The House Business and Labor committee heard testimony on Thursday on a bill that would get rid of the $800 restrictions on the amount that can be won in a live poker game.
Senate Bill 148 would expand childrens’ access to legal representation with the hope of giving them more of a chance to tell the court what they would like to happen to them.
The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would provide $61,000 of the state’s money to pay for a grant program for training local, community-led search teams in missing persons cases.
The bill would make it easier for Montanans to get public counsel in a court of law essentially cutting out financial eligibility paperwork in some cases and immediately assigning a state-sponsored defense attorney.
A bill introduced into the Montana Legislature would allow coroners who are also peace officers to determine the cause of death in cases in which inmates die while in custody or being taken into custody.