Don’t quote me, but I believe that since it passed the senate by more than 2/3 majority, the Secretary of State will have to send ballots to all the Senators. I’m guessing House would vote on the override prior to adjourning.
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Is there a time limit on how long the Governor has to veto a bill once it reaches his desk? If so, and that limit fell within the next three days, it seems like a major error to vote to end the session when there is a chance he as already vetoed the bill. Or if the intent is to close the session why not wait to submit the bill an hour before voting to close the session?Good article over what happened:
Montana Legislature adjourns, but fight over marijuana money continues after governor's veto • Daily Montanan
The Montana Legislature adjourned the 2023 session on Tuesday – the 87th day of the session – finishing up the budget and signing off on millions of dollars’ worth of major infrastructure, pension and other spending projects.
More to come later today from the coalition of groups working on this. We're not giving up this fight yet.
I understand it this way, and someone can correct if I am wrong.
money now?And it reads like Fitzpatrick is happy it happened.
Good question. What is for sure is that it won't get spent on Habitat.Ok assuming this played out how we're reading and it's over, what happens to the
Incorrect. We went into this with a win-win. Even if GG gets his way on 442, we were able to play enough offense that we keep status quo which was HB 701 from the 2021 session which directs a large portion of the dope dough to Habitat Montana.
almost?
I was thinking along the same lines. I'm hopeful you're right on this. Feels like that's how it should be.
But wasn't part of the problem (part of the reason for the surplus) was that the money wasn't getting spent there at the level it was being collected? I think the original initiative in 2020 was like 50% of the tax rev. Just going off memory and haven't looked into the spending details, but I believe this was brought up. There was also a SB that tried to kill the whole legalization law - thank goodness for HM that got shot down. Either way, for all the groups that worked on this, I'm not sure it feels like a win-win.
He won’t have to offer an explanation. 98% of the people that voted for him did so because there was an R in front of his name.
No, unfortunately, they voted for him because of the disaster that the national D party has become, where it seems the major initiatives are making poor people pay more for food, gasoline, heating, and for some odd reason I can't fathom talking to little kids talk about sex. And, oh yeah, shutting down coal in Africa and killing a bunch of poor black folks, and enslaving their kids to dig for minerals for EVs.
