HB376 is a bill in the Montana Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Require state agencies to provide timely information to legislators.

What is the status of HB376?

Chaptered as of June 21, 2025. Latest action: (H) Veto Override Failed in Legislature (July 23, 2025).

Where is the official record for HB376?

On the Montana Legislature website: https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3067

Montana legislation · 2025 Regular Session

Montana HB376: Require state agencies to provide timely information to legislators

Q: What does HB376 do?

In its own words: A bill for an act entitled: "an act revising laws for state agencies providing information to legislators; allowing legislators to submit a complaint to a committee when a state agency has not produced requested information within legislative days of a written request; providing for a hearing by a committee; providing for the committee to vote to reduce a state agency budget by no more than 5%; providing that information from the hearing be presented to certain elected officials; providing a definition; and providing an immediate effective date.".

Status: Chaptered, June 21, 2025

What the bill says

A bill for an act entitled: "an act revising laws for state agencies providing information to legislators; allowing legislators to submit a complaint to a committee when a state agency has not produced requested information within legislative days of a written request; providing for a hearing by a committee; providing for the committee to vote to reduce a state agency budget by no more than 5%; providing that information from the hearing be presented to certain elected officials; providing a definition; and providing an immediate effective date.".

From the engrossed text:

A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT REVISING LAWS FOR STATE AGENCIES PROVIDING INFORMATION TO LEGISLATORS; ALLOWING LEGISLATORS TO SUBMIT A COMPLAINT TO A COMMITTEE WHEN A STATE AGENCY HAS NOT PRODUCED REQUESTED INFORMATION WITHIN LEGISLATIVE DAYS OF A WRITTEN REQUEST; PROVIDING FOR A HEARING BY A COMMITTEE; PROVIDING FOR THE COMMITTEE TO VOTE TO REDUCE A STATE AGENCY BUDGET BY NO MORE THAN 5%; PROVIDING THAT INFORMATION FROM THE HEARING BE PRESENTED TO CERTAIN ELECTED OFFICIALS; PROVIDING A DEFINITION; AND PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE." BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA: NEW SECTION. Section 1. Legislator request for information from state agency -- complaint process. (1) A legislator may make informal requests for information from a state agency. (2) (a) If a legislator makes a written request for information from a state agency during the regular legislative session, the state agency shall respond with the requested information within 5 legislative days of receiving the legislator's written request. (b) The legislator's written request must be: (i) provided to the director of the agency on the same day the request is made to that agency's staff; and (ii) limited to one bill or one specific issue. (3) A legislator may not make more than one written request as outlined in subsection (2) a week. (4) …

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