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 262: Establish state policy on evidence-based reading instruction

Proposed
Introduced
Jan 20
1st Cmte.
Advanced
Feb 7
House
Passed House
Feb 14
Senate
Voted down
Mar 20
⚪️ Gov.

Sponsor: | Requester: Linda Reksten
📃 Bill text
💵 Fiscal note
🏛 Legal note
None on file
🖍 Proposed amendments
None on file
See also: The official bill page.

Montana Free Press coverage

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Legislative actions

How bills move through the Legislature
Showing major bill actions only.
DateAction
Jan 20
Introduced
Jan 21
Referred to Committee
Jan 21
First Reading
Jan 29
Hearing
👥 House Education
Feb 7
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House Education
15-0
R9-0
D6-0
Feb 13
2nd Reading Passed
100-0
R58-0
D42-0
Feb 14
3rd Reading Passed
94-0
R54-0
D40-0
Feb 14
Transmitted to Senate
Feb 15
First Reading
Feb 21
Referred to Committee
Mar 17
Hearing
👥 Senate Education and Cultural Resources
Mar 20
Tabled in Committee
14-0
R9-0
D5-0
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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