Sage Grouse/ Vaccination/ Infrastructure/ Bank Liability/ Physician-Assisted Suicide

Missoulian: 11 grouse biologists question federal plans to protect bird
Greater Sage Grouse

Missoulian: Montana House endorses proposal to require chickenpox shot
HB 158: Revise and modernize immunization laws related to schools

Missoulian: Infrastructure debate reaches Montana House committee
HB 6: Provide for renewable resource grants

Missoulian: Distressed Montana homeowners oppose bills narrowing banks' liability
SB 280: Generally revise loan agreement statute of frauds laws
SB 281: Generally revise consumer protection damage laws
House Business and Labor -  3/12/15 03h 25m   Video

Missoulian: Montana House narrowly endorses bill banning physician-assisted 
HB 477: Clarify offense of aiding or soliciting suicide

Concealed Carry on Campus/ Bison Relocation

Missoulian: Bill for concealed carry on Montana campuses sparks debate
SB 143: Clarify constitutional provisions and law related to board of regents/u-system

Missoulian: Montana House panel hears bill to give counties say on bison
SB 284: Require approval of county commissioners for bison relocation

Campaign Finance/ Medicaid Expansion Dead/ License Plate Scanning/ Student Aid

Missoulian: Montana House sends campaign finance bill to panel seen as more favorable
SB 289: Revise campaign finance laws

Missoulian: GOP: Medicaid expansion will cost state more than $100M per biennium after 2020
HB 249: Create Healthy Montana Act to expand health care coverage to certain Montanans

Missoulian: House endorses bill banning use of license plate scanning in Montana
HB 344: Generally prohibit governmental use of license plate scanners

Missoulian: Obama aims to clamp down on federal student loan servicers
FACT SHEET: A Student Aid Bill of Rights: Taking Action to Ensure Strong Consumer Protections for Student Loan Borrowers
“Higher education continues to be the single most important investment students can make in their own futures.  Five years ago this month, President Obama signed student loan reform into law, redirecting tens of billions of dollars in bank subsidies into student aid. His historic investments in college affordability include increasing the maximum Pell Grant by $1,000, creating the American Opportunity Tax Credit worth up to $10,000 over four years of college, and letting borrowers cap their student loan payments at 10 percent of income. He has also promoted innovation and competition to help colleges reduce costs and improve quality and completion, including a First in the World fund. While these investments have helped millions of students afford college, student loans continue to grow. ”

Tribal Courts/ Federal Budget/ No Immunity for War Criminal

Missoulian: Tribes now free to prosecute non-Indians for certain crimes

Tribal Governments Able to Take Criminal Action on Non-Indians
HR 629: Violence Against Women Act of 2013

Missoulian: CBO projects $486B budget deficit, about same as last year
Updated Budget Projections: 2015 to 2025
“As it typically does after the President’s budget is released, CBO has updated the baseline budget projections it published earlier in the year. CBO now estimates that if the laws that currently govern federal taxes and spending generally remain in place, the federal budget deficit will total $486 billion in fiscal year 2015, about the same as the shortfall posted in 2014. However, because the nation’s output (its gross domestic product, or GDP) has increased, the deficit projected for 2015 represents a slightly lower percentage of GDP—2.7 percent—compared with 2.8 percent last year. In 2009, the deficit peaked at 9.8 percent of GDP; as recently as 2011 it was equal to 8.5 percent of GDP.”

Missoulian: Supreme Court declines to hear ex-Somali official's case
Supreme Court Docket:  Yousuf v. Samantar
Yousuf v. Samantar