HB 172 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Revise laws for prioritization of highway projects

House Bill 172 revises the process for prioritizing highway construction and reconstruction projects. It requires the Transportation Interim Committee to prepare a joint resolution for each legislative session, recommending specific projects for the Transportation Commission to prioritize. The bill also mandates that the Transportation Commission report biennially to the committee on the status of these recommended projects, explaining any reasons why a project was not prioritized. The Department of Transportation is tasked with assisting the Commission in considering these legislative recommendations.

Issues: ✓ Transportation

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

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Governor

Introduced Jan 10, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025

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LC2215.pdf → HB0172_1.pdf · 2 edits

MINOR

The bill was renumbered from LC2215 to HB 172 and updated with new sponsor names. The substantive policy content remains unchanged, maintaining the same requirements for the Transportation Interim Committee to prioritize construction projects and the Transportation Commission to report biennially on project status.

TECHNICAL

Bill number changed from LC2215 to HB 172, and sponsor names were added to the introduction line.

Page headers and footers were updated to reflect the new bill number HB 172 instead of LC2215.

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Committee

Amendments

Jan 16, 2025

Amended

(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) Transportation

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Jan 10, 2025

Committee

(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Transportation

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Jan 10, 2025

Introduced

(H) Introduced

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