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 248: Provide that legislator access to CPS records includes drug testing results

Proposed
Introduced
Jan 31
1st Cmte.
Advanced
Feb 14
Senate
Passed Senate
Feb 21
House
Passed House
Mar 28
✴️ Gov.
Pending

Sponsor: | Requester: Dennis Lenz
📃 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
Jan 31
Introduced
Jan 31
First Reading
Feb 5
Referred to Committee
Feb 5
Hearing
👥 Senate Public Health, Welfare and Safety
Feb 14
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed
👥 Senate Public Health, Welfare and Safety
11-0
R7-0
D4-0
Feb 20
2nd Reading Passed
41-9
R31-1
D10-8
Feb 21
3rd Reading Passed
37-13
R32-0
D5-13
Feb 21
Transmitted to House
Feb 22
Referred to Committee
Feb 22
First Reading
Mar 5
Hearing
👥 House Human Services
Mar 18
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
👥 House Human Services
13-8
R12-0
D1-8
Mar 27
2nd Reading Concurred
62-38
R58-0
D4-38
Mar 28
3rd Reading Concurred
61-38
R58-0
D3-38
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.

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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