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Montana

1 bill passed

2025 Regular Session

1 bill · Adjourned 30 Apr 2025
SB473 House Not Concurred

Prohibit weather modification.

Montana Senate Bill 473 passed the Senate in March 2025. Still, it died in the House, prohibiting large-scale geoengineering practices such as stratospheric aerosol injection and solar radiation management, while explicitly protecting cloud seeding for agriculture and water management.

Survived Senate drama; died on House floor

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2021 Regular Session

1 bill · Adjourned sine die
SB29 Died in process

Revise weather modification and control laws

Montana Senate Bill 29 passed the Senate in 2021 but died in the House revising weather modification laws to streamline the licensing process mandate 100000 dollar liability insurance require environmental review and facilitate increased use of cloud seeding technology.

Passed Senate; rejected by House floor.

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2019 Regular Session

1 bill · Adjourned sine die
HJ40 Passed

Study of weather modification

Montana House Joint Resolution 40 passed in 2019 directing a legislative study of weather modification laws to propose changes that would encourage increased use of cloud seeding technology for enhancing precipitation and water supplies.

Resolution filed with Secretary of State May 1 2019

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