SB 400 Montana Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Provide for property owners to vote to add, remove, amend easements and covenants

SB 400 would require residential property owners to vote on changes to easements, covenants, conditions, or restrictions affecting multiple properties, with a majority vote needed for approval (unless all owners consent in writing after notice). The bill mandates a 30-day notice period for voting, allows written proxy voting, and protects owners' rights to participate in association decisions like dues increases or board elections. It applies to existing agreements and would take immediate effect upon passage.
Bill status died 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 21, 2025 Last action May 23, 2025
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What changed between versions

SB0400_2(4).pdf SB0400_2(5).pdf · 1 edit
MINOR
The bill underwent minor formatting adjustments to standardize the numbering of subsections, removing redundant spaces between numbers. These changes do not alter the substantive legal requirements, definitions, or scope of the legislation.
TECHNICAL

Removed extra spaces between subsection numbers (e.g., changed '(3) (4)' to '(3)(4)' and '(4) (5)' to '(4)(5)') to align with standard legislative formatting conventions.

Floor votes · Senate Mar 6, 2025

How they voted

473
Passed
Total votes 50
Mar 6, 2025
D Democratic18
18 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican32
29 Yea 3 Nay
90% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
27
Key actions
3
Committee
4
Amendments
1
Apr 9, 2025
Amended
(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) Local Government
lower
Mar 7, 2025
Committee
(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Local Government
lower
Mar 6, 2025
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (47-3)
senate
Mar 1, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Committee Report - (S) Local Government
upper
Feb 28, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Committee Executive Action - (S) Local Government
upper
Feb 21, 2025
Committee
(S) Referred to Committee - (S) Local Government
upper
Feb 21, 2025
Introduced
(S) Introduced
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Ken Bogner
Ken Bogner
RRepublican
MT
18