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
A new Montana law allows the eight federally recognized tribes the opportunity to sell marijuana across most of the state.
January 1, 2022 was the inaugural day for the recreational marijuana market in Montana pursuant to a voter initiative and a new law. For the next 18 months, former medical marijuana
Leaders of the Montana Legislature deemed Jan. 26 as a Training Day for lawmakers. All legislators are invited to the capitol that Wednesday for refresher courses on campaigns and ethics, preparation of legislation, and other topics. Legislators can talk one on one with technical staff as well as researchers and
The 2021 Montana Code Annotated (MCA) is available online. Published by the Montana Legislative Services Division, these are all the laws passed by the 2021 Legislature integrated into all previous laws that were not altered last session. The web version of the MCA contains the full statute text and
The 2021 Legislative Session is in the books. Now you can read them. Posted online this week are the Session Laws. These are the bills that survived both chambers and the governor’s office. The 2021 Montana Code Annotated will drop in December. (These are all the laws of Montana,
The State-Tribal Relations Committee elected Rep. Tyson Running Wolf (D-Browning) and Sen. Jason Small (R-Busby) as its chair and vice chair, respectively, on Friday during the committee’s initial meeting of the 2021-22 interim.
The STRC also established the framework for its work plan, choosing to spend about half of
