Maine Revises Workplace Drug Testing Law
On April 13, 2026, Maine Governor Janet Mills signed a law that updates the state’s substance use testing rules and further limits employers’ entitlement to conduct testing on employees and job applicants. 0:00 7:58 Quick Hits Maine Governor Janet Mills recently signed a bill that updates the state’s existing substance use testing law to prohibit arbitrary drug testing in the workplace. The new provisions permit drug testing based on reasonable suspicion of impairment, criteria-based testing, and random testing based on neutral selection methods. The law will take effect on July 29, 2026. The legislation updates Maine’s existing substance use testing law as follows: Employers are permitted to perform “criteria-based” testing. “Observable behavior” and “random testing” are defined. Employers are required to give employees and job applicants an opportunity to contest a “non-negative test result,” meaning “a test result that indicates the presence of a substance … above the cutoff level...