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

Senate Bill 258: Revise school funding laws to clarify the legislature's authority related to inflationary adjustments

Proposed
Introduced
Feb 3
1st Cmte.
Advanced
Feb 13
Senate
Passed Senate
Feb 19
House
Voted down
Apr 9
⚪️ Gov.

Sponsor: | Requester: Laura Smith
📃 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
Feb 3
Introduced
Feb 3
First Reading
Feb 5
Referred to Committee
Feb 7
Hearing
👥 Senate Education and Cultural Resources
Feb 13
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed
👥 Senate Education and Cultural Resources
8-6
R3-6
D5-0
Feb 18
2nd Reading Passed
26-24
R8-24
D18-0
Feb 19
3rd Reading Passed
27-22
R9-22
D18-0
Feb 19
Transmitted to House
Feb 20
Referred to Committee
Feb 20
First Reading
Apr 7
Hearing
👥 House Education
Apr 9
Tabled in Committee
8-7
R8-1
D0-6
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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