On April 15 the Judiciary Committee discussed the condo lien bill in what is called “work session”. I was there, along with other members of the Maine legislative Action Committee of CAI. It was evident that the committee was badly split on the bill. We discussed the bill with individual legislators on the committee and with representatives of the banking industry, which opposes the bill, to see if we could find some common ground. It didn’t appear that there was any common ground.
The Judiciary Committee finally decided to table the bill for at least two weeks. As of this date, the Committee has not rescheduled the work session.