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Maine lawmaker wants consideration of racial impact of bills Follow Us Question of the Day By DAVID SHARP - Associated Press - Wednesday, February 3, 2021 PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A proposal to require some future legislation to include a racial impact statement is the first step in recognizing that “many of our laws have produced disproportionate outcomes” for racial minorities, the bill’s sponsor said Wednesday. Assistant Majority Leader Rachel Talbot Ross, D-Portland, is sponsoring the bill that creates a path for lawmakers to join counterparts in seven other states that already consider the racial impacts of legislation. The goal is to provide “impartial, objective and nonpartisan information to inform” the legislative process, said Talbot Ross, who’s the state’s first Black lawmaker to serve in legislative leadership.