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The House held its final vote Thursday afternoon on a budget bill that forecasts a $210 million surplus in the event expenses run higher or revenues come in lower than expected.

Lawmakers are still looking to adjourn Thursday.

Montana currently offers only education opportunities for those released after wrongful conviction, meaning their only recourse is to file civil lawsuits.

Hardin and Great Falls could be trying to patch $500,000 holes.

His initial bill called for the state to track their compliance every three months.

A bipartisan group of Montana lawmakers are meeting in Butte to address the development of a clear sexual harassment policy in the legislature.
While there have been no public reports of sexual harassment in the Montana State House, incidents in other state legislatures have led Montana lawmakers to …

The Montana Legislature’s Select Committee on State Settlement Accountability met for the first time this past week, but not everyone showed up.

A lot has been made of the 227 million dollar hole in the Montana budget that spurred the Special Session of the Montana Legislature this week, but one of the big debates among republicans was whether or not the deficit was real.

Montana Governor Steve Bullock has called a special legislative session for next week and while it has already been met with some criticism, House members on both sides of the aisle from western Montana are optimistic.

This fountain has been in Helena since 1916, but now a group of legislators say it is time for it to go.