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LD 1471

An Act To Require Energy Efficiency Disclosure Statements And Energy Efficiency Standards For Certain Rental Housing In The State

132nd Legislature (2025-2026) Introduced by John Eder and 2 co-sponsors

Requires landlords of covered rental units to provide energy-efficiency disclosure statements to prospective tenants and meet minimum energy-efficiency standards.

Became Law without Governor's Signature
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Bill Summary · LD 1471

Summary — LD 1471

An Act To Require Energy Efficiency Disclosure Statements And Energy Efficiency Standards For Certain Rental Housing in the State

Status & key dates

  • Bill number: LD 1471 (LR 1021)
  • Introduced: April 3, 2025
  • Committee: Judiciary
  • Final status: Became law without the Governor’s signature (June 22, 2025)
  • Committee amendment adopted: Committee Amendment "A" (H‑554) (engrossed version)
  • Fiscal notes (as amended and as engrossed): Approved May 30, 2025 and June 9, 2025 — both report “No fiscal impact.”

Purpose / intent

The bill requires that certain rental housing units in the State have:
- energy efficiency disclosure statements provided (generally to prospective tenants), and
- compliance with specified energy efficiency standards.

The overall intent is to increase transparency about the energy performance of rental units and to raise baseline energy-efficiency conditions in the rental housing stock.

Key provisions (high-level)

Note: The full statutory text is not included in the documents provided. The bill, as amended and enacted, generally does the following:
- Requires landlords or property managers of covered rental units to provide an energy efficiency disclosure statement (timing and recipients — e.g., prospective tenants — are set in the law).
- Establishes minimum energy-efficiency standards that certain rental units must meet (the amendment adopted in committee was incorporated into the engrossed bill).
- Provides enforcement mechanisms or compliance obligations (details not in the fiscal notes provided).
- Contains definitions and scope language specifying which rental housing is “certain” or covered by the requirements.

Who is affected

  • Landlords, owners and managers of rental housing covered by the standards and disclosure requirements.
  • Prospective and current tenants who will receive information about a unit’s energy efficiency.
  • Potential secondary effects on housing markets, retrofit providers, and utilities (e.g., increased demand for efficiency upgrades).

Fiscal impact

  • Official fiscal notes for the committee-amended and engrossed versions report no fiscal impact to the State.

Legislative history highlights

  • Referred to and reported out of the Judiciary Committee (divided report; work session May 5, 2025).
  • Committee Amendment "A" (H‑554) was adopted.
  • Passed both chambers (close Senate vote noted in the record) and enacted without the Governor’s signature on June 22, 2025.

Implementation / next steps

  • The text provided does not state the law’s effective date or the precise compliance deadlines, thresholds or enforcement provisions. Interested parties should consult the enrolled/chaptered law text or the Secretary of State’s website for:
    • the statute as enacted (to read definitions, covered units, required contents of the disclosure statement, applicable standards, compliance dates, and penalties),
    • any guidance the State issues for landlords and tenants on implementation.

For the full enacted language and specific requirements, refer to the official enrolled bill/chapter law or contact the Maine Legislature’s bill tracking resources.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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