Montana House advances competing bills on pot regulations
Iris Samuels, Associated Press
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HELENA, Montana (AP) The Montana House on Tuesday advanced three competing Republican plans for regulating recreational marijuana sales after voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure last year to legalize it.
The ballot measure allows for marijuana sales to begin next January and sought to divert a significant portion of that tax revenue toward conservation efforts. But bills advanced in the Republican-controlled House did not follow that plan. Democratic lawmakers criticized the legislation and said they wanted the Legislature to adhere to voters’ wishes.
Republican legislative leaders urged their caucus members to vote for all three proposals to give the Senate more options as lawmakers consider how to tax recreational marijuana sales and what to do with the new revenue. House Speaker Wylie Galt urged lawmakers not to look at the proposals as final products.
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State Rep. Hal Slager, R-Schererville, may some day deserve to be recognized as the man who saved Indianaâs wetlands.
Slager won unanimous approval by the House Environmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday for his plan to revise Indianaâs wetland regulations in response to specific issues raised by Hoosier farmers and home builders, instead of trashing the regulations altogether as proposed by Senate Bill 389.
âRather than trying to take a meat cleaver to this, we were a little more surgical and prescriptive in just trying to identify the problem and working within that,â Slager said.
Slagerâs amendment retains most state wetland regulations while clarifying the definitions of different types of wetlands, including exempting ephemeral streams created by rain or snow runoff from the definition of an isolated wetland.