Status: 3rd reading on 4/15
Position: Oppose
SB 165 would eliminate sanitation review for subdivisions of land that are greater than 500 feet from surface waters and exempt minor subdivisions of land from having to conduct a storm drainage review. It also appears to exempt expansions of systems designed for wastewater disposal, stormwater, and solid waste disposal from review.
Urgent Action!
Rep Frank Garner: (406) 752-5696, frankgarnerhd7@gmail.com
Rep Josh Kassmier: (406) 781-5386, JKASSMIER@LIVE.COM
Status: Waiting committee action in House Business and Labor
Position: Oppose
SB 323 would amend the Montana Administrative Procedures Act to require agencies to prepare economic impact statements for almost all of their proposed rule changes. Currently, if requested by 15 legislators this is already possible. The bill takes power away from agencies, no longer allowing them to propose or amend rules with economic impacts of $2.5 million or more a year. These rules would have to be passed through legislation. Rule-making would be limited between session years, and many stakeholders would be cut out of the process.
Action!
Noland, Mark (R) ‑ Chair, (406) 253-8982, marknolandhd10@gmail.com
Buttrey, Ed (R) ‑ Vice Chair, (406) 452-6460, ed.buttrey@mtleg.gov
Sullivan, Katie (D) ‑ Vice Chair, (406) 616-3914, katie.sullivan@mtleg.gov
Abbott, Kim (D), (406) 439-8721, kim.abbott@mtleg.gov
Anderson, Fred (R), (406) 761-4042, Unavailable email
Curdy, Willis (D), (406) 728-0981, Willis.Curdy@mtleg.gov
Duram, Neil (R), (406) 471-2356, Neil.Duram@mtleg.gov
Fitzgerald, Ross (R), (406) 467-2032, ross.fitzgerald@mtleg.gov
Funk, Moffie (D), (406) 461-6785, Moffie.Funk@mtleg.gov
Galloway, Steven (R), (406) 727-4963, galloway4mt@gmail.com
Gist, Steve (R), (406) 231-4050, steve.gist@mtleg.gov
Gunderson, Steve (R), (406) 334-4370, steve.gunderson@mtleg.gov
Harvey, Derek (D), (406) 490-5472, derek.harvey@mtleg.gov
Loge, Denley (R), (406) 649-2368, Denleylogehd14@gmail.com
Marshall, Ron (R), (406) 579-9498, ronmarshallmt87@gmail.com
Novak, Sara (D), (406) 691-0069, novak4hd77@gmail.com
Olsen, Andrea (D), (406) 543-2666, Andrea.Olsen@MTLeg.gov
Seekins‑Crowe, Kerri (R), (406) 208-6587, Kerri4MT@gmail.com
Whiteman Pena, Rynalea (D), (406) 477-8717, pena_rynalea@yahoo.com
Zolnikov, Katie (R), (406) 690-1684, unavailable email
Clerk: Jordee Bomgardner, Rm 468, 406-444‑1513
Staff: Jameson Walker, Rm 125, 406-444‑3722
Status: Waiting committee action in House Energy, Technology and Federal Relations
Position: Oppose
SB 379 is a radical corporate bailout bill that would force NorthWestern Energy’s customers to be a giant money printing machine for the company and its shareholders. In short, it would force customers of NorthWestern Energy to pay more than $1 billion for Colstrip Unit 4 – an astronomical sum for a 35-year-old coal-fired power plant that keeps breaking down. This puts the costs of remediation and environmental impacts on the ratepayers too, ignores the habitat costs of burning fossil fuel, and doesn’t even require that NorthWestern use the Colstrip plant to produce electricity! This bill had a hearing today!
Action!
1.If you are a Business owner or Ratepayer we need you to sign on and OPPOSE NorthWestern’s Billion Dollar Bailout.
Skees, Derek (R) ‑ Chair, (406) 212-5493, Derek.Skees@mtleg.gov
Zolnikov, Katie (R) ‑ Vice Chair, (406) 690-1684,
Hayman, Denise (D) ‑ Vice Chair, (406) 587-7229, denise.hayman@mt.gov
Binkley, Michele (R), (406) 375-0291, michele@binkleyformontana.com
Brewster, Larry (R), (406) 670-0929, Larry.Brewster@mtleg.gov
Custer, Geraldine (R), (406) 351-1235, jericuster@yahoo.com
Duram, Neil (R), (406) 471-2356, Neil.Duram@mtleg.gov
Kassmier, Joshua (R), (406) 781-5386, JKASSMIER@LIVE.COM
Kortum, Kelly (D), (406) 404-6643, kelly.kortum@mtleg.gov
Olsen, Andrea (D), (406) 543-2666, Andrea.Olsen@MTLeg.gov
Phalen, Bob (R), (406) 939-1187, Bob.Phalen@mtleg.gov
Sullivan, Katie (D), (406) 616-3914, katie.sullivan@mtleg.gov
Clerk: Brittany Bury, Rm 468, 406-444‑4876
Staff: Trevor Graff, Rm 171A, 406-444‑4975