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

House Bill 154: Establish a housing fairness tax credit

✅ Proposed
Introduced
Jan 9
✅ 1st Cmte.
Advanced
Jan 29
✅ House
Passed House
Feb 27
❌ Senate
Voted down
Apr 2
⚪️ Gov.
Sponsor:
Jonathan Karlen DMissoula / HD 98
| Requester: Pat Flowers
📃 Bill text
Available here
💵 Fiscal note
Available here
🏛 Legal note
None on file
🖍 Proposed amendments
None on file
See also: The official bill page.

Montana Free Press coverage

MTFP stories involving the bill
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Legislative actions

How bills move through the Legislature
Showing major bill actions only.
DateAction
Jan 9
Introduced
Jan 10
Referred to Committee
Jan 10
First Reading
Jan 15
Hearing
👥 House Taxation
Jan 29
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House Taxation
✅ 14-7
R5-7
D9-0
Jan 30
Rereferred to Committee
Jan 31
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Feb 20
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed
👥 House Appropriations
✅ 16-7
R6-7
D10-0
Feb 26
2nd Reading Passed
✅ 60-40
R18-40
D42-0
Feb 27
3rd Reading Passed
✅ 59-39
R18-39
D41-0
Feb 27
Transmitted to Senate
Feb 28
First Reading
Mar 3
Referred to Committee
Mar 17
Hearing
👥 Senate Taxation
Apr 2
Tabled in Committee
❌ 8-0
R5-0
D3-0
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.

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