HB 376 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Require state agencies to provide timely information to legislators

HB 376 would have required state agencies to provide information requested by legislators within 5 legislative days during a session. If an agency failed to respond, a legislator could file a complaint with the appropriations committee. This committee would then hold a hearing and could vote to reduce the agency's budget by up to 5%. The hearing's outcome would be shared with the Governor, Senate President, and House Speaker, allowing for potential disciplinary action against the agency director.
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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LC3067.pdf HB0376_1.pdf · 3 edits
MINOR
The bill was renumbered from LC 3067 to HB 376.1 and the sponsor list was expanded to include additional legislators. The substantive policy content regarding the complaint process, budget reduction limits, and effective dates remained unchanged, with only minor formatting adjustments in the text layout.
TECHNICAL

Bill number changed from LC 3067 to HB 376.1 and page headers were updated to reflect the new bill number.

The list of bill sponsors was expanded to include additional names (N. Nicol, S. Klakken, K. Love, G. Overstreet, C. Schomer, E. Buttre, A. Regier, G. Oblander, J. Etchart, L. Deming, L. Brewster, B. Mitchell, J. Hinkle).

Minor formatting changes were made to the text layout, including line breaks and spacing, without altering the legal meaning.

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Actions timeline

Total actions
22
Key actions
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Committee
1
Amendments
2
Feb 24, 2025
Amended
(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) State Administration
lower
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

Sponsors

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Nelly Nicol
RRepublican
MT
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