BACKGROUND HJR 2 (2013) established an interim committee to create and recommend a comprehensive public records bill. The intent was to reorganize the current laws dealing with public records maintenance, retention and public release. It was not intended to change current policy on making public records available for public inspection…
Read MoreBACKGROUND The Resort Tax, Title 7, chapter 6, part 15, MCA, has been an economic blessing for those resort areas that qualify under the limited definitions. The reality is all cities and towns would equally benefit from having a similar type of local sales tax on defined goods and services.…
Read MoreBACKGROUND Some cities and towns experience sudden growth due to causes such as explosive natural resource development. This rapid, unforeseen growth challenges these cities and towns to meet the need for increased municipal services. Many times these impacts are unpredictable and the impacted municipalities cannot immediately afford the increased costs…
Read MoreBACKGROUND Currently when an incident response results from activation of the state disaster and emergency plan, the Governor may by executive order use appropriated state money only for the incident response costs of the state and may not use any of it to reimburse local government or tribal government for…
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