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28 March 2015

Two of Buttrey’s SB-405 cosponsors vote against their bill

Updated with correction. Senate Bill 405, Sen. Ed Buttrey’s (R-Great Falls) was approved 28–22 on its second reading in the Senate yesterday. All 21 Senate Democrats, and 7 of the chamber’s 29 Republicans voted Aye.

Two of the nine Republican Senators listed as SB-405 cosponsors, Rick Ripley (Wolf Creek) and Nels Swandel (Wilsall) voted Nay, casting votes against the bill they’re listed as cosponsoring.

Here are the cosponsors listed on the PDF version SB-405.02, which bears a creation date of 27 March 2015, 1547 MDT. The vote occurred at 1505 MDT, so the PDF version of the bill was updated after the vote.

Ripley and Swandel have some explaining to do. Buttrey does, too.

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