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 344: Revise criminal laws.

Proposed
Introduced
Jan 29
1st Cmte.
Advanced
Feb 12
House
Passed House
Feb 19
Senate
Passed Senate
Apr 2
✴️ Reconcil.
Pending
Apr 14
⚪️ 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.
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Legislative actions

How bills move through the Legislature
Showing major bill actions only.
DateAction
Jan 29
Introduced
Jan 30
Referred to Committee
Jan 30
First Reading
Feb 4
Hearing
👥 House Judiciary
Feb 12
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House Judiciary
15-5
R12-0
D3-5
Feb 18
2nd Reading Passed
67-33
R58-0
D9-33
Feb 19
3rd Reading Passed
62-38
R58-0
D4-38
Feb 19
Transmitted to Senate
Feb 20
First Reading
Mar 1
Referred to Committee
Mar 18
Hearing
👥 Senate Judiciary
Mar 25
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended
👥 Senate Judiciary
7-1
R5-0
D2-1
Apr 1
2nd Reading Concurred
34-16
R30-2
D4-14
Apr 2
3rd Reading Concurred
36-14
R30-2
D6-12
Apr 2
Returned to House with Amendments
Apr 14
2nd Reading Senate Amendments Concurred
95-5
R58-0
D37-5
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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