HB 410 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Revise laws for approval of bond elections and mill levy elections

HB 410 revises the laws for approving local government bond and mill levy elections, affecting how counties, cities, towns, and school districts can raise funds for various projects and services. The bill allows a simple majority vote to approve these measures if the election is held during a primary or general election in an even-numbered year. For elections held at other times, approval generally requires a majority vote along with a minimum 35% voter turnout. It also adjusts the minimum voter turnout requirements for certain elections that currently need 60% voter approval.
Bill status died 2 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
House Failed
Mar 2025
Governor
Introduced Feb 6, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025
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What changed between versions

LC1726.pdf HB0410_1.pdf · 2 edits
MINOR
This bill updates the text of HB 410 to reflect its official title, sponsor list, and bill number, replacing the previous draft version (LC1726). It also reorganizes the body of the bill to ensure the legislative preamble and section headers appear in the correct order before the specific statutory amendments.
Scope change
The scope of the bill's substantive policy changes (amending specific MCA sections regarding bond elections and tax levies) remains unchanged; only the document structure and introductory text were modified.
TECHNICAL

Updated the header to change the bill identifier from LC1726 to HB 410 and added the full list of sponsors.

Reordered the text so that the 'BE IT ENACTED' preamble and Section 1 appear before the page break and footer, correcting the document layout.

Floor votes · House Mar 6, 2025

How they voted

2771
Failed · 2 other
Total votes 100
Mar 6, 2025
D Democratic42
1 Yea 40 Nay 1
95% Nay
R Republican58
26 Yea 31 Nay 1
53% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
17
Key actions
0
Committee
1
Amendments
1
Mar 6, 2025
Vote failed
House Vote: fail (27-71-2)
house
Feb 24, 2025
Amended
(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) State Administration
lower
Feb 7, 2025
Committee
(H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration
lower
Feb 6, 2025
Introduced
(H) Introduced
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Lukas Schubert
Lukas Schubert
RRepublican
MT
8