2024 Candidates: 

2024 candidate reporting calendar

2024 school candidate reporting calendar (May 7, 2024 election)

2024 Districts Required to Report Campaign Finance Activities (via Montana's Office of Public Instruction (OPI))

2024 Committees:

2024 committee reporting calendar

2024 school committee reporting calendar (May 7, 2024 election)

2024 Districts Required to Report Campaign Finance Activities (via Montana's Office of Public Instruction (OPI))

2023 Candidates:

Municipal (city) candidates: 2023 municipal (city) candidate reporting calendar

School candidates: (PDF of 2023 School District Candidate Reporting Dates)

2023 Committees:

Municipal (city) election calendar: 2023 Municipal (city) committee reporting calendar

School calendar: (PDF of 2023 School District Participating Committee Reporting Dates)

Committees with no activity: 2023 committees no activity calendar

2024 Training Materials and Recordings

2024 candidate campaign reporting presentation- PowerPoint and PDF

2024 committee reporting presentation- PowerPoint and PDF

Basic candidate campaign finance reporting- PowerPoint and PDF

Basic political committee campaign finance reporting- PowerPoint and PDF

Political party commitee campaign finance reporting (from 4/16 event requested by the Montana Democratic Party)- PowerPoint and PDF

May 16, 2024 combined candidate and committee event- recording (passcode is wd%5F8&X)

February 7- School candidate and committeess training- PowerPoint and Recording (passcode is G15G*f=&)

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2023 Trainings, Schedule and Materials

February 6- School Committees training- PowerPoint

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2022 Trainings

January 28 – GOP Winter Kick-Off – Candidates 3PM-4PM / Committees 2PM-3PM (Registration, site available through Montana GOP)(Materials-see 2022 General Candidate below)(Materials - Committee General below)

February 9 - Billings Chamber of Commerce Candidate School 9AM CPP portion (Registration, site available through Billings Chamber of Commerce)(Materials-see 2022 General Candidate below)

February 10 - Montana Farm Bureau Federation Campaign Training Seminar - Noon for CPP portion (Registration, site available through MFBF) (Materials - see 2022 General Candidate)

February (Postponed from the 10th, Date not reset) - Montana Democratic Party staff - (Info, site avail through Montana Dems) 

February 22 – School Candidates only ZOOM RECORDING LINK passcode - A5Y5p#gk (Materials below) 

March 1 – Candidate Session and Committee Session (Materials Candidate below) (Materials Committee below) LINKS - CANDIDATE SESSION ZOOM RECORDING
COMMITTEE SESSION ZOOM RECORDING 

March 9 – Billings/Zoom 1PM-3PM (Candidates) (email cppcompliance@mt.gov for more information)(Materials below, Billings Assoc of Realtors Conference facility - 2021 Overland Ave in Billings) No video available

March 10 – Bozeman/Zoom 2PM – 4PM (Candidates) (email cppcompliance@mt.gov for more information)(Materials below, Gallatin County Courthouse Community Room, 311 W. Main St. in Bozeman) Links - CANDIDATE TRAINING ZOOM VIDEO

March 22 – Helena/Zoom CANCELLED - LACK OF REGISTRATIONS 

March 28 – COMMITTEE ZOOM ONLY Video link - (Materials Committee below)

April 12 – Missoula training CANCELLED - LACK OF REGISTRATIONS (All interested parties can participate and/or attend GTF zoom or in-person April 13 

April 13 – Great Falls/Zoom (Candidates) Zoom Video Recording Link (Materials below)

May 12 - ZOOM Only - How to - C7 and C7E report specific (Materials) ZOOM Recording link 

2025 Legislative Session Reports

- Feb. 15: Mandatory Monthly L-5 report covering January. Non-session year (2024) report also due for principals registered in 2023-2024 biennium.
- March 15: Monthly L-5 report covering February. Only required if the principal spent $5,000 or more in the month of February.
- April 15: Monthly L-5 report covering March. Only required if the principal spent $5,000 or more in the month of March.
- May 15: Monthly L-5 report covering April. Only required if the principal spent $5,000 or more in the month of April.
- 30 days after adjournment(TBD): Mandatory Post-Session L-5 report covering all activity from the end of your last filed report through the date of adjournment. 

 Post-Session Lobbying L-5 Report Due Dates

- February 15, 2025: Mandatory Session Year End report covering all activity occuring in 2024 after adjournment. This report is not required if all lobbyists have been terminated by the principal and this information has already been disclosed to COPP on the Post-Session report.

- Additional Monthly reports may be due on the 15th of any given month. Any time $5,000 or more is spent on lobbying activities in a single month, an L-5 must be filed on the 15th of the following month. These reports must also retroactively include any previous expenses from months were $5,000 or more was NOT spent. For example, if a principal spends $5,000 in July, they must file a monthly L-5 on August 15th. This report would cover all expenses and activity through the end of July.

C-8 Constituent Services Reporting Form (C-8 form): Form C-8 is the Constituent Services Reporting form, which discloses any expenses made from an established constituent services account (learn more about constituent services accounts here).

• - C-8 reports are to be filed quarterly with the COPP and are filed after a candidate has established a constituent services account filing form C-118C.
• - C-8 forms must be filed by sending a digital or hard copy C-8 form either via email (cppcompliance@mt.gov), fax (406-444-1643), mail (PO Box 202401, Helena, MT, 59620-2401), or hand delivered (1209 8th Avenue, Helena, Montana).

C-8 Constituent Services Account C-8 Report Due Dates and Guide; See Mont. Code Ann. 13-37-402; 44.11.709, ARM
1- January 10
2- April 10
3- July 10
4- October 10