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HELENA — The Montana House of Representatives has passed House Bill 2, which combines about $10 billion of state and federal funding for state agencies for the next two years. The bill passed with a vote of 54-45 last week and now moves to the Senate. House Minority Leader Rep. Casey Schreiner, D-Great Falls, along with every other House Democrat, voted against the bill. Schreiner said he’s opposed to the cuts to full-time positions in the state health and human services department and not appropriating the roughly $30 million for public pre...
HELENA — Montana’s House of Representatives passed a controversial resolution last week that would urge the federal government to deny a bison grazing permit for a Bozeman-based conservation organization. The resolution led to a last-minute meeting of the House Rules Committee before lawmakers voted on it during a floor session. House Joint Resolution 28 is carried by Rep. Dan Bartel, R-Lewistown. It asks the federal Bureau of Land Management to deny a grazing permit requested by American Prairie Reserve (APR), a private organization that, acco...
UM Legislative News Service, University of Montana School of Journalism The Montana House of Representatives last week advanced legislation that would require a two-third vote majority for the Legislature to transfer funds out the state’s fire suppression account. The governor would still hold the authority to pull from the fund, as well. Speaker of the House Greg Hertz, R-Polson, is carrying House Bill 276 and said on the House Floor during the bill’s second hearing that it was proposed in response to the historic 2017 fire season that drained...
Mykal and Julie Funk underestimated the cost of housing when they moved to Missoula three years ago and spent six months living in their car. Julie, 38, was born with spina bifida. She is paralyzed and uses a wheelchair. Her partner of 17 years is 38-year-old Mykal, who has Asperger’s syndrome and suffers from back pain and other ailments. Medicaid, the state-federal partnership that helps some of Montana’s poor with health care costs, has always covered Julie. But Mykal wasn’t able to get coverage for himself until the 2105 Legislature expan...
