The Montana Districting and Apportionment Commission will meet at 8:30 a.m. on February 19 in Room 137 of the State Capitol in Helena.

The collection and use of data in the criminal justice system and a demonstration by one of the Montana Highway Patrol's drug dogs took center stage during the Law and Justice Interim Committee's January meeting.

The 10-member Economic Affairs Interim Committee of the legislature will begin hearing from stakeholders in two of its assigned studies and from the alcohol industry at meetings running Feb. 12-13 at the State Capitol in Helena.

The Local Government Interim Committee met on January 15 for half day meeting during Legislative Week. The committee's main topics of discussion included additional funding for the MSU Local Government Center, the entitlement share growth rate calculation, and the study of alternative on-site wastewater treatment systems as outlined in SJ 3.

The MSU Local Government ...

The Transportation Interim Committee continues to track implementation of the federal REAL ID Act in Montana as well as keeping up-to-date on issues ranging from bicycle and pedestrian path funding to the use of de-icers on Montana's roadways.

The committee met Monday, January 13 in conjunction with Legislative Week and heard from a variety of ...