Montana legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Montana SB418: Generally revise laws relating to home based businesses
Status: Failed, April 8, 2025
What the bill says
A bill for an act entitled: "an act generally revising laws related to home-based businesses; allowing for the operation of home-based businesses; prohibiting local government power to prohibit home-based businesses; allowing reasonable municipal regulations; providing definitions; and amending sections 7-1-111, 7-21-4204, 76-2-304, and 76-2-309, mca.".
From the engrossed text:
A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT GENERALLY REVISING LAWS RELATED TO HOME-BASED BUSINESSES; ALLOWING FOR THE OPERATION OF HOME-BASED BUSINESSES; PROHIBITING LOCAL GOVERNMENT POWER TO PROHIBIT HOME-BASED BUSINESSES; ALLOWING REASONABLE MUNICIPAL REGULATIONS; PROVIDING DEFINITIONS; AND AMENDING SECTIONS 7-1-111, 7-21-4204, 76-2-304, AND 76-2-309, MCA." BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA: Section 1. Section 7-1-111, MCA, is amended to read: "7-1-111. Powers denied. A local government unit with self-government powers is prohibited from exercising the following: (1) any power that applies to or affects any private or civil relationship, except as an incident to the exercise of an independent self-government power; (2) any power that applies to or affects the provisions of 7-33-4128 or Title 39, except that subject to those provisions, it may exercise any power of a public employer with regard to its employees; (3) any power that applies to or affects the public school system, except that a local unit may impose an assessment reasonably related to the cost of any service or special benefit provided by the unit and shall exercise any power that it is required by law to exercise regarding the public school system; (4) any power that prohibits the grant or denial of a certificate of compliance or a certificate of public convenience and necessity pursuant to Title …
Sponsors
- Boldman, Ellie (D, 47) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : (H) Tabled in Committee
- : (H) Hearing
- : (H) 1st Reading
- : (H) Referred to Committee
- : (S) Transmitted to House
- : (S) 3rd Reading
- : (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading
- : (S) 2nd Reading
- : (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading
- : (S) Committee Report
Votes
- Do Pass (March 6, 2025): 46 yea, 3 nay, passed
- Do Pass (March 6, 2025): 47 yea, 2 nay, passed
Subjects: Housing, Economic Development, Cities and Towns
Common questions
- What is SB418?
- SB418 is a bill in the Montana Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Generally revise laws relating to home based businesses.
- What does SB418 do?
- In its own words: A bill for an act entitled: "an act generally revising laws related to home-based businesses; allowing for the operation of home-based businesses; prohibiting local government power to prohibit home-based businesses; allowing reasonable municipal regulations; providing definitions; and amending sections 7-1-111, 7-21-4204, 76-2-304, and 76-2-309, mca.".
- What is the status of SB418?
- Failed as of April 8, 2025. Latest action: (H) Tabled in Committee (April 8, 2025).
- Who sponsored SB418?
- Boldman, Ellie (D, 47).
- Where is the official record for SB418?
- On the Montana Legislature website: https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1955
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