April 2019
State-Tribal Legislative Updates
With the final days of the 2019 legislative session less than a month away, MBPC wanted to share updates on several key bills that would impact Indian...
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With the final days of the 2019 legislative session less than a month away, MBPC wanted to share updates on several key bills that would impact Indian...
Read moreOn March 29, the Montana House passed HB 658 to continue Medicaid expansion in Montana. As a quick recap, the 2015 Legislature expanded Medicaid...
Read moreOver the past several months, MBPC has been busy with the Montana Legislative session, but SNAP is – again – at risk at the federal level. Just...
Read moreIn March, with less than 10 days before the April 1 transmittal deadline for revenue bills, the legislature saw a number of proposals that would raise...
Read morePresident Trump’s 2020 budget, released on March 11, is a proposal that would make deep cuts to core public services and social safety net programs,...
Read moreOn Saturday, March 16, the House Committee on Human Services will hear two bills, both of which will continue Montana’s Medicaid expansion program,...
Read moreThe patchwork pattern of reservation lands in Montana today is the product of treaty violations and intentional efforts made by the federal government...
Read moreIn February, MBPC saw some important wins as bad tax bills that started making it through the legislative session died and some good legislation moved...
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