Montana State Legislature
2023-2024 Law and Justice Interim Committee
Next Scheduled Meeting:
May 14-15, 2024
Capitol Room 137 & Zoom
Helena, MT
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Committee Staff:
Sara Hess, Research Analyst
Julianne Burkhardt, Staff Attorney
Ania Alduenda, Secretary
The Law and Justice Interim Committee (LJIC) is a partisan committee of the Legislature that conducts interim studies related to law and justice topics. The committee also provides administrative rule review, draft legislation review, program evaluation, and oversight for the Department of Corrections (DOC), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Office of State Public Defender (OPD). LJIC also serves as the liaison to the Judicial Branch of Montana.
The committee's statutory duties are in 5-5-226, MCA.
Committee Members
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 18, 2024
Agenda - Minutes - Audio / Video
February 21, 2024
Agenda -
Minutes - Audio / Video
February 20, 2024
Agenda -
Minutes - Audio / Video
November 15, 2023
Agenda -
Minutes - Audio / Video
October 4, 2023
Agenda-
Minutes- Audio / Video
Interim Studies
The Legislative Council assigns studies to the LJIC for the 2023-2024 interim. Committee options and decisions on how to perform each study. More information about each study will be available on study pages linked below.
Assigned Studies
SJ 31: Interim Study of Attorney Regulation and the State Bar
Committee Topics and Emerging Issues
- Revise Laws to Clarify Fundamental Parental Rights (HB 676 (2023))
- Facial Recognition Technology
- Problem-solving courts
- Montana jails and diversion programs
- Civil/forensic commitments (HB 872 Commission request)
- Parental Alienation Syndrome
- Sentencing laws for theft (SB 95 (2023)
- Ballot Initiatives
- Compensation for Wrongfully Convicted (HB 423 (2023))
Agency Oversight
- Department of Justice
- Department of Corrections
- Board of Crime Control
- Board of Pardons and Parole
- Office of State Public Defender
Liaison to Judicial Branch
Rule Review
- Administrative Rule Review Overview, July 2023
- Rule Review, July 2023
- Rule Review, September 2023
- Rule Review, February 2024
The LJIC will determine over the course of the 2023-24 interim whether to pursue any legislative proposals related to its work.