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MT HB299

Bill

Official Source

Status

Passed

5/5/2025

Primary Sponsor

Eric Tilleman

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Origin

House of Representatives

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Adds "public trails" as a new explicitly authorized purpose for easements on state lands
  • Removes the broad catch-all provision allowing easements "for other public uses" from the list of purposes requiring proper application
  • Eliminates a specific conservation easement provision for the Owen Sowerwine natural area in Flathead County (section 16, township 28 north, range 21 west)
  • Reorganizes and renumbers the statutory list of authorized easement purposes without changing most existing categories (schoolhouse sites, parks, community buildings, cemeteries, rights-of-way, etc.)
  • Effective immediately upon passage and approval

Legislative Description

Define public purpose of easements on state lands

Environmental Protection

Last Action

Chapter Number Assigned

5/8/2025

Committee Referrals

Natural Resources2/20/2025
Natural Resources1/24/2025

Full Bill Text

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