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

House Bill 5: Long-range building appropriations

✅ Proposed
Introduced
Dec 11
✅ 1st Cmte.
Advanced
Mar 19
✅ House
Passed House
Mar 27
✅ Senate
Passed Senate
Apr 25
✅ Reconcil.
Reconciled
Apr 29
✴️ Gov.
Pending
Sponsor:
John Fitzpatrick RAnaconda / HD 76
| Requester: Office of Budget and Program Planning
📃 Bill text
Available here
💵 Fiscal note
Available here
🏛 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 11
Introduced
Dec 20
Referred to Committee
Jan 6
First Reading
Jan 21
Hearing
👥 Joint Appropriations Section F — Long-Range Planning
Jan 30
Hearing
👥 Joint Appropriations Section F — Long-Range Planning
Mar 7
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Mar 19
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House Appropriations
✅ 22-1
R12-1
D10-0
Mar 26
2nd Reading Motion to Amend Failed
❌ 22-78
R12-46
D10-32
Mar 26
2nd Reading Motion to Amend Failed
❌ 34-66
R33-25
D1-41
Mar 26
2nd Reading Passed
✅ 84-16
R42-16
D42-0
Mar 27
3rd Reading Passed
✅ 83-16
R42-16
D41-0
Mar 27
Transmitted to Senate
Mar 28
First Reading
Apr 1
Referred to Committee
Apr 2
Hearing
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
Apr 16
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
✅ 21-1
R14-0
D7-1
Apr 23
2nd Reading Motion to Amend Carried
✅ 50-0
R32-0
D18-0
Apr 23
2nd Reading Concurred as Amended
✅ 47-3
R29-3
D18-0
Apr 25
3rd Reading Concurred
✅ 43-6
R25-6
D18-0
Apr 25
Returned to House with Amendments
Apr 28
2nd Reading Senate Amendments Concurred
✅ 83-17
R44-14
D39-3
Apr 29
3rd Reading Passed as Amended by Senate
✅ 79-19
R37-19
D42-0
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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