HR 7 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

House resolution for legislators to offset appropriations in introduced bills by identifying the programs from which funds are to be reallocated in the same bill

House Resolution 7 (HR 7) requests that members of the Montana State Legislature, when introducing or amending bills to include new spending, also identify existing programs from which funds would be reallocated to cover those new appropriations. This means any bill proposing new expenditures would need to specify how those funds would be offset within the state budget.

Issues: ✓ Budget & Taxes

Bill status died 2 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Apr 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

House Failed

Apr 2025

Governor

Introduced Apr 15, 2025 Last action May 22, 2025

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What changed between versions

LC4273.pdf → HR0007_1.pdf · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was renumbered from LC 4273 to HR 7 and the sponsor list was added. The substantive policy content remained the same, requiring legislators to identify funding sources when adding new appropriations to bills.

TECHNICAL

Bill number changed from LC 4273 to HR 7.1

List of primary sponsors was added

Formatting and page numbering were updated for the new version

Floor votes · House Apr 24, 2025

How they voted

43–57

Failed

Total votes 100

Apr 24, 2025

D Democratic42

42 Nay

100% Nay

R Republican58

43 Yea 15 Nay

74% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

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Key actions

Committee

Apr 24, 2025

Vote failed

House Vote: fail (43-57)

house

Apr 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

(H) Committee Report - (H) State Administration

lower

Apr 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

(H) Committee Executive Action - (H) State Administration

lower

Apr 16, 2025

Committee

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

lower

Apr 15, 2025

Introduced

(H) Introduced

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors