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 462: Encourage academic excellence through high-quality instructional materials

Proposed
Introduced
Feb 12
1st Cmte.
Advanced
Feb 21
House
Passed House
Mar 21
✴️ Senate
Pending
⚪️ Gov.

Sponsor: | Requester: Melissa Nikolakakos
📃 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
Feb 12
Introduced
Feb 12
Referred to Committee
Feb 12
First Reading
Feb 13
Hearing
👥 House Education
Feb 21
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House Education
15-0
R9-0
D6-0
Feb 28
2nd Reading Passed
76-22
R38-20
D38-2
Feb 28
Rereferred to Committee
Feb 28
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Feb 28
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House Appropriations
18-5
R8-5
D10-0
Mar 20
2nd Reading Passed
69-31
R30-28
D39-3
Mar 21
3rd Reading Passed
69-28
R33-25
D36-3
Mar 21
Transmitted to Senate
Mar 25
First Reading
Apr 15
Referred to Committee
Apr 15
Hearing
👥 Senate Education and Cultural Resources
Apr 15
Hearing
👥 Senate Education and Cultural Resources
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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