This bill appropriates state general funds for a statewide family planning grant.

This bill requires most insurance plans to cover over the counter (OTC) oral contraceptives and emergency contraception without a prescription starting January 1, 2026. The law also requires the Bureau of Insurance to monitor compliance.

This bill allows prescribers to use the name of their facility in place of their own name on the label for medication abortion and gender affirming care prescriptions.

This bill is a shield law that protects providers and patients from hostile laws enacted in other states and ensures that access to gender-affirming and reproductive care can continue consistent with Maine’s laws. State resources may not be used to further hostile litigation from other states; the bill also creates a civil right of action to respond to litigation filed by other states against Maine health care providers; protecting providers’ personal contact information; and enhancing protections for related to medical records being sought by states where reproductive and gender-affirming health care is banned.

This bill removes the requirement that abortions after viability only may be performed to preserve the life or health of the mother, and instead allows for later-in-pregnancy abortions when necessary in the professional judgment of a licensed physician. The bill also eliminates language in current law that subjects medical providers who perform abortions to criminal penalties under certain circumstances, instead regulating abortion like other safe, legal medical procedures. It also updates data collection policies related to abortion care to reduce stigma, protect patient privacy, and protect reproductive health care providers.