Current Legislation
MainePERS tracks proposed legislation related to the programs we administer during each legislative session. Below you will find the legislation introduced during the current session of the Maine Legislature. Included is a brief overview of the bill, a copy of the original proposed legislation (which is referenced by its legislative document [LD] number and title) along with any testimony submitted by MainePERS regarding the proposal.
Additional information regarding these bills, including when public hearings and work sessions are scheduled, any proposed amendments, and the current status of the bill within the legislative process, can be found on the Maine State Legislature’s website. This site includes a search feature using the LD number of the bill.
Reports and presentations submitted by MainePERS to the Maine Legislature.
LD 89 – Resolve, Regarding Legislative Review of Chapter 201: Employer Reporting and Payments, a Major Substantive Rule of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System
Summary: This Resolve provides for legislative review of provisionally adopted MainePERS Board Rule Chapter 201, which sets out requirements regarding employer reporting and payment of contributions and premiums.
LD 137 – An Act to Expand the 1998 Special Retirement Plan to Include Employees Who Work for the Office of Chief Medical Examiner
Summary: This bill would change the plan in which certain employees of the Office of Chief Medical Examiner participate from a regular plan to the 1998 Special Plan.
LD 240 – An Act to Create Consistency in Retirement Service Benefits Deferral under the Maine Public Employees Retirement System
Summary: This bill would allow certain retirees from the State Employee and Teacher Retirement Program with a portion of their benefits based on participating local district (PLD) service to defer the receipt of the PLD benefit until normal retirement age.
LD 462 – An Act to Amend the Eligibility Criteria for Creditable Service in the Armed Forces of the United States Under the Maine Public Employees Retirement System
Summary: This bill would expand the time periods governing creditable military service to include certain service in Lebanon and Grenada.
LD 579 – An Act to Include Certain Mental Health Workers Under the 1998 Special Plan for Retirement
Summary: This bill would change the plan in which certain employees of the Department of Health and Human Services participate from a regular plan to a special plan.
LD 794 – An Act to Include Judicial Marshals in the 1998 Special Plan for Retirement
Summary: This bill would change the plan in which certain employees of the judicial branch participate from a regular plan to the 1998 Special Plan.
LD 900 – An Act to Protect State Retiree Pensions from Inflation
Summary: This bill proposes to increase the Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) base and COLA percentage cap for the State/Teacher plan.
LD 1003 – An Act Establishing the Retirement Benefit Improvement Fund
Summary: This bill would create an account for the accumulation of funds to increase the COLA benefit base within the State/Teacher plan. Funds would be provided from year-end unappropriated General Fund surpluses.
LD 1021 – An Act to Remove Certain Cost-of-living Adjustment Restrictions for Retired Members of the Law Enforcement Bargaining Unit Who Are 65 Years of Age or Older
Summary: This bill would apply a 3% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to the entire benefit of certain retirees who retire at age 65 or older.
LD 1025 – An Act to Allow Federal Civil Service to Count for Purposes of Maine Public Employees Retirement System Benefits
Summary: This bill would allow MainePERS members of the State/Teacher Plan with prior federal employment to purchase up to 5 years of service credit.
LD 1040 – An Act to Raise the Cap on Retirement Benefits for Certain State Employees and Teachers to Which a Cost-of-living Adjustment Is Made
Summary: This bill would raise the benefit base on which a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is applied to $40,000 as of July 1, 2026.
LD 1124 – An Act Regarding Retirement Benefits and Salary Adjustments for Judicial Employees
Summary: This bill would allow judicial employees to retire prior to age 65 with 35 years of continuous service.
LD 1218 – An Act to Allow Certain County Commissioners Who Are Maine Public Employees Retirement System Members to Switch to the Legislative Retirement Program
Summary: This bill would allow certain former legislators who serve as County Commissioners to choose to transfer their service credit as County Commissioners to the Legislative Retirement Program.
LD 1236 – An Act to Address Employee Retention of State Employees Who Are Firefighters at Bangor International Airport
Summary: This bill would establish a special service retirement plan for firefighters employed by the Maine Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management at Bangor International Airport.
LD 1383 – An Act to Require State Divestment from Perpetrators of International Human Rights Violations
Summary: This bill would prohibit the State from investing public funds or entering into procurement contracts with companies, entities, persons or financial institutions involved with entities determined by international bodies to have committed certain violations of human rights.
LD 1611 – An Act to Decrease the Retirement Contributions Required for Teachers and State Employees
Summary: This bill would decrease the required employee contributions for the State/Teacher Plan from 7.65% of earnable compensation to 6.2% of earnable compensation.
LD 1638 – An Act Regarding Disability Retirement Benefits Under the Maine Public Employees Retirement System
Summary: This bill would retroactively repeal Social Security offsets applied to disability retirement benefits received from the Maine Public Employees Retirement System.
LD 1670 – An Act to Establish the Maine Public Employees Retirement System Home Repair and Energy Upgrade Loan Program and Fund
Summary: This bill would require that the Maine Public Employees Retirement System use a portion of trust assets to provide loans of up to $25,000 at 2% to members for the purpose of home repair and energy efficiency.
LD 1720 – An Act Regarding Benefits and Training for Long-term Care Workers
Summary: This bill would add long-term care workers to those eligible to join the State/Teacher Plan of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System.
LD 1791 – Resolve, to Direct State Agencies to Implement the Social Security Fairness Act
Summary: This resolve would direct state agencies and the Maine Public Employees Retirement System to take various actions to align, implement and comply with the federal Social Security Fairness Act.
LD 1872 – An Act to Reinvest in the Pension Funds of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System
Summary: This bill would establish the Retirement Improvement Fund to receive transferred funds equal to the difference between payments made toward the obligation for the unfunded actuarial liability (UAL) in the year the funds are transferred and the amount of those payments in FY28. The funds would be used to increase the Benefit Base upon which cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) are made until the Benefit Base reaches $40,000.
LD 1947 – An Act to Amend to Laws Pertaining to the Maine Public Employees Retirement System
Summary: This bill would make changes to the laws governing the Maine Public Employees Retirement System to clarify and to remove or update obsolete, unclear or inconsistent language.