Montana Legislature

Montana's 11% rate was the highest statutory top income tax rate among the states from 1988 through 1990, and from 1996 through 2004, according to the Institute's records, and California matched it in 1991, 1992, 1994, and 1995.

Montana legislators met in special sessions to balance the state budget or cover revenue shortfalls twice in 1992 and again in 1993 and 2002, according to the Montana Legislature's record of special sessions.

Montana ranked 15th among today's 50 states in per capita personal income in 1950 and no lower than 23rd through 1958, according to figures from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

It ranked 29th in 1965, 33rd in 1971 and 1981, and 48th, its lowest ranking, in 1996 and 1997, before ranking 47th in 2000.

Tell me you haven't been taking bribes from that creep

US Senator William Andrews Clark was caught up in a bribery scandal in 1899 when, according to records, he had bribed members of the Montana State Legislature for their votes.

In responding to criticism of his bribery, it was wholly reported that he said, "I never bought a man who wasn't for sale." I'll return shortly with act two

Mystery.

However, the waiver only includes commercial trucks, so don't expect to be running dyed fuel in your everyday pickup.

Even though it's been five years since the Montana Legislature ordered the abolishment of the biannual time change, Montanans will still be changing their clocks again here at the end of the month.

Tracy Taylor explains why the changing this ritual remains bogged down in bureaucracy.

Montana clocks fall back one hour at two AM, Sunday, November first, returning the state to Mountain Standard Time.

The Montana Supreme Court unanimously struck down a series of Republican-backed restrictions on citizen-led ballot initiatives this week, invalidating key provisions of a 2023 law that imposed an exorbitant filing fee, barred voters from reconsidering defeated measures for four years, and gave lawmakers a formal role in reviewing proposed initiatives before supporters could gather signatures.

In a defense of direct democracy, the state's highest court ruled that the Montana Legislature can adopt neutral rules to administer the initiative process, but it cannot use that authority to burden the people's independent constitutional power to make laws themselves.

The Constitution and its history demonstrate that the path for the people's lawmaking power was intended to have as few obstacles as possible before reaching the ballot and eventually becoming law.

Justice Beth Baker wrote for the court, "The path should be direct." The decision is a major victory for citizen-led democracy in Montana, where the state constitution expressly reserves the powers of initiative and referendum to the people.

That's what's going on over there.

Yeah, and I think, uh, for all, you know, the, the Montana Legislature is gonna come back into session here in January, just a few months from now, and I think they all need to be paying attention to this, uh, because like we said, that seems that-- the, the text of that post from the governor seems innocent until you have people all over the country telling you that's the same language they heard right before their state got invaded.

It is exactly the same language, and the nefarious part of that tweet that he put out, it wasn't about the tech industry or selling, uh, chickpeas to India.

That, that's irrelevant right now.