HELENA — A bill to establish a safe distance between cars and bicycles sharing the road was voted down by the Senate on Monday after Senate President Scott Sales called cyclists “self-centered” and “rude.”
HELENA — A bill to establish a safe distance between cars and bicycles sharing the road was voted down by the Senate on Monday after Senate President Scott Sales called cyclists “self-centered” and “rude.”
HELENA — A House committee on Tuesday endorsed a major tax simplification bill after adding 10 amendments, including one that would reduce state individual income taxes by $15 million a year.
HELENA — A Republican state senator’s bill to restrict eligibility for food stamps in Montana ran into a wall of opposition Monday, including the Bullock administration, Food Bank officials and other advocates for the poor and the hungry.
HELENA — On a partisan vote, a budget subcommittee on Monday stripped from the state budget the money to pay for the operation of the airplane used by Gov. Steve Bullock.
HELENA — Business and labor groups and others united last week behind a bill to give employers a tax credit of up to $1,000 for each apprentice enrolled in a program registered with the state.
HELENA — The contentious issue of transferring management of federal lands to the state got its first airing at the 2015 Legislature Monday, as a Republican senator presented her bill to prevent the state from selling any transferred land.
HELENA — The chairman of the Little Shell Chippewa Indians urged the Legislature on Monday to expand Medicaid to increase Native Americans’ access to quality health care.
HELENA — On largely party-line votes, the Republican-controlled House on Tuesday endorsed two bills to cut taxes by more than $120 million dollars over two years.
HELENA — Some Democratic legislators are critical and social-media posters are having a field day ridiculing a strict new dress code for the floor of the 2015 Montana Legislature.
