Title 5, Title 5

No lobbyist or principal shall engage in or directly or indirectly authorize any unprofessional conduct.

(1) A person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is subject to civil penalties of not less than $250 and not more than $7,500 according to the discretion of the district court, as court of original jurisdiction. A lobbyist who violates any of the provisions of this…

(1) In addition to any other penalties or remedies established by this chapter, a person who fails to file a report within the time required by this chapter is subject to a civil penalty of $50 for each working day that the report is late until the report is filed or until the pe…

(1) An individual may not be licensed as a lobbyist and a principal may not directly authorize or permit lobbying by an individual if during the 24 months prior to applying for a license that individual served as a state legislator, elected state official, department director, ap…

(1) There is a legislative council. Subject to subsection (2), the legislative council consists of: (a) the speaker of the house, the minority leader of the house, and, subject to 5-5-234, four members chosen by the speaker of the house, two from the majority party and two from t…

Membership on the council is for 2 years while the member remains qualified and until a successor is appointed and qualified. Members required to be appointed by leadership under 5-11-101 must be appointed immediately following organization of the senate and the house of represen…

A vacancy on the legislative council must be filled by the selection of another member by the same method as the original appointment.

(1) The legislative council shall organize immediately following appointment by electing one of its members as its presiding officer and by electing other officers from among its membership that the council considers appropriate. The presiding officer may not be from the same cha…

(1) The legislative council shall: (a) employ and, in accordance with the rules for classification and pay established as provided in this section, set the salary of an executive director of the legislative services division, who serves at the pleasure of and is responsible to th…

The legislative services division, on behalf of standing committees, select committees, or interim committees and any subcommittees of those committees, may investigate and examine state governmental activities and may examine and inspect all records, books, and files of any depa…

(1) In the discharge of its duties, a committee of either house, a committee established under legislative rules, a statutory committee, or an interim committee may hold hearings, administer oaths, issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, …

(1) (a) In enacting this part, the legislature employs its legislative authority to establish that the people of the state of Montana, acting through their elected officials in state government, have the responsibility and authority to establish policy in and for Montana pertaini…

(1) The legislative council may review an executive order issued by the president of the United States that has not been affirmed by a vote of congress and signed into law as prescribed by the constitution of the United States and recommend to the attorney general and the governo…

The legislature finds and declares that: (1) the purpose of a state-funded public affairs broadcasting program is to provide Montana citizens with increased access to unbiased information about state government deliberations and public policy events through unedited television co…

As used in this part, unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply: (1) "Broadcasting" means any application of communication technologies to deliver live or delayed programming to a viewing audience, including but not limited to over-the-air television …

There is a legislative services division under the direction of an executive director employed by the legislative council under 5-11-105. The executive director may engage personnel and consultants to fulfill the duties of the legislative services division within the limits of ap…

(1) There is a state government broadcasting service administered by the division. The division shall: (a) develop and issue a request for proposals for the production of gavel-to-gavel coverage of legislative and administrative proceedings as well as other public affairs program…

(1) The legislative council may establish a functional organization within the legislative services division in order to effectively and efficiently carry out all of the responsibilities delegated to the division by law or legislative rule. The responsibilities of the legislative…

(1) In collaboration with the legislative services division and the state-tribal relations committee, the state director of Indian affairs shall make readily available to all legislators information and training on: (a) Indian law; (b) the history of federal Indian policy; and (c…

(1) There is a legislative branch retirement termination reserve account in the state special revenue fund. Money may be deposited in the account through an allocation of money to the account or as provided in 17-7-304. (2) (a) The money in the account is statutorily appropriated…

The journal of the senate must be authenticated by the signature of the president and the journal of the house of representatives by the signature of the speaker. Each authenticated journal must be filed with the secretary of state. A copy of each authenticated journal must be fi…

The legislative services division shall deliver to the appropriate printer, at the earliest practicable day after the final adjournment of each session of the legislature, copies of all laws and resolutions passed or adopted during the session. The session laws must be delivered …

(1) Immediately after the session laws are published, the legislative services division shall distribute them. (2) The legislative services division shall make the house and senate journals available for examination or copying by the public as provided in Title 2, chapter 6, part…

The secretary of state shall, when bills passed by any legislature are filed in the secretary's office as directed in 5-4-302 and 5-4-305, note on the bill the date of filing and number the bills, except resolutions, in the order of their reception, chapter 1 and upwards, using A…

(1) The legislative services division shall publish all laws and resolutions passed or adopted by each session of the legislature in a publication to be known as the Laws of Montana. (2) Laws of each session must be printed in the Laws of Montana in the order that they have been …

(1) The legislative services division shall prepare a suitable index of all the laws and resolutions passed or adopted at each session of the legislature. The index must be a thorough index of the laws and resolutions and of each subject contained in or covered by the laws and re…

The legislative services division shall include in the published session laws a description of the county boundaries of any new counties of the state created by petition and election, commencing with counties created after January 1, 1921, by inserting in each set of session laws…

The expenses incurred by the legislative services division in carrying into effect 5-11-202, 5-11-203, and 5-11-205 through 5-11-207 must be paid out of money appropriated for that purpose.

(1) When it becomes available after each regular legislative session, each legislator is entitled to purchase for $10 each one set of the printed and bound Montana Code Annotated statute text and histories. A legislator is entitled to receive one electronic version of the Montana…

(1) An entity required to report to the legislature in accordance with 5-11-222 shall provide to the executive director of the legislative services division: (a) the final title of the report; (b) an abstract or description of the contents of the report, not to exceed 50 words, i…

For the purposes of this part, the following definitions apply: (1) "One complete set" means one copy of each item of the proceedings of a session, regular or special, of the legislature. (2) "Person" means any person, firm, corporation, or association. (3) "Proceedings of the le…

(1) A complete set of the proceedings of a regular or special session of the legislature may be purchased from the legislative services division for the amount prescribed by the legislative council. Upon receipt of payment, the executive director of the legislative services divis…

Each general circulation newspaper published in Montana and each radio or television station broadcasting in Montana that has registered with the executive director of the legislative services division is exempt from 5-11-212 and shall receive one complete set of the proceedings …

All elected state officials, state department heads, the state law library, and county clerk and recorders shall be exempted from 5-11-212.

(1) (a) Except as provided in subsections (1)(b) and (5), a report to the legislature means a biennial report required by the legislature and filed in accordance with 5-11-210 on or before September 1 of each year preceding the convening of a regular session of the legislature. (…

For the purposes of this part, the following definitions apply: (1) "Intergovernmental entity" means an organization, committee, delegation, or association of local, state, tribal, regional, or international governmental bodies. (2) "International entity" means an organization, c…

The legislative council shall: (1) encourage the state of Montana to develop and maintain mutually constructive contact and relations with interstate, international, and intergovernmental entities; (2) promote mutually beneficial exchanges of information between the state of Mont…

(1) Unless otherwise provided by law, the legislative council shall appoint legislators to serve as members of appropriate interstate, international, and intergovernmental entities. (2) The president of the senate, the speaker of the house, the minority leader of the senate, and …

It is the purpose of this part to establish a mechanism for information technology planning encompassing broad policy needs, long-term direction for information systems use, and the effective implementation of a detailed plan for the legislative branch. It is the purpose of the p…

There is a legislative branch information technology planning council composed of: (1) the secretary of the senate; (2) one representative of the senate designated by the president; (3) the chief clerk of the house of representatives; (4) one representative of the house designate…

The legislative branch information technology planning council shall develop and maintain a legislative branch information technology plan. In developing and maintaining this plan, the planning council shall: (1) approve and validate the branch enterprise architecture program tha…

(1) The executive director of the legislative services division shall provide technical staff support to the legislative branch information technology planning council. In performing this duty, the legislative services division shall assist the planning council by: (a) developing…

The legislative branch information technology plan is a biennial plan that reflects the budget proposals for the next biennium that must be approved and adopted by the legislative council.

Information technology systems installed by the senate, the house of representatives, and legislative branch agencies must conform to standards established by the legislative branch for the enterprise architecture in effect at the time the purchasing decision is made.

(1) There is a legislative branch reserve account in the state special revenue fund. Money may be deposited in the account through an allocation of money to the account or as provided in 17-7-304. (2) (a) The money in the account is statutorily appropriated, as provided in 17-7-5…

(1) The legislature finds that there is a new emerging global economy in which countries and regions located in specific areas of the world are forging new cooperative arrangements. (2) The legislature finds that these new cooperative arrangements are increasing the competitivene…