2025 Capitol Tracker

The lawmakers, bills and votes of the 69th Montana Legislature

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🏠 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)

House Bill 100: Generally revise public record laws

✅ Proposed
Introduced
Dec 16
✅ 1st Cmte.
Advanced
Jan 23
✅ House
Passed House
Jan 30
✅ Senate
Passed Senate
Apr 14
✅ Gov.
Signed
May 8

Sponsor: | Requester: Department of Administration
📃 Bill text
💵 Fiscal note
🏛 Legal note
None on file
🖍 Proposed amendments
None on file
See also: The official bill page.
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Legislative actions

How bills move through the Legislature
Showing major bill actions only.
DateAction
Dec 16
Introduced
Dec 20
Referred to Committee
Jan 6
First Reading
Jan 6
Hearing
👥 House State Administration
Jan 23
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House State Administration
✅ 19-0
R11-0
D8-0
Jan 29
2nd Reading Passed
✅ 100-0
R58-0
D42-0
Jan 30
3rd Reading Passed
✅ 100-0
R58-0
D42-0
Jan 30
Transmitted to Senate
Jan 31
First Reading
Feb 13
Referred to Committee
Feb 17
Hearing
👥 Senate State Administration
Mar 19
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended
👥 Senate State Administration
✅ 9-0
R6-0
D3-0
Apr 12
2nd Reading Concurred
✅ 49-0
R31-0
D18-0
Apr 14
3rd Reading Concurred
✅ 47-1
R31-0
D16-1
Apr 14
Returned to House with Amendments
Apr 17
2nd Reading Senate Amendments Concurred
✅ 100-0
R58-0
D42-0
Apr 18
3rd Reading Passed as Amended by Senate
✅ 98-0
R58-0
D40-0
May 2
Transmitted to Governor
May 8
Signed by Governor
May 13
Chapter Number Assigned
Showing major bill actions only.
This table may omit bill actions recorded since this guide's last update. See the bill page at legmt.gov for an official reference.

About the 2025 Montana Free Press Capitol Tracker

This guide is an effort to make the quantifiable aspects of the Montana Legislature more accessible to the public by compiling information about lawmakers, proposed bills and the legislative process. This is a project of Montana Free Press, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit newsroom that aims to provide Montanans with in-depth, nonpartisan news coverage.

The information presented here is collected from a variety of sources including the Montana Legislature's public roster and its official bill-tracking system. Reporting and web design were done by Jacob Olness and Eric Dietrich. Please contact them at jolness@montanafreepress.org and edietrich@montanafreepress.org with bug reports, questions or suggestions.

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