Sex Law repealed/ Raw Milk/ Boston Bombing

Missoulian: Law that made gay sex a crime in Montana is repealed 

SB 107: Generally revise deviate sexual conduct laws

Missoulian: Senate revives, then kills bill allowing sale of raw milk in Montana 

HB 574: "small herd exemption"to certain laws related to the sale of milk

Missoulian: AG, FBI director to brief Obama on bombing probe

Updates on Investigation Into Multiple Explosions in Boston

Public Employee Pension/ Oil Development Impact/ Federal Gun Legislation

Missoulian: Montana Senate backs bills to fix teacher, public employee pension funds 

HB 377:  Increase contributions and funding for TRS, revise GABA  

Missoulian: Montana Senate endorses oil, gas development impact fund 

HB 218: Require Board of Oil and Gas to administer grant program for oil and gas impacts

Missoulian: Gun control backers: Senate defeat won't stop us

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 113^th Congress - 1^st Session (2013) 

Vote	Date	Issue	Question	Result	Description
00103	17-Apr	S. 649	On the Amendment S.Amdt. 714	Rejected	Lautenberg Amdt. No. 714; To regulate large capacity ammunition feeding devices.
00102	17-Apr	S. 649	On the Amendment S.Amdt. 720	Rejected	Burr Amdt. No. 720; To protect the Second Amendment rights of veterans and their families.
00101	17-Apr	S. 649	On the Amendment S.Amdt. 711	Rejected	Feinstein Amdt. No. 711; To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.
00100	17-Apr	S. 649	On the Amendment S.Amdt. 719	Rejected	Cornyn Amdt. No. 719; To allow reciprocity for the carrying of certain concealed firearms.
00099	17-Apr	S. 649	On the Amendment S.Amdt. 713	Rejected	Leahy Amdt. No. 713; To increase public safety by punishing and deterring firearms trafficking.
00098	17-Apr	S. 649	On the Amendment S.Amdt. 725	Rejected	Grassley Amdt. No. 725; To address gun violence, improve the availability of records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, address mental illness in the criminal justice system, and end straw purchases and trafficking of illegal firearms, and for other purposes.
00097	17-Apr	S. 649	On the Amendment S.Amdt. 715	Rejected	Manchin Amdt. No. 715; To protect Second Amendment rights, ensure that all individuals who should be prohibited from buying a firearm are listed in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and provide a responsible and consistent background check process.

CSKT Water Compact/ Medicaid/ Election Referendums/ Treatment for MT Addicts

Missoulian: Judge blocks vote on Flathead water compact 

Tribal Reserved Water Rights Negotiations. 

Missoulian: Montana Senate narrowly backs Medicaid alternative bill

HB 623: Generally revise laws related to health care and health insurance

Missoulian: Montana House backs election-related referendums 

SB 405: Referendum to revise close of late voter registration

SB 408: Referendum to provide top two primary in certain elections 

Missoulian: 10,300 Montana alcoholics, drug addicts to be eligible for treatment

SB 383: Generally revise health care insurance laws

School Funding/ Taxes/ Missoula College/ State Employee Pay/ Raw Milk/ Assisted Suicide/ Boston Bomb/ Selling TVA

Missoulian: Montana House backs historic rewrite of public school funding 

SB 175:  Generally revise public education funding

Missoulian: 1 income tax simplification bill survives at Montana Legislature

SB 282:  Generally revise taxation of income, including the corporate license tax

Missoulian: Montana Senate backs building bill, adds Missoula College back in

HB 5: Long-range building appropriations

Missoulian: Montana Senate backs bill for state employee pay raises 

HB 13: State employee pay plan

Missoulian: Montana Senate backs amended bill for sale of raw milk

HB 574: Establish "small herd exemption" to certain laws related to the sale of milk 

Missoulian:  Montana Senate rejects physician-assisted suicide bill

HB 505: Clarify offense of aiding or soliciting suicide

Missoulian: FBI: 'We will go to the ends of the Earth' tofind Boston Marathon bomber 

FBI: Updates on Investigation Into Multiple Explosions in Boston

Missoulian: Role reversal: GOP blasts Obama plan to sell TVA 

Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2014 contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the President’s priorities, budget overviews organized by agency, and summary tables. 

TVA 

“The Tennessee Valley Authority, a corporation owned by the U.S. government, provides electricity for 9 million people in parts of seven southeastern states at prices below the national average. TVA, which receives no taxpayer money and makes no profits, also provides flood control, navigation and land management for the Tennessee River system and assists utilities and state and local governments with economic development.”

Concealed Carry Veto/ MT Budget/ Patenting Genes

Missoulian: Governor vetoes bill allowing concealed carry without permit 

HB 304:  Generally revise concealed weapons laws

Missoulian: Montana Senate clears major budget bill

HB 2: General Appropriations Act 

Missoulian: Court: Can human genes be patented?

Association for Molecular Pathology, et al., Petitioners v. MyriadGenetics, Inc., et al.