Task Force Will Meet TOMORROW!
Published: May 11, 2021
Local residents attend a public meeting in Havre on Monday 9-4-17 regarding the East End Fire. (DNRC Photo)
There s a Missing Indigenous Persons Task Force meeting scheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, morning. The meeting will be conducted from 10 o clock until 11:30. Don t worry about a thing.tomorrow morning s meeting will be via video conference. You should go to: dojmt.gov, & navigate to the Missing Indigenous Persons Task Force meeting agenda to learn more.
May 5 is the national day of awareness; it will now be locally recognized.
The governor signed three bills in late April in an effort to confront the MMIP crisis in Montana, the governor s office said in a release. The three bills provide the state and the tribes resources to follow data, raise awareness and step up interagency partnership to protect indigenous persons in Montana, the release continued.
HB 35 creates the Missing Indigenous Persons Review Commission at the Montana Department of Justice. HB 98 expands the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Task Force and the Looping in Native Communities (LINC) grant program. SB 4 expands the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Task Force.
PAUL HAMBY
ROB CHANEY
The Montana Legislature has ended this year with several bills making their way to Gov. Greg Gianforte that will have a lasting effect in the state s Indian Country.Â
Throughout the 2021 legislative session, 12 Indigenous people took their seats in the Montana House and Senate. The Montana American Indian Caucus this year was the largest since at least 1989, when the Legislature started collecting cultural heritage information from its members.
Marijuana rollout
After several contentious months, a marijuana implementation bill passed through the Legislature in late April. Along with detailing how much cannabis each resident can grow either as a business license holder or private citizen, House Bill 701 also stipulates for tribes where they can sell marijuana. Tribes can receive a business license to run a dispensary within 150 miles of the outside boundary of a reservation, according to the bill.
The Montana Legislature wrapped up its 2021 session Thursday having passed a $12 billion two-year budget, set a framework for spending $2 billion in federal stimulus money over the next four years and implemented policy to enact the state's voter-approved recreational marijuana law.
Governor Gianforte signs multiple pieces of legislation to address the MMIP movement kulr8.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kulr8.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.