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Democrats on a Senate committee at one point walked out of the hearing.

SB 518 was one of two parental rights bills heard Monday morning in the Senate Judiciary Committee, the other coming from Rep. Kerri Seekins-Crowe, R-Billings. The committee also heard Seekins-Crowe’s bill that was the legislature’s second attempt at passing Legislative Referendum 131, which failed at the ballot box last fall, with new language that a parent could reject medical care for an infant not expected to survive; as well as a bill from Rep. Brandon Ler, R- Savage, to permit misgendering of transgender children in school.

Bills on cabin site sales and hunter education moved forward in the Legislature on Friday, while legislation to allow self-service technology for alcohol went down.

We’re on day 55 of the 90-day session. This week we’re talking about health care funding, childcare initiatives and vaccine bills.This is The Session, a look at the policy and politics inside the Montana statehouse.

Montana considers what would be the most flexible vaccine requirements in the nation, requiring virtually none with just a parents' written notification.