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HB883 • 2025

Reduce supreme court budget

Reduce supreme court budget

Budget
Passed Legislature

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

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

Plain English Breakdown

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Reduce supreme court budget

Reduce supreme court budget

What This Bill Does

  • Reduce supreme court budget

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-20 HOUSE

    (H) Died in Process

  2. 2025-04-09 HOUSE

    (H) Missed Deadline for Appropriation Bill Transmittal

  3. 2025-04-03 HOUSE

    (H) Fiscal Note Printed

  4. 2025-04-02 HOUSE

    (H) Fiscal Note Received

  5. 2025-04-02 HOUSE

    (H) Fiscal Note Unsigned

  6. 2025-03-28 HOUSE

    (H) Hearing

  7. 2025-03-28 HOUSE

    (H) Tabled in Committee

  8. 2025-03-27 HOUSE

    (H) Referred to Committee

  9. 2025-03-27 HOUSE

    (H) First Reading

  10. 2025-03-26 HOUSE

    (H) Introduced

  11. 2025-03-26 HOUSE

    (H) Fiscal Note Requested

  12. 2025-03-25 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester

  13. 2025-02-24 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery

  14. 2025-02-23 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review

  15. 2025-02-23 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft in Assembly

  16. 2025-02-22 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing

  17. 2025-02-17 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft in Edit

  18. 2025-01-16 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold

  19. 2024-12-13 HOUSE

    (LC) Drafter Assigned

  20. 2024-12-13 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft On Hold

Official Summary Text

Reduce supreme court budget

Current Bill Text

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69th Legislature 2025 HB 883.1
- 1 - Authorized Print Version – HB 883
1 HOUSE BILL NO. 883
2 INTRODUCED BY L. SCHUBERT, L. DEMING, E. BYRNE, C. HINKLE, T. SHARP
3
4 A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: “AN ACT REDUCING FUNDING OF THE STATE SUPREME COURT FOR
5 THE BIENNIUM BEGINNING JULY 1, 2025; DISALLOWING A TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATION OR
6 APPROPRIATION AUTHORITY TO THE STATE SUPREME COURT; AND PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE
7 EFFECTIVE DATE.”
8
9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
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11 NEW SECTION. Section 1. Coordination -- reduction to supreme court budget. (1) If both [this
12 act] and a general appropriations act are passed and approved, and the general appropriations act provides an
13 appropriation to the judicial branch for the state supreme court for the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, then
14 the appropriation for the state supreme court in the general appropriations act is $18 million.
15 (2) If both [this act] and any act that appropriates funds to the state supreme court are passed and
16 approved, then the appropriations in those acts to the state supreme court are void.
17 (3) For the biennium beginning July 1, 2025, appropriations and appropriation authority to district
18 court functions may not be transferred to the state supreme court or used for any state supreme court functions.
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20 NEW SECTION. Section 2. Effective date. [This act] is effective on passage and approval.
21 - END -