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One week before Gov. Greg Gianforte was scheduled to give his State of the State address to the Montana Legislature, a panel of lawmakers tabled and then revived one of

Thursday at a House Taxation committee meeting, Thane said he wanted schools across Montana to be able share a tax credit wealth more widely.

Many of Missoula’s Democratic candidates for the Legislature support having biologists, not politicians, make state wildlife decisions and improving hunter-landowner relations, based upon responses provided during a public conservation forum. The responses of Republican candidates are unknown because they didn’t show up.

Watson said he will be leaving his position on June 30 to take the role as the executive director of School Administrators of Montana, an organization that advocates for public

A former public schools superintendent and Montana legislator said the increased limit on a tax credit for education is creating unequal benefits after the cap for one program hit its maximum $1 million within minutes it was available.

Republicans on Wednesday passed a heavily amended elections bill that now establishes broad conflict-of-interest guidelines for judges in Montana, while prohibiting some political activities in dorms and other areas on public college campuses. The requirement for judicial recusals was added Tuesday as an amendment to a largely unrelated bill, and comes as Republican lawmakers have been escalating a fight with the judicial branch. Under the freshly amended Senate Bill 319, judicial officers woul...

Listen • 2:16 Republicans in the Montana House of Representatives have advanced a bill to increase the tax credit residents can claim for donations that help pay student tuition at private schools. The proposal follows a U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that Montana can’t exclude religious schools from the tax credit program. House Bill 279 would increase the maximum allowable state income-tax credit for donations to "student scholarship organizations" from $150 per pe...

Montana Lawmakers Advance Bill To Raise Private School Tax Credit Republicans in the Montana House of Representatives have advanced a bill to increase the tax credit residents can claim for donations that help pay student tuition at private schools. The proposal follows a U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that Montana can’t exclude religious schools from the tax credit program. House Bill 279 would increase the maximum allowable state income-tax credit for donations to "student scholarship o...

/ Montana Republican Rep. Becky Beard opens debate on Senate Bill 51 on the House floor March 16, 2021. A bill that would provide tax relief to telecommunications companies that install broadband infrastructure in Montana is one step closer to being signed into law. Elliston Republican Rep. Becky Beard said incentivizing companies to lay high-speed internet infrastructure would create jobs and economic activity in a state that currently ranks among the nation’s worst in broadband access. “...