AUGUSTA (AP) – Amid the diversion of proposed military base closings and cutbacks, Gov. John Baldacci has made time to sign stacks of bills – more than a dozen last Friday alone – that have been sent to his desk as the pace of legislative activity moved at a sustained gallop.

The latest of the 150 bills Baldacci has signed into law so far this year span issues from motherhood to moose calls. More legislation will wind up on his desk in the next few days, including a bill to designate the former patent medicine Moxie as Maine’s official soft drink.

Baldacci plans to sign that bill, as well as one to start the process of improving emergency medical services in state parks and historic sites, on Friday.

Last Friday, the day the Pentagon proposed closing Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery and reducing by half the number of personnel at Brunswick Naval Shipyard, Baldacci signed 15 bills, including one to raise fees towns and cities can charge for copies of birth, marriage and death certificates. The new law will also allow higher burial permit fees.

The same day, he also signed a bill dubbed “An Act to Protect Motherhood,” which identifies the unique circumstances of domestic violence faced by pregnant women. It instructs judges to apply special weight to homicides involving women who are pregnant.

Legislation of interest to hunters will allow the use of high-tech, electronic moose-calling devices, which are placed a distance from hunters to give them a cleaner shot at their prey. The devices are already allowed for other big game and coyotes, said the sponsor of the bill, Sen. Debra Plowman, R-Hampden, whose district is home to a manufacturer of the game-calling devices.

Consumers stand to benefit from a bill signed Thursday that will outlaw a practice known as “steering,” in which insurance companies tell customers who have claims for auto crashes where to get their cars repaired.

The new law will prohibit insurers from recommending a particular repair service unless they disclose that there is no obligation to use the designated service.

Rep. Kevin Glynn said he sponsored the bill in response to constituents who complained they were misled by insurance companies’ tactics.

“They basically would steer the business and made it seem like the consumer had no choice,” said the South Portland Republican. Glynn said his bill is parallel to an existing law applying to insurers and auto glass shops.