2019 LEGISLATIVE VOTING REVIEW A S n a p s h o t o f t h e Vo t i n g R e c o r d o f B i l l i n g s A r e a S t a t e Le g i s l a t o r s . 2019 SESSION A SUCCESS

The 66th Legislative Session concluded on Thursday, April 25, 2019. Over the course of 87 legislative working days, our legislators engaged in the thoughtful process of amending and creating law. With over 1,300 bills introduced, the Billings Chamber commends and thanks our citizen legislators for the countless hours and late nights reading, discussing, and debating Montana's future. While we might not always see eye-to-eye on certain issues or a vision for our future, the Billings Chamber of Commerce is grateful for the sacrifice of our legislators every two years.

We also thank our chamber members, the wonderful employers in our community that grow our economy and provide our economic prosperity. Especially those who traveled to testify, or communicated with legislators to tell your story and share your perspective. Your testimony is not only influential, but helpful as well. Legislators appreciate a first-hand understanding of the impact a bill may have on business. Thank you to our chamber members for your efforts throughout the session.

The 2019 Session was a success for our chamber community. Despite missing an opportunity to pass our 406 Impact Districts bill this session, there were many accomplishments to celebrate. After failing to pass the legislature in the last two sessions, a bonding bill is headed to the Governor's desk, with $80 million of needed economic development and infrastructure projects. Medicaid expansion, which needed to be reauthorized, passed with the inclusion of work requirements and another reauthorization vote scheduled for 2025. Along with passing some good bills, we also successfully defended our businesses from harmful bills such as a substantial minimum wage increase and a proposal to establish a new carbon tax.

As a service to our members, we aim to inform you on how our legislative body voted on some of the important bills considered during this legislative session. While we can only provide a snapshot of the thousands of votes taken throughout the session, we hope you find the information useful. As you have conversations with legislators throughout the interim and during the 2020 campaign season, please refer to this scorecard as you consider your vote.

Our work is not over: the Billings Chamber of Commerce is always advocating for our members. It is our mission to lead the community in local, state, and federal issues impacting business and our quality of life. We will review the lessons learned, craft a strategy for moving forward, and continue the work that remains, building off of the progress we've made so far.

Thank you again to our membership for your engagement. We look forward to working for you.

Daniel Brooks Business Advocacy Manager Billings Chamber of Commerce Scorecard Methodology The logic of selection

// BILL SELECTION // FAVORING BIPARTISANSHIP Bills were selected with While the selected bills appear consideration for our policy to favor Republican sponsorship, issues, and an emphasis on bills 1 3 a conscious effort was made to with floor votes from both House select bills that garnered and Senate. This allows you to see bipartisan support. Besides the how legislators voted and chosen committee votes, all of compare their votes to the rest

0 0 the bills used for scoring were of our delegation. bipartisan.

// COMMITTEE VOTES // CALCULATING SCORES A few committee votes were Voting Scores were calculated by selected as well. While those only taking the number of Business

2 show a few votes taken by our 4 Positive votes and dividing by the delegation, rather than our entire total number of votes. Instances body of legislators, we think they where legislators were excused or are important issues our members absent were not factored in to

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// Jason Small | | | | | | | | | N |V | | N |V | | N |V | | | 100%

// Doug Kary | | | | | | | | | N |V | | N |V | | N |V | | | 69% // Roger Webb | | | | | | | | | N |V | | N |V | | | | | | 53% // Mary McNally | | | | | | | | | N |V | | N |V | | N |V | | | 94%

// Jen Gross | | | | | | | | | N |V | | N |V | | N |V | | | 94% // Margie MacDonald | | | | | | | | | N |V | | N |V | | N |V | | | 94% // | | | | | | | | | N |V | | N |V | | N |V | | | 63% // Tom Richmond | | | | | | | | | N |V | | N |V | | | | | | 94%

// David Howard A|B | | | | E |X | | | N |V | A |B N |V | A |B N |V | | | 42%

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// N|V | | | | | | | | N |V | | | N |V | N |V | | | 53%

// Rae Peppers N|V | | | | | | | | N |V | | | N |V | N |V | | | 93%

// S. Stewart Peregoy N|V | | | | | | | | | | | | N |V | N |V | | | 75%

// Peggy Webb N|V | | | | | E |X | | N |V | | | N |V | N |V | | | 57%

// Dale Mortensen N|V E |X | | | | | | | N |V | E X| E |X N |V E |X N |V | | | 64% // Daniel Zolnikov N|V | A |B | | | | | | N |V | | | | | N |V | | E X| 79% // Bill Mercer N|V | | | | | | | | N |V | | | N |V | N |V | | | 67% // Kathy Kelker N|V | | | | | | | | N |V | | | N |V | N |V | | | 93%

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// N|V | E |X | | | | | | N |V | | | N |V | N |V | | E X| 69%

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The next few pages // SECTION HEADER provide additional context on the bills selected HB = House Bill above, and how they fit Color-coded to SB = Senate Bill into the Billings Chamber scorecard section Chamber Position priority sections. Please BILL # Up = Support refer to the key on the Red = Republican Down = Oppose Blue = Democrat Bill Sponsor right as you read through Bill Result the bills. Bill Name Check = Passed "x" = Failed Each bill has a summary section describing what the bill does and why it is important.

// ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOOLS SB 340 HB 652 HB 52 Roger Webb Mike Hopkins 406 Impact Districts Bonding bill Economic development programs The 406 Impact District bill would Providing $80 million of funding for A group of economic development have enabled the creation of impact infrastructure and economic programs was due for districts in Montana communities development, the bill needed a 2/3 reauthorization this session. These that approved a plan for civic majority to clear both House and programs include: Growth through infrastructure development and Senate. In the bill is $16 million for Agriculture; Small Business committed $300 million of Romney Hall, $9.6 million for 26 Development Center; Certified new private investment in the water and wastewater projects, $3 Regional Development Corporations; district. SB 340 was an integral million for seven bridge projects, and and the Montana Manufacturing component to the One Big Sky $1.3 million for a water line at Extension Center. Amendments to District plan in Billings, a priority for Makoshika Park campground, among the bill stripped Research and our leading community many other projects. Passage of the Commercialization funding and set a organizations. The scoring for this bonding bill will help address our new sunset for reconsideration in bill is on the Senate blast motion. numerous critical infrastructure 2027. Coal Severance Tax interest needs in Montana. funds these critical programs. // TOURISM INDUSTRY SUPPORT HB 293 SB 24 SB 338 Terry Gauthier Terry Gauthier Film tax credits Opt-out increase for Construct MHC and trail development museum grants Provides a tax credit for film There is an optional light vehicle Establishes the Montana Museums production companies for 20% of registration fee that funds state Act and increases the lodging tax by expenditures and a post-production parks, fishing access sites, and the 1% to pay for the construction of the tax credit for 25% of qualified wages operation of state-owned facilities. Montana Historical Center. By FY incurred in the state of Montana. The The bill raises the optional fee from 2021 the increased funding is intent is similar to the expired Big $6 to $9 and takes some of the expected to reach $9.3 million. In Sky on the Big Screen Act, which additional funds to be used towards 2025, when MHC is completed, the aimed to incentivize production a grant program for funding trails additional 1% is reallocated and companies to choose Montana when and recreational facilities. Revenue partially goes toward tourism deciding where to film movies and raised is expected to be around partner marketing and promotion for television shows. Attracting media $2,000,000 per year, starting in FY Montana. Additionally, the bill production highlights our state and 2021. With federal trail funding directs the Dept. of Commerce to provides employment during the diminishing, new sources are allocate $400,000 to the Moss process. necessary to build our trail systems. Mansion for repair and maintenance. // PUBLIC SAFETY SB 147 HB 190 HB 749 M. MacDonald Daniel Zolnikov Human trafficking Authority to set Human trafficking school zone speed limits The bill clarifies some definitions, Prior to passage of HB 190, Montana In conjunction with SB 147, this bill including what constitutes law forbade a local authority to helps to counter the problem of prostitution. It also adds protections reduce speeds around a school or human trafficking by doing three for victims of human trafficking and senior center lower than 80% of the things. First, it requires massage aggravating penalties to offenders posted speed limit. For instance, if a therapy businesses to display who pay for intercourse or sexual school is built on a road with a 45 massage licenses for each of the contact when the sex worker is a mph speed limit, the school zone therapists working at the business. human trafficking victim. Prior to limit could be set no lower than 35 Second, it allows law enforcement or passage of SB 147, it was legal in mph--far too fast when school a designated official to inspect the Montana to patron a sex worker for children are present. The bill omits business to ensure compliance with sexual contact that did not include the 80% specification and now the first requirement. Lastly, it penetration. Meaning, certain acts of prohibits school zone speed limits creates a two-person human prostitution were legal in Montana. from being reduced to "less than 15 trafficking enforcement team at The bill passed almost unanimously. miles an hour." Dept. of Justice. // BUSINESS CLIMATE HB 345 SB 266 HB 581 Mary Dunwell Significant minimum Business tax credit Require timely wage increase licensure Proposed an incremental increase of A payroll tax credit for qualified new Mandates timely licensure by the Montana minimum wage from its employees. An employer can apply professional and occupational current $8.50 per hour to an for a tax credit certificate by boards. In issuing routine licenses eventual $15 per hour, an increase of showing qualifying net job growth at for a board, the department shall $6.50 per hour. Nearly doubling the more than 10 employees within the issue a license within 45 days from current minimum wage rate, we first year and at least 15 in the time of receiving a completed would expect to see fewer employers subsequent years. New employees application or, within 10 calendar hiring and conversely fewer people must be employed 6 months, earn at days, provide notice and response being hired. Such a substantial least $45k plus benefits, and not timelines to the applicant of increase would chill economic have been previously employed or deficiencies in the application or growth and be harmful to both replacing an employee. The bill provide information as to any exigent businesses and the unskilled provides significant business circumstances that may delay issuing workforce seeking employment. This investment incentive and job a license. scoring was on the motion to table. creation.

// EDUCATION HB 218 SB 152 HB 351 Sue Vinton Dick Barrett W. McKamey Career & technical Repeal sunset on 6-mill Transformational education education levy learning Co-sponsored by 11 Billings-area T he 6-mill education levy has been As another innovative solution to legislators, the bill would have on the ballot and reauthorized every developing our workforce, appropriated $1.85 million each year 10 years, including last election, transformational learning is a of the biennium for Career & since it was passed in 1948. It is flexible system of pupil-centered Technical Education. $1 million estimated to raise around $21 learning designed to develop the full would go to eligible programs in million each year of the upcoming educational potential of each grades 9 - 12 and up to $850,000 biennium to go towards educational student. It allows students to focus must be spent on eligible programs in programs in the Montana University on nontraditional or trade grades 6 - 8. Montana is far behind System. The bill, co-sponsored by a careers. School boards interested in its neighboring states in funding CTE bipartisan group of 6 Billings-area developing a program apply to the programs. This bill would have legislators, would eliminate the Board of Public Education, which will provided around $40 per student, far ongoing 10-year reauthorization, review and approve programs until short of ID (~$600), ND (~$400), and making the 6-mill levy permanent. the appropriated $2.6 million is SD (~$230). exhausted. // NATURAL RESOURCES SB 189 HB 286 HB 403 Dick Barrett Alan Redfield Barry Usher Establish a carbon tax Revise water rights Revise coal tax laws

Proposed a $10 per ton tax on Bill declares that a well or developed Removes the 10 year sunset date on carbon dioxide equivalent emissions spring whose diversion works is the reduced tax rate of 2.5% on coal on large emissions sources. It would located on private land for use on gross proceeds from a new distribute revenue to the residents state land in connection with a state underground coal mine. It also of Montana through an income tax land lease does not result in an extends by 10 years the reduced tax credit worth $120-$140. Because of ownership interest in the state of rate of 2.5% on proceeds from Montana's minute carbon dioxide Montana. The bill clarifies that the existing underground coal mines. The emissions, relative to the world, this state of Montana can only assert an continued abatement helps our bill is more of a political statement ownership interest if the well or energy industry by providing than a practical solution. It would developed spring is located on trust certainty in the tax structure, our have put our businesses at a land, put to use on trust land, and the state by keeping taxes from coal competitive disadvantage without state has exclusive rights in the revenue flowing to pay for moving the needle on addressing groundwater development works. infrastructure, and our communities climate change issues. This bill strengthens water rights. that prosper from energy jobs.

// HEALTHCARE HB 658 Ed Buttrey Medicaid expansion Continues, through 2025, the Montana Medicaid Expansion program, providing healthcare coverage for low income Montanans. The bill adds an asset test to ensure people with significant property assets do not benefit from the program, and a community engagement requirement for some who utilize the benefits to report their work or volunteer. Medicaid expansion provides numerous benefits (highlighted below) to Montana, and reauthorizing the program will continue to benefit our state, our businesses, and our citizens.

$350-$400 million of new spending in MT 5,000 jobs generated Reduces crime Improves health Lowers debt Now What? The next steps you can take.

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