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 27: Generally revise marijuana licensing laws

✅ Proposed
Introduced
Dec 10
✅ 1st Cmte.
Advanced
Jan 31
✅ Senate
Passed Senate
Feb 18
✴️ House
Pending
Apr 8
⚪️ Gov.
Sponsor:
Kenneth Bogner RMiles City / SD 18
| Requester: Economic Affairs Interim Committee
📃 Bill text
Available here
💵 Fiscal note
Available here
🏛 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 10
Introduced
Jan 6
First Reading
Jan 7
Referred to Committee
Jan 24
Hearing
👥 Senate Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
Jan 31
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed
👥 Senate Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
✅ 8-3
R4-3
D4-0
Feb 4
2nd Reading Passed
✅ 42-8
R26-6
D16-2
Feb 4
Rereferred to Committee
Feb 7
Hearing
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
Feb 12
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
✅ 21-1
R13-1
D8-0
Feb 15
2nd Reading Passed
✅ 47-3
R30-2
D17-1
Feb 18
3rd Reading Passed
✅ 47-3
R30-2
D17-1
Feb 18
Transmitted to House
Feb 19
Referred to Committee
Feb 19
First Reading
Mar 13
Hearing
👥 House Business and Labor
Mar 21
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
👥 House Business and Labor
✅ 18-2
R12-0
D6-2
Mar 26
2nd Reading Concurred
✅ 77-23
R57-1
D20-22
Mar 26
Rereferred to Committee
Mar 26
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Apr 8
Tabled in Committee
❌ 12-11
R11-2
D1-9
Apr 8
Taken from Table in Committee
✅ 15-7
R6-7
D9-0
Apr 9
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
👥 House Appropriations
✅ 15-8
R5-8
D10-0
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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