{"id":20249,"date":"2017-11-15T22:10:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T05:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=20249"},"modified":"2017-11-15T23:16:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T06:16:51","slug":"pieces-of-puzzle-still-missing-sessions-end-up-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2017\/11\/pieces-of-puzzle-still-missing-sessions-end-up-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Pieces of puzzle still missing, session&#8217;s end up in the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20250\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-20250 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/SideExterior-771x514.jpg\" alt=\"Capitol\" width=\"771\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/SideExterior-771x514.jpg 771w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/SideExterior-336x224.jpg 336w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/SideExterior-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/SideExterior-1170x780.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/SideExterior.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Stan Parker<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Legislators were still in the state Capitol late Wednesday, with the possibility of an imminent end to the session looming.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>HELENA\u2014It was unclear Wednesday night when Montana&#8217;s special legislative would end.<\/p>\n<p>By nearly 8 p.m., several pieces of the puzzles necessary to raise the money needed to bring the session to a close remained up in the air.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>One piece is Senate Bill 4, by Sen. Ed Buttrey, R-Great Falls, to charge the workers\u2019 compensation State Fund a temporary management fee for investing money with the state Board of Investments. This would raise $30 million over two years.<\/p>\n<p>The House rejected the bill 49-51, but later voted 65-35 to reconsider it later Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The House Appropriations Committee also has a hearing scheduled on HB6, by Rep. Nancy Ballance, R-Hamilton, on a bill to transfer at least $75 million from various programs&#8217; funds to help deal with a $227 million general-fund deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Some legislators were confident that the special session would adjourn later Wednesday night, while others were less optimistic as the night wore on.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock\u2019s office had no immediate comment on whether the bills still in play were acceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Bullock called the session to address the general fund budget and revenue deficit.\u00a0 State tax collections are coming in far lower than projected by the Legislature earlier this year. In addition, the state wildfire suppression fund was drained after the worst firefighting season in state history.<div class=\"well\"><div class=\"dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first\" id=\"_ad_652\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/mjhWkW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/201703_capeair_variable.jpg\" alt=\"CapreAir_Variable\" width=\"510\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18069\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HELENA\u2014It was unclear Wednesday night when Montana&#8217;s special legislative would end. By nearly 8 p.m., several pieces of the puzzles necessary to raise the money needed to bring the session to a close remained up in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":20250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[1122,6442,782],"class_list":["post-20249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-montana","category-news","tag-montana-legislature","tag-special-session","tag-steve-bullock","prominence-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20254,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20249\/revisions\/20254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}