Montana lawmakers reject call for special session on taxes
The Montana state Capitol building in Helena on June 16, 2023. (Matt Baldwin/Daily Inter Lake)
A call for a special session of the Montana Legislature that would have addressed rising residential property taxes in the state has failed.
Montana Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen released the results of a poll of Montana lawmakers on Friday night, and it showed that 55 members of the 150-member Legislature supported a special session, far short of the 76 votes needed for the lawmakers to call themselves back to the capitol in Helena.
The call for a special session was pushed by lawmakers identified as the Montana Freedom Caucus because of the public outrage over a jump in residential property taxes. Sticker shock came in the form of property tax assessments that many residents started to receive in the summer, after the 2023 Legislature had recessed.
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