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Referred Bills (541)
Generally revise water supply requirements for coal-fired generating units
Revise penalties for violations under 310 permit process
Establish the Montana family legacy home act
Generally revise laws relating to exempt wells
Prohibit weather modification.
Revise state ownership of water rights on state lands
Study resolution of the impact of federal funding changes on DEQ
Joint resolution protecting public lands.
Provide for water division court, judges
Generally revise ground water laws
Require legislative approval of greenhouse gas rules
Prohibit state land leases to nonprofits
Require rules to limit GHG emissions
Require posting of EPA guidance documents
Creation of Montana water trust and special revenue accounts
Creation of Montana water trust and special revenue accounts
Generally revise Montana environmental policy act to Implement court decision
Limits to Fox Hills-Hell Creek aquifer withdrawals
Revise categorical exclusions from nondegradation authorization
Eliminate deadline for water quality data review
Feasibility allowance for nondegradation policy
Revise certain mine application/permit provisions
Revise water laws concerning exceptions to change in appropriation right process
Revise wind and solar facility decommissioning
Revise laws regarding mining leases on state lands
Require conservation districts to comply with state procurement laws
Increase DNRC fire assessment fees
Revise wind and solar facility decommissioning
Revise hard rock and rock products mining fees
Revise liability, training for prescribed fires
Revise board of water well contractors laws
Revise mine reclamation laws
Clarifying that easement rights retained when canal or ditch converted to pipeline
Revise natural resource operations fee policy laws
Provide nutrient pollutant loading offsets
Exempt GHG emissions analysis for appliances, vehicles, engines
Revise transfer of mining operator to successor
Revise review panel for tailings plans
Clarify water right abandonment
Increase registration fee for underground petroleum tanks
Study of wildland firefighting
Creating the Montana brownfields program
Align provisional water rights with final decrees
Exempt Commerce grants and loans from MEPA
Define public purpose of easements on state lands
Repeal mercury thermostat collection act
Study resolution analyzing water re-use in the state
Study resolution on wildfire safety
Interim study of endocrine-disrupting chemicals and water quality
Joint resolution urging changes to federal wildfire policy
Resolution supporting recreation uses on Flathead Lake
Revise laws related to a proposed subdivision's connection to a public water supply or wastewater system
Repeal numeric nutrient standards
Allow data modeling for mine bond release
Provide for temporary lease of water rights
Generally revise the Montana environmental policy act
Provide categorical exclusions from MEPA
Revise laws related to air quality standards
Generally revise Montana environmental policy act
Revise remedies to MEPA
Revise state wildland fire policy and funding
Phase out polystyrene single use food containers (with exceptions)
Allocate funding for petroleum tank cleanup
Revise siltation structure capacity at mines
Extend perfection deadline for certain Missouri River water reservations
Allow correction of minor maintenance items at mines
Allow water right holders to consent to waive adverse effects analysis in permit or change applications
Revise laws related to the fire suppression account
Revise distributions mine remediation
Exempt wastewater ponds from dam safety act
Provide for legislative intent regarding streamflow information
Revising private fish pond and commercial take laws
Provide cash lease-only bidding for agriculture leases
Exempt small projects from fire hazard reduction agreements
Repeal small business compliance assistance council
Revise laws related to considerations for measuring of streamflow
Revise laws related to preliminary determinations for water right permits or changes in appropriations
Resolution supporting the exploration development, processing and refining of critical minerals
Revise MEPA relating to litigation
Revise petroleum storage tank cleanup definitions
Revise subdivision sanitation laws
Revise wildfire suppression laws
Allow environmental impact reviews beyond Montana's borders
Revise laws related to water and coal mining
Interim study of private ponds
Increase appropriation to MSU Fire Service Training School
Revise Blackfeet mitigation fund laws
Clarify BOGC authority over produced waters
Revise certain RRGL loan process
Revise changes to coal mining operations
Revise water discharge permitting
Direct DEQ to allow the installation of certain new septic systems
Revising laws related to conservation licenses on state lands
Revise transfer of hard rock mining permits
Revise water right laws related to exempt wells
Allow for independent subdivision reviews for past due applications
Resolution supporting the Keystone XL pipeline
Joint resolution to study remediation of Smurfit-stone mill site
Revise environmental policy act
Revising the definition of natural gas
Establish a Montana coordinate system for property
Clarify law on immediate attendance for slash burning
Interim study of wildland firefire costs
Study of water storage
Study of Taylor Act stock water rights
Allow for firefighter hazard pay
Prohibit lease or transfer of water right out of state until 2048
Prohibit grazing on public land without permission
Clarify final decree process for compacts
Provide selenium standard for Lake Koocanusa
Revise laws related to methamphetamine contamination
Require development plans for public water and wastewater system connections
Excempt certain subdivisions from environmental review
Create western Montana conservation commission
Revise notification of owner's costs for oil/gas well
Revise laws related to easements on state lands
Join Interstate Mining Compact Commission
Allow fossils found on state lands to be housed in local museums
Revise public access agreement laws
Revise timelines for water right permit and change process
Revise DEQ rule ARM 17.36.328 to require connection from proposed subdivision
Generally revise cabin site sales
Revise oversight of stream gauge network
Resolution related to Columbia River Treaty
Revise limitations on irrigable acreage
Allow certain emergency agencies copies of reports
Define administrative deficiencies for certain mining operations
Exempt Commerce, Coal Boards grants from MEPA
Revise permitting for incinerators
Revise notice for certain timber sales
Repeal detachable metal beverage container opener laws
Generally revise library geospatial and natural resource information laws
Revise solicitation requirements for water projects
Revise third-party permission at state superfund sites
Exempt certain DNRC grants from MEPA
Resolution supporting the CARD clinic
Revise water commissioner laws
Revise public land access agreement laws
Revise requirements for community or public water systems
Appropriate funds for waterworks at new treatment plant in Yellowstone County
Generally revise environmental protection laws
Generally revise oil and gas laws
Revise exempt wells laws
Revise hard rock mining funding
Expand MEPA categorical exclusions
Revise laws related to petroleum brownfields
Generally revise laws regulating coal ash
Generally revise environmental protection laws
Phase out use of styrofoam in food-related businesses
Generally revise open cut laws
Provide exception for use of oil/gas water
Generally revise laws related to carbon emissions
Clarify regulations for ponds
Joint resolution in support of the Montana Trail 406 network
Revise exempt well laws related to family transfer parcels
Revise taxation of stripper oil and gas wells
Generally revise natural resource laws
Require draft proposals before initiating a county zoning/planning board
Require legislative approval of national heritage areas, historic trails
Generally revise opencut laws
Generally revise laws related to the department of environmental quality
Clarify jurisdiction of board of oil and gas conservation
Generally revise the use of exploding targets
Generally revise county gravel pit permitting
Study of Lake Koocanusa selenium standard
Study the funding of conservation districts
Study of Flathead River erosion
Urge support for Keystone XL pipeline
Generally revise state cabin leasing laws
Repeal numeric nutrient standards for water quality
Revise coal bonding laws
Extend authorization deadline for use of navigable riverbed
Generally revise the board of environmental review
Revise funding for the Montana greater sage-grouse stewardship act
Revise laws for use of reclaimed wastewater for snowmaking
Renaming the Treasure State Endowment program
Clarify criteria for permits and water right changes
Establish wind and solar development ground lease for state trust lands
Generally revise environmental laws
Provide for non-fire type-3 all-hazard incident management team
Clarify objections to water rights
Revise non-degradation standard for nitrates
Revise weather modification and control laws
Increase membership for the board of water well contractors
Establish the public lands access act
Generally revise flood plain delineation, review, and regulations
Resolution to recognize benefits of connected trail networks across Montana
Generally revise laws to create Superfund oversight commmittees
Prohibit sales of federal land transferred to Montana
Revise membership of the Montana Invasive Species Council
Generally revise practice of land surveying laws
Establish Montana brownfields revitalization act
Clarify AIS management authority laws
Resolution to remove Hidden Pasture Creek from WSA
Resolution on floodplain permit process
Resolution on Columbia River Treaty
Repaying general fund for initial implementation of sage grouse act
Clarifying use of river basin councils
Revise the Process for Water Right Ownership Updates
Revise laws regarding state timber sales
Requiring drain plugs to be disengaged to prevent aquatic invasive species
Exempt DNRC grants from environmental review
Revise DNRC adjudication benchmarks
Revise permitting laws for rock products mining
Declare noxious weed awareness week
Revise FWP authority for instream flows
Revise requirements to hold a mining permit
Allow transfer of hard rock mining permit
Requiring mandatory AIS decontamination of certain vessels with ballast/bladders
Repeal timber conservation license in lieu of sale
Create GWIP special revenue account
Generally revise laws related to county water and/or sewer districts
Exempt conservation districts from certain fees
Revise water right laws related to state water claims
Interim study on fish and wildlife data
Create a statutory appropriation for Good Neighbor Authority agreement income
Revise open cut laws
Allow for extension of state coal leases
Create stream gauge oversight work group
Revise laws related to AIS expenditures and funding
Interim study of wilderness study areas
Private right of action for waste of water
Generally revise laws related to sage grouse conservation
Revise variances to water quality standards
Resolution to reauthorize of surface mining control and reclamation act
Amend method for measuring water for aquifer recharge or mitigation
Joint resolution to congress asking to fund aquatic invasive species programs
Clarify notice procedures for exempt right claims
Extend deadline to correct an application for water right permit or change
Allow written bids for state trust land oil and gas leases
Study of future of the Water Court
Interim study on the coal trust fund
Interim study of timber conservation licenses
Study of air purification capabilities during wildfire smoke events
Study of travel on state lands
Establish liability for fires caused by transmission lines
Revise laws related to sage grouse
Revise volume for groundwater exemption
Revise laws regarding conservation licenses on state lands
Eliminate numeric nutrient standards for water quality laws
Prohibit sale or marketing of exempt groundwater
Provide for innovative sewage disposal technology
Revise laws related to river basin councils
Create a hazardous materials spill response task force
Eliminate petroleum tank release compensation board
Generally revise major facility siting act
Clarify state's position on global warming and greenhouse gases
Revise definition in streambed protection laws
Revising local government laws related to invasive species
Revise certain water right adjudication processes
Create SWAMP special revenue account
Revise hearings process for change of water right application
Revise laws related to siting pipelines
Require 2/3 vote to transfer from fire suppression account
Limiting transfers by water rights certificate holders
Create grant program to remove lead from school water supplies
Amend process to appoint water mediator
Revise water reservation process in Missouri, Little Missouri rivers
Revise laws related to aquatic invasive species programs
Revise fire assessment fees
Require notice to shared water conveyance facilities
Clarify dinosaur bones and fossils are part of surface estate
Extend deadline for appeal of streambed permit
Increase the amount of green timber that can be harvested by commercial permit
Revise report requirement from drought and water supply advisory committee
Clarify criteria for water rights change application
Revise Libby asbestos superfund laws
Revise time period for Water Court decrees
Resolution on Columbia River Treaty
Resolution to congress to streamline/take control of the exportation of coal
Revise and clarify voluntary clean-up laws and extend groundwater cleanup time
Clarify placement of definitions in water law
Clarify criteria for water right permit relying on waiver of adverse effect
Increase fees for the Hazard Reduction Agreement program
Allow extension of coal lease on state lands
Eliminate board of environmental review
Revise laws regarding exempt wells and family transfer parcels
Good neighbor forestry to encourage economic development
Revise off-highway vehicle/recreational vehicle laws
Revise collection of payment for historic rights of way
Modify commercial leasing rental provisions for state lands
Generally revise aquatic invasive species
Prohibit condemnation of agricultural water
Revise laws related to exempt appropriations of water
Create voluntary contribution account to acquire public access easements
Generally revise laws related to invasive species
Recognizing source watersheds
Establish Surface Water Assessment and Monitoring Program
Provide funding for sage grouse stewardship
Revise laws for filing of exempt water right claims
Create Libby asbestos cleanup advisory team and funding
generally revise laws related to sage grouse
Revise the major facility siting act
Establish setbacks for wells and lagoons
Revise laws on forest reserve money kept in state treasury
Prohibit interference with aerial wildfire suppression
Water permit exemption for fire department operations
Provide funding for coal bed methane protection program
Limit adverse effects analysis
Allow variance for stream restoration projects in flood plain
Provide for property assessed clean energy financing
Revise exempt well laws
Revise laws related to public access projects
Study issues related to water rights
Generally revise laws on aquatic invasive species
Provide for off-highway trail pass
Revise metal mining laws
Provide for certified prescribed burning
Expand state reservation of waters
Revise use of fire suppression account funds
Revise volume for exempt water right
Terminate Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission
Define combined appropriation of water
Generally revise laws related to aquatic invasive species
Joint resolution honoring public lands
Revise laws related to water compacts
Clarify recreational prospecting exemption
Provide regulations for moored vessels
Authorize local government to take action on wildfires
Allowing use of fire suppression funds for workers compensation
Direct DEQ to assume dredge-and-fill permitting program
Clarify water right not abandoned if conveyance disrupted
Provide for enhancement of stream access in MDT construction projects
Locate certain utilities over water
Revise analysis of Muddy Creek water rights
Interim study of water right change process
Establish Surface Water Assessment and Monitoring Program
Statutory appropriation for Ground Water Investigation Program
Revise water right abandonment laws to account for drought plans
Revise temporary water right lease laws
Resolution urging the delisting of grizzly bears
Resolution supporting the release of certain wilderness study areas
Reallocate funds related to Blackfeet Tribe water compact
Clarify water commissioner appointments
Extend sunset provision for unlocking public lands program
Require water reservation report by 2026
Require education program for water commissioners
Revise allowable harvest volume for certain state land timber harvest
Require sage grouse population report
Clarify process for updating water right transfers
Clarify definition of water right change
Repeal assessment computation statute for conservation districts
Reallocate metal mines license tax
Provide definitions for intermittent, ephemeral streams
Create infrastructure funding program
Montana sage grouse stewardship act
Revise water quality violation penalties
Assist local governments with federal land projects
Generally revise water discharge laws regarding nutrients
Revise metal mine laws
Revise state land laws
Revise state finance laws to received proceeds from Libby Dam water storage/use
Establish public lands task force
Revise liability for forest or range fires
Revise process for adopting water quality regulations
Add definitions for natural condition of stream
Generally revise hazardous waste fees
Increase assessments on owners of classified forest land
Constitutional referendum to divert coal trust and create Build Montana program
Limit liability for aviation on state lands
Generally revise exempt well laws
Study state assumption of federal dredge and fill permitting
Study future water rights administration
Revise air quality fee structure laws
Study reasonable water use
Revise rental payment calculation for commercial lease of state trust land
Support payment to Lincoln County
Require TMDL development for certain water bodies
Extend historic county road or utility right-of-way application dates
Revise asbestos laws
Interim study of federal roads and parcels and access
Revise brownfield site clean up eligibility laws
Revise laws for filing of exempt water right claims
Generally revise aquatic invasive species laws
Revise aquatic invasive species fund laws
Clarify state water reservation reviews
Clarify standing provisions in Water Court proceedings
Authorize the attorney general to intervene involving timber reduction projects
Facilitate cabin and home-site sales
Revise water adjudication funding and benchmarks
Transfer of Willow Creek dam to water users association
Clarify water right not abandoned if conveyance disrupted
Study light detection and ranging data
Resolution recognizing the service of 75 years of smoke jumpers
Define combined appropriation for exempt wells in certain cases
Allow electronic fund transfers for trust lands
Revise reporting on state trust lands
Allow water permit volume change due to incomplete use
Prohibit perpetual care of metal mine after remediation
Retain state prerogatives to allocate, administer, protect state water resources
Prohibit outfitting on state lands inaccessible to public
Generally revise laws related to state lands
Require federal government to comply with air quality laws in Montana
Revise penalty for unauthorized use of state trust lands
Establish contracting laws for conservation districts
Revise laws related to national park concession contracts
Revise process to modify classification of state water bodies
Expand water policy interim committee duties
Revise the controlled allocation of liability laws
Revise river bed laws
Expand use of petroleum mixing zones
Revise flood plain notification process
Revise laws related to property right sales
Resolution against efforts to claim, take over, litigate, or sell federal lands
Preserve the ability of Montana citizens to heat structures by burning wood
Revise water quality laws related to mines
Provide for the Smith River legacy act
Revise laws on sale to or exchange of park land with public entities
Revise asbestos laws
Remove hearing rule requirement for conservation districts
Revise public notice for certain water rights
Revise water degradation laws
Generally revise state land cabin site laws
Revise state cabin site leasing laws
Revise exempt well laws
Eliminate air pollution control advisory council
Allow for removal of natural obstruction to exercise water right
Revise laws on rural/urban interface and fire protection
Revise laws governing watershed protection
Clarify the definition of spring in water law
Generally revise laws related to solid waste management
Extend the reserved water rights compact commission
Define combined appropriation for exempt wells
Order admissible in civil action
Generally revise water use laws
Study light detection and ranging data
Interim study on water ditch/canal easement restatement process options
Water court review of claims exempt from filing
Interim study on public land management
Allowing excavation/sale of fossils at Makoshika State Park to benefit the park
Study natural resource issues regarding septic systems
Study water policy
Require land board approval of land purchases
Require new sustainable yield determination
Resolution to encourage voluntary streamside best management practices
Eliminate EQC term limits
Revise laws related to liability for forest and range fires
Prohibit state agencies from taking action on anonymous civil complaints
Clarifying DNRC enforcement of interference with prior water right
Study water policy to put more water to beneficial use
Revise zoning laws for sand and gravel operations
Establish a bioscience initiative
Define combined appropriation for exempt wells
Generally revise gravel permit permitting process
Revise road laws related to aggregate stabilization
Agency coordination of permits for large-scale projects
Generally revise water law on application for water rights
Require septic inspection before property transfer
Revise laws related to coal board grants and railroad quiet zones
Resolution to support climate change as scientifically valid
Revise fines for lakeshore protection violations
Resolution in opposition to the forest jobs and recreation act
Create malicious placement law
Prohibit fire lanterns during certain fire seasons
Joint resolution to initiate legal action for damages to state waters
Revise department of environmental quality remediation process
Provide authority to expend water rights enforcement penalties
Allow temporary leasing of water rights
Create state parks and recreation board
Revise landowner notification requirements under MFSA
Generally revise laws related to solid waste licenses and fees
Provide for the Upper Missouri Breaks National Monument Water Compact
Ratify C.M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge water compact
Clarify taxation and ownership of river channel following an avulsion
Revise wood products revolving loan fund
Establish regional water system rate process
Generally revise open-cut laws
Generally revise canal or ditch easement laws
Require permits for cooling water intake structures
Revise local government laws relate to property environmental clean-up
Eliminate dual regulation of certain refinery underground piping
Revise title of governor's drought advisory committee
Interim study on Virginia City, Nevada City, and Reeder's Alley
Increase contract amount in bidding process for drainage district
Eliminate DNRC report on wildland/urban interface designation
Clarifying definition of good cause for water right objections
Clarify taxation and ownership river channel changed by evulsion
Revise metal mine laws
Revise certain coal prospecting procedures
Provide a separate process for coal beneficiation
Disposition of damage awards for state land leases
Revise methods to establish rental fees and sale of state land cabin sites
Revise mining laws regarding cyanide heap and vat leach open-pit mining
Regulate underground coal gasification
Expend PPL v. MT proceeds on higher producing land to benefit public schools
Revise laws related to navigable river beds
Revise state coal leasing laws
Revise laws related to total maximum daily load development
Allow principal forgiveness for drinking water and wastewater revolving loans
Interim study resolution on innovation incentives to encourage renewable energy
Study of eminent domain and just compensation for property
Generally revise the Montana Environmental Policy Act
Resolution calling for Montana's withdrawal from regional climate initiative
Provide for public disclosure of fluids used in hydraulic fracturing
Clarify state's position on global warming and greenhouse gases
Generally revise laws regarding use of aircraft by any state agency
Clarify exempt well laws
Revise Comprehensive Environmental Cleanup and Responsibility Act
Study terrestrial carbon sequestration
Revise zoning laws for sand and gravel
Revise coal bed methane protection act
Revise composition of board of oil and gas conservation
Revise laws related to natural resource permitting
Revise state spending for wildland fire suppression
Revise Montana environmental policy act for local government consult
Prohibit mixing zones for city wastewater discharge
Require financial assurance for waste tire disposal sites
Require discharge permit for certain wetland management
Creating a coal development protection program with a statutory appropriation
Require DNRC to assess each dam owned or controlled for hydroelectric potential
Establish nutrient standards variances
Require interim study of exempt water wells
Authorizing the actual cost of meals for certain wildland firefighters
Revise laws on fiscal requirements under CECRA
Defining and recording wind energy rights
Provide that Dept. of Commerce assist local gov't with fed land management props
Authorize collection of interest payments on unpaid coal royalties
Reduce DEQ and local sanitation review times
Revise laws relating to water quality standards and provide alternatives
Authorize use of petroleum mixing zones for petroleum release sites
Provide for microbial conversion for enhanced gas recovery
Resolution regarding federal land use policy
Authorize the sale of bonds to fund Blackfeet water compact
Privatize state-owned cataract dam project
Revise state land laws for regional water systems
Resolution opposing clean waters restoration act and navigable rivers
Allow third party consultants to directly bill mining companies
Resolution urging Congress to prevent EPA from regulating greenhouse gases
Water permit exemption for heating and cooling applications
Revise laws related to state land trust interest and income revenue
Clarify powers of Board of Environ Review on air quality regs for forest equip
Revise requirements for proposed septic mixing zones
Revise strip and underground mine reclamation act laws related to revegetation
Authorize municipal wastewater reuse
Revise laws related to slash hazard reduction
Authorize spending authority for Blackfeet mitigation account interest payments
Revise Fort Belknap People's Creek account
Revise aquifer recharge and mitigation laws
Eliminate floodway obstruction removal fee assessed by DNRC
Establish an annual forest products industry week
Revise sewer and water district finance laws and water authority laws