Behavior Center included in MDC legislation

The future of the Intensive Behavioral Center has raised questions as legislation concerning the anticipated relocation of the Montana Highway Patrol to Boulder begins to take shape.

The 12-bed facility, operated by the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, is located on the north campus of the former Montana Development Center — the same portion of the roughly 48 acre campus that is being eyed by the Highway Patrol.

House Bill 686 calls for the Department of Justice and the DPHHS to enter into a memorandum of understanding to transfer the Boulder campus from the former to the latter for use by the Montana Highway Patrol.