🧐 Here's what lawmakers are studying after the 2023 session.
◉ When the Legislature does not want to act on things, it likes to study them. Before lawmakers adjourned last month, they authorized 12 studies while rejecting or simply not acting on a ream of other requests. The full list.
◉ Among those that succeeded were an order to extend the work of a commission studying the state's fragile emergency medical services system, a new study on the costs and benefits of public preschool and another commission that will seek to overhaul Maine's higher education policies.
◉ Some notable studies were spiked, including a COVID-19 commission that had bipartisan support and looked like it was likely to pass until the Legislative Council, a panel of legislative leaders, rejected it at the last minute. It was the costliest of the proposed studies, and lawmakers left just $15,000 for studies. |
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