State Representative Brian Hubbell: Maine House District 135, 2012-2020
Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, and Lamoine
Governor Mills’ two-year budget proposal adds over $187 million in prospective funding for education from early childhood through college, including $126 million for K-12 schools.
The top lines of graph above show the cost of education over the …
After my first pass through the 600 page document, overall I like what I see so far in this budget proposal.
It funds expanded access to healthcare and — deliberately over two years — adds over $180 million to a comprehensive scope of supports for public education from early childhood through college. And it does …
This is an exciting milestone that will brighten Maine’s spot on the economic map. Scientific research leading to commercialization carries real promise for our state. I intend to work hard this legislative session to make sure that the state is a good partner in this effort and that we have a long-term economic plan to …
Great call! Maine will immediately benefit from good planning related to energy policy and economic development
I’m really looking forward to working collaboratively with a revitalized Office of Innovation headed by Hannah Pingree, particularly on energy policy and a state plan for research and development,
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One of the greatest honors of my life: getting sworn in to the 129th Maine Legislature, along with my colleague Drew Gattine, this morning as one of the first official acts of Maine’s new Governor Janet Mills. …
31 December 2018
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
As we enter 2019, I want to wish you a prosperous and healthy new year and to thank you for placing your confidence in me to represent you once again in the Maine Legislature. I remain grateful, honored, and humbled by your trust.
For my final legislative session …
Brian L. Hubbell
Age: 62
Residence: Bar Harbor
Party: Democratic
Present Employment: Self-employed project manager
Highest Level of Education Completed: Degree in architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Previous Elected Public Office(s) Held: School board member (10 years), State representative (six years)
I believe that elected officials are charged to engage faithfully to thrash out …
House District 135: Bar Harbor, Lamoine and Mount Desert (Map)
Brian Hubbell (D) – Incumbent
1. What is the biggest barrier to economic development in Maine and what can the Legislature do to address it?
At present, Maine’s economic development is hampered by having too few skilled workers and by the absence of a comprehensive …
25 July 2018
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Once again, despite being only yards from the finish line, your legislature evidently is stalled in deadlock. Nevertheless, in this summer’s special session, we have made some commendable progress and also been party to some heartbreaking failures.
As I reported in April, with critical bills still unresolved, …
Thank you, Madame Speaker.
I rise with grave concern that this bill, as engrossed, with its proposed dual and separate graduation systems selected by individual schools, severely weakens the state’s generation-long commitment to equity of educational opportunity and to greater expectations for meaningful and ambitious learning outcomes for all Maine students — at a …
Long and frequently frustrating day in Appropriations slogging to rebuild a supplementary emergency funding package intended to resolve critical business left unresolved when House Republican caucus forced legislative adjournment last month.
By 9:00 in the evening, our committee reached agreement only on fulfilling last year’s commitment to maintain the reimbursement rate increases for home-based direct …
26 April 2018
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
As the end of this legislative session took a sharp and irresponsible turn last week, I want to offer my perspective from the Appropriations Committee.
Traditionally, the major work of the Appropriations Committee is to integrate the governor’s budget request with the legislature’s own spending and policy initiatives …
27 March 2018
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
This morning the House voted on LD 1781: An Act To Encourage New Major Investments in Shipbuilding Facilities and the Preservation of Jobs.
The original bill sought to extend a state tax incentive of up to $3 million per year for capital investment by <a href=”https://www.gdbiw.com/”Bath Iron …
March 14, 2018
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Today’s snow day allows me an opportunity to report where things are midway through this legislative session. As always, I am grateful for your emails sharing your thoughts and policy concerns. Please let me continue to hear from you as we work through the next month or so …
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As 2017 ends, I wish you all a healthy and prosperous new year and want to outline my legislative agenda for 2018.
Medicaid expansion will bring approximately $525 million of federal funds to Maine to cover the medical expenses of individuals in Maine with annual incomes of less than $16,000 and two-person households …
Citizens’ referendum
In November of 2016, by a vote of 388,273 to 356,621 (52% to 48%), Maine passed a Citizen’s initiative, which established ranked choice voting for state and federal offices in order to assure that future elections were won by a majority of votes rather than a plurality. The ballot question read as …
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Here is a listing, sorted by policy committee, of the most contentious bills from the 2017 legislative session along with my positions on each one:
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On Monday, July 17, the Appropriations Committee held hearings on the 13 bond bills outlined below.
On July 19, the committee, recommended the three highlighted bills to the full legislature and carried the remaining bills forward consideration next year.
On July 20, the legislature enacted the $105M transportation bond bill LD 1552 and tabled until …
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Your next state legislature will begin work officially on January 4, so I wanted to offer a preliminary report and share my legislative agenda for the upcoming session.
From Education Committee to Appropriations
Last week Speaker Gideon appointed me to the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee which has oversight of the …
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
I am grateful for the confidence that voters of Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, and Lamoine have placed in me to represent this district for another term in the state legislature.
Over the last few months, as most of you know, I traveled over a thousand miles on my bicycle visiting nearly …
27 August 2016
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
It is time to speak up.
Since you first elected me to be your representative I have understood that you expected me to work diligently, collaboratively, and above all respectfully for the betterment and well-being of Maine.
As your elected representatives, my colleagues and I endeavor always to …
ENACTED (12 sponsored and 3 cosponsored):
…adds transcript-based credentials for student learning, phases in proficiency graduation requirements, clarifies alternate pathways to proficiency for students in CTE programs and students with disabilities
Enacted, signed by Governor on 4/19/2016
March 20, 2016
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
The last few very busy weeks have taken us into the height of this legislative session. (You can take a look at my public calendar if you’d like to see in detail.) As we wrap up committee work and shift more into bill enactment, I wanted to summarize …
March 7, 2016
Senator Langley, Representative Kornfield, Esteemed Colleagues on the Education Committee,
I am Brian Hubbell, representing House District 135, Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, and Lamoine, and I am here this morning testifying in favor of our committee bill, LD 1627 An Act To Implement Certain Recommendations of the Maine Proficiency Education Council.…
[OpEd in Bangor Daily News, Feb. 23, 2016]
Maine’s future depends on educating students who can think for themselves, write and speak clearly, and work together to solve complex problems. Accomplishing this requires reaching students who learn in different ways and at different paces and for whom the pathways of lifelong learning will …
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
As you know, I try to keep you informed with a sampling of current legislative policy debates and to report clearly my own positions on these issues. Below are two summaries from this week.
As always, please let me know your thoughts and concerns.
Tax ‘conformity’
As you may know, in …
January 16, 2016
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
As you probably know, two unprecedented papers came before the Maine House on Thursday for consideration, a Resolution to affirm our state’s values and principles which I voted for and which passed by a vote of 81-65 and an Order to create a committee to investigate impeachment which …
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We, the undersigned local and state elected officials, strongly support the goal to achieve more than 50 percent clean energy by 2030, putting us on the path to 100 percent clean energy sources by 2050.
This is a necessary and achievable goal. With the implementation of the Clean Power Plan, the EPA
I am honored to have been invited to the White House on Tuesday, Dec. 8 to meet with other state education leaders to discuss federal education initiatives.
Here is the reading list and agenda:
Pre-reading Material
High School Redesign
…Governor LePage addresses public forum at MDI High School, Bar Harbor
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Transcript from MDI HS video
Governor’s presentation:
Questions from audience:
…16 September 2015
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
With the summer now behind us, here is a review of the first legislative session which concluded in the middle of July.
In a defining way, the legislature united across many expected political divisions to override an unprecedented number of gubernatorial vetoes. I am proud of that bipartisan …
12 July 2015
BILLS ENACTED:
Sponsored bills enacted
…clarifies that public charter schools are subject to Maine’s learning standards, proficiency-based diplomas, and the state’s assessment system.
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Many of you have contacted me over the past few days with concern about Governor LePage’s recent vendetta threatening the funding of a charter school and ill-tempered remarks suggesting shooting a cartoonist and the execution of legislators.
Most of those contacts advocated that the legislature respond …
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
In the early hours of this morning, against many significant odds, your legislature enacted a state budget.
Briefly, I just want to let you know that in my view, while this budget has all the hallmarks and flaws of compromise which must be expected from a divided government, I beleive that …
June 13, 2015
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
As you may know, it’s been a very busy few weeks in the legislature. Through the previous two weekends, I have worked closely with the Appropriations Committee as they finalized their recommendation on the biennial budget, a document which will require much compromise to gain the necessary support …
May 17, 2015
Dear Friends and Neighbors in House District 135,
We are now about three-quarters of the way through this legislative session and committees are in their final weeks of working on bills. As bills are finalized in committee, after this coming week work will largely shift to the floors of the House and …
15 May 2015
LD 1270 An Act Regarding Patient-directed Care at the End of Life
Co-sponsor’s testimony
Senator Brakey, Representative Gattine, Esteemed Members of the Health and Human Services Committee, I am Brian Hubbell, representing House District 135, Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, and Lamoine, and I am before you this morning as a cosponsor of …
Dear Friends and Neighbors in Maine House District 135
As you may have heard, legislative leaders have recently presented an alternate proposal for the state budget.
This proposal reconfigures Maine’s tax structure differently from the way the Governor has outlined. Most significantly, this new proposal doesn’t leave a large unfunded hole in future …
April 12, 2015
Dear Friends and Neighbors in House District 135,
In your state legislature, we are now just over half way through this year’s session.
1335 bills have been published to date out of the perhaps 1600 or 1700 that we will deliberate before we adjourn.
You can see a list of the bills …
…The funds provided by this bond issue, in the amount of $5,000,000, will be used to purchase the Bar Harbor Ferry Terminal from the government of Canada and
College Affordability Gap
Source: Report of the Commission to Study College Affordability and Completion Commission,
To facilitate their understanding of college affordability and to quantify the current ability of Maine’s college students and their families to pay for a college education in Maine, the Commission made use of an Affordability Model developed for the …
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March 7, 2015
Dear Friends and Neighbors in Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, and Lamoine,
As I have promised to communicate with you on positions that I take as your representative on controversial issues, I want to give you an update on the decision that Maine faces this week in relation to our regulations regarding teacher …
March 4, 2015
Testimony of Rep. Brian Hubbell
LD 405: An Act To Support Expanded Capacity for Breeding Wild Atlantic Salmon in Downeast Rivers
Before the Joint Standing Committee on Marine Resources
Senator Baker, Representative Kumiega, distinguished members of the Joint Standing Committee on Marine Resources, I am Brian Hubbell, I represent House District 135, …
19 February 2015
Senator Brakey, Representative Gattine, distinguished members of the Health and Human Services Committee, my name is Brian Hubbell, I represent House District 135, Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, and Lamoine, and I am here this afternoon to present LD 205: An Act To Facilitate the Development and Operation of a Group Home for …
