{"id":17301,"date":"2017-04-24T17:22:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T23:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=17301"},"modified":"2017-04-24T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T23:22:31","slug":"legislative-update-monday-april-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2017\/04\/legislative-update-monday-april-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Update: Monday, April 24"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate rejects changes to political practices bill<\/h4>\n

By Freddy Monares<\/h6>\n

The Senate rejected amendments to a bill Monday that would require the now-independent commissioner of political practices to report to the state\u2019s attorney general and issue warnings to candidates before fining them for not complying with campaign laws.<\/p>\n

Senate Bill 368<\/a> would increase the money candidates could raise, but when the House passed it last week, it\u00a0also added the amendments the Senate rejected Monday.<\/p>\n

Sen. Tom Richmond, R-Billings,is the sponsor of the bill. Richmond especially opposed the amendment about the shift of supervision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich I think is a matter of policy that we didn\u2019t choose to go down that path,\u201d Richmond said.<\/p>\n

Last week, Gov. Steve Bullock said he had only seen an early version of the bill.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want it to impede the effectiveness and the abilities of the commissioner of political practices, but I\u2019ll take a close look at it if it gets to my desk,\u201d Bullock said.<\/p>\n

The bill will now go to a conference committee, made up\u00a0of members from the House and Senate, to resolve the disagreements.<\/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

Bullock vetoes trespass bill<\/h4>\n
By Cole Grant<\/h6>\n

Gov. Steve Bullock has signed more than 200 bills into law so far this legislative session, and he\u2019s vetoed 13. One of those recently vetoed bills would have\u00a0updated the state\u2019s trespass laws.<\/p>\n

House Bill 231<\/a>, among other things, would have required someone to have written permission or a valid rental agreement to be on residential property. If people didn\u2019t have either of those, or weren’t invited, they could be removed from the property immediately.<\/p>\n

In a hearing last month recorded by the Legislature, Great Falls landlord Chris Christiaens said it took him four months to get rid of an unwanted drug operation from a property he owned.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the time I got that apartment back in shape for renting,” he said, “it was $7,500. I don\u2019t know how many landlords can afford to have that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the veto letter, Bullock said the bill is un-neighborly and unconstitutionally vague. He also said expanding the criminal trespass definition this way won\u2019t work for law enforcement.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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