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

Senate Bill 90: Redistribute certain state tax revenue to primary residence property tax relief

Proposed
Introduced
Dec 27
1st Cmte.
Advanced
Jan 28
Senate
Passed Senate
Feb 28
✴️ House
Pending
Apr 11
⚪️ Gov.

Sponsor: | Requester: Barry Usher
📃 Bill text
💵 Fiscal note
🏛 Legal note
None on file
🖍 Proposed amendments
None on file
See also: The official bill page.

Montana Free Press coverage

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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 14
Referred to Committee
Jan 15
Hearing
👥 Senate Local Government
Jan 27
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 Senate Local Government
Jan 28
Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended
👥 Senate Local Government
7-4
R5-2
D2-2
Feb 26
2nd Reading Motion to Amend Carried
45-5
R32-0
D13-5
Feb 26
2nd Reading Passed as Amended
50-0
R32-0
D18-0
Feb 26
Rereferred to Committee
Feb 26
Hearing
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
Feb 28
3rd Reading Passed
42-7
R27-4
D15-3
Feb 28
Transmitted to House
Mar 1
Referred to Committee
Mar 1
First Reading
Mar 7
Hearing
👥 House Taxation
Apr 3
Tabled in Committee
16-5
R9-3
D7-2
Apr 11
Taken from Committee; Placed on 2nd Reading
51-46
R42-14
D9-32
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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