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🏠 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)

House Bill 399: Revise prior authorization laws

Proposed
Introduced
Feb 5
1st Cmte.
Advanced
Feb 27
House
Passed House
Mar 4
✴️ Senate
Passed preliminary vote
Apr 2
⚪️ Gov.

Sponsor: | Requester: Jonathan Karlen
📃 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
Feb 5
Introduced
Feb 6
Referred to Committee
Feb 6
First Reading
Feb 6
Hearing
👥 House Human Services
Feb 10
Rereferred to Committee
Feb 21
Hearing
👥 House Business and Labor
Feb 27
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House Business and Labor
Mar 3
2nd Reading Passed
92-6
R50-6
D42-0
Mar 4
3rd Reading Passed
86-13
R44-13
D42-0
Mar 4
Transmitted to Senate
Mar 5
Referred to Committee
Mar 21
Hearing
👥 Senate Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
Mar 24
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
👥 Senate Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
12-0
R8-0
D4-0
Apr 2
2nd Reading Concurred
43-7
R25-7
D18-0
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.

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