Background
The Committee on Health and Human Services will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, March 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM at
📍 Cross Building, Room 209, 111 Sewall St., Augusta, to discuss LD 436 "An Act to Prohibit State Agencies from Promoting the COVID-19 Vaccination to Children " and LD 871 "An Act to Exempt All Persons, Including Health Care and Emergency Services Personnel, from COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements."
If you want to read LD 436, click here: https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?PID=1456&snum=132&paper=&paperld=l&ld=436
If you want to read LD 871, click here: https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?PID=1456&snum=132&paper=&paperld=l&ld=871
In lieu of personally testifying in support of this bill, you may testify via Zoom, or by online testimony using the following link: https://www.mainelegislature.org/testimony/. Do this prior to the public hearing.
See below for EVERYTHING you're going to need to get this done, including testimony!
🔹 Steps to submit testimony online:
1️⃣ Click: "Public Hearing".
2️⃣ Choose a committee: "Health and Human Services" - using the drop-down menu.
3️⃣ Choose date: March 31, 2025, 10:00 AM - using the drop-down menu.
4️⃣ Click: LD 436 (You may submit separate testimony for each bill; not necessary as long as you include both LD #s in your testimony).
5️⃣ Enter your testimony in the box (or click the checkbox if you want to testify via Zoom).
6️⃣ Complete your contact information.
7️⃣ Click: "I'm not a robot"
8️⃣ Click: "Submit/Register".
You can find a video tutorial on 'Submitting Testimony in Maine" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYnhN4ZlpoQ
Action Time-Window
⚠️ Please consider taking action by March 29, 2025.
Template
The below is a community member's testimony. Feel free to use it, something of your own, or something as simple as as "I support LD 436 and LD 871, and "they ought to pass." To get other wording ideas, as online testimony is submitted for this bill, you can see it here: https://legislature.maine.gov/ctl/HHS/03-31-2025?panel=0&time=0&sortdir=0&sortby=2 after clicking on the bill number.
I support LD 436 “An Act to Prohibit State Agencies from Promoting the COVID-19 Vaccination to Children” and LD 871 “An Act to Exempt All Persons, Including Health Care and Emergency Services Personnel, from COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements.”
LD 436: Let the child’s parents decide what the child is exposed to, not the state, not the education system, not the medical profession, no-one other than the parents.
LD 871: This bill prohibits the State from requiring any person, including health care facility employees and emergency medical services personnel, to receive a COVID vaccine. We live in the United States of America, not a Communist country. We’ve earned our freedom of choice regarding whether we want to vaccinate or not.
I support LD 436 and LD 871, and they “ought to pass.”
Credit for the above goes to our community member Danny (@DannyEmerson61) from the South Berwick Republican Committee (@BerwickSouth).
Disclaimer
A community member has shared this personal template for those who wish to express their views on the bill(s) mentioned above. This template is not an official PTP position, and using it is entirely up to you. Pine Tree Patriots encourages civic participation but does not endorse or support specific actions or policies. Please remember this is an individual initiative.
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