- Legislation
- HB 608 (2023)
- Status
- Defeated
- Defeated On
- March 2023
- Type(s)
- Anti-boycott, State Investments
- Full Text
- Read HB 608 (2023)
HB 608 is an anti-boycott investment prohibition bill that orders the creation of a blacklist of companies that boycott Israel or illegal Israeli settlements. The bill requires Montana’s board of investments to divest from all holdings of and prohibits the state from investing in blacklisted companies. The bill excludes actions “taken pursuant to a boycott against a public entity of Israel if the boycott is applied in a nondiscriminatory manner,” which should exclude boycotts for justice. However, the preambular text makes clear that it is state policy to oppose BDS.