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(Rep. Roy Hollandsworth, R-Brady,. voted in favor of moving ahead with the pay plan.. Reps.. Stephanie Hess, R-Havre, Mike Lang. R-Malta, and G. Bruce Meyes, R-Box Elder, voted no. HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Representatives have failed to take up pay raises for state employees in the House as a whole. Montana's House of Representatives voted 44-55 on Saturday to deny consideration of House Bill 13, which had been tabled in the House Appropriations Committee on Friday. The bill is likely dead. Under the proposal, state employees wou...
Alvin J. "Alley Cat" Caplette, 66, of Rocky Boy, passed away of natural causes on Thursday, March 26, 2015, at the Kindred Transitional Care & Rehabilitation Center of Great Falls. Wake services will begin at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 28, 2015, at the Alvin Caplette residence on Cypress, and will continue until he is moved to St. Mary's Catholic Church at 3 p.m. on Sunday, March 29, 2015. He will remain at St. Mary's until his funeral service, which will be at 10 a.m. Monday,...
Rep. Roy Hollandsworth voted no. Reps. Mike Lang, Stephanie Hess, R-Havre, and G. Bruce Meyers, R=Box Elder HELENA (AP) — The Montana Legislature turned away a proposed referendum Friday that if enacted by voters would have given people grounds to disobey any state laws that violate their religion. After a heated floor debate that moved the bill sponsor to raise his camouflaged Bible, state representatives failed to pass House Bill 615 on a 50-50 vote. The bill resembles a recent Indiana law that allows open discrimination f...
Sen. Kris Hansen, R-Havre, voted for the closure. Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, voted no. HELENA (AP) — State senators have endorsed a plan to close over the next two years the Montana Developmental Center in Boulder. By a vote of 41-8, senators passed Senate Bill 411 on second reading Saturday. The proposal would create a committee to design a specific route to fully closing the center on July 1, 2017. It would reduce the number of clients housed there by the end of 2016. Democratic Sen. Mary Caferro of Helena s...