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 301: Generally revise utility lines and facilities laws

✅ Proposed
Introduced
Feb 11
✅ 1st Cmte.
Advanced
Feb 27
✅ Senate
Passed Senate
Mar 27
✴️ House
Passed preliminary vote
Apr 14
⚪️ Gov.
Sponsor:
Daniel Zolnikov RBillings / SD 22
| Requester: Daniel Zolnikov
📃 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 11
Introduced
Feb 12
First Reading
Feb 12
Referred to Committee
Feb 13
Hearing
👥 Senate Energy, Technology and Federal Relations
Feb 27
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 Senate Energy, Technology and Federal Relations
Mar 3
2nd Reading Passed
✅ 50-0
R32-0
D18-0
Mar 3
Rereferred to Committee
Mar 3
Hearing
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
Mar 14
Hearing
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
Mar 20
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
✅ 22-0
R14-0
D8-0
Mar 26
2nd Reading Motion to Amend Carried
✅ 50-0
R32-0
D18-0
Mar 26
2nd Reading Passed as Amended
✅ 50-0
R32-0
D18-0
Mar 27
3rd Reading Passed
✅ 50-0
R32-0
D18-0
Mar 28
Transmitted to House
Mar 28
Referred to Committee
Mar 28
First Reading
Apr 2
Hearing
👥 House Energy, Technology and Federal Relations
Apr 9
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended
👥 House Energy, Technology and Federal Relations
✅ 11-3
R6-2
D5-1
Apr 14
2nd Reading Concurred
✅ 90-10
R56-2
D34-8
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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