The HJ 35 Tax Study Committee, a subcommittee of the Revenue Interim Committee, continued its study of the state and local tax system in a video meeting on May 13. The three topics for the meeting were rescheduled from the cancelled March meeting: property tax, individual income tax, and corporate income tax.

The committee concluded ...

The Children, Families, Health, and Human Services Interim Committee requested bill drafts related to three of its interim studies after hearing additional study-related information at videoconference meetings in May.

Meanwhile, members decided to wrap a fourth study -- involving prenatal drug use -- by recommending that the 2021-22 interim committee review the results of work currently being ...

Chronic wasting disease may not be the illness of the moment, but the neurological ailment continues to threaten deer, elk, and moose in Montana.

The Environmental Quality Council (EQC) continues its work examining policies related to chronic wasting disease (CWD) at its meeting May 27-28. Members of the bipartisan council are meeting via Zoom teleconference starting ...

Montana lawmakers specializing in water policy will continue their work on the Water Court's future. The Water Policy Interim Committee will discuss the court and other topics in three, 2-hour zoom sessions held May 18-19.

Revisions to state law may be necessary to handle an avalanche of late water rights claims within the decades-long adjudication of historic water rights, according to a proposal in front of the Water Policy Interim Committee.