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 609: Establish criminal offense of abortion trafficking

✅ Proposed
Introduced
Feb 20
❌ 1st Cmte.
Tabled
Feb 27
⚪️ House
⚪️ Senate
⚪️ Gov.
Sponsor:
Kerri Seekins-Crowe RBillings / HD 39
| Requester: Lukas Schubert
📃 Bill text
Available here
💵 Fiscal note
None on file
🏛 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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Mar 7, 2025 • MTFP Staff
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Feb 27, 2025 • Mara Silvers
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Criminal abortion ‘trafficking’ bill gets hearing before first committee
Feb 26, 2025 • Mara Silvers
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Legislative actions

How bills move through the Legislature
Showing major bill actions only.
DateAction
Feb 20
Introduced
Feb 20
Referred to Committee
Feb 20
First Reading
Feb 26
Hearing
👥 House Judiciary
Feb 27
Tabled in Committee
❌ 16-4
R8-4
D8-0
Mar 12
Missed Deadline for General Bill Transmittal
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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