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House approves account to fund Missing Indigenous Persons Task Force after heated floor debate
Summary
The Montana House recommended that House Bill 83 create a state special revenue account to fund the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Task Force; debate on an amendment to bar use of state funds for the account drew strongly divided floor debate but the bill passed by voice vote and was reported as passed 100-0 on second reading.
Representative Jonathan Running Wolf, sponsor of House Bill 83, successfully pressed the House Committee of the Whole to recommend that the bill do pass. The bill would create a Missing Indigenous Persons Task Force state special revenue account to allow the task force to accept and generate funds to support equipment, operational costs and its mission, with an appropriation and an effective and termination date specified in the bill.
The bill’s sponsor said the task force was created to break down jurisdictional barriers that hinder investigations on Montana’s eight reservations and stressed the importance of funding to purchase equipment and maintain operations. “When an indigenous person goes missing on a reservation, the…
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