HB 481 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Require posting of EPA guidance documents

House Bill 481 (HB 481) aimed to increase transparency by requiring specific Montana state agencies to publish guidance documents received from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It directly affected the Department of Environmental Quality, the Department of Agriculture, and the Board of Oil and Gas Conservation. Each agency would have been required to designate a website within 90 days to host these documents. New EPA guidance documents would need to be published within 15 days of receipt, and rescinded documents would remain on the site, clearly marked with their status and date of rescission.

Tags: Government Transparency

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

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Governor

Introduced Feb 12, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025

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LC0788.pdf → HB0481_1.pdf · 3 edits

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This bill was renumbered from LC 0788 to HB 481.1 and the sponsor was added as K. Seekins-Crowe. The substantive content of the bill remains unchanged, with only formatting and header information modified.

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Bill number changed from LC 0788 to HB 481.1 in the header and page footers.

Primary sponsor name K. Seekins-Crowe was added to the bill introduction line.

Page numbering and version labels were updated to reflect the new bill number format.

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Amendments

Mar 3, 2025

Amended

(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) Natural Resources

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Feb 25, 2025

Amended

(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) Natural Resources

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Feb 13, 2025

Committee

(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Natural Resources

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Feb 12, 2025

Introduced

(H) Introduced

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