BILLINGS (KPAX) - Several bills impacting the LGBTQ community are expected to appear before the Montana legislature this session. Bills that seek to ban information about sex and sexuality, limit gender-affirming healthcare, and prohibit kids from seeing drag shows, are just a few LGBTQ rights ...
(UM Legislative News Service) At the half-way mark of the 2023 Montana Legislature, three House bills that would dictate how public schools in the state handle religion, prayer and sex education just barely made it to the deadline to stay alive. Rep. Greg Kmetz, R-Miles City, is sponsori...
— Rep. Zooey Zephyr (@ZoAndBehold)April 20, 2023 The issue came to a head Tuesday when Zephyr, the first transgender woman to hold a position in the Montana legislature, referenced the floor session's opening prayer when she told lawmakers if they supported the bill, "I hope the next t...
In between worrying about genitals, the recent session of the Montana Legislature managed to pass a number of bills that aim to crack down on drug trafficking, human trafficking, sex crimes, and violence. Thank God. 'Cause it's starting to feel like the wild west around here, especially in...
The measure now goes to Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte, who declined to say Friday if he plans to sign it into law. A statement provided by spokesperson Brooke Metrione said the governor "will carefully consider" all bills the Legislature sends to his desk. ...
These bills ban our art forms, our stories, our healthcare, and our very existence in Montana code.” The legislature has considered a bill that sought to ban drag story hours, but it has been amended. It has passed a bill saying it’s not illegal discrimination for a school student to...
Greg Gianforte signs one of three bills restricting access to abortion in Montana as sponsor of one of the bills, state Rep. Lola Sheldon-Galloway, R-Great Falls, watches in Helena, Mont., on April 26, 2021. Planned Parenthood of Montana filed a preemptive lawsuit Monday, April 10...
Zephyr, whose comments in the Montana Legislature have made her a prominent figure in transgender rights and in conversations about the muffling of dissent in statehouses, said in a statement Monday that she and her constituents were targeted “because I dared to give voice to the values ...
Constitution was that life begins at conception, so it would make it very difficult for anyone to have an abortion in the state of Montana,” he said. “That required 100 legislators to put that on the ballot and we just didn’t quite make it to that level in the Montana Legislature....
money on the islands and printed bills with the word "Hawaii" stamped across them. By October 1944, the U.S. government deemed the threat to have passed and took the bills out of circulation or used them in other islands in the Pacific. You may also like: How Halloween has changed in...