Kathleen Williams (politician)

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Kathleen Williams
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Williams in 2021
Member of the Montana House of Representatives
In office
January 3, 2011 –January 2, 2017
Republican Matt Rosendale 339,169 56.39% +5.51%
Democratic Kathleen Williams262,34043.61%−2.64%
Total votes601,509 100.00%
Republican hold

Notes

  1. ↑ The Environmental Quality Council was established by the Montana Environmental Policy Act of 1971. It meets during the interim between legislative sessions, and "generates information, reviews and appraises state programs, conducts investigations and studies, develops and recommends policy, and generally promotes a unified effort in carrying out state policy". [13] It is strictly bipartisan, and is the only legislative committee which has members of the public with voting rights. [13] Its staff are impartial and nonpolitical. [10] [14]
  2. ↑ The Instream Flow Council, founded in 1998, acts as a clearinghouse, collecting and distributing ideas and strategies for improving water flows and quality; collects, analyzes, and synthesizes the highest quality science on stream flows to develop standardized, accepted concepts and practices; and acts as an advocate for use of these concepts and practices; and provides technical assistance to states, provinces, and other governmental bodies. [19] [20]
  3. ↑ The Montana Legislature meets for 90 days in a single, biennial session held the odd-numbered year following a general election. [28] Legislators are term limited to eight years of consecutive (not lifetime) service in the House, and eight years of consecutive service in the Senate. There is no longer a requirement that legislators remain out of office between term-limited periods. [29]
  4. ↑ The new HD 65 was bounded largely by Aajker Creek, Huffine Lane, S. Cottonwood Road, Durston Road, N. Rouse Avenue, Interstate 90, and E. Valley Road. [43]
  5. ↑ New HD 61 was largely bounded by a jagged arc running northeast and then southeast between N. 19th Street and the intersection of Stone Creek Road and Bridger Canyon Road, south on Bridger Canyon Road to Jackson Creek Road, Jackson Creek Road to Whisper Ridge Trail, due south to about Trail Creek Road, due west to about Goose Creek Road, due south to Bear Canyon Road/Forest Service Road 711, due west to Cottonwood Canyon Road, Cottonwood Canyon Road to S. Cottonwood Road, following S. Cottonwood Rd. and S. 19th Avenue to Goldenstein Lane, and then Sourdough Road and Church Avenue north to Interstate 90 and then northwest to its origin point. [43]
  6. ↑ The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports that Williams at one time was also Vice Chair of the Committee on Natural Resources, [15] but this is not born out of the Montana House of Representatives documents cited here.
  7. ↑ Williams did not pass the $250,000 fundraising mark until May 2018. [55]
  8. ↑ Although a supporter of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), she believed it needed extensive improvement to lower the cost of insurance. [41]

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Preceded by Member of the Montana House of Representatives
from the 65th district
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