{"id":15771,"date":"2017-01-17T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=15771"},"modified":"2017-01-17T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T01:00:41","slug":"legislative-update-tuesday-jan-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2017\/01\/legislative-update-tuesday-jan-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Update: Tuesday, Jan. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Bill would ban energy drinks from SNAP purchases<\/h4>\n<h6>By Cole Grant<\/h6>\n<p>Montanans who get get government help buying food won&#8217;t be able to use benefits to buy energy drinks if <a href=\"http:\/\/laws.leg.mt.gov\/legprd\/LAW0203W$BSRV.ActionQuery?P_SESS=20171&amp;P_BLTP_BILL_TYP_CD=HB&amp;P_BILL_NO=153&amp;P_BILL_DFT_NO=&amp;P_CHPT_NO=&amp;Z_ACTION=Find&amp;P_ENTY_ID_SEQ2=&amp;P_SBJT_SBJ_CD=&amp;P_ENTY_ID_SEQ=\">House Bill 153<\/a> passes the Montana Legislature.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15776\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 140px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-15776 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vince-Ricci.png\" alt=\"VR\" width=\"140\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vince Ricci<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Vince Ricci, R-Laurel, explained his interpretation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP: \u201cIt is designed to stretch your food budget and buy healthy food. So my reason for bringing this bill is I don\u2019t see energy drinks as being a healthy food.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jessica Karjala, D-Billings opposes the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just think that really, the point of this legislation is to have the conversation, and to plant that idea in people\u2019s minds that poor people don\u2019t have good discretion, that they\u2019re not responsible for making good choices with their money,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It\u2019s vilification of the poor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House Human Services Committee will hear HB 153 Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><i>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.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill would ban energy drinks from SNAP purchases By Cole Grant Montanans who get get government help buying food won&#8217;t be able to use benefits to buy energy drinks if House Bill 153 passes the Montana Legislature. Rep. Vince Ricci, R-Laurel, explained his interpretation of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP: \u201cIt is designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":15776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1122],"class_list":["post-15771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-montana-legislature","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15771","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=15771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}