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Montana revised its Criminal Code in 1973 and retained its anti-sodomy statute. In 1991, the Montana Legislature made its rape and sexual assault laws gender-neutral, providing for a uniform penalty for both heterosexual and homosexual rape (minimum two years' imprisonment). Attempts to repeal the state's sodomy law failed in 1993 and 1995.
The ACLU of Montana has filed a lawsuit challenging a law that defines the word “sex” throughout state code as either male or female, based on a person's biology at birth. The plaintiffs argue ...
California, New York, and Texas use separate subject-specific codes (or in New York's case, "Consolidated Laws") which must be separately cited by name. Louisiana has both five subject-specific codes and a set of Revised Statutes divided into numbered titles.
In 2023, Senate Bill 439, sponsored by Representative Barry Usher, proposed the same revision to Montana Code Annotated § 46-19-103(3) as did House Bill 244, introduced in 2021. [85] SB 439 died in process. [86] While the death penalty remains legal in Montana, the de facto moratorium placed on executions in 2015 remains in effect. [87]
In November 2016 Bill I-182 was passed, revising the 2004 law and allowing providers to service more than three patients. [1] In May 2023, numerous further bills on cannabis legalization and other related purposes passed the Montana Legislature. The Governor of Montana is yet to either sign or veto the bill. [2]
The 2023 American Values Atlas reported that, in their most recent survey, 57% of Montanans said that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. [25] In 2017, the state had an infant mortality rate of 5.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.
The Montana State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Montana. It is composed of the 100-member Montana House of Representatives and the 50-member Montana Senate. [1] The Montana Constitution dictates that the legislature meet in regular session for no longer than 90 days in each odd-numbered year. [1]
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