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SB432 • 2025

Generally revise utility laws

Generally revise utility laws

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Daniel Zolnikov
Last action
2025-05-23
Official status
(S) Died in Process
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Generally revise utility laws

Generally revise utility laws

What This Bill Does

  • Generally revise utility laws

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-05-23 SENATE

    (S) Died in Process

  2. 2025-03-12 SENATE

    (S) Missed Deadline for General Bill Transmittal

  3. 2025-03-05 SENATE

    (S) Motion Failed

  4. 2025-03-04 SENATE

    (S) Fiscal Note Printed

  5. 2025-03-04 SENATE

    (S) Motion Failed

  6. 2025-03-03 SENATE

    (S) Fiscal Note Received

  7. 2025-03-03 SENATE

    (S) Fiscal Note Unsigned

  8. 2025-03-01 SENATE

    (S) Tabled in Committee

  9. 2025-02-28 SENATE

    (S) Hearing

  10. 2025-02-25 SENATE

    (S) Fiscal Note Requested

  11. 2025-02-24 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery

  12. 2025-02-24 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester

  13. 2025-02-24 SENATE

    (S) Introduced

  14. 2025-02-24 SENATE

    (S) First Reading

  15. 2025-02-24 SENATE

    (S) Referred to Committee

  16. 2025-02-22 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing

  17. 2025-02-22 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft in Assembly

  18. 2025-02-19 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft in Edit

  19. 2025-02-18 HOUSE

    (LC) Draft in Legal Review

  20. 2024-12-13 HOUSE

    (LC) Drafter Assigned

Official Summary Text

Generally revise utility laws

Current Bill Text

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69th Legislature 2025 SB 432.1
- 1 - Authorized Print Version – SB 432
1 SENATE BILL NO. 432
2 INTRODUCED BY D. ZOLNIKOV
3
4 A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: “AN ACT GENERALLY REVISING RELOCATION OF UTILITIES LAWS;
5 REVISING THE DEFINITION OF "UTILITY"; AND AMENDING SECTION 60-4-401, MCA.”
6
7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
8
9Section 1. Section 60-4-401, MCA, is amended to read:
10 "60-4-401. Occupancy and relocation -- definitions. For the purposes of this part, unless otherwise
11 indicated, the following definitions apply:
12 (1) (a) "Cost of relocation" means the amount paid by the utility for material, labor, and equipment
13 properly attributable to the relocation after deducting any increase in the value of the new facility and any
14 salvage value derived from the old facility.
15 (b) "Cost of relocation" does not mean engineering costs for designing, locating, staking,
16 inspecting, or any other incidental costs of engineering.
17 (2) "Facility" means a utility's tracks, pipes, mains, conduits, cables, wires, towers, poles, and other
18 equipment and appliances impacted by a project on a commission-designated highway system or state
19 highway.
20 (3) "Utility" includes publicly, privately, and cooperatively owned utilities, including water and sewer
21 facilities, as well as providers of cable service as defined in 47 U.S.C. 522 and providers of broadband service
22 as defined in 90-1-602."
23 - END -