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

Senate Bill 45: Create a judicial performance evaluation commission and system

✅ Proposed
Introduced
Dec 12
✅ 1st Cmte.
Advanced
Feb 3
✅ Senate
Passed Senate
Feb 27
✅ House
Passed House
Apr 11
✴️ Reconcil.
Pending
⚪️ Gov.
Sponsor:
Tom McGillvray RBillings / SD 26
| Requester: Senate Select Committee on Judicial Oversight and Reform
📃 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 12
Introduced
Jan 6
Hearing
👥 Senate Judiciary
Jan 6
First Reading
Jan 7
Referred to Committee
Feb 3
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 Senate Judiciary
Feb 7
2nd Reading Motion to Amend Carried
✅ 34-15
R32-0
D2-15
Feb 7
2nd Reading Passed as Amended
✅ 27-22
R27-5
D0-17
Feb 7
Rereferred to Committee
Feb 7
Hearing
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
Feb 17
Hearing
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
Feb 20
Tabled in Committee
❌ 22-0
R14-0
D8-0
Feb 26
Motion Carried
Feb 27
3rd Reading Passed
✅ 28-22
R28-4
D0-18
Feb 27
Transmitted to House
Feb 28
Referred to Committee
Feb 28
First Reading
Mar 19
Hearing
👥 House Judiciary
Apr 3
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended
👥 House Judiciary
✅ 12-8
R12-0
D0-8
Apr 8
2nd Reading Concurred
✅ 54-44
R54-3
D0-41
Apr 8
Rereferred to Committee
Apr 8
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Apr 9
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended
👥 House Appropriations
✅ 13-10
R13-0
D0-10
Apr 11
2nd Reading Concurred
✅ 58-42
R58-0
D0-42
Apr 11
3rd Reading Concurred
✅ 58-41
R57-0
D1-41
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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