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Montana Senate adopts substitute temporary rules, moves executive-review confirmations to on‑call committee
Summary
The Montana Senate on opening day approved a substitute set of temporary operating rules that reassigns the Senate's Executive Branch Review Committee to "on‑call" status and redirects its members to other committees; the motion passed 27-23 after floor debate.
The Montana Senate on opening day approved a substitute set of temporary operating rules that removes the standing Executive Branch Review Committee from the regular committee roster and places it in an "on-call" status, a change supporters said will free experienced members to staff other committees.
Senator Flowers, Minority Leader, moved the substitute motion to adopt the rules as distributed on members' desks and described the change as a reassignment of members from the executive review committee to other class 1 committees and a narrowing of bills that would go to the on‑call executive review committee…
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