{"id":102939,"date":"2025-04-24T05:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/04\/24\/passenger-rail-bill-derails-on-montana-senate-floor\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-04-24T07:57:31","modified_gmt":"2027-10-11T07:57:31","slug":"passenger-rail-bill-derails-on-montana-senate-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/04\/24\/passenger-rail-bill-derails-on-montana-senate-floor\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Passenger Rail Bill Derails On Montana Senate Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority will likely not see state funding from this session.<br \/>\n\t  House Bill 848, which would have taken $2 million from the railroad car tax and directed it to the authority, failed 23-27 on second reading  in the Senate. The tax brings in about $4 million annually and the money currently  goes into the general fund.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cWe are not deterred easily,\u201d  Big Sky Passenger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103135,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102939\/revisions\/103135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102939"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=102939"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=102939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}