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)

Senate Bill 204: Sunset or reapprove existing voter approved property tax levies

Proposed
Introduced
Jan 23
1st Cmte.
Blasted to floor
Feb 26
Senate
Voted down
Mar 4
⚪️ House
⚪️ Gov.

Sponsor: | Requester: Greg Hertz
📃 Bill text
💵 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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Senate votes down bill to force revotes on local property tax levies
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Legislative actions

How bills move through the Legislature
Showing major bill actions only.
DateAction
Jan 23
Introduced
Jan 24
First Reading
Jan 24
Referred to Committee
Jan 30
Hearing
👥 Senate Local Government
Feb 19
Tabled in Committee
11-0
R7-0
D4-0
Feb 26
Taken from Committee; Placed on 2nd Reading
Feb 27
2nd Reading Motion to Amend Carried
40-10
R31-1
D9-9
Feb 27
2nd Reading Pass Motion Failed
24-26
R24-8
D0-18
Feb 27
2nd Reading Indefinitely Postponed
Feb 28
Reconsidered Previous Action; Placed on 2nd Reading
29-20
R24-7
D5-13
Mar 1
2nd Reading Motion to Amend Carried
48-2
R30-2
D18-0
Mar 1
2nd Reading Passed as Amended
30-20
R29-3
D1-17
Mar 4
3rd Reading Failed
24-26
R24-8
D0-18
Apr 7
Missed Deadline for Revenue 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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