HB 224 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Generally revise criminal law Prohibiting judges from seeking, accepting, or using political party endorsement

HB 224 proposes to prohibit judges and judicial candidates from knowingly seeking, accepting, using, advertising, promoting, or otherwise benefiting from contributions or endorsements from a political party. This bill directly affects individuals running for or serving in judicial positions. It establishes a new section of law that outlines these unlawful actions concerning political party involvement.

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 15, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025

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LC1595.pdf → HB0224_1.pdf · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill's number was officially changed from LC 1595 to HB 224.1, and the sponsor information was updated to list E. Stafman. These are administrative updates to the bill's header and do not alter the substantive legal text or policy requirements of the legislation.

TECHNICAL

Bill number changed from LC 1595 to HB 224.1

Sponsor name updated to E. Stafman

Header text updated to reflect 'Authorized Print Version'

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Committee

Amendments

Jan 30, 2025

Amended

(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) State Administration

lower

Jan 16, 2025

Committee

(H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration

lower

Jan 15, 2025

Introduced

(H) Introduced

lower

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