Legislature wraps after months of work on taxes, health policy, education funding
The 69th Montana Legislature ended Wednesday after authorizing residential property tax relief and finalizing spending measures including a $16.6 billion budget bill to fund the state’s operations for the next two years.
The House wrapped up its business with little fanfare at 12:59 p.m. on a 96-4 vote to indefinitely adjourn, first giving final approval to tax bills that favored homeowners and drew protests just a day earlier from refineries, the Montana Chamber of Commerce and the state’s public utilities.
The Senate ended the session as it started, with members of the Republican leadership team chastising the chamber’s largest voting bloc — a group of nine Republicans and the 18-member Democratic minority — who voted together on an array of issues including residential property tax relief and Medicaid expansion opposed by Republican hardliners but supported by two-term Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte.
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