US state regulation
Montana
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for Montana - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 31/100 Below median
- Regulations tracked
- 2 Below median
- Enacted into law
- 2
- Categories regulated
- 2/5
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QUIET pending desk. 0 pending · 2 enacted · 2/5 policy areas with rows.
The verdict
Montana sits in the lower tracker-score band - 2 enacted regulations across 2 of 5 tracked policy areas, with a portal tracker score of 31/100, led by Data Privacy.
- 31/100
- tracker (mid tercile)
- 2
- tracked rows (mid tercile)
- 2
- enacted into law
- Data Privacy
- PRIVACY-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
Montana legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from Montana's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 2 Tracked rows in archive
- 2 Enacted into law 100% share
- 0 Pending bills tracked
- 31/100 Portal tracker score
- #30 Of 51 by volume
- #30 Of 51 by tracker score
- Indiana Nearest volume peer 2 rows
- 2 Of 5 policy areas Data Privacy
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
State context
Montana's pending heat vs the tracked state corpus
QUIET pending desk: Montana is below the peer average for tracked volume and below the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
Montana enactments by year
Enacted regulations tracked in PlainRegWatch since 2015 · peak 1 in 2015
Policy coverage
Montana enacted mix · PRIVACY-LED
Privacy-led shelf: each card is live from Montana's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
Montana regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining Montana's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive Montana's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
59/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- C 2 tracked
57th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- D 31/100
49th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- B 2 categories
76th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Read with Montana
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for Montana (LIGHT · LOWER · QUIET), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
LIGHT LOWER QUIET PRIVACY-LED
Indiana · LIGHT
Indiana tracks 2 rows (more by 0 than Montana); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Iowa · LIGHT
Iowa tracks 2 rows (more by 0 than Montana); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Kentucky · LIGHT
Kentucky tracks 2 rows (more by 0 than Montana); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Nebraska · LIGHT
Nebraska tracks 2 rows (more by 0 than Montana); tracker stamp LOWER vs LOWER.
Delaware (MID score pole)
Delaware sits near Montana on archive volume yet stamps MID while this page stamps LOWER.
Data Privacy hub · PRIVACY-LED
Montana's lead category is Data Privacy (1 enacted) under the PRIVACY-LED archive stamp.
Regulations by category in Montana
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) Montana state-rule registry · 2023 Montana: 2 tracked · 2 enacted · tracker 31/100 (LIGHT/LOWER). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are Montana's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.