Montana legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Montana HB883: Reduce supreme court budget
Status: Failed, May 20, 2025
What the bill says
A bill for an act entitled: "an act reducing funding of the state supreme court for the biennium beginning july 1, 2025; disallowing a transfer of appropriation or appropriation authority to the state supreme court; and providing an immediate effective date.".
From the engrossed text:
A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT REDUCING FUNDING OF THE STATE SUPREME COURT FOR THE BIENNIUM BEGINNING JULY 1, 2025; DISALLOWING A TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATION OR APPROPRIATION AUTHORITY TO THE STATE SUPREME COURT; AND PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE." BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA: NEW SECTION. Section 1. Coordination -- reduction to supreme court budget. (1) If both [this act] and a general appropriations act are passed and approved, and the general appropriations act provides an appropriation to the judicial branch for the state supreme court for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, then the appropriation for the state supreme court in the general appropriations act is $18 million. (2) If both [this act] and any act that appropriates funds to the state supreme court are passed and approved, then the appropriations in those acts to the state supreme court are void. (3) For the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, appropriations and appropriation authority to district court functions may not be transferred to the state supreme court or used for any state supreme court functions. NEW SECTION. Section 2. Effective date. [This act] is effective on passage and approval. - END - - 1 - Authorized Print Version - HB
Sponsors
- Schubert, Lukas (R, 8) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : (H) Died in Process
- : (H) Missed Deadline for Appropriation Bill Transmittal
- : (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- : (H) Fiscal Note Unsigned
- : (H) Fiscal Note Received
- : (H) Tabled in Committee
- : (H) Hearing
- : (H) 1st Reading
- : (H) Referred to Committee
- : (H) Fiscal Note Requested
Subjects: Judges and Justices, Courts, State Finance
Common questions
- What is HB883?
- HB883 is a bill in the Montana Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Reduce supreme court budget.
- What does HB883 do?
- In its own words: A bill for an act entitled: "an act reducing funding of the state supreme court for the biennium beginning july 1, 2025; disallowing a transfer of appropriation or appropriation authority to the state supreme court; and providing an immediate effective date.".
- What is the status of HB883?
- Failed as of May 20, 2025. Latest action: (H) Died in Process (May 20, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB883?
- Schubert, Lukas (R, 8).
- Where is the official record for HB883?
- On the Montana Legislature website: https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3059
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