What's alive
-Six Republican budget bills created as an alternative to the governor's budget bill
-A refundable $120 income-tax credit for renters
-A $200 million GOP property-tax relief proposal
-Abolishing the death penalty
-Banning picketing at funerals
-A Republican proposal to scrap Montana's utility deregulation laws
-The governor's $138 million school funding proposal
-Requiring teenage girls to notify their parents before undergoing abortions
-Limiting state spending
-Redoing the business equipment tax and increasing the exemption level
-A GOP proposal to give schools $166 million in new money over the next two years
-Funding for all-day kindergarten statewide
-Revamping environmental laws for power plants
-Increasing Indian Education for All funding
-Expanding the state Children's Health Insurance Program
-A $50 million proposal to freeze college tuition for two years
-Regulating so-called "constituency accounts"
-Toughening action against the state's worst sex offenders
-A 3 percent raise for state employees
-Changing Montana's eminent domain laws
-Collecting tax money from out-of-state and corporate tax cheats
-Amending the state constitution to establish a parents' bill of rights
-Changing the state's stream access law
-Helping young workers in high-demand fields pay off student loans
-Two bills rejecting federally approved national identification cards
-Allowing police to stop drivers for not wearing their seat belts
-Banning human cloning research
-Designating a state lullaby
-Eliminating the water adjudication fee passed in 2005
-Establishing a board to compensate ranchers who lose livestock to wolves
-Increasing tax incentives for moviemakers who film in Montana
-Creating Liberty Day in Montana
-Making child seat violations a primary traffic offense
-Extending a state moratorium on specialty hospitals
-Setting up wolf and grizzly bear hunts once the animals' federal protection ends
What's dead
-The governor's budget bill
-Tuition cuts for state university students
-Mandating employee break times
-$200 in annual tax credits per person and credits for small businesses that provide health insurance
-Banning discrimination against gays and lesbians
-Including all school employees in the state health insurance program
-Three bills allowing local governments to institute sales taxes
-Banning or restricting cell phone use while driving
-Two Democratic bills to "reregulate" the state's utilities
-Allowing children who aren't vaccinated for religious reasons to attend state-funded preschools or day care centers
-A $96 million increase in state funding for schools
-Increasing the amount of marijuana allowed for medical use
-Reimbursing the state poet laureate for travel expenses
-Requiring daytime use of headlights
-Imposing new state regulations on home schooling
-Requiring lawmakers to meet every year
-Cutting income taxes by 3 percent
-Abolishing compulsory school attendance
-Requiring English proficiency to obtain a driver's license
-Allowing school districts - not just the state - to certify teachers
-Requiring the use of wooden baseball bats in baseball games
-Deleting Columbus Day as a state holiday and replacing it with Sept. 11
-Requiring paper towels in public restrooms
-Expanding Class III gambling on American Indian reservations
-Requiring the transferability of university system credits
-Encouraging intellectual diversity in the state university system
-Requiring the use of motorcycle helmets
-Using oil and gas revenue to expand U.S. 2 to four lanes
-Banning the United Nations flag on state property
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