COMMUNITY PROFILE:
This district serves the communities of Westbrook (partially).
There are 5,571 actively registered voters within this district:
CURRENT REPRESENTATIVE:
Morgan Rielly, a Democrat from Westbrook. Rep. Rielly is a farmhand and and has served in the state legislature since being elected in November 2020.
Rep. Rielly works as a farmhand on an oyster farm in Casco Bay, and served two years as a student representative on the Westbrook City Council. In 2014, he published his first book, which featured interviews with Maine veterans of World War II. His second book, Dear Maine, which he co-authored in 2021 with Reza Jalali, the executive director of the Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center, profiles more than 20 Maine immigrants. He is also the founder and co-chair of America’s Service Commissions’ State Service Caucus, a nationwide bipartisan coalition of state legislators advocating for service programming in State Houses across the country. While attending Bowdoin, he received a fellowship to work for a non-governmental organization assisting Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Amman, Jordan.
Rep. Rielly serves on the environment and natural resources committee, on the marine resources committee and as chairman of the engrossed bills committee.
The environment and natural resources committee covers air and water quality; natural resource protection; site location of development laws, shoreland zoning, subdivisions and growth management; management and disposal of solid, hazardous, biomedical and special wastes; returnable containers; hydropower and dams; waste-to-energy facilities; mining; wind energy development; and general environmental policy, including oversight of the Department of Environmental Protection.
The marine resources committee covers the Department of Marine Resources; Marine Patrol; commercial and recreational marine fisheries management, licensing and enforcement; marine science and research; shellfish sanitation and management; and aquaculture.
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: Morgan.Rielly@legislature.maine.gov or 207-228-5767
ELECTIONS 2024:
This seat was on the ballot during the 2024 election cycle. Running for the seat were Morgan Rielly (D) and Ryan Poitras (R).
View contributions to each candidate, campaign expenditures and campaign filings on the Maine Ethics Commission website.
LEGISLATIVE WORK:
The following chart is a compilation of legislation sponsored by Rep. Rielly during the 132nd 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. Rielly.
For those viewing this page on mobile, you can view more columns by scrolling left-to-right through the embedded table. That same material is available by clicking the Bill ID.
AI Disclosure: The bill summaries appearing below have been generated by Claude Haiku, an Artificial Intelligence model from Anthropic, which describes itself as an AI safety and research company. BillTrack50, which has compiled the summaries, has extensively tested the accuracy of the information but does not guarantee that every summary is completely accurate and comprehensive. You should always read and rely on the bill text that is provided by the Maine Legislature, which is accessible by clicking on the Bill ID in the table. (A button to flag AI-generated errors to the BillTrack50 team is available on each bill page.) We encourage readers to view our ethics policy, which includes our policy on the newsroom’s use of AI.
Return to the landing page to search for more legislators or to search all Maine legislative items introduced since 2011.