Montana State Legislature
2015-2016 State-Tribal Relations Committee
About State-Tribal Relations Interim Committee
The State-Tribal Relations Committee acts as a liaison with tribal governments in Montana, encourages state-tribal and local government-tribal cooperation, conducts interim studies as assigned, and may propose legislation and report its activities, findings, or recommendations to the legislature.
The Committee's work plan outlines how it will carry out its statutory duties and assigned study. It also identifies the topics which the committee, as well as the tribal governments which the committee visits this interim, have prioritized for discussion.
- REPRESENTATIVE ALAN DOANE (R)--Vice Chair
- REPRESENTATIVE EDWARD GREEF (R)
- REPRESENTATIVE GEORGE KIPP III (D)
- REPRESENTATIVE ZAC PERRY (D)
- SENATOR JILL COHENOUR (D)
- SENATOR JENNIFER FIELDER (R)
- SENATOR KRISTIN HANSEN (R)
- SENATOR JONATHAN WINDY BOY (D)--Chair
State-Tribal Relations Interim Committee Topics
- Agenda
- Minutes Log
- Cover memo to STRC about August meeting
- Cultural Patrimony
- House Bill No. 585, 2015
- 43 CFR 10.2 Definitions
- Other states' funding statutes for BIE schools
- Montana Indian Language Preservation Program statute
- STRC interim wrap up
- Draft committee bill to remove redundant language from tribal college reimbursement statute
- Language immersion program proposals:
Proposal #1: Expand program eligibility
Proposal #2: Allow state funds to be used as matching funds
Proposal #3: Provide funding for an annual conference
Proposal #4: Fund an immersion program on each reservation and in Great Falls - Draft committee report
- Agenda
- Minutes Log
- Cover memo to STRC about July meeting
- SB 410
- Tribal Colleges
- Tribal Colleges in Montana: Funding and Economic Impacts
- Revenue and expenditures for MUS Units and Tribal Colleges, 2013-14
- Staff and salary data, MUS Units and Tribal Colleges, 2013-14
- Memo to STRC re: suggested cleanup of 20-25-428, MCA
- Charter schools on reservations
- Montana American Indian Student Achievement Data Report, Fall 2014, OPI
- Map of Montana schools, Montana State Library
- For This Place, for These People: An Exploration of Best Practices Among Charter Schools Serving Native Students
- Accrediation standard variances for charter programs, 10.55.604(11), ARM
- ICWA
- Memo to STRC re: Yellowstone County statistics
- Yellowstone County Dependent/Negligent case statistics
- Yellowstone County Dependent/Negligent case summaries
- ICWA Court Proposal
- Protect Montana Kids Commission Report and memo to STRC
- New federal ICWA regulations, final
- Agenda
- Minutes Log - March 22, March 23, and March 24
- Indian Child Welfare Act glossary and flowchart
- Foster care and adoption payments and subsidies, DPHHS Child and Family Services Division
- Federal payments to tribes for child welfare services, LFD
- Memo from Elaine Willman, CERA
- American Lands Council public policy statement
- Indian youth suicide prevention funding
- Letter to DPHHS Director Opper objecting to planned use of funding
- Director Opper's letter of response to the STRC
- Agenda
- Minutes Log
- S. 1419, amended version
- Draft letters of support
- Background paper, Senator Tester's Office
- Agenda
- Minutes Log
- Memo to committee
- Study of state-tribal tax agreements
- Tax agreement comparison charts
- Tax agreement legal underpinnings
- State-tribal revenue sharing memorandum, Andrew Huff
- Gas tax agreement payment calculations, FY 2016
- Federal transportation funding payments to tribes in Montana
- Alcohol and tobacco tax distributions, FY 2010-2015
- Fort Peck oil and gas production tax agreement
- Study of the state's implementation of the Indian Child Welfare Act
- Study of cultural patrimony and sacred objects and sites
- State suicide review team report, 2014
- Final STRC work plan
Proposed Rules for STR
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STR Legislation
The STR will begin to develop draft legislation based on its findings in the fall before the 2017 Legislative Session. The committee's legislative proposals will be listed here at that time.
