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

Senate Bill 278: Revise education laws to support advanced opportunities

✅ Proposed
Introduced
Feb 6
✅ 1st Cmte.
Advanced
Feb 25
✅ Senate
Passed Senate
Mar 4
✅ House
Passed House
Apr 11
✴️ Reconcil.
Pending
⚪️ Gov.
Sponsor:
Sara Novak DAnaconda / SD 36
| Requester: Sara Novak
📃 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
Feb 6
Introduced
Feb 7
First Reading
Feb 10
Referred to Committee
Feb 20
Hearing
👥 Senate Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
Feb 25
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 Senate Education and Cultural Resources
✅ 13-1
R8-1
D5-0
Feb 28
2nd Reading Passed
✅ 38-11
R20-11
D18-0
Feb 28
Rereferred to Committee
Mar 1
Hearing
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
Mar 3
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
✅ 18-4
R10-4
D8-0
Mar 4
3rd Reading Passed
✅ 38-12
R20-12
D18-0
Mar 4
Transmitted to House
Mar 5
Referred to Committee
Mar 6
First Reading
Apr 3
Hearing
👥 House Education
Apr 7
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended
👥 House Education
✅ 13-2
R7-2
D6-0
Apr 9
Rereferred to Committee
Apr 9
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Apr 9
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
👥 House Appropriations
✅ 14-9
R4-9
D10-0
Apr 11
2nd Reading Concurred
✅ 70-30
R28-30
D42-0
Apr 11
3rd Reading Concurred
✅ 75-24
R33-24
D42-0
Apr 11
Returned to Senate with Amendments
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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