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 56: Establish ambulance provider assessment fee program

✅ Proposed
Introduced
Dec 11
✅ 1st Cmte.
Advanced
Jan 20
✅ House
Passed House
Feb 21
✴️ Senate
Passed preliminary vote
Apr 4
⚪️ Gov.
Sponsor:
Ed Buttrey RGreat Falls / HD 21
| Requester: Economic Affairs Interim Committee
📃 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 20
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House Human Services
✅ 17-4
R8-4
D9-0
Jan 24
2nd Reading Passed
✅ 77-23
R35-23
D42-0
Jan 24
Rereferred to Committee
Jan 24
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Jan 26
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Feb 11
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House Appropriations
✅ 19-4
R9-4
D10-0
Feb 20
2nd Reading Passed
✅ 87-13
R45-13
D42-0
Feb 21
3rd Reading Passed
✅ 83-15
R42-15
D41-0
Feb 21
Transmitted to Senate
Feb 24
First Reading
Mar 3
Referred to Committee
Mar 20
Hearing
👥 Senate Public Health, Welfare and Safety
Apr 3
Taken from Committee; Placed on 2nd Reading
✅ 27-22
R9-22
D18-0
Apr 4
2nd Reading Concurred
✅ 29-21
R11-21
D18-0
Apr 5
Rereferred to Committee
Apr 11
Hearing
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
Apr 12
Hearing
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
Apr 14
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
✅ 14-8
R6-8
D8-0
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.

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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