Montana legislation · 2025 Regular Session
Montana HB905: Providing for a refund of property taxes for failure to abate a public nuisance
Status: Failed, May 20, 2025
What the bill says
A bill for an act entitled: "an act providing for a refund of property taxes for failure to abate a public nuisance; providing an application and approval procedure; providing that a refund is subtracted from the entitlement share payment; providing definitions; providing a statutory appropriation; providing rulemaking authority; and amending section 17-7-502, mca.".
From the engrossed text:
A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT PROVIDING FOR A REFUND OF PROPERTY TAXES FOR FAILURE TO ABATE A PUBLIC NUISANCE; PROVIDING AN APPLICATION AND APPROVAL PROCEDURE; PROVIDING THAT A REFUND IS SUBTRACTED FROM THE ENTITLEMENT SHARE PAYMENT; PROVIDING DEFINITIONS; PROVIDING A STATUTORY APPROPRIATION; PROVIDING RULEMAKING AUTHORITY; AND AMENDING SECTION 17-7-502, MCA." BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA: NEW SECTION. Section 1. Refund of taxes for failure to abate public nuisance -- definitions -- rulemaking. (1) A property owner may apply for a refund in an amount determined pursuant to subsection (2) if either of the following occurs: (a) the city, consolidated city-county, or county in which the real property is located adopts and follows a policy, pattern, or practice of declining to enforce existing laws or ordinances prohibiting illegal camping, obstructing public thoroughfares, loitering, panhandling, public urination or defecation, public consumption of alcoholic beverages, or possession or use of illegal substances and the property owner incurs documented expenses to mitigate the effects of the policy, pattern, or practice on the property owner's real property; or (b) the city, consolidated city-county, or county in which the real property is located maintains a public nuisance and the property owner incurs documented expenses to mitigate the effects of the public nuisance on the property owner's real …
Sponsors
- Overstreet, Greg (R, 88) · 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) Hearing
- : (H) 1st Reading
- : (H) Referred to Committee
Subjects: Local Finance, Rule Making, Taxation, Appropriations, Local Government, Taxation--Property
Common questions
- What is HB905?
- HB905 is a bill in the Montana Legislature (2025 Regular Session): Providing for a refund of property taxes for failure to abate a public nuisance.
- What does HB905 do?
- In its own words: A bill for an act entitled: "an act providing for a refund of property taxes for failure to abate a public nuisance; providing an application and approval procedure; providing that a refund is subtracted from the entitlement share payment; providing definitions; providing a statutory appropriation; providing rulemaking authority; and amending section 17-7-502, mca.".
- What is the status of HB905?
- Failed as of May 20, 2025. Latest action: (H) Died in Process (May 20, 2025).
- Who sponsored HB905?
- Overstreet, Greg (R, 88).
- Where is the official record for HB905?
- On the Montana Legislature website: https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1278
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