SB 46 Montana Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Increase registration fee for underground petroleum tanks

SB 46 revises the annual registration fees for owners and operators of underground petroleum or hazardous substance storage tanks. The bill increases the maximum annual fee for tanks over 1,100 gallons from $108 to $300. For tanks 1,100 gallons or less, the maximum annual fee is raised from $36 to $100. These fees help cover state and local costs associated with implementing the underground storage tank program.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2024
Committee Review
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Apr 2025
House Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Dec 12, 2024 Signed May 13, 2025
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The bill text was cleaned up by removing redundant punctuation and extra spacing, but the substantive policy content remains unchanged. The effective date provision was slightly rephrased to remove a period at the end of the title, and the document was finalized by removing the 'END' marker and extra blank lines.
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Removed redundant period and quotation marks from the bill title and effective date section, and deleted the 'END' marker and extra whitespace.

Floor votes · Senate Feb 5, 2025 · House Apr 15, 2025

How they voted

444
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 50
Feb 5, 2025
D Democratic18
16 Yea 2
88% Yea
R Republican32
28 Yea 4 Nay
87% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
41
Key actions
9
Committee
6
May 9, 2025
Signed into law
(S) Signed by Governor
upper
May 1, 2025
Lower · Passed
(H) Signed by Speaker
lower
Apr 22, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Signed by President
upper
Apr 15, 2025
House · Passed
House Vote: pass (96-1-3)
house
Mar 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
(H) Committee Report - (H) Natural Resources
lower
Mar 21, 2025
Lower · Passed
(H) Committee Executive Action - (H) Natural Resources
lower
Feb 6, 2025
Committee
(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Natural Resources
lower
Feb 5, 2025
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (44-4-2)
senate
Jan 30, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Committee Report - (S) Natural Resources
upper
Jan 29, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Committee Executive Action - (S) Natural Resources
upper
Jan 14, 2025
Committee
(S) Referred to Committee - (S) Natural Resources
upper
Dec 12, 2024
Introduced
(S) Introduced
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of John Esp
John Esp
RRepublican
MT
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