HB 550 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Revise laws relating to automobile businesses and electric and hybrid vehicles

HB 550 aimed to revise motor vehicle laws concerning electric and hybrid vehicles. It would have prohibited automobile manufacturers and distributors from requiring new motor vehicle dealers to purchase or sell electric or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. Any contractual clauses mandating such sales would have been considered void and against public policy. The bill also would have amended existing law to include this prohibition among other acts forbidden to manufacturers in their dealings with dealers.

Issues: ✗ Transportation

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 18, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025

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What changed between versions

LC2357.pdf → HB0550_1.pdf · 2 edits

MINOR

The bill was renumbered from LC 2357 to HB 550 and updated with a new list of sponsors. The core policy text prohibiting manufacturers from forcing dealers to buy specific vehicles or services remains substantively unchanged, though minor formatting adjustments were made to the definitions section.

TECHNICAL

The bill number was changed from LC 2357 to HB 550, and the list of sponsors was updated to include additional names.

DEFINITION

Minor formatting changes were applied to the definitions of 'electric vehicle' and 'plug-in hybrid electric vehicle' to align with standard legal citation styles.

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Committee

Amendments

Mar 1, 2025

Amended

(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) Transportation

lower

Feb 19, 2025

Committee

(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Transportation

lower

Feb 18, 2025

Introduced

(H) Introduced

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors