In 2019, the Montana Legislature created the Montana Missing Indigenous Persons Task Force. The effort brought together Tribal representatives with local, state, and federal law enforcement officials to address the disproportionately high number of missing or murdered Indigenous children and adults. But ever since its creation, the task force has not had a way to raise money for training, equipment, and other expenses to fulfill its goals. A new law will change that. During the 2025 legislative session, State Representative Tyson Running Wolf sponsored a measure that creates a special state revenue account to allow the task force to raise and accept its own funding through grants, gifts, and donations. The measure authorizes the account to initially be funded with $1. The bill sailed throughboth the House and Senate before being signed by Montana governor. The law takeseffect July 1.