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

Senate Bill 165: Revise business laws relating to snowmobile rental and trail maintenance

✅ Proposed
Introduced
Jan 16
✅ 1st Cmte.
Advanced
Jan 30
✅ Senate
Passed Senate
Feb 14
✅ House
Passed House
Apr 1
✴️ Gov.
Pending
Sponsor:
Barry Usher RLaurel / SD 19
| Requester: Steve Fitzpatrick
📃 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
Jan 16
Introduced
Jan 17
First Reading
Jan 17
Referred to Committee
Jan 18
Hearing
👥 Senate Fish and Game
Jan 30
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 Senate Fish and Game
✅ 11-1
R7-1
D4-0
Feb 4
2nd Reading Passed
✅ 45-5
R27-5
D18-0
Feb 4
Rereferred to Committee
Feb 7
Hearing
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
Feb 11
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
✅ 21-1
R13-1
D8-0
Feb 14
3rd Reading Passed
✅ 43-7
R25-7
D18-0
Feb 14
Transmitted to House
Feb 17
Referred to Committee
Feb 17
First Reading
Mar 17
Hearing
👥 House Fish, Wildlife and Parks
Mar 25
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
👥 House Fish, Wildlife and Parks
✅ 20-0
R12-0
D8-0
Mar 28
2nd Reading Concurred
✅ 100-0
R58-0
D42-0
Mar 28
Rereferred to Committee
Mar 29
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Mar 31
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
👥 House Appropriations
✅ 22-0
R13-0
D9-0
Apr 1
3rd Reading Concurred
✅ 99-0
R57-0
D42-0
Apr 8
Transmitted to 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.

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