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Lawmakers consider restricting who can demand electricians show licenses at job sites
Summary
House Bill 206 would limit which individuals may request electricians to present licenses on job sites, narrowing currently broad rights to check credentials and aiming to reduce alleged harassment and liability risks on construction sites while preserving inspector access.
Rep. Mike Vinton presented House Bill 206 to the Senate Business and Labor Committee as a targeted measure to reduce what electricians and contractors say are harassment and safety risks when unauthorized people enter job sites to demand licensing details.
Under current Montana law, witnesses testified, unions, unrelated electricians and private parties can enter a construction site to ask workers to produce their electrical licenses. HB 206 would restrict that authority to those professionally responsible for the job site, state and local inspectors, or electricians who are working on the same job site. Sponsor Vinton said the change is intended to protect job‑site safety, contractor liability and…
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