This act requires insurance coverage for contraceptive supplies. These supplies must be provided without any deductible, coinsurance, copayment or other cost-sharing requirement for at least one contraceptive supply within each method of contraception approved by the FDA.

This act establishes a state policy on smart grid infrastructure including employment of a smart grid to improve power reliability as well as the overall efficiency of the power resource and delivery system while reducing energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and costs to consumers, in part by offering consumers greater choice and information about their electricity consumption. The bill allows transmission and distribution utilities to recover reasonable costs associated with creating a smart grid. It also directs the Public Utilities Commission to examine the need for and feasibility of creating or designating a special entity in each transmission and distribution utility service territory to facilitate a rapid increase in the availability and use of smart grid functions.

This act allows licensed retail pharmacies in Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand and entities that contract with those pharmacies to export prescription drugs by mail to state residents for their personal use.

This act allows an eligible employee in a state-approved work-sharing plan to receive a weekly work-sharing benefit equal to the product of the regular weekly unemployment benefit amount multiplied by the percentage reduction in the employee's usual weekly hours. For an employer to participate, the employer must submit and have approved by the Commissioner of Labor a work-share plan that, among other things: identifies the affected unit or units and eligible employees; certifies that the reduction in the usual weekly hours of work is in lieu of temporary layoffs that would have affected at least 10% of the eligible employees in the affected unit or units; reduces usual weekly hours under the plan by not less than 10% and not more than 50%, spread equally among eligible employees in the affected unit; specifies the manner in which the fringe benefits of the eligible employees will be affected; and is approved, in the case of eligible employees represented by a collective bargaining agent, by the collective bargaining agent that covers the affected eligible employees. The work-sharing plan cannot serve as a subsidy of seasonal or intermittent employment. This act is repealed effective February 28, 2014.

The act enables a health care professional who makes a clinical diagnosis of a sexually transmitted disease to provide expedited partner therapy for the treatment of the sexually transmitted disease if in the judgment of the health care professional the sexual partner is unlikely or unable to present for comprehensive health care, including evaluation, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases. Expedited partner therapy is limited to a sexual partner who may have been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease within the previous 60 days and who is able to be contacted by the patient.

This act requires landlords to provide tenants with a disclosure statement about energy efficiency within the rented property. The act also directs the Public Utilities Commission and the Maine State Housing Authority to develop suggested energy efficiency standards for residential property used by tenants.

This act allows secondary students to participate in career and technical training programs through secondary and post-secondary courses that earn credits towards an associate degree. The education programs will be established by a cooperative agreement between a secondary school, career and technical education program, and a public post-secondary school in the State. The agreement will be governed by a collaborative board composed of representatives of the public school. The board will have the responsibility of implementing a non-duplicative learning pathway for a participant-specific career and technical education program. The board must structure the program to begin in the student's junior year and end after a student's senior year of secondary school, include a college freshman seminar experience, provide college coursework that contributes to a general associate's degree and offer career assessment and advising and job-shadowing opportunities.

This act creates the comprehensive family life education program for students in kindergarten through grade 12. Comprehensive family life education programs teach human development and sexuality, including education on family planning and sexually transmitted diseases, that is medically accurate and age appropriate. The curriculum should develop skills in communication, decision making and conflict resolution, which contributes to healthy relationships. The curriculum promotes abstinence, but addresses the use of contraception. The act includes an opt-out provision enabling parents to remove their children from the program.

This act provides for the creation of Low-Profit Limited Liability Companies. A low-profit limited liability company (L3C) is a legal form of business entity in the United States that was created to bridge the gap between non-profit and for-profit investing by providing a structure that facilitates investments in socially beneficial, for-profit ventures while simplifying compliance with Internal Revenue Service rules for Program Related Investments.

The Credit for Educational Opportunity is a component of the Job Creation Through Educational Opportunity Program available after 2007. The purpose of the program is to provide an income tax credit for education-related costs for Maine resident individuals who obtain an associate or bachelor's degree from a Maine college, junior college or university and who, after graduation, live, work and pay taxes in Maine. The credit is available to qualifying graduates and employers making eligible education loan payments.