COMMUNITY PROFILE:
This district serves the communities of Gray (partially) and New Gloucester.
There are 6,642 actively registered voters within this district:
CURRENT REPRESENTATIVE:
Amy Arata, a Republican from New Gloucester. Rep. Arata is the assistant minority leader and has served in the state legislature since being elected in November 2018.
Rep. Arata owns a property investment business and a mechanical engineering business with her husband. Her community service includes volunteering at youth and church events, with the New Gloucester Budget Committee and with the Planning Board. She was previously elected to the MSAD 15 School Board, and was appointed to the Maine State Board of Education.
Rep. Arata serves on the legislative council, which is responsible for the overall management of the entire Legislature. The Council is responsible for providing professional, nonpartisan staff support services to the Legislature and its officers, members, committees and commissions. These services include legislative research, bill drafting; policy, legal and fiscal analysis; fiscal note preparation; committee staffing; computer support services; public information; library and reference services and support; and general administrative services. The Legislative Council’s staff is organized into the nonpartisan offices that operate under the direction of the Council’s Executive Director. Other responsibilities delegated by the Legislature to the Council include preparing legislative budget requests and overseeing the legislative budget; establishing salary and benefit schedules for all legislative employees, except as otherwise provided by law; approval of employment practices; planning and oversight of projects designed to improve the organization, operation and physical facilities of the Legislature; and assignment of work to legislative committees when the Legislature is not in session. The Council also has responsibility for screening and approving requests to introduce legislation after cloture (after deadline bills) in any legislative session and exercises this same role for all bill requests prior to their introduction in the second regular session and all special sessions.
Rep. Arata also serves as the ranking member of the joint rules committee, which assists in carrying out the responsibilities of the Legislature.
Rep. Arata also serves on the government oversight committee. The mission of the Joint Legislative Government Oversight Committee, hereafter called the “Committee”, is to oversee program evaluation and government accountability matters in State government. The Committee seeks to ensure that public funds are expended for intended purposes, and that programs and activities are effectively, efficiently and economically managed. The Committee accomplishes this mission by conducting public inquiries and directing the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability to conduct independent, objective reviews of State agencies and programs and other entities receiving public funds or expending private monies for public purposes.
Information for this lawmaker’s biography has been compiled from numerous public sources, including pages maintained by political parties, individual lawmakers and the Maine Legislature.
Contact this lawmaker: Amy.Arata@legislature.maine.gov or 207-333-1817
ELECTIONS 2024:
This seat is on the ballot during the 2024 election cycle. Running for the seat are Amy Arata (R) and Colleen Strickler (D).
View contributions to each candidate, campaign expenditures and campaign filings on the Maine Ethics Commission website.
On Election Night in November, this section will also feature live results for this race.
LEGISLATIVE WORK:
The following chart is a compilation of legislation sponsored by Rep. Arata during the 131st Legislature. To learn more about each legislation and see where it is in the legislative process, click on the bill ID in the first column. View each vote cast by Rep. Arata.
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