{"id":30868,"date":"2021-01-21T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=30868?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2021-01-21T06:36:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T13:36:12","slug":"smiths-seatbelt-bill-heard-in-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2021\/01\/21\/smiths-seatbelt-bill-heard-in-committee\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Smith\u2019s Seatbelt Bill Heard In Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to provide primary enforcement of seatbelt laws had its first hearing in the House judiciary committee during the Montana legislative  session on Tuesday, Jan. 12. The bill is being sponsored by Rep. Frank Smith, D-Poplar.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cIn the last 20 years, we\u2019ve had quite a few bills like this,\u201d Smith said to the committee.<br \/>\n\t  He noted his bill has been \u201cwatered down\u201d quite a bit. The fine<\/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\/30868"}],"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=30868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31082,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868\/revisions\/31082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30868"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=30868"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=30868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}