HB 524 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Remove boarding and rooming houses from lodging requirements

HB 524 aimed to remove boardinghouses and roominghouses from certain state public health and safety requirements currently applied to hotels and motels. The bill proposed revising definitions within the Montana Code Annotated to exempt these types of residential establishments from those specific lodging regulations. This change would alter the regulatory oversight for operators of boardinghouses and roominghouses, distinguishing them from other commercial lodging facilities.

Issues: ✗ Housing

Bill status died 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Feb 2025

House Passage

Feb 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Feb 17, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025

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What changed between versions

LC1527.pdf → HB0524_1.pdf · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill has been officially renumbered from LC 1527 to HB 524, reflecting its progression from a legislative committee (LC) to the full House of Representatives. The content of the bill itself appears unchanged, as the diff only shows updates to the header, title page, and page footers. This indicates a procedural update rather than a substantive policy change.

TECHNICAL

The bill number was changed from LC 1527 to HB 524 to reflect its official introduction in the House.

The header and footer text were updated to include the new bill number and the designation 'Authorized Print Version'.

Sponsor names (C. Hinkle and F. Mandeville) were added to the introduction line.

Floor votes · House Feb 27, 2025

How they voted

20–0

Passed

Total votes 20

Feb 27, 2025

D Democratic8

8 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican12

12 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Feb 27, 2025

House · Passed

House Vote: pass (20-0)

house

Feb 27, 2025

Amended

(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) Business and Labor

lower

Feb 18, 2025

Committee

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

lower

Feb 17, 2025

Introduced

(H) Introduced

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors