The Legislative Services Division Website for the 2007 Montana Legislative Session is Now Available. Pipeline already getting clogged

The Legislative Services Division of the Montana Legislative
Branch announced today that the Legislative Automated Workflow System
(LAWS) website has been activated and is now available in preparation
for the 2007 regular legislative session.

LAWS is an up-to-the-minute database application used for updating and
tracking bill status. The web interface portion of LAWS provides public
access to bill status, bill text, various reports, and other
legislative information. It contains detailed information on all bills
and bill drafts prior to, during, and after the Montana legislative
session. During a legislative session, floor agendas, journals, and
floor action summaries for both the house and senate chambers are
available from LAWS. Committee hearing schedules are also available
during the session.

You can use http://www.leg.mt.gov/session.htm to go to the 2007 session
main page and link to LAWS from there, or you can go directly to LAWS
using http://www.leg.mt.gov/laws.htm.

Contributed by Jim"

For more information:
Jim Gordon
LAWS Webmaster
444-2493
[email protected]

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Bill proposals already clogging state pipeline

By CATHY SIEGNER

The next session of the Montana Legislature may be 10 months away, but serious efforts are already in the works to craft legislation and plan strategy to get it passed, while others intend to bypass legislators and go straight to the voters.

Gov. Brian Schweitzer has already announced his plans to make the revolving door between politicians and lobbying jobs a little longer to get through, and other initiatives are on tap to restrict the use of eminent domain, limit state spending, raise the $5.15-per-hour minimum wage and give voters a second chance to buy the dams back from two private utilities.

Full Story: http://www.billingsnews.com/story?storyid=19186&issue=312