| Wednesday, Jan 29
🏠 House
🏛 Senate
🏠 House
Committee Hearings
Bill hearings allow the sponsor to explain a bill and enable public testimony.
Morning Policy Committees
👥 House Business and Labor
| 📋 HB 249: Include digital identifications in alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 254: Eliminate fingerprint background check requirements for professional employer organization | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 276: Standardize service of process for professional licenses | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 House Energy, Technology and Federal Relations
👥 House Human Services
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 HB 74: Revising private fish pond and commercial take laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 90: Provide two-year reappraisal cycle for all real property | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 96: Create a trapper apprentice program | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 105: Revise laws related to game bird farms | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 107: Revising licensing requirements for commercial activities regulated by FWP | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 161: Establish a vending machine account in the special revenue fund | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 167: Generally revise election laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 184: Modify language in the MCA that may diminish the dignity of individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 199: Increase physician assistant membership on the board of medical examiners | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 210: Revise laws relating to unemployment insurance program collection rates and uses | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
| 📋 HB 65: Audit State Bar of Montana | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 86: Generally revise beer wholesaler and table wine laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 122: Revise right-of-way laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 126: Revise legislative oversight of administrative rules and encourage public comment | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 130: Revise state wildland fire policy and funding | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 164: Revise the uniform unclaimed property act | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 165: Notaries not required for vehicle title transfer | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 173: Revise definition of victim in youth court act | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 218: Revising the practice of optometry to include certain laser procedures and in-office surgical procedures | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 234: Extend the use of funding for lead-in-schools appropriated in 2023 | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
🏛 Senate
Committee Hearings
Bill hearings allow the sponsor to explain a bill and enable public testimony.
Morning Policy Committees
👥 Senate Judiciary
| 📋 SB 149: Revise emotional support animal laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 Senate Public Health, Welfare and Safety
| 📋 SB 144: Change name of mental health advisory council to behavioral health advisory council | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 194: Eliminate the board of public assistance | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
👥 Senate Highways and Transportation
| 📋 HB 42: Revise laws related to highways and transportation for clarity and consistency | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 43: Generally revise motor vehicle traffic regulation laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
| 📋 SJ 8: Request interim study of property tax special districts | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 SB 15: Revising grounds for impeachment | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 41: Requiring substitution of district court judges by random selection | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 44: Generally revise laws regarding the separation of powers doctrine | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 107: Provide for human trafficking prevention education in public schools | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |