{"id":16943,"date":"2017-04-03T16:39:41","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T22:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=16943"},"modified":"2017-04-03T16:39:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T22:39:41","slug":"legislative-update-monday-april-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2017\/04\/legislative-update-monday-april-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Update: Monday, April 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eric Moore<\/p><\/div>\n

Raise for care workers rejected<\/h4>\n

By Cole Grant<\/h6>\n

All day Monday, Montana senators debated the state\u2019s $10 billion-plus budget.<\/p>\n

Sen.\u00a0Mary Caferro, D-Helena, carried one of the more expensive amendments in the Senate that would have added a dollar an hour per year to the wages of workers who care for seniors and disabled Montanans.<\/p>\n

The amendment failed, as did similar ones throughout the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to recognize that there are a lot of people left on the table that are not going to get their needs met,” Caferro\u00a0said. “And I think if this doesn\u2019t get fixed down the road, we\u2019re going to find in the next two years that we\u2019ll be hearing from people in our districts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sen. Eric Moore, R-Miles City, said giving money to programs like these would be a\u00a0worthy act.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we have to come and say fiscal realities have to hit some time,” he said. “Where are you going to cut? Where are you going to offset?\u201d<\/p>\n

House Bill 2<\/a>, the state\u2019s main budget bill, passed the House 58-40 last week before moving to the Senate.<\/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.<\/i><\/p>\n

For Senate sergeant-at-arms, no concealed weapon<\/h4>\n
By Freddy Monares<\/h6>\n

The House of Representatives unanimously rejected a Senate amendment Monday that would have allowed the Senate sergeant-at-arms to carry concealed weapons on public property.<\/p>\n

The Senate added the amendment to House Bill 280<\/a>, which would allow lawmakers to carry concealed handguns on public property. The amended bill passed the Senate in March on a 32-to-18 vote.<\/p>\n

Bill sponsor, Rep. Randy Brodehl, R-Kalispell,\u00a0spoke against\u00a0the amendment.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately they did not include the sergeant-at-arms on our side. I\u2019m asking for a do not concur, as being only fair to the House of Representatives,\u201d Brodehl said.<\/p>\n

Sen. Pat Connell, R-Hamilton, introduced the amendment during debate on the bill in the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis gentleman, as sergeant, has the responsibility to protect all our hind ends,\u201d Connell said.<\/p>\n

The bill will now be sent to a combined committee of House and Senate members to resolve disagreements on the bill before being sent to the governor.<\/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.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Raise for care workers rejected By Cole Grant All day Monday, Montana senators debated the state\u2019s $10 billion-plus budget. Sen.\u00a0Mary Caferro, D-Helena, carried one of the more expensive amendments in the Senate that would have added a dollar an hour per year to the wages of workers who care for seniors and disabled Montanans. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":16944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1122],"class_list":["post-16943","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\/16943","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=16943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16946,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions\/16946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}