Montana State Legislature

2023-2024 Local Government Interim Committee

Next Scheduled Meeting:

September 10th, 2024
9:00 a.m.
Capitol Room 137 & Zoom
Helena, MT

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Committee Staff:

Toni Henneman, Research Analyst

Julie Johnson, Attorney

Allison Dunbar, Secretary

The Local Government Interim Committee (LGIC) acts as a liaison between the state and local governments, provides a forum for discussing state oversight of local functions and intergovernmental cooperation, promotes effective local government regulations, and identifies desirable practices to promote effective and fair relationships between individual local governments and local governments and the state.
The committee's statutory duties are in 5-5-232, MCA.

Committee Members

REPRESENTATIVE
LARRY BREWSTER (R) --Chair

SENATOR
RUSS TEMPEL (R) --Member

SENATOR
JEREMY TREBAS (R) --Member

SENATOR
TERRY VERMEIRE (R) --Member

REPRESENTATIVE
TOM FRANCE (D) --Member

REPRESENTATIVE
STEVE GIST (R) --Member

REPRESENTATIVE
GREG OBLANDER (R) --Member

SENATOR
MARY ANN DUNWELL (D) --Vice Chair

The audio minutes are the official minutes of the committee. Both the video and audio recordings of each meeting are available shortly after the meeting ends. A minutes log will be published later, noting the time at which various items were discussed.

September 10, 2024

Agenda - Minutes Log - Audio / Video

July 17, 2024
Agenda - Minutes Log - Audio / Video

May 22, 2024
Agenda - Minutes Log - Audio / Video

March 20, 2024
Agenda - Minutes Log - Audio / Video

January 24, 2024
Agenda - Minutes Log - Audio / Video

January 23, 2024
Agenda - Minutes Log - Audio / Video

November 9, 2023
Agenda - Minutes Log - Audio / Video

September 7, 2023
Agenda - Minutes Log - Audio / Video

July 12, 2023
Agenda - Minutes Log - Audio / Video

Interim Studies

The Legislative Council assigns studies to the LGIC for the 2023-2024 interim. Committee options and decisions will be made on how to perform each study. More information about each study will be available on study pages linked below.

Assigned Studies

No studies were assigned for the 2023-24 interim.

Committee Topics

Agency Oversight

  • No oversight assigned to this committee

Ballot Initiative Review

Required Reports

Review of Unfunded Mandate Laws

Rule Review

  • No rule review responsibilities for this committee

 

2023 Session Local Government Legislation Summary

 

The Local Government Interim Committee approved the following provisional drafts for preintroduction to the 69th session on September 10, 2024. 

Special District Oversight:

  • PD1JJ, Authorize county commissioners to initiate certain civil proceedings

Local Government Budget Process:

  • PD2TH, Revise property tax information required in preliminary budgets

Disability Parking:

  • PD3TH, Revise laws related to disability parking

Workforce Housing:

  • PD4TH, Establish a Montana workforce housing tax credit