HB 789 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Generally revise surplus campaign funds laws

HB 789 proposes changes to how legislative candidates can handle leftover campaign funds. Currently, candidates are generally prohibited from contributing surplus funds to their own future campaigns. This bill would create an exception, allowing legislative candidates to contribute up to $10,000 of their surplus campaign funds to their *own* future campaign. This transfer must occur within 120 days of filing their closing campaign report and is considered a new contribution from the candidate, not a loan.

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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LC2158.pdf → HB0789_1.pdf · 2 edits

MINOR

The bill number was officially changed from LC 2158 to HB 789.1, and the bill text was reformatted to match standard House Bill styling. No substantive policy changes, funding amounts, or eligibility criteria were altered; the modifications are purely administrative and technical in nature.

TECHNICAL

The bill number was updated from LC 2158 to HB 789.1, and the header was changed from 'BILL NO.' to 'HOUSE BILL NO. 789' to reflect its official House filing.

The page footer was updated to display 'HB 789' instead of 'LC 2158', and the document title was adjusted to 'Authorized Print Version'.

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Committee

Amendments

Feb 28, 2025

Amended

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

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Committee

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

lower

Feb 25, 2025

Introduced

(H) Introduced

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors