Hundreds of bills were left on the cutting room floor at the legislative session's midway point. Now, as lawmakers head into the second half, they're turning more of their attention to finalizing the state’s next two-year budget.
Host Corin Cates-Carney and reporters Ellis Juhlin and Eric Dietrich discuss what they're watching now that the Legislature has rounded the critical transmittal break.
Plus: If you missed last week's The Session Live: The First 45 Days, you can watch or listen to the discussion any time here.
Week 16: Separation of powers and the future of Colstrip
Week 15: Parental rights and competing tax bills for recreational marijuana
Week 14: Piecing the state budget puzzle together
Week 13: Judges, elections and recreational marijuana
Week 12: Tracking the budget in the House, a windfall of federal cash, and new rules for legalized marijuana
Week 11: The state budget takes shape and marijuana regulation coming soon
Week 10: What made it, and what didn’t, through the half-way point
Week 9: Transmittal Log Jam
Week 8: Taxes, Public Health and Labor Unions
Week 7: Vaccines, Coal, and Public Assistance Programs
Week 6: Tax Cuts, Right To Work and An End To Same Day Voter Registration
Week 5: Tribal Land Property Taxes, Partisan Committees, Child Welfare
Week 4: Affordable Housing, Voting, Teacher Pay
Week 3: MMIP, COVID-19 and Capitol Safety
Week 2: Gender, Guns and COVID-19
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