2025 Capitol Tracker

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

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Last update: 5:44 AM Apr 15, 2025
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🏠 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)

House Bill 2: General Appropriations Act

Proposed
Introduced
Dec 20
1st Cmte.
Advanced
Mar 25
House
Passed House
Apr 7
✴️ Senate
Pending
⚪️ Gov.

Sponsor: | Requester: Office of Budget and Program Planning
📃 Bill text
💵 Fiscal note
None on file
🏛 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 20
Introduced
Dec 20
Referred to Committee
Jan 8
Hearing
Jan 14
Hearing
Feb 3
Hearing
Feb 17
Hearing
Mar 13
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Mar 25
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House Appropriations
19-4
R13-0
D6-4
Apr 2
2nd Reading Motion to Amend Carried
98-1
R56-1
D42-0
Apr 2
2nd Reading Motion to Amend Failed
28-72
R28-30
D0-42
Apr 2
2nd Reading Passed as Amended
60-40
R36-22
D24-18
Apr 7
3rd Reading Passed
58-41
R28-29
D30-12
Apr 7
Transmitted to Senate
Apr 7
First Reading
Apr 7
Referred to Committee
Apr 7
Hearing
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
Apr 11
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
13-9
R5-9
D8-0
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.

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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