School Choice/ Tax Cuts/ Tax Holiday/ Beer/ Latino Population

Missoulian: Advocates throw political weight behind Montana ‘school choice’ bill  

SB 81: Provide tax credits for contributions to scholarship organizations 

 

Missoulian: State's dropping fund balance could imperil tax cut bills 

Appropriations Bills

Missoulian: Montana Senate panel tables bill to end oil, gas 'tax holiday'

SB 295: Eliminate oil & gas "tax holiday" and provide money for impacts and renewables   

Missoulian: Montana House committee hears bill to cut number of income tax rates to 3 

HB 581: Revise income tax using a tie to federal taxable income and repealing credits 

Missoulian: Fight over craft beer brews with 2 bills at Montana Legislature

LC 1429: Revise licensing for breweries and holders of beer and all-beverages licenses 

Missoulian: Rise of Latino population blurs US racial lines 

The Hispanic Population: 2010 

H.R.519: Uniting American Families Act of 2013

S.1: Immigration Reform that Works for America's Future Act 

Incme Tax/ Dark Money/ SKILLS Act

Missoulian: Montana House Republican proposes single income tax rate 

HB 532: Revise income tax using a flat tax rate and a tie to federal taxable income

HB 581: Revise income tax using a tie to federal taxable income and repealing credits 

Missoulian: Governor's 'dark money' bill hits committee

SB 375: Generally revise Montana campaign laws  

Missoulian: House GOP pushes bill streamlining job training  

H.R.803 : SKILLS Act 

“Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills Act or SKILLS Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) to revise requirements and reauthorize appropriations for: (1) WIA title I, workforce investment systems for job training and employment services; and (2) WIA title II, adult education and family literacy education programs.
Revises requirements to: (1) eliminate representatives of labor organizations from state workforce investment boards, and (2) specify that representatives of business on a board represent large and small businesses with immediate and long-term employment opportunities in in-demand industries and other occupations important to the state economy.
Requires a state board to assist the state governor by developing: (1) policies and programs that support a comprehensive statewide workforce development system, and (2) a statewide workforce and labor market information system.
Revises requirements for: (1) a state workforce development plan; (2) local workforce investment areas, boards, and plans; (3) one-stop delivery systems; and (4) the allotment of federal funds among states for employment and training activities.
Eliminates specific funding for adult and dislocated worker employment and training. Specifies state use of federal funds to set up a Workforce Investment Fund. …”

Medicaid/ Lighted Arrows/ Federal Gun Ban/ State Employee Pay/ County Populations

Missoulian: Gov. Bullock unveils bill to expand Medicaid in Montana  

HB 590:  Implement the Access Health Montana Program                              

Missoulian: Bill to allow lighted arrows fails at last vote 

HB 26: Allow lighted nock on arrows while big game hunting 

Missoulian: Montana Senate backs prohibiting enforcement of federal gun ban

HB 302: Prohibit state enforcement of any federal ban on semi-auto firearms/magazines 

Missoulian: Senate panel approves assault weapons ban

S.150: Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 

Missoulian:Montana House committee opposes bill for state employee raises

HB 13:  State employee pay plan

Missoulian: Census: Record 1 in 3 US counties are now dying 

County-to-County Migration Flows 

FWP Commission/ Gun Ban/ Tax Cuts/ Pensions/ Consumer Data/ Military Sexual Assault/ Welfare

Missoulian:  Governor overhauls Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission

Governor Announces Appointments to FWP Commission

 

Missoulian: Montana Senate backs prohibiting enforcement of federal gun ban

HB 302: Prohibit state enforcement of any federal ban on semi-auto firearms/magazines 

Missoulian: Montana House backs 2 bills to cut taxes for businesses

HB 523: Reduce corporation tax rate 

HB 408: Revise tax rate laws on mandated pollution control equipment 

Missoulian: 2 approaches to fixing pensions advance at Montana Legislature

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

HB 338: Provide for inflation, increase basic ent., per ANB & quality educator payment

HB 454: Provide funding for PERS defined benefit plan, revise GABA

Missoulian: Montana lawmakers look at consumer-data proposal

HB 572: Creating the Montana Right to Know Act

Missoulian: Military sexual assault victims detail humiliation

Live Webcast of Sexual Assaults in the Military Hearing,3/13/13 at 10:00 AM

Missoulian: House to vote on bill preventing welfare waivers

H.R. 890: PreservingWork Requirements for Welfare Programs Act of 2013

Big Dams/ Montana Budget/ Family Planning/ Mars Megaflood/ Wrongful Birth/ Military Cutbacks/ Liquor Licenses

Missoulian: Montana lawmakers consider adding big dams to renewable energy list 

SB 45:  Revise the renewable portfolio standard laws to include hydro expansions

Missoulian: Montana House panel OKs $9B budget on party-line vote
Missoulian: Republicans in Montana House reject attempt to restore family planning funds

HB 2:  General Appropriations Act
House Appropriations Committee Meeting, March 11, 2013
Discussion of family planning at 03:07:01
 

Missoulian: Similarities to Missoula megaflood seen on Mars, elsewhere on Earth 

NASA Helps See Buried Mars Flood Channels in 3-D 

“The estimated size of the flooding appears to be comparable to the ancient mega-flood that created the Channeled Scablands in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, in eastern Washington.

The findings are reported in the March 7 issue of Science Express by a team of scientists from NASA, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.”

Missoulian: Montana Senate committee considers ban on wrongful birth lawsuits 

HB 310:  Prohibit lawsuits for wrongful birth and wrongful life

Missoulian: Great Falls legislator proposes task force on preventing military cutbacks

HB 579: Establish task force on military missions and economic impacts in Montana

Missoulian: Montana House backs letting business owners have up to 3 liquor licenses

SB 120:Increase from 1 to 3 the number of liquor licenses an individual may have

Medical Marijuana / Nuclear Plants/ Snowpack

Missoulian: Montana medical marijuana advocates push final bill aimed at 2011 law

SB 377: Generally revise medical marijuana laws and regulate industry 

 Missoulian: Nuclear chief: US plants safer after Japan crisis

NRC Issues Annual Assessments For Nation's Nuclear Plants
 

Missoulian: Snowpack levels below average in Bitterroot Mountains 

Precipitation Totals

Montana Snowfall and Snow Depth, Extremes Table