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 528: Revise property tax rates for agricultural, residential, and commercial property

Proposed
Introduced
Feb 18
1st Cmte.
Advanced
Feb 27
House
Passed House
Apr 5
✴️ Senate
Pending
⚪️ Gov.

Sponsor: | Requester: Ed Byrne
📃 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 18
Introduced
Feb 18
Referred to Committee
Feb 18
First Reading
Feb 25
Hearing
👥 House Taxation
Feb 27
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed
👥 House Taxation
14-7
R5-7
D9-0
Mar 21
2nd Reading Passed
90-9
R50-8
D40-1
Mar 21
Rereferred to Committee
Mar 25
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Apr 1
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House Appropriations
12-11
R2-11
D10-0
Apr 4
2nd Reading Passed
69-30
R30-28
D39-2
Apr 5
3rd Reading Passed
64-34
R24-32
D40-2
Apr 5
Transmitted to Senate
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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