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Committee hears bill to formally recognize interactive teller machines in banking code

Senate Business, Labor, and Economic Affairs
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Summary

House Bill 434 would add interactive teller machines (ITMs) to Montana’s banking statutes so they are not treated as full branches; proponents said the technology extends customer services to rural communities and mirrors FDIC guidance that ITMs need not be classified as branches.

Representative Ken Walsh opened House Bill 434 as a modernization measure to add a statutory definition for interactive teller machines, or ITMs. Walsh described an ITM as “an ATM on steroids” — an ATM-like machine with video and two‑way interaction with bank staff — and said the bill removes branch classification that triggers more onerous regulatory…

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