Legislature

They say the third time is the charm, but that doesn’t hold true for bills at the Montana Legislature. Today, February 3, a bill (HB 48) allowing electronic voter registration was tabled in committee.

A bill (SB 2) before the Montana Legislature would raise the state’s minimum wage by two dollars and five cent up to $10.10 an hour. Box Elder Representative Jonathan Windy Boy says a living wage would be around $15 an hour, but that $10.10 has a better chance of making it through the legislature.

Montana Republicans have voted to join a lawsuit seeking to limit their primary elections to those registered with the GOP.

Democrats are in the minority again at the Montana State Legislature, but that won’t stop Minority Leader Chuck Hunter and his party from trying to get their message out.

Today, Wednesday, November 12, lawmakers are meeting in Helena to choose their leadership in the Montana House and Senate. Below are the names of those chosen by state Republicans and Democrats for leadership.

The president keeps going on TV talking about bypassing congress. “I have a pen and a phone,” is one to the many sound bites we hear on the nightly news

Just months after Jenifer Gursky's announcement that she would be vacating her seat at the Montana legislature, another Missoula democrat has announced that her seat will need a replacement as well.

A member of the Montana State House of Representatives is taking steps toward calling a special legislative session on the issue of privacy that could occur before the scheduled 2015 legislative session.

The Montana Senate has wrapped up the final day of the 2013 session after more in-fighting and maneuvering over a bipartisan budget deal.

Gov. Steve Bullock says he will apply whatever pressure he can to resurrect a plan to use federal money to help the working poor buy insurance.