3/20/2021 Legislature Report – Parks & Recreation
Your Montana Trails Coalition and Montana Trails, Recreation and Parks Association keeps you informed and up-to-date about bills in the legislature that affect recreation and parks programs. This past two weeks have been extremely busy at the Capitol. Transmittal was March 3 which means general bills must be transmitted to the other chamber from which they originated. […]
3/15/2021 Legislature Report – Parks & Recreation
Your Montana Trails Coalition and Montana Trails, Recreation and Parks Association keeps you informed and up-to-date about bills in the legislature that affect recreation and parks programs. This past two weeks have been extremely busy at the Capitol. Transmittal was March 3 which means general bills must be transmitted to the other chamber from which they originated. […]
2/13/2021 Legislature Report – Parks & Recreation
TO: Parks and Recreation Friends GroupsFROM: Bob Walker, Montana Trails Coalition and Montana Trails, Recreation & Parks AssociationDATE: February 13, 2021 ** EDIT: detail of current bills, look to HB 281, the E-bike bill. In a prior bill, the following condition was included as 5(d) and said, “A local authority or state agency having jurisdiction […]
2/6/2021 – Parks & Recreation Legislature Report
2021 Legislature Report – Parks & Recreation TO: Parks and Recreation Friends Groups FROM: Bob Walker, Montana Trails Coalition and Montana Trails, Recreation & Parks Association DATE: February 6, 2021 Your Montana Trails Coalition and Montana Trails, Recreation and Parks Association keeps you informed and up-to-date about bills in the legislature that affect recreation and […]
1/29/2021 – Parks & Recreation Legislature Report
2021 Legislature Report – Parks & Recreation TO: Parks and Recreation Friends Groups FROM: Bob Walker, Montana Trails Coalition and Montana Trails, Recreation & Parks Association DATE: January 29, 2021 Our 67th Session of the Montana Legislature convened January 4. We anticipate several bills affecting recreation and parks programs. We will keep you informed of […]
Critical Legislative Update
⚠️ Critical Legislative Update ⚠️ Budget negotiations are underway in Helena this coming week that will determine whether a promising new funding source is invested in Montana’s outdoor spaces, or not. In November, Montana voters passed ballot initiative 190 which directed new revenue generated by the sale of recreational marijuana to expand public access, maintain […]
How To Work with Legislature in 2021
There is a lot going on in this legislative session already! Keep updated with by visiting our Legislative Updates page under Resources. Below is a message from our advisory board member, Bob Walker about how to get involved. How you can work with Legislature Recently several have requested information about working with our legislature. Following […]
1/17/2021 – Parks & Recreation Legislature Report
2021 Legislature Report – Parks & Recreation TO: Parks and Recreation Friends GroupsFROM: Bob Walker, Montana Trails Coalition and Montana Trails, Recreation & Parks AssociationDATE: January 17, 2021 Our 67th Session of the Montana Legislature convened January 4. We anticipate several bills affecting recreation and parks programs. We will keep you informed of those bills […]
1/2/2021 – Bill To Improve Summer Motorized Recreation Trail Grant Funds and Snowmobile Trail Pass
Senator Terry Gauthier has introduced SB 38 to the 2021 session of the Montana legislature that would make several improvements to the summer motorized trail grant funds and snowmobile trail pass. Development of this bill had input from Fish, Wildlife & Parks and other recreationists. For details, go to http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/law0203w$.startup?P_SESS=20211 and type in SB 38.There are also […]
Montana Trail Coalition (MTC) Report to MTRPA
I hope you are all receiving emails from the Coalition about legislation and MTC activities! I want to thank MTRPA for allowing me to represent MTRPA on the Coalition Board. Legislation Authority is needed for SB 24, the new Montana Trails Stewardship Grant Program. FWP will request authority as part of their appropriations request and […]
