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 74: Generally revise marijuana laws

✅ Proposed
Introduced
Dec 27
✅ 1st Cmte.
Advanced
Feb 14
✅ Senate
Passed Senate
Mar 27
✅ House
Passed House
Apr 17
✅ Gov.
Signed
May 8
Sponsor:
Josh Kassmier RFort Benton / SD 13
| Requester: Economic Affairs Interim Committee
📃 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 27
Introduced
Jan 6
First Reading
Jan 7
Referred to Committee
Jan 13
Hearing
👥 Senate Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
Jan 28
Hearing
👥 Senate Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
Feb 14
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 Senate Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
✅ 8-3
R4-3
D4-0
Mar 21
2nd Reading Passed
✅ 47-3
R32-0
D15-3
Mar 21
Rereferred to Committee
Mar 21
Hearing
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
Mar 25
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
✅ 20-2
R12-2
D8-0
Mar 25
Committee Report--Bill Passed
Mar 27
3rd Reading Passed
✅ 38-12
R20-12
D18-0
Mar 28
Transmitted to House
Mar 28
Referred to Committee
Mar 28
First Reading
Apr 4
Hearing
👥 House Business and Labor
Apr 7
Hearing
👥 House Business and Labor
Apr 9
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
👥 House Business and Labor
✅ 20-0
R12-0
D8-0
Apr 15
2nd Reading Concurred
✅ 76-24
R39-19
D37-5
Apr 15
Rereferred to Committee
Apr 15
Hearing
👥 House Appropriations
Apr 16
Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
👥 House Appropriations
✅ 14-9
R5-8
D9-1
Apr 17
3rd Reading Concurred
✅ 70-28
R32-25
D38-3
Apr 30
Transmitted to Governor
May 8
Signed by Governor
May 13
Chapter Number Assigned
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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