| Friday, Feb 21
🏠 House
🏛 Senate
🏠 House
Committee Hearings
Bill hearings allow the sponsor to explain a bill and enable public testimony.
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 House Energy, Technology and Federal Relations
| 📋 HB 538: Revise 911 emergency telephone system laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
👥 House Human Services
| 📋 HB 476: Establish grant program for newborn safety devices | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 HB 252: Create the student and teacher advancement for results and success act (STARS) | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 348: Revise special session polling laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 349: Revise TRS laws related to reemployment | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 403: Generally revise laws related to state hospital | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 430: Repeal process to establish county owned scales | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 434: Revise banking laws relating to interactive teller machines | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 435: Clarifying laws related to professional license discipline | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 439: Creating sheriffs' first initiative for cooperation and communication | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 448: Establish the Jim Loud Thunder Gopher memorial highway | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 486: Revise county deputy sheriff compensation | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
| 📋 HJ 6: Joint resolution recognizing the 250th birthday of the United States of America | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HB 56: Establish ambulance provider assessment fee program | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 84: Revise liability, training for prescribed fires | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 239: Revise laws related to construction contractors | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 367: Revise workers' compensation laws relating to travel and reimbursement | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 388: Create pregnancy center autonomy and rights of expression act | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 400: Enact the "Free to Speak Act" | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 415: Revise laws on a judge's ability to provide bail to certain defendants | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 426: Clarifying laws related to real estate appraisers | ✅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
| 📋 HB 75: Revise public safety officer certification standards | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 288: Expedite seized property after law investigation | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 292: Revise laws related to increasing product liability protection for consumers relating to economic harm | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 Senate State Administration
| 📋 HB 125: Revise laws related to the conduct of school district elections | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 167: Generally revise election laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 281: Revise electioneering laws | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 298: Revise duties of the secretary of state | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 303: Require agency reporting on financial assistance to tribes | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
👥 Senate Highways and Transportation
| 📋 HB 38: Revise laws relate to disability parking | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 223: Revise motor vehicle insurance laws to include commercial to truck costs | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
Other Committees
👥 Senate Taxation
| 📋 HB 90: Provide two-year reappraisal cycle for all real property | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 SB 12: Eliminate board of county printing and transfer duties to Dept of Administration | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 43: Generally revise motor vehicle traffic regulation laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 44: Revise laws related to tampering with evidence connected to a homicide | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 57: Designate quail as upland game bird | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 195: Revise noneconomic damages in medical malpractice actions | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 239: Requiring judges to invite amicus briefing and allow intervention in certain civil cases | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ❌Gov. |
| 📋 SB 280: Revise domestic violence intervention grant requirements | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 286: Clarify value of caselaw interpreting a statute after subsequent legislative action | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 320: Create Montana-Ireland trade commission | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
| 📋 SB 201: Revise contaminated property cleanup laws for dangerous drugs | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 206: Generally revise laws related to child abuse and neglect proceedings and investigations | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 213: Revise the state building code to allow single stairwells in certain buildings | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 248: Provide that legislator access to CPS records includes drug testing results | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 249: Revise child abuse and neglect laws involving adjudication | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 262: Exempt subdivision, water/sewer plans from environmental review | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |