Face the State: 67th MT Legislature Sine Die
By: MTN News
and last updated 2021-05-02 09:00:55-04
On this weekâs Face the State, MTNâs Jill Valley is joined by Chief Political Reporter Mike Dennison and Reporter Jonathon Ambarian to discuss the 67th Montana Legislative Session coming to a close.
The 2021 Session concluded on April 29. This was the first legislative session in 16 years with a Republican in the governorâs office, and the Republican majorities in both houses saw it as an opportunity to achieve some of their long-held priorities that they hadnât been able to get through with a Democratic governor.
By: MTN News
and last updated 2021-05-02 10:47:45-04
On this weekâs Face the State, MTNâs Jill Valley is joined by Chief Political Reporter Mike Dennison and Reporter Jonathon Ambarian to discuss the 67th Montana Legislative Session coming to a close.
The 2021 Session concluded on April 29. This was the first legislative session in 16 years with a Republican in the governorâs office, and the Republican majorities in both houses saw it as an opportunity to achieve some of their long-held priorities that they hadnât been able to get through with a Democratic governor.
Some of the highlights from this year include a law
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Despite all the challenges brought by the pandemic, lawmakers in the 67th Montana Legislative Session are wasting no time in pushing through a deluge of bills some new and untested, some vetoed numerous times before, but all being considered in a new light with a Republican governor in office for the first time in 16 years.
Wednesday, March 3 marked the halfway point of the session and a key deadline called “transmittal.” Any general policy bills not attached to the state budget that have not advanced from the house they originated in are considered dead.