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 231: Revise property tax rates for certain property

Proposed
Introduced
Jan 16
1st Cmte.
Advanced
Jan 31
House
Passed House
Feb 27
✴️ Senate
Pending
Apr 9
⚪️ Gov.

Sponsor: | Requester: Steve Fitzpatrick
📃 Bill text
💵 Fiscal note
🏛 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 16
Introduced
Jan 16
Referred to Committee
Jan 16
First Reading
Jan 20
Hearing
👥 House Taxation
Jan 31
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House Taxation
17-4
R12-0
D5-4
Feb 6
2nd Reading Motion to Amend Failed
16-84
R15-43
D1-41
Feb 6
2nd Reading Passed
75-25
R46-12
D29-13
Feb 6
Rereferred to Committee
Feb 10
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Feb 20
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House Appropriations
15-8
R9-4
D6-4
Feb 26
2nd Reading Motion to Amend Failed
40-60
R26-32
D14-28
Feb 26
2nd Reading Passed
72-27
R44-13
D28-14
Feb 27
3rd Reading Passed
68-30
R43-14
D25-16
Feb 27
Transmitted to Senate
Feb 28
First Reading
Mar 3
Referred to Committee
Mar 12
Hearing
👥 Senate Taxation
Apr 2
Tabled in Committee
8-0
R5-0
D3-0
Apr 9
Taken from Table in Committee
4-2
R1-2
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.

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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