2025 Capitol Tracker

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

House Bill 866: Allow the term "emotional disability" to be used instead of "emotional disturbance" as it relates to special education

Proposed
Introduced
Mar 25
1st Cmte.
Advanced
Mar 28
House
Passed House
Apr 2
✴️ Senate
Pending
⚪️ Gov.

Sponsor: | Requester: Melissa Romano
📃 Bill text
💵 Fiscal note
None on file
🏛 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
Mar 25
Introduced
Mar 26
Referred to Committee
Mar 26
First Reading
Mar 27
Hearing
👥 House Education
Mar 28
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed
👥 House Education
15-0
R9-0
D6-0
Apr 1
2nd Reading Passed
61-39
R19-39
D42-0
Apr 2
3rd Reading Passed
60-35
R20-35
D40-0
Apr 3
Transmitted to Senate
Apr 3
First Reading
Apr 15
Referred to Committee
Apr 15
Hearing
👥 Senate Education and Cultural Resources
Apr 15
Hearing
👥 Senate Education and Cultural Resources
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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