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HB871 • 2025

Revise requirements to connect to municipal water/sewer system

Revise requirements to connect to municipal water/sewer system

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Steve Fitzpatrick
Last action
2025-05-20
Official status
(H) Died in Process
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Revise requirements to connect to municipal water/sewer system

Revise requirements to connect to municipal water/sewer system

What This Bill Does

  • Revise requirements to connect to municipal water/sewer system

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Plain English: Amendment - 2nd Reading-yellow - Requested by: Steve Fitzpatrick - (H) Committee of the Whole - 2025 69th Legislature 2025 Drafter: Toni Henneman, HB0871.001.001 - 1 - Authorized Print Version – HB 871 HOUSE BILL NO.

  • Amendment - 2nd Reading-yellow - Requested by: Steve Fitzpatrick - (H) Committee of the Whole - 2025 69th Legislature 2025 Drafter: Toni Henneman, HB0871.001.001 - 1 - Authorized Print Version – HB 871 HOUSE BILL NO.
  • 871 1 INTRODUCED BY S.
  • FITZPATRICK 2 3 A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: “AN ACT PROHIBITING A MUNICIPALITY FROM REQUIRING A ZONING 4 CHANGE BEFORE A PARCEL OF LAND IS ALLOWED TO CONNECT TO A MUNICIPAL WATER OR 5 SEWER SYSTEM; PROVIDING AN APPROPRIATION; AMENDING SECTION 7-13-4312, MCA; AND 6 PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.” 7 8 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA: 9 10 Section 1.
  • Section 7-13-4312, MCA, is amended to read: 11 "7-13-4312.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-20 HOUSE

    (H) Died in Process

  2. 2025-04-09 HOUSE

    (H) Missed Deadline for Appropriation Bill Transmittal

  3. 2025-04-07 HOUSE

    (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading

  4. 2025-04-07 HOUSE

    (H) 3rd Reading Failed

  5. 2025-04-04 HOUSE

    (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading

  6. 2025-04-04 HOUSE

    (H) 2nd Reading Motion to Amend Carried

  7. 2025-04-04 HOUSE

    (H) 2nd Reading Passed as Amended

  8. 2025-04-02 HOUSE

    (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed

  9. 2025-04-01 HOUSE

    (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed

  10. 2025-03-29 HOUSE

    (H) Fiscal Note Printed

  11. 2025-03-28 HOUSE

    (H) Fiscal Note Received

  12. 2025-03-28 HOUSE

    (H) Fiscal Note Unsigned

  13. 2025-03-28 HOUSE

    (H) Hearing

  14. 2025-03-27 HOUSE

    (H) Hearing Canceled

  15. 2025-03-26 HOUSE

    (H) Introduced

  16. 2025-03-26 HOUSE

    (H) Fiscal Note Requested

  17. 2025-03-26 HOUSE

    (H) Referred to Committee

  18. 2025-03-26 HOUSE

    (H) First Reading

  19. 2025-03-25 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery

  20. 2025-03-25 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester

  21. 2025-03-24 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft in Legal Review

  22. 2025-03-24 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft in Edit

  23. 2025-03-24 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing

  24. 2025-03-24 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review

  25. 2025-03-24 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft in Assembly

  26. 2025-03-21 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold

  27. 2024-12-08 HOUSE

    (LC) Drafter Assigned

  28. 2024-12-08 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft On Hold

Official Summary Text

Revise requirements to connect to municipal water/sewer system

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
- 2025
69th Legislature 2025 HB0871.2
- 1 - Authorized Print Version – HB 871
1 HOUSE BILL NO. 871
2 INTRODUCED BY S. FITZPATRICK
3
4 A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: “AN ACT PROHIBITING A MUNICIPALITY FROM REQUIRING A ZONING
5 CHANGE BEFORE A PARCEL OF LAND IS ALLOWED TO CONNECT TO A MUNICIPAL WATER OR
6 SEWER SYSTEM; PROVIDING AN APPROPRIATION; AMENDING SECTION 7-13-4312, MCA; AND
7 PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.”
8
9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
10
11Section 1. Section 7-13-4312, MCA, is amended to read:
12 "7-13-4312. Authorization to furnish water and sewer services to persons located outside
13municipality -- prohibition. (1) A city council that owns and operates a municipal water system, a municipal
14 sewer system, or both, to furnish water and sewer services to the inhabitants of a city as a public utility may
15 furnish water from the water system and sewage services from the sewer system to the inhabitants or to any
16 person, factory, industry, or producer of farm or other products located outside of the corporate limits of the city
17 at reasonable rates filed by the city or town council. The city council may make collections to provide water and
18 sewer services in the same manner as collections are made within the corporate limits.
19 (2) The city council may not require that a parcel of land located outside of the corporate limits of
20 the city change from single family zoning to multifamily zoning BE DEVELOPED AT A HIGHER DENSITY THAN ALLOWED
21UNDER EXISTING COUNTY ZONING REGULATIONS COVERING THE PARCEL in order to connect to a municipal water
22 system or a municipal sewer system."
23
24 NEW SECTION. Section 2. Appropriation. There is appropriated $1,000 from the general fund to
25 the department of environmental quality for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, to update documents related
26 to municipal water and sewer systems.
27
28 NEW SECTION. Section 3. Effective date. [This act] is effective July 1, 2025.
- 2025
69th Legislature 2025 HB0871.2
- 2 - Authorized Print Version – HB 871
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