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House adds broadband and wireless communications to critical infrastructure protections

2220778 · February 4, 2025
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Summary

House Bill 257 passed second reading to expand Montana’s critical-infrastructure vandalism protections to include broadband and wireless communications infrastructure and to close a loophole affecting linear facilities such as transmission lines and railways.

House Bill 257, which expands Montana’s critical infrastructure protections to include broadband and wireless communications and closes a statutory loophole affecting linear facilities, passed second reading with a recorded vote of 89-11.

Representative Kametz, the bill sponsor, described the measure as a modernization of laws enacted in 2021 (House Bill 481) to deter…

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