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 493: Establish the crime of possession of stolen firearm or ammunition

Proposed
Introduced
Feb 13
1st Cmte.
Advanced
Feb 24
House
Passed House
Mar 3
Senate
Passed Senate
Apr 11
✴️ Gov.
Pending

Sponsor: | Requester: Denise Baum
📃 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
Feb 13
Introduced
Feb 14
Referred to Committee
Feb 14
First Reading
Feb 17
Hearing
👥 House Judiciary
Feb 24
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House Judiciary
17-3
R12-0
D5-3
Feb 28
2nd Reading Passed
91-8
R57-1
D34-7
Feb 28
Rereferred to Committee
Feb 28
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Feb 28
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed
👥 House Appropriations
18-5
R13-0
D5-5
Mar 3
3rd Reading Passed
88-9
R55-1
D33-8
Mar 3
Transmitted to Senate
Mar 4
First Reading
Mar 4
Referred to Committee
Mar 18
Hearing
👥 Senate Judiciary
Mar 20
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
👥 Senate Judiciary
6-2
R4-1
D2-1
Apr 9
2nd Reading Concurred
46-4
R30-2
D16-2
Apr 11
3rd Reading Concurred
44-4
R29-2
D15-2
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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