2025 Capitol Tracker

The lawmakers, bills and votes of the 69th Montana Legislature

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Last update: 5:44 AM Apr 15, 2025
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🏠 House
GOP-held 58-42
🏛 Senate
GOP-held 32-18
🖋 Governor
Greg Gianforte (R)

Senate Bill 17: Revise laws related to hearings after the emergency removal and protective placement of a child

Proposed
Introduced
Dec 6
1st Cmte.
Advanced
Jan 24
Senate
Passed Senate
Jan 30
House
Passed House
Mar 18
Gov.
Signed
Apr 3

Sponsor: | Requester: Court System Dependency Neglect Task Force
📃 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
Dec 6
Introduced
Jan 6
First Reading
Jan 7
Referred to Committee
Jan 10
Hearing
👥 Senate Public Health, Welfare and Safety
Jan 24
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed
👥 Senate Public Health, Welfare and Safety
11-0
R7-0
D4-0
Jan 29
2nd Reading Passed
50-0
R32-0
D18-0
Jan 30
3rd Reading Passed
49-0
R31-0
D18-0
Jan 30
Transmitted to House
Jan 31
Referred to Committee
Jan 31
First Reading
Jan 31
Hearing
👥 House Human Services
Feb 12
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
👥 House Human Services
21-0
R12-0
D9-0
Mar 17
2nd Reading Concurred
100-0
R58-0
D42-0
Mar 18
3rd Reading Concurred
98-0
R58-0
D40-0
Mar 18
Returned to Senate
Mar 27
Transmitted to Governor
Apr 3
Signed by Governor
Apr 3
Chapter Number Assigned
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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