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Evening Newscast 03-12-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On tonight's evening newscast:

Members of Montana's congressional delegation are proposing to make permanent a tax break for coal mined from American Indian Reservations.

Today at the state Legislature, the House  passed a bill that would criminalize physician-assisted suicide.

The state House has narrowly approved an updated list of mandatory vaccinations for Montana school students; even though the Senate rejected the House’s attempt to add an exemption for “personal beliefs.”

The state has amended its charge that a Great Falls man caused the death of a Cascade County sheriff's deputy during a pursuit.

Expanding healthcare is on the agenda again at the Montana Legislature tomorrow. Republican Representative Art Wittich of Bozeman is carrying House Bill 582, and says it’s a part of the Republicans' alternative plans to the governor’s Medicaid expansion.

A federal judge canceled a sentencing hearing and scheduled a May trial for a Havre businessman linked by authorities to a wide-ranging bribery case on Montana's Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation.

Washington lawmakers say they want to study the impacts of closing a huge coal-fired power plant in southeastern Montana that provides power to the Northwest.

A proposal to make it illegal for employers to request workers' passwords for personal online or social media accounts is advancing in the Montana Legislature.
 

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