An Act to Enact the Maine Online Data Privacy Act (LD 1822)

10 M.R.S. secs. 9601-9615 (proposed, LD 1822, died between houses)

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Withdrawn: no longer proceeding.

A comprehensive regime rule binding private bodies.

As of 27 August 2026.

What it requires

This bill never became law. It died between the House and Senate on April 13, 2026 and has no current legal effect; do not treat it as binding.
Watch for a similar comprehensive privacy bill to return in a future Maine legislative session. None of Maine's enacted sectoral laws impose a general access, deletion, correction, or portability duty today.

What it reaches

Excludes recording-derived identifiersNo

What this law does

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This bill never became law and has no current legal effect. LD 1822, 132nd Legislature, Second Regular Session, would have codified a comprehensive online data privacy act at 10 M.R.S. secs. 9601-9615 (new). It passed the House and the Senate in differently amended forms, and the two chambers failed to reconcile their versions; the bill's official disposition is "Died Between Houses, Apr 13, 2026."

A similar bill returning in a future session is a live possibility, since Maine's absence of a comprehensive regime is a result of this bill's failure to reconcile, not an absence of legislative interest.

As introduced, the bill's own sec. 9601(3) would have classified genetic or biometric data as sensitive, and would have excluded a photograph, video, or audio recording, or data generated from one, from the biometric data definition only until that data was generated to identify a specific consumer, the same clawback shape as Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, and New Jersey; the reviewed committee amendment did not touch that definition.

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Read the law

official Maine bill status page, Maine Legislature website

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