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After a tumultuous journey through the Montana Legislature and state courts, a once-popular bill to allocate millions from marijuana tax revenue for conservation and county road improvement projects has failed.
Just 24 senators and 41 representatives voted in favor of overriding the veto, which needed the support of two-thirds of both chambers in order to pass, and 68 lawmakers did not cast a ballot.
After a tumultuous journey through the Montana Legislature and state courts, a once-popular bill to allocate millions from marijuana tax revenue for conservation and county road improvement projects has failed.
By the time the override poll went out last month, it appeared the merits of Senate Bill 442 had become secondary to the fight between GOP lawmakers and the judiciary.
Nearly a year after Gov. Greg Gianforte vetoed a widely supported, bipartisan bill to redistribute Montana’s marijuana revenue and send millions to fund county road projects just as the Senate