
Jobs
Hire Montanans First Act
Buy Made in Montana Act
Rural Prosperity
Expand the Apprenticeship Tax Credit
Invest in Broadband infrastructure
Renewable Energy Worker Training Grants
Paid Family Leave
Childcare incentives
Education
Protecting health & safety of students (remote learning resources; lunch debt waiver, Special ed. funding)
Reduce college debt, build the state's workforce (funding for 2-year institutions; career and technical ed. in middle and high schools)
Investing in Montana's future leaders (public pre-K; college tuition freeze; Student Borrower Bill of Rights)
Support good-paying jobs (Quality Educator Payment; Apprenticeship Tax Credit: protect pensions)
Agriculture
Support good-paying manufacturing jobs (funding for the Growth Through Agriculture Program through the Coal Severance Tax Fund to help Montana producers and manufacturers to create more good-paying jobs via value-added agriculture)
Support COOL (beef and pork)
Montana meat (support local meat processing: Made in Montana/Grown in Montana labels for meat)
Hemp as a crop (invest in infrastructure; work to open feed market to hemp; treat hemp producers fairly)
Supporting "Right to Repair" legislation for ranchers and farmers
Veterans
Increase investment into suicide prevention.
Create a Veteran Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Council
Expand access to rural broadband and telemedicine
Preserve and protect Medicaid Expansion
Strengthen authorization and acceptance of VA education benefits for curriculum and programs
Provide for equal and fair treatment of National Guard members
Increase the apprenticeship tax credit for veterans and military technical training and certification
Streamline Occupational Licensing reciprocity for military family members
Support elementary and secondary school transition to include children of the National Guard and Reserve
Support military families members entering the workforce
Support veteran outreach to ensure services are being delivered
Support a program for donors to give hunting licenses to disabled veterans
Public Lands
Protect and expand Public Access
Strengthen Habitat Montana
Public Access Lands Act (open landlocked public
Block Management (better compensate landowners while still allowing
Unlocking public lands (promote this increase landowner participation)
Advocate to expand and maintain Fishing Access Sites
Protect Stream Access
Healthcare
Protect the health and safety Montanans through COVID-19 pandemic
Preserve and Montana's Medicaid expansion
Protect Montanans pre-existing conditions
Bring down the cost prescription drugs
End price gouging by Big companies
Increase access behavioral and rural health care
Workers
Presumptive health coverage for PTSD for first responders, law enforcement and fire fighters
Workplace Health Safety Standards
Predictive Scheduling
Fair Work week
Prevailing Wage Enforcement
Apprenticeship Utilization
Support Unions
Best Value Contraction
Affordable Housing support