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Senate committee tables bill to create public list of laws ruled facially unconstitutional
Summary
House Bill 674 would have directed the code commissioner to prepare a report listing statutes that courts have finally held to be facially unconstitutional. Sponsors said the list is informational (would not remove code); after debate about judicial power and scope the committee voted to table HB 674.
Representative Zoey Zephyr presented House Bill 6 74, a code‑cleanup proposal that would require the code commissioner to prepare a report identifying sections of the Montana Code Annotated that courts have finally held to be "facially unconstitutional." Zephyr told the committee the report is intended as informational and would not in itself remove language from the code. She said an interim request to legislative…
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