COMMUNITY PROFILE:
This district serves the Sagadahoc County communities of Arrowsic, Bath, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Georgetown, Perkins, Phippsburg, Richmond, Topsham, West Bath and Woolwich.
This district also serves the Lincoln County community of Dresden.
There are 26,593 actively registered voters within this district:
CURRENT REPRESENTATIVE:
Denise Tepler, a Democrat from Topsham. Sen. Tepler has recently served in the state senate since being elected in November 2024. She also served in the House from 2015-2022.
Sen. Tepler has over two decades of experience in local office. First elected to the MSAD #75 school board in 1996, she served the towns of Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Harpswell, and Topsham for six years. In 2015 and 2016 she was named a Legislator of the Year by the American Legion, Department of Maine and in 2019 she was designated a Legislative Champion by Planned Parenthood for her work on LD 1261, which increased access to abortion care. While in the Maine House, she was selected as a CSG Toll Fellow and also as an NCSL Maternal and Child Health Fellow. Sen. Tepler currently serves on the Boards of Maine Public Health Association as well as the MidCoast Hunger Prevention Program where she is also a volunteer.
Sen. Tepler serves on the Senatorial vote committee, as chairwoman of the environment and natural resources committee and as chairwoman of the marine resources committee.
The Senatorial vote committee is created by a Senate Order on the first day of session. It states, that a committee of seven be appointed by the President to which the returns of votes for senators for the political years of 2025 and 2026 shall be referred for examination and report. This committee deals with matters relating to any senate elections.
The environment and natural resources committee covers air and water quality; natural resource protection; shoreland zoning; management and disposal of solid, hazardous, biomedical and special wastes; returnable containers; hydropower and dams; waste-to-energy facilities; mining; wind energy development; site location of development laws; 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: denise.tepler@legislature.maine.gov or 207-729-4018
ELECTIONS 2024:
This seat was on the ballot during the 2024 election cycle. Running for the seat were Denise Tepler (D), Jeffrey Pierce (R) and Suzanne Andresen (U).
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 Sen. Tepler 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 Sen. Tepler.
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