The Environmental Quality Council will examine funding options for a number of state programs at its March 21-22 meeting. The meeting begins at 10 a.m. on March 21 in Room 172 of the Capitol in Helena.

The Montana Department of Revenue opened its first competitive bidding for alcohol beverages licenses since the new law was passed during the 2017 legislative special session in November. 

The Montana Department of Revenue announces a new property tax assistance program to help residential property owners whose land value is disproportionately higher than the value of their home.
 

The leadership of the Montana Legislature meets in Bozeman Dec. 13 to solicit  ideas for improving the people's branch of government. The meeting convenes at 10:30 a.m. in the Plant Biosciences Building, Room 108, on the MSU campus.

The Children, Families, Health, and Human Services Interim Committee and the House Joint Resolution 20 Subcommittee on transparency in health care pricing will not meet as scheduled next week, due to potential conflicts with the special legislative session that begins on Nov. 14.

The Law and Justice Interim Committee (LJIC) has canceled its Nov. 15-16 meeting. The meeting was canceled due to a special session called for that week. The LJIC's previously scheduled January 29, 2018, meeting will be extended one day to accommodate the agenda items planned for November.

The legislature's State Administration and Veterans' Affairs Interim Committee has canceled its November 14 meeting. SAVA's next meeting will be January 18.

The Legislative Services Division announced today that the Montana State Senate Committee on Committees released the tentative agenda for its November 10 conference call at 2:00 p.m. in room 102 of the state Capitol building in Helena.

The following schedule is for the November 2017 special session of the 65th Montana Legislature. All hearings will be held in the state Capitol building in Helena.

Along with undertaking standard agency reviews of three state agencies at its Nov. 7, 2017, meeting, the Economic Affairs Interim Committee (EAIC) will begin work on two of its three assigned studies. The EAIC will devote a full day on Nov. 8 to the third study, which is on workers’...