HB 784 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Revise distribution of revenue for local government roads

House Bill 784 proposed to revise the method for distributing state revenue to Montana's local governments for road construction and maintenance. The bill introduced "daily vehicle miles traveled" as a new factor in the funding allocation formula for counties, cities, and towns. Consequently, it would have reduced the percentage weight of existing factors such as rural road mileage, population, land area, and street mileage in determining each local government's share. These changes aimed to adjust how counties, cities, and towns receive funds to maintain their local roads and streets, with an effective date of July 1, 2025.

Issues: ✓ Transportation

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 25, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025

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LC3696.pdf → HB0784_1.pdf · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was officially renumbered from LC 3696 to HB 784 and sponsored by S. Rosenzweig. A significant policy change was introduced regarding the distribution of funds: the allocation percentage for a specific category was reduced from 20% to 15%. Additionally, the bill now explicitly assigns the responsibility for mileage determination to local governments (cities, towns, counties, and consolidated city-county governments) rather than leaving it undefined.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains focused on state funding distribution, but the applicability of the funding formula has been altered by reducing the allocation percentage for one category.

FISCAL

The funding allocation percentage for a specific category was reduced from 20% to 15%.

REQUIREMENT

Local governments (cities, towns, counties, and consolidated city-county governments) are now explicitly required to determine mileage for fund distribution purposes.

TECHNICAL

The bill number was changed from LC 3696 to HB 784 and the sponsor was identified as S. Rosenzweig.

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Committee

Amendments

Mar 4, 2025

Amended

(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) Local Government

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Committee

(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Local Government

lower

Feb 25, 2025

Introduced

(H) Introduced

lower

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