HB 787 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Generally revise gaming laws

HB 787 aimed to revise gaming laws, primarily affecting gambling route operators who also hold alcoholic beverage licenses. The bill sought to prevent these operators from using financial data, acquired through their gambling business, to gain an unfair competitive advantage when acquiring or selling alcohol licenses. It also aimed to ensure route operators do not restrict the availability of video gambling machines to other alcoholic beverage licensees. Violations of these provisions could lead to the revocation or non-renewal of a route operator's license.
Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Feb 25, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025
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LC1363.pdf HB0787_1.pdf · 3 edits
MINOR
The bill was renumbered from LC 1363 to HB 787.1 and the sponsor was identified as E. Buttre. The text was cleaned to remove all-caps formatting, making the language consistent and easier to read. The substantive policy regarding route operators and financial data remains unchanged.
TECHNICAL

Removed all-caps formatting from specific terms like 'ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSE' and 'THE' to standardize the text.

Added the sponsor's name, E. Buttre, to the bill header.

Changed the bill number from LC 1363 to HB 787.1 in the header and footer.

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Total actions
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Committee
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Amendments
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Mar 3, 2025
Amended
(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) Business and Labor
lower
Feb 26, 2025
Committee
(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor
lower
Feb 25, 2025
Introduced
(H) Introduced
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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Ed Buttrey
RRepublican
MT
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