Exploring the realms of Animal, Vegetable, & Mineral in Montana: Sports, History, Ethics, and Voting Procedure

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Voting

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Procedure

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Category 1: Ethics

Legislative Services Division staff are

prohibited from performing this kind of

activity.

Partisan – including lobbying, calling constituents,

speechwriting, and similar activities.

State law also prohibits public employees from using "public time, facilities,

equipment, supplies, personnel, or funds" to solicit support for or opposition to a

ballot measure. Check out Hypothetical Scenario #4 on the 

Ethics Quiz

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Ethics

A legislator must disclose this personal or

private interest to the house to which the

member belongs.

What is a conflict of interest? 

Check out the

Ethics Quiz

 and JR 10-60

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Ethics

Article V, section 8 of the Montana

Constitution grants legislators this for

legislative acts, including speech or debate

during the legislative process.

What is immunity from suit?

As elected officials, legislators are accountable to the body, their

constituents, and the public. While a legislator may not suffer personal

liability statements made during the legislative process, some comments

may not be beneficial to the institution or the legislative process.

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Ethics

Each house has this committee to help

legislators determine if they should disclose a

conflict of interest.

What is the Ethics Committee?

Issues brought before the Ethics Committee must relate to the

actions of a legislator during session.

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Ethics

This statute prohibits legislators from

accepting compensation for promoting or

opposing the passage of legislation.

What is 2-2-111, MCA?

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Category 2: Voting

This majority is required to create state debt,

override the Governor’s veto, suspend a joint

rule, and amend the Constitution of the State

of Montana.

What is two-thirds?

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Voting

A caucus leader may not grant proxy voting in

this reading, unless a member is hospitalized.

What is the third reading?

See JR 1-50 (2)

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Voting

This majority is generally needed for a standing

committee to request the drafting and

introduction of legislation.

What is three-fourths?

See S 30-150 and H 30-50 (13)

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Voting

A member may change a vote within this

timeframe.

What is within one legislative day of the vote?

See H50-10 and S50-200

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Voting

Article V, section 11, of the Montana

Constitution requires a member to be

this.

What is “present and voting”?

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Voting

Category 3: Procedure

This is needed for a house or committee to call

itself to order and conduct business

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What is a quorum?

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Procedure

The Legislature, as the Committee of the

Whole, cannot debate a bill until this reading.

What is the second reading?

After the second reading, amendments may be offered and voted on. A bill defeated

here drops out of further consideration; a bill that passes the second reading will be

placed on the third reading calendar. See how a bill becomes law 

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Procedure

A committee may report one of these three

recommendations after it discusses and votes

on a bill.

What are “do pass,” “do pass as amended,”

and “do not pass.”

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Bills with “do pass” or “do pass as amended” reports are printed with any

reported amendments, and are placed on the second reading calendar for.

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Bills with "do not pass" reports are not placed on the second reading calendar

unless a motion is made to that effect and passed. If the "do not pass" report is

adopted, bill drops out of further consideration.

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Procedure

Motions to recess or rise, take from the table,

suspend the rules, and divide a question are

examples of what type of motion?

What is nondebatable?

More nondebatable motions can be found in H50-90

(House Rules) and S50-60 (Senate Rules).

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Procedure

Absentee or proxy votes are not allowed on

votes that are specified as this.

What is “present and voting”?

Members may be present physically or remotely. See H50-70(3)

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Category 4: Animal, Vegetable, & Mineral

You’ll find this state flower in spring and

summer, scattered across the plains and

tucked into the foothills of our mountains.

What is bitterroot?

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This Treasure State gem is rarer than

diamonds.

What is the Yogo sapphire?

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This duck-billed dinosaur’s name means “good

mother reptile,” and she serves as Montana’s

state fossil.

What is Maiasaura?

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This is the name of the faithful, four-legged

friend who accompanied Meriwether Lewis

and William Clark, defending the Corps of

Discovery from bears and other wildlife.

What is Seaman?

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Gold was first discovered in Montana in the

spring of 1858 at Gold Creek, just east of this

town.

What is Drummond?

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Category 5: Montana Sports History

This Chinook mascot “beats” its competition.

What are the Sugarbeeters?

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Montana Sports History

This Great Falls native and four-time Olympian

is regarded as the most decorated sports

shooter.

Who was Lones Wigger?

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Harlowton is home to Jawbone Creek Golf

Course, the only one in the world known to

contain this.

What is a cemetery?

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Montana Sports History

Ice Age hunters in what we now call Montana

used this to increase the velocity of their

spears.

What is an atlatl?

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This legendary Lodge Grass basketball player is

known for his ability to score from almost

anywhere on court.

Who was Elvis Old Bull?

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Montana Sports History