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<\/a>Bill would ban sales of culturally significant Indian artifacts<\/h4>\n<\/a>Bill would ban sales of culturally significant Indian artifacts<\/h4>\nRepresentative George Kipp III of Heart Butte wants Montana to ban the sale of culturally significant Native American objects.\u00a0House Bill 114, which Kipp is carrying, would do just that.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt does not say you can\u2019t make them, hang them on your wall if you\u2019re an artist,” Kipp said. “But when you got to try to sell them, it\u2019ll discourage you from doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kipp wants the same respect given to endangered species to be given to these objects. He uses the example of getting caught trying to sell a ceremonial pipe that has eagle feathers on it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd they\u2019ll say, \u2018Oh, you got four eagle feathers on this pipe. You have broken a law. You are trying to sell this pipe.\u2019 So you have violated the law of the feather, but how about the object itself?\u201d<\/p>\n
The bill sets fines at however much the object is worth or a prison sentence of six months, or both.<\/p>\n
There was no opposition to HB 114 at the House Business and Labor hearing Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
Cole Grant is a reporter with the UM Legislative News Service, a partnership of the University of Montana School of Journalism, the Montana Broadcasters Association and the Greater Montana Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lawmakers in Helena are considering a bill that would pull money from a highway special revenue fund to pay for highway construction projects.<\/p>\n Speaker Pro Tempore Greg Hertz is sponsoring House Bill 203 and says it\u2019s an emergency.<\/p>\n \u201cWe just can\u2019t be holding these projects, and these jobs, hostage while we want to debate this situation about the gas tax increase,\u201d Hertz said.<\/p>\n Gov. Steve Bullock\u2019s budget calls for paying for highway projects through increasing the gas tax. Rep. Kelly McCarthy, D-Billings, says the highway department is required to keep a certain amount of working capital in the account.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we funded all these projects, it would probably spend about 200 days a year in a negative balance, and then you have to borrow money and pay interest and things to that nature,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n A House budget committee will hear the bill Thursday.<\/p>\n Freddy Monares is a reporter with the UM Legislative News Service, a partnership of the University of Montana School of Journalism, the Montana Broadcasters Association and the Greater Montana Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bill would ban sales of culturally significant Indian artifacts By Cole Grant Representative George Kipp III of Heart Butte wants Montana to ban the sale of culturally significant Native American objects.\u00a0House Bill 114, which Kipp is carrying, would do just that. \u201cIt does not say you can\u2019t make them, hang them on your wall if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":15664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5362,5363,917,1122],"class_list":["post-15679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-george-kipp-iii","tag-greg-hertz","tag-kelly-mccarthy","tag-montana-legislature","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fund eyed for highway projects<\/h4>\n
By Freddy Monares<\/h6>\n