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Did Troy Jackson help pass paid family and medical leave in Maine?

Matches stated record claim. The program passed as part of the 2023 state budget, which he voted for as one of 22 senators; it was not a bill of his.

Troy D. Jackson

Paid family and medical leave

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What they say

At a Labor Day event, in words his campaign republished, he said: we passed paid family and medical leave in Maine.

“We passed paid family medical leave in Maine, and there’s no damn reason workers in every other state shouldn’t have the same basic dignity.”

What the record shows ·

Maine's paid family and medical leave program was enacted in the 2023 state budget, as Part AAA of Public Law 2023, chapter 412. The Senate enacted the budget 22 to 9 on July 6, 2023 (Roll Call 484) with his Yea vote, and the Governor signed it on July 11. The Maine statutes credit the program's provisions to that Part. The stand-alone bill on the subject, LD 1964, sponsored by Senator Matthea Daughtry, died when the Legislature adjourned.

Limit: "We" fits how it passed: as one Part of a budget that 22 senators voted for, not as a bill of his. The record shows his vote and the enactment. What the program pays and when benefits began are set in the statute and were not checked here.

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  1. Over Labor Day Weekend, Jackson Barnstormed Maine With 13 Campaign Events, Standing With Workershttps://www.jacksonformaine.com/news/over-labor-day-weekend-jackson-barnstormed-maine-with-13-campaign-events-standing-with-workers

    Troy Jackson for Maine · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign release that collects news coverage; the paid-leave sentences are his words as quoted by News Center Maine and republished by the campaign.

    candidate statement

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  2. LD 258 (131st Legislature), unified appropriations and allocations, summaryhttps://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/summary.asp?paper=HP0163&SessionID=15

    Maine Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The 2023 budget: enacted by the Senate on Roll Call 484, 22 to 9, on July 6, 2023; signed July 11, 2023 as Public Law 2023, chapter 412.

    official legislative record

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  3. Maine Senate Roll Call 484, LD 258, enactmenthttps://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/rollcall.asp?ID=280085493&chamber=S&serialnumber=484

    Maine Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    July 6, 2023. Jackson of Aroostook recorded Y.

    official legislative record

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  4. 26 M.R.S. section 850-A, Paid family and medical leave definitionshttps://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/26/title26sec850-A.html

    Office of the Revisor of Statutes, Maine Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The program's definitions section; its history credits it to Public Law 2023, chapter 412, Part AAA, section 7.

    official legislative record

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  5. LD 1964 (131st Legislature), paid family and medical leave commission recommendations, summaryhttps://legislature.maine.gov/LawMakerWeb/summary.asp?paper=SP0800&SessionID=15

    Maine Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    The stand-alone bill, sponsored by Matthea Daughtry, then a senator; the summary page gives her later title, President. It passed the House but was left in the Senate's possession at adjournment and died.

    official legislative record

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