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

House Bill 9: Cultural and aesthetic grants

✅ Proposed
Introduced
Dec 11
✅ 1st Cmte.
Advanced
Apr 3
✅ House
Passed House
Apr 8
✅ Senate
Passed Senate
Apr 23
✅ Gov.
Signed
May 13
Sponsor:
John Fitzpatrick RAnaconda / HD 76
| Requester: Office of Budget and Program Planning
📃 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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Legislative actions

How bills move through the Legislature
Showing major bill actions only.
DateAction
Dec 11
Introduced
Dec 20
Referred to Committee
Jan 3
Hearing
👥 Joint Appropriations Section F — Long-Range Planning
Jan 6
First Reading
Jan 6
Hearing
👥 Joint Appropriations Section F — Long-Range Planning
Feb 18
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Apr 3
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 House Appropriations
✅ 22-0
R13-0
D9-0
Apr 7
2nd Reading Motion to Amend Failed
❌ 26-74
R24-34
D2-40
Apr 7
2nd Reading Passed
✅ 60-40
R19-39
D41-1
Apr 8
3rd Reading Passed
✅ 58-39
R18-39
D40-0
Apr 8
Transmitted to Senate
Apr 9
First Reading
Apr 9
Referred to Committee
Apr 14
Hearing
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
Apr 16
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
✅ 17-5
R10-4
D7-1
Apr 22
2nd Reading Concurred
✅ 29-21
R13-19
D16-2
Apr 23
3rd Reading Concurred
✅ 32-18
R16-16
D16-2
Apr 23
Returned to House with Amendments
Apr 25
2nd Reading Senate Amendments Concurred
✅ 83-17
R41-17
D42-0
Apr 28
3rd Reading Passed as Amended by Senate
✅ 68-32
R26-32
D42-0
May 7
Transmitted to Governor
May 13
Signed by Governor
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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