COMMUNITY PROFILE:
This district serves the community of Old Orchard Beach.
There are 7,140 actively registered voters within this district:
CURRENT REPRESENTATIVE:
Lori Gramlich, a Democrat from Old Orchard Beach. Rep. Gramlich is the House Assistant Majority Leader and has served in the state legislature since being elected in November 2018.
Rep. Gramlich has more than 35 years of experience in nonprofit prevention-based social work, advocacy and social justice initiatives. She has worked at the Maine Department of Health and Human Services and served as communications director for Maine Senate President Beverly Daggett. She served on the Portland School Committee from 2005-2008, where she was the chair of the Legislative Affairs and Policy Committees and also served on the Finance Committee. Rep. Gramlich is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Southern Maine School of Social Work. She previously served as executive director of the National Association of Social Workers, Maine Chapter.
Rep. Gramlich serves on the engrossed bills committee and on the veterans and legal affairs committee.
The veterans and legal affairs committee covers alcoholic beverage laws; adult-use marijuana regulation; lottery; for profit and nonprofit gambling, including games of chance, beano and raffles; slot machines, gaming devices; harness racing and off-track betting; election laws; campaign practices; campaign financing and disclosures; the Maine Clean Election Act; voter registration; direct initiatives and people’s veto; legislative ethics; lobbyist registration and reporting; Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices; veterans’ programs; Department of Defense, Veterans and Emergency Management Services (except the Maine Emergency Management Agency); Bureau of Alcoholic Beverages and Lottery Operations; Gambling Control Board; and Maine National Guard.
Rep. Gramlich is a member of the legislative council, which is the administrative body for the legislative branch. The council 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.
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: Lori.Gramlich@legislature.maine.gov or 207-232-1067
ELECTIONS 2024:
This seat was on the ballot during the 2024 election cycle. Running for the seat were Lori Gramlich (D) and Scott Eccleston (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. Gramlich 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. Gramlich.
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.