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

Senate Bill 235: Revising landowner preference qualifications for elk to require finalized land ownership of 640 acres or more of contiguous land

✅ Proposed
Introduced
Jan 29
✅ 1st Cmte.
Advanced
Feb 13
✅ Senate
Passed Senate
Feb 21
✅ House
Passed House
Apr 9
✅ Reconcil.
Reconciled
Apr 12
✴️ Gov.
Pending
Sponsor:
Kenneth Bogner RMiles City / SD 18
| Requester: Kenneth Bogner
📃 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.
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Legislative actions

How bills move through the Legislature
Showing major bill actions only.
DateAction
Jan 29
Introduced
Jan 29
First Reading
Jan 30
Referred to Committee
Jan 30
Hearing
👥 Senate Fish and Game
Feb 13
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 Senate Fish and Game
✅ 12-0
R8-0
D4-0
Feb 19
2nd Reading Motion to Amend Carried
✅ 49-0
R32-0
D17-0
Feb 19
2nd Reading Passed as Amended
✅ 49-0
R32-0
D17-0
Feb 21
3rd Reading Passed
✅ 50-0
R32-0
D18-0
Feb 21
Transmitted to House
Feb 22
Referred to Committee
Feb 22
First Reading
Mar 17
Hearing
👥 House Fish, Wildlife and Parks
Apr 1
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended
👥 House Fish, Wildlife and Parks
✅ 19-1
R12-0
D7-1
Apr 8
2nd Reading Concurred
✅ 98-0
R57-0
D41-0
Apr 9
3rd Reading Concurred
✅ 97-0
R56-0
D41-0
Apr 9
Returned to Senate with Amendments
Apr 11
2nd Reading House Amendments Concurred
✅ 50-0
R32-0
D18-0
Apr 12
3rd Reading Passed as Amended by House
✅ 50-0
R32-0
D18-0
Apr 25
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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