2025 Capitol Tracker

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

Senate Bill 311: Enhance legislative understanding of state-tribal relations

✅ Proposed
Introduced
Feb 13
✅ 1st Cmte.
Advanced
Mar 4
✅ Senate
Passed Senate
Mar 6
✅ House
Passed House
Apr 11
✅ Gov.
Signed
May 8
Sponsor:
Shane Morigeau DMissoula / SD 50
| Requester: Shane Morigeau
📃 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 13
Introduced
Feb 13
First Reading
Feb 14
Referred to Committee
Feb 26
Hearing
👥 Senate Legislative Administration
Feb 27
Hearing
👥 Senate Legislative Administration
Mar 3
Hearing
👥 Senate Legislative Administration
Mar 4
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 Senate Legislative Administration
✅ 6-0
R4-0
D2-0
Mar 5
2nd Reading Passed
✅ 46-4
R28-4
D18-0
Mar 6
3rd Reading Passed
✅ 45-5
R27-5
D18-0
Mar 6
Transmitted to House
Mar 7
Referred to Committee
Mar 17
First Reading
Mar 18
Hearing
👥 House State Administration
Mar 28
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
👥 House State Administration
✅ 16-3
R8-3
D8-0
Apr 9
Rereferred to Committee
Apr 9
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Apr 9
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
👥 House Appropriations
✅ 21-0
R13-0
D8-0
Apr 11
2nd Reading Concurred
✅ 81-19
R39-19
D42-0
Apr 11
3rd Reading Concurred
✅ 86-13
R44-13
D42-0
Apr 30
Transmitted to Governor
May 8
Signed by 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.

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