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House transportation committee backs bill to remove statutorily named MDT divisions amid aviation concerns
Summary
The House Transportation Committee voted to advance House Bill 487, which would remove statutory language requiring five named divisions at the Montana Department of Transportation; proponents said the change grants needed flexibility, while pilots and aviation groups urged preserving aeronautics as a distinct program.
A Montana House Transportation Committee advanced House Bill 487 on a voice vote after a public hearing in which the bill sponsor and the Montana Department of Transportation argued the change would let the agency modernize its internal structure.
Representative Julie Darling, the bill sponsor, told the committee the measure "is simply going to eliminate the requirement to have certain divisions and enables the agency to modernize how it does business." She said the statutory listing of five divisions — highways, aeronautics, administration, rail/transit and motor carriers — is an outlier among executive branch agencies and can…
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