HB 482 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Provide that local government elections be partisan

House Bill 482 (HB 482) proposed to change how local government elections are conducted. It would have required all local government elections, including those for county managers, municipal council-mayors, and municipal commission-managers, to be held on a partisan basis. This bill aimed to eliminate the current option for local elections to be nonpartisan, meaning candidates would run with a declared political party affiliation. It would have directly affected voters and candidates in local elections across the state.

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 12, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025

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LC1735.pdf → HB0482_1.pdf · 2 edits

MINOR

The bill number was officially changed from LC 1735 to HB 482.1, and the list of sponsors was updated to reflect the current legislators. The substantive text of the bill remains identical, maintaining the requirement that local government elections in Montana be held on a partisan basis.

TECHNICAL

The bill identifier was updated from LC 1735 to HB 482.1 to reflect its official House bill number.

The list of bill sponsors was added and updated to include the specific names of the legislators introducing the bill.

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Committee

Amendments

Feb 24, 2025

Amended

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

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Committee

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

lower

Feb 12, 2025

Introduced

(H) Introduced

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors