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 30: Requiring the Supreme Court to apply a burden of proof for challenge to constitutionality of legislative act

Proposed
Introduced
Dec 6
1st Cmte.
Advanced
Jan 20
House
Passed House
Jan 28
Senate
Voted down
Feb 15
⚪️ Gov.

Sponsor: | Requester: Senate Select Committee on Judicial Oversight and Reform
📃 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 6
Introduced
Dec 20
Referred to Committee
Jan 6
First Reading
Jan 6
Hearing
👥 House Judiciary
Jan 20
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed
👥 House Judiciary
12-8
R12-0
D0-8
Jan 23
2nd Reading Not Passed
50-50
R50-8
D0-42
Jan 24
Reconsidered Previous Action; Placed on 2nd Reading
52-46
R52-5
D0-41
Jan 27
2nd Reading Passed
52-48
R52-6
D0-42
Jan 28
3rd Reading Passed
51-48
R51-7
D0-41
Jan 28
Transmitted to Senate
Jan 29
First Reading
Jan 29
Referred to Committee
Feb 13
Hearing
👥 Senate Judiciary
Feb 13
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
👥 Senate Judiciary
6-0
R6-0
Feb 15
2nd Reading Concur Motion Failed
25-25
R25-7
D0-18
Feb 15
2nd Reading Indefinitely Postponed
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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