Requires nonpartisan legislative staff to collect and assemble racial and other demographic data from state agencies related to legislation before Joint Standing or Select Committees of the Legislature.

Exempts agricultural societies, nonprofits, and volunteer fire departments from registration and licensing requirements when they hold internet raffles with prizes of $2,500 or less. AMENDED via substitute, striking the original bill; authorizes a person or organization conducting a raffle that is not an internet raffle to use a payment management system, approved by the Executive Director of the Gambling Control Unit within the Department of Public Safety, to accept payments for a raffle chance or ticket.

Requires ticket sellers and resellers to conspicuously disclose the section and seat number of any ticket sold, with an itemized list of all fees or charges included in the ticket price, the total price of the ticket, and an explanation of what each mandatory fee is for; requires refunds of ticket price under specified circumstances; prohibits speculative ticket sales and the use of deceptive web addresses and bots to circumvent online sales limitations. AMENDED - removed price cap on resale of tickets.

Allows children to participate in beano games run by nonprofit charitable organizations, provided the games are held on-site at the organization and no fees are charged to participate.

Requires the Commissioner of Administrative and Financial Services to conduct a comprehensive study of the State’s grant, contracting, and procurement services, including reimbursement rates, cost-of-living or inflation adjustments, application procedures, standard contract language that permits flexibility in terms and conditions and allows for multi-year contracts and clarifies when upfront payments are permitted, delays in execution and payment, impact on wages for employees of contracted nonprofits, best practices from other states, adequate agency staffing levels, complications from the tiered procurement process, appeals and overturned decisions, request for proposal processes, strategies for implementing new federal procurement and contracts guidance, inefficiencies and barriers to equitable access, feasibility of master contracts, and feasibility of allocating funds carried forward; requires stakeholder engagement, including representatives from nonprofits; requires a report.

Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to continue payments to a service provider in good standing at the service provider’s previous contract rate when a delay in contract awarding, finalizations or payment of more than 30 days has occurred; requires the Department to pay administrative expenses and interest charged on lines of credit or loans accessed by a service provider when a delay has occurred.

Requires the Bureau of General Services (BGS) to disclose on a public website all records and supporting documents related to the competitive bidding process, including notices of intent to waive competitive bidding, requests for proposals with responses, accepted responses, and any related financial agreements; prohibits destruction of records related to procurement of goods and services; requires BGS to recover and publish past notices of intent to waive competitive bidding. AMENDED - Requires BGS to disclose on a public website all records and supporting documents related to the competitive bidding process, including notices of intent to waive competitive bidding and competitive solicitations, including question-and-answer summaries, evaluation team packets and award decision letters; specifies that all proposals submitted in response to a solicitation and resulting in an award are public documents, unless otherwise excepted by statute.

Requires employers, including nonprofits, with 10 or more employees to disclose pay ranges in vacancy announcements; requires employers to disclose the pay range of an employee's current position, upon request; requires employers to keep records of each position held by an employee, and their pay history, during employment and for three years after termination. UPDATE - new status.

Requires employers, including nonprofits, with at least one employee in Maine and at least 250 employees in the U.S. to annually report the number of male, female, and nonbinary employees working there, the median hourly equivalent pay rate for each group, and the gender wage gap between male and female employees; provides privacy protections; provides civil penalties of no more than $1,000 for violations. UPDATE - new status.

Prohibits employer surveillance, including by nonprofits, of employees unless employee is notified before surveillance begins; prohibits audiovisual monitoring in employee's residence or personal vehicle or on employee's property; allows employees to decline employer's request to install surveillance software on employee's personal electronic devices; requires employers to notify prospective employees of worker surveillance during the interview process; creates a private right of action for violations. AMENDED - prohibits audiovisual monitoring in employee's residence or personal vehicle or on employee's property, unless the monitoring is required by the employer for the duties of the job; requires at least annual written notice to employees that employer uses surveillance; allows employee surveillance in personal care settings; provides fines up to $500 for each violation. UPDATE - new status.