Requires employers, including nonprofits, with 10 or more employees to disclose the wage range for public or internet job postings; allows employers to pay outside the stated wage range when market conditions, employee qualifications, or other factors dictate; sets $500 maximum penalty for violations.

Codifies the federal salary threshold for a salaried employee to be exempt from the laws governing minimum wage and overtime pay. UPDATE - new status.

Authorizes a refundable income tax credit for employers that provide childcare, subsidized or in-kind, for children of employees; sets credit at 50% of amount expended, or $3,000, whichever is lower.

Requires non-government employers, including nonprofits, with 3 or more employees to offer the Maine Retirement Savings Program to employees if they do not offer a specified tax-favored retirement plan; exempts certain new employers; provides escalating penalties for failure to enroll.

Includes Presidential declarations of an emergency as a basis to allow the Governor to provide disaster relief to local governments.

Allows a seller in a sales transaction to impose a surcharge on credit and debit card transactions, provided it is disclosed to the consumer prior to payment and does not exceed actual costs of providing credit or debit card service.

Creates a Real Estate Property Tax Relief Task Force to determine the source of problems with the current system of property taxation, who is most negatively affected, and how they are negatively affected, compare the state to the rest of the nation, explore constitutional amendments, develop methods to ensure municipalities use property tax relief for intended purposes, assess changes to valuation processes and support, develop targeted support for long-term property owners, explore the use of the state’s cash pool for property tax relief, and examine potential impacts of federal funding changes on the state’s property tax system; requires a report.

Allows municipalities to limit property tax exemptions given to nonprofits if the municipality determines, by vote, that the exemption would be detrimental to its residents.

Creates a ballot question to amend the Maine constitution to allow municipalities to apportion property taxes based on property classifications defined by the state Legislature; requires voter approval.

Allows municipalities to impose an annual service charge on tax-exempt property, with charges to be calculated based on actual costs of providing municipal services to that property and the people who use it; requires service-charge revenues to fund the costs of those services; requires municipal legislative bodies to identify organizations subject to the levy, provided that all similarly situated organizations are subject to the levy; changes the limit on municipal service charges to tax-exempt properties from 2% of the organization's gross revenue to 20% of the property's assessed value. "Dead" because voted down unanimously.