The topic of marijuana tax revenue has been in the news several times over the last couple of months, as the fate of Senate Bill 442 (SB 442) from the 2023 legislative session is still unresolved. SB 442 passed through both chambers during the legislative process but was vetoed
As spring gives way to fire season, legislators are regularly briefed on fire danger, firefighting readiness, and the cost of putting out the flames. The Environmental Quality Council discusses fire factors at a meeting this week. But all Montanans have access to fire danger information, including two reports that
One duty of the State-Tribal Relations Committee (STRC) is to “encourage state-tribal and local government-tribal cooperation.” This interim STRC is examining two issues that affect counties and tribes: the use of satellite/alternative election offices on Indian reservations and the conversion of taxable fee land into nontaxable trust land. On
Conservation Districts are local government entities across Montana run by local elected supervisors. Districts perform an array of functions, all geared toward in some way toward conserving soil and water. Over the last decade, almost $10 million in state tax money from the general fund went to the 58 districts
