HB 370 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Provide appropriation to the highway patrol pension fund

HB 370 proposed to appropriate $65 million from the state's general fund. This funding was designated as a one-time supplemental contribution to the Montana Highway Patrol Officers' Retirement System pension fund. The bill aimed to address a reported unfunded liability within the pension system. If enacted, it would have directly affected the financial stability of the pension fund for current and retired Montana Highway Patrol officers and their beneficiaries, with an effective date of July 1, 2025.

Issues: ✓ Budget & Taxes

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 31, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025

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LC1462.pdf → HB0370_1.pdf · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was officially renumbered from LC 1462 to HB 370.1 and updated to reflect its introduction by four specific sponsors (G. Kmetz, M. Vinton, G. Overstreet, and J. Etchart). These changes represent standard procedural updates to convert a legislative committee version into a formal House bill for public consideration.

TECHNICAL

Bill number changed from LC 1462 to HB 370.1

List of four specific sponsors added to the bill header

Document title updated to indicate it is an authorized print version

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Committee

Amendments

Feb 14, 2025

Amended

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

lower

Feb 3, 2025

Committee

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

lower

Jan 31, 2025

Introduced

(H) Introduced

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors