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 359: Revise traffic laws related to distracted driving

Proposed
Introduced
Feb 18
1st Cmte.
Advanced
Feb 26
Senate
Passed Senate
Mar 3
✴️ House
Pending
Apr 10
⚪️ Gov.

Sponsor: | Requester: Sara Novak
📃 Bill text
💵 Fiscal note
🏛 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 18
Introduced
Feb 19
First Reading
Feb 21
Referred to Committee
Feb 26
Hearing
👥 Senate Highways and Transportation
Feb 26
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 Senate Highways and Transportation
8-0
R5-0
D3-0
Mar 1
2nd Reading Passed
33-17
R16-16
D17-1
Mar 3
3rd Reading Passed
34-16
R17-15
D17-1
Mar 3
Transmitted to House
Mar 4
Referred to Committee
Mar 4
First Reading
Mar 17
Hearing
👥 House Judiciary
Apr 8
Tabled in Committee
18-2
R12-0
D6-2
Apr 10
Taken from Committee; Placed on 2nd Reading
54-45
R13-45
D41-0
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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