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Subcommittee F advances four bills: capital‑reserve requirement, renewable grants, cultural grants and a Preserve Montana funding removal
Summary
Subcommittee F advanced House Bills 6, 7, 8 and 9; members approved amendments requiring local capital reserve accounts and reallocated cultural grants while removing a $12,500 Preserve Montana operational grant pending reporting.
Subcommittee F of the Legislature’s Finance and Claims Committee took executive action on four bills and advanced each with amendments or as introduced.
House Bill 6 (renewable resource grants, part 1) was amended and passed. The amendment moved to add a requirement that local governments establish and continuously fund a capital reserve account before receiving grant funding and to restrict expenditures from that account to projects with a total estimated cost of at least $50,000. The amendment also removed a proposed project for the Missoula Public Library and added a $20,000 line for an irrigation district in Ravalli County. Senator Esp moved the amendment. The subcommittee recorded a unanimous vote in favor; the clerk summarized the result as “7 to nothing.”
House Bill 7 (second part of the renewable resource grant program) was taken up with an amendment that moved Granite County’s…
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