2019 Montana Legislature
The 2019 Legislature’s last three loose ends
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Lawmakers funded the Montana Heritage Center museum with a bed-tax increase, but scuttled state preschool and a last-ditch effort to revive the ‘Save Colstrip’ bill
2019 Montana Legislature
Legislation aims to crack down on “illicit massage parlors” in effort to expand trafficking investigations
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Montana’s prostitution statutes don’t criminalize the buying or selling of non-penetrative sex. That means the state’s “illicit massage parlors,” as they’re referred to by law enforcement, weren’t breaking the law if workers provided sexual activity that didn’t involve penetration. A bill aims to change that by broadening the law to include “sexual contact that is direct and not through clothing” to the already prohibited exchange of sexual intercourse.
2019 Montana Legislature
Two Visions for Medicaid Expansion
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Medicaid expansion is going to be one of the most hotly debated issues the 2019 Montana Legislature will tackle this session, and Rep. Mary Caferro, D-Helena, and Rep. Ed Buttrey, R-Great Falls, will play critical roles in determining the final outcome.
Podcast
MT Lowdown – Episode 4: Methodology vs. Ideology
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Republican Rep. Eric Moore is leading a GOP effort to come up with a long-term solution to the state’s infrastructure funding problem. Can a new Republican plan to reshape the way the state funds infrastructure survive Gov. Steve Bullock’s veto pen?
Podcast
MT Lowdown – Episode 2: Minority Report
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Democrats may be in the minority in the Legislature, but the Governor’s veto pen gives them a seat at the table.