Montana Code Annotated 2021

TITLE 2. GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE AND ADMINISTRATION

CHAPTER 4. ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT

Part 1. General Provisions

Administrative Rule Review Committee Voting -- Objections

2-4-112. Administrative rule review committee voting -- objections. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2), the speaker of the house and the president of the senate are ex officio voting members of each administrative rule review committee for the sole purpose of breaking a tie vote on a question before a committee involving an objection to an administrative rule pursuant to Title 2, chapter 4.

(2) If the speaker of the house, the president of the senate, or both, are members of an administrative rule review committee, the highest ranking officer of the majority party that is not a member of the committee is an ex officio voting member for the purposes of subsection (1). The ranking order for the:

(a) house is speaker pro tempore, majority leader, and majority whip; and

(b) senate is president pro tempore, majority leader, and majority whip.

History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 102, L. 2021.