AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — When they return to Augusta to finish up work for the year after an 11-day rest, Maine lawmakers will have to decide whether to sustain or override eight bills Gov. Paul LePage has vetoed.
Among them are proposals calling for a study by state health officials into the effects of wood smoke, and a study into transferring administration of state liquor and lottery operations from the public safety to the finance department.
Another vetoed bill says nurses would have to be fingerprinted and subjected to complete criminal background checks to be licensed, a requirement LePage said is unnecessary and unfairly singles out nurses among other health care professionals.
In several of the bills requiring studies, LePage objected to the cost at a time the state is trying to save money.
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