School Guns/ Campaign Finance

Missoulian: Bill easing penalty for guns at school dies in House

HB 320: Revise laws regarding firearms on school grounds

Missoulian: Montana Senate passes bill aimed at ‘dark money’
SB 289: Revise campaign finance laws

CSKT Compact/ Deicer/ Bullying/ Open Internet/ Homeland Security

Missoulian: State Senate gives initial OK to Flathead water compact
SB 262: Implement CSKT water rights settlement
CSKT Compact Education Session - Room 303 - Video
CSKT Compact Education Session - Informational Page

Missoulian: Senate advances bill to lower chemical levels in road deicer
SB 369: Requiring reductions in the use of certain chemical de-icers on Montana roads

Missoulian: House endorses bill that would ban bullying in schools
HB 284: Generally revise laws related to bullying

Missoulian: Regulators move to toughen Internet provider rules
FCC Live
Open Internet
Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet
“The Federal Communications Commission initiates a rulemaking seeking public comment on how best to protect and promote an open Internet following the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals' remand of portions of the Commission's 2010 Open Internet Order, 76 FR 59192(Sept. 23, 2011). In this document, among other things, we propose enhancements to the transparency rule, adopting the text of the no-blocking rule from the Open Internet Order with a revised rationale, and creating a separate screen that requires broadband providers to adhere to an enforceable legal standard of commercially reasonable practices. The proposed rules and the comment process that follows will help the Commission determine the right public policy to ensure that the Internet remains open.”

Missoulian: Homeland Security bill moves in Senate while House in limbo
H.R.240 A bill making appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security

Public Drunkenness/ Speed Limit/ Income Tax Cut

Missoulian: Public drunkenness bill wins 1st round
SB 360:  Revise public intoxication laws

Missoulian: Montana House turns down attempt to blast bill raising speed limits
SB 375:  Revise highway speed limits and heavy truck and truck tractor speed limits

Missoulian: Bill to cut Montanans' income taxes by $42M a year advances
HB 166: Lower state individual income tax rates

CSKT Settlement Tabled/ Coal Tax Money/ Deregulate Taxis/ Death Penalty Deadlock/ Union Bill

Missoulian: Committee tables Flathead water compact; sponsor plans floor vote
SB 262: Implement CSKT water rights settlement

Missoulian: Montana Senate panel OKs coal tax bills on party-line vote
SB 353:  Constitutional referendum to divert coal trust and create Build Montana program

Missoulian: Missoula lawmaker introduces bill to deregulate Montana's taxi industry

HB 532: Prohibit public service commission from limiting number of limo services

Missoulian: Montana House deadlocks on bill to abolish death penalty

HB 370: Generally revise death penalty laws

Missoulian: Right-to-work bill draws no support except for sponsor
HB 462: Allow free association by public employees

Oil Derailments

Missoulian: Feds predict 10 deadly oil-train derailments per year
Safe Transportation of Energy Products
Hazardous Materials: Enhanced Tank Car Standards and Operational Controls for High-Hazard Flammable Trains

“The low end of the range of estimated benefits estimates risk from 2015 to 2034 based on the U.S. safety record for crude oil and ethanol from 2006 to 2013, adjusting for the projected increase in shipment volume over the next 20 years. Absent this proposed rule, we predict about 15 mainline derailments for 2015, falling to a prediction of about 5 mainline derailments annually by 2034. The high end of the range of estimated benefits includes the same estimate of 5 to 15 annual mainline derailments predicted, based on the U.S. safety record, plus an estimate that the U.S. would experience an additional 10 safety events of higher consequence—nine of which would have environmental damages and monetized injury and fatality costs exceeding $1.15 billion per event and one of which would have environmental damages and monetized injury and fatality costs exceeding $5.75 billion—over the next 20 years.”

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