Montana State Legislature

2023-2024 State-Tribal Relations Committee

Next Scheduled Meeting:

April 3 & 4, 2024
Fort Belknap & Fort Peck

Remote participation is unavailable for off-site meetings.
Meeting recordings will be posted once they are concluded.

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Committee Staff:

Casey Pallister, Research Analyst

Laura Sankey Keip, Attorney

Daniel Rosenberg, Secretary

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The State-Tribal Relations Committee (STRC) acts as a liaison with tribal governments in Montana, encourages state-tribal and local government-tribal cooperation, and conducts interim studies as assigned. The committee may also propose legislation and report its activities, findings, or recommendations to the Legislature. STRC is the only bipartisan committee of the Legislature, and has a total of 10 appointed legislative members.
The committee's statutory duties are in 5-5-229, MCA.

Committee Members

SENATOR
JASON D. SMALL (R) --Chair

SENATOR
BOB BROWN (R) --Member

SENATOR
MIKE FOX (D) --Member

SENATOR
SUSAN WEBBER (D) --Member

REPRESENTATIVE
TONY BROCKMAN (R) --Member

REPRESENTATIVE
JOE READ (R) --Member

REPRESENTATIVE
LOLA SHELDON-GALLOWAY (R) --Member

REPRESENTATIVE
FRANK SMITH (D) --Member

REPRESENTATIVE
SHARON STEWART PEREGOY (D) --Member

REPRESENTATIVE
TYSON T. RUNNING WOLF (D) --Vice Chair

The audio minutes are the official minutes of the committee. Both the video and audio recordings of each meeting are available shortly after the meeting ends. A minutes log will be published later, noting the time at which various items were discussed.

April 4, 2024 - Fort Peck
Agenda - Minutes - Audio / Video

April 3, 2024 - Fort Belknap
Agenda - Minutes - Audio / Video

January 11, 2024
Agenda- Minutes- Audio / Video

October 6, 2023 - Box Elder, MT
Agenda - Minutes - Video

October 5, 2023 - Great Falls, MT
Agenda - Minutes - Video

July 19, 2023
Agenda - Minutes - Audio / Video

Interim Studies

The Legislative Council assigns studies to the STRC for the 2023-2024 interim. Committee options and decisions will be made on how to perform each study. More information about each study will be available on study pages linked below.