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Senate Judiciary advances MMIP advisory-council bill to improve coordination on missing and murdered Indigenous persons
Summary
HB545 would convert Montana's Missing Indigenous Person Task Force into an advisory council, add homicide investigators to membership, expand reporting requirements, and aims to improve multi‑jurisdictional coordination. Committee concurred on an amendment and passed the bill out of committee.
Representative Tyson Running Wolf, sponsor of House Bill 545, told the Senate Judiciary Committee the bill builds on prior legislation to address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP). He said HB545 creates new reporting sections, converts the task force to an advisory council, replaces a Montana Highway Patrol seat with a homicide investigator, and strengthens recommendations…
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