HB 94 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Allow sharing of tax records for securities and insurance fraud investigations

House Bill 94 aimed to revise Montana's laws concerning the confidentiality of tax records. It proposed allowing the Department of Revenue to share individual tax return information with the Commissioner of Securities and Insurance. This information sharing was intended to assist the Commissioner in investigating, detecting, and preventing noncompliance, fraud, and abuse under state securities and insurance laws.

Bill status died 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Dec 2024

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Jan 2025

Senate Passage

Mar 2025

Governor

Introduced Dec 16, 2024 Last action May 22, 2025

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What changed between versions

LC0103.pdf → HB0094_1.pdf · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill has been renumbered from LC 0103 to HB 94 and updated with the name of the primary sponsor, M. Bertoglio. The document header and page footers were modified to reflect the new bill number and an authorized print version label. These changes are primarily administrative and formatting updates rather than substantive policy modifications.

TECHNICAL

Bill number changed from LC 0103 to HB 94.1 in headers and footers.

Primary sponsor name 'M. Bertoglio' was added to the introduction line.

Page footers were updated to include 'Authorized Print Version - HB 94' instead of 'LC 103'.

Floor votes · Senate Mar 24, 2025 · House Jan 27, 2025

How they voted

46–4

Passed

Total votes 50

Mar 24, 2025

D Democratic18

16 Yea 2 Nay

88% Yea

R Republican32

30 Yea 2 Nay

93% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

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Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Mar 24, 2025

Senate · Passed

Senate Vote: pass (46-4)

senate

Mar 20, 2025

Upper · Passed

(S) Committee Report - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs

upper

Mar 19, 2025

Upper · Passed

(S) Committee Executive Action - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs

upper

Feb 20, 2025

Committee

(S) Rereferred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs

upper

Feb 18, 2025

Committee

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

upper

Jan 27, 2025

House · Passed

House Vote: pass (61-37-2)

house

Jan 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

(H) Committee Report - (H) Business and Labor

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Lower · Passed

(H) Committee Executive Action - (H) Business and Labor

lower

Dec 20, 2024

Committee

(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor

lower

Dec 16, 2024

Introduced

(H) Introduced

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors