsection 1 of Title 29-A section 523 rather than subsections 1 or 2, and does not carry these requirements.
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