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    Gov. Greg Gianforte has finalized Montana’s two-year budget, which contains several new investments for Indian Country. The investments include a historic increase in funding for tribal colleges and money devoted to repatriation efforts. Gianforte vetoed several items before the budget was finalized last week, but the money that will help fund priorities set by the Legislature’s American Indian Caucus made it through the session and survived the governor’s scrutiny. The bill will increase state funding to tribal colleges by raising the state’s allocation for non-beneficiary students by about 27%. It also appropriates $367,665 to the University of Montana Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act team to support repatriation efforts.

    Regulating Wyoming’s elections was arguably one of the top priorities for the state Legislature in this year’s legislative session, with dozens of election-related bills filed for consideration. Only a fraction of these bills made it to the governor’s desk.

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