Montana Legislature
2011 LEGISLATURE
The MEA-MFT 2011 Legislative Voting Record is hot off the presses. How did your legislators do on our issues in the 2011 session? Click here to find out. (The voting record takes a moment to download.)
Apr. 29 - Game over. At last, the strangest legislative session ever has ground to a conclusion. Your MEA-MFT lobbyists are exhausted but grateful to all our great members to called, e-mailed, and rallied. Your help made all the difference.
We had many victories. We had painful losses, including the state pay plan, which makes it hard to celebrate the victories. For the first time in history, the legislature has rejected a pay plan that state employee unions and the governor bargained as the law directs.
The decks were stacked against us, with a Tea Party-controlled Republican majority that just did not care that the revenue was available for the pay plan, essential services, etc.
Take-home lesson: Please be very careful how you vote in 2012.
May 2 - State budget: where it stands.
Apr. 29 - Final priority bill status. Read more.
Apr. 28 - Victory on teacher tenure! Read more.
Apr. 26 - House rejects state pay plan, HB 13, for the second time. Read more.
April 12 - MT Veterans Home saved for the third time. See story & photos.
April 1 - 2,000+ attend MEA-MFT's No Fooling with our Future Rally. Read story, see photos and videos.
Putting a face on the budget cuts
March Sadness tournament bracket - Make your picks for the worst ideas of the 2011 Legislature. Read more.
Mar. 23 - HB 603 is one of the most dangerous school privatization bills ever introduced. Read more.
Feb. 21: More than 500 attended MEA-MFT's Rally for Public Services and Education! Read more.
Governor Schweitzer on jobs & education: "The best path to a higher-paying job is a good education," Gov. Schweitzer told the legislature in his State of the State address. Read more and listen.
Jan. 17 - Work That Matters Day of Action: Nearly 100 state and university members took part in MEA-MFT's Day of Action Jan 17, urging legislators to stop budget cuts, preserve state & higher education jobs, and pass the state pay plan. Read more.
The state budget battle: The money is there to fund essential public services, despite the legislative majority's protests. Read more.
Jan. 11 - Job killing move at the legislature. Majority Republicans at the 2011 Legislature voted to chop some $500 million from Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer's proposals for the next two-year period. Read more.
Time for a balanced approach: The legislature can't just cut its way out of economic hard times. It has to look at the revenue side of things too. For example: cracking down on out-of-state tax cheats that leave Montanans footing the bill. Read more.
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2009 LEGISLATURE
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2007 LEGISLATURE
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2005 SPECIAL SESSION
'05 special session voting record: Grade your legislators.
2005 LEGISLATURE
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2003 LEGISLATURE
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