| Monday, Feb 24
🏠 House
🏛 Senate
🏠 House
Committee Hearings
Bill hearings allow the sponsor to explain a bill and enable public testimony.
Morning Policy Committees
👥 House State Administration
| 📋 HB 557: Revise education laws related to PIR days and meetings of teacher organizations | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
Other Committees
👥 House Appropriations
| 📋 HB 341: Revise laws relating to brain injuries | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 474: Revise date for annual supplemental medicaid payment to hospitals | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 505: Allow Montana housing infrastructure revolving loan fund to retain its interest and income and provide for fund transfers | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 HB 139: Revise laws related to mule deer buck hunting in November | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 357: Provide funding for middle school career and technical education | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 385: Establishing the school mental health promotion pilot program | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 428: Revising provisions related to workers compensation | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 431: Revise laws related to the judicial standards commission | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 440: Providing tax incentives to put Montana-produced food first | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 447: Enact the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 467: Revise DUI testing to include oral fluids | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 468: Generally revise laws related to watercraft. | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 475: Regulate restraints on women while giving childbirth | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
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Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
| 📋 HB 358: Generally revise pension laws related to the Volunteer Firefighters' Compensation Act | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 384: Change dates to apply for speech language assistant licensure | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 393: Require towns to record meetings in audio format | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 395: Generally revise voting laws related to individuals of unsound mind | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 414: Revise laws related to licensing applications | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 421: Increase DNRC fire assessment fees | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 442: Revise laws regarding reporting requirements for certain professional occupations | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 449: Eliminate statutory reference to the adult basic education fund and its distribution | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 487: Eliminate requirement that the Dept of Transportation have certain divisions | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
🏛 Senate
Committee Hearings
Bill hearings allow the sponsor to explain a bill and enable public testimony.
No Senate committee hearings scheduled for this date.
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 SJ 10: Joint resolution honoring NCSL's 50th anniversary | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 HB 63: Extend application of bond validating act | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 66: Adopt most recent federal military codes and regulations | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 75: Revise public safety officer certification standards | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 228: Revise laws related to public charging stations for electric vehicles | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 272: Create rules of conduct for child protection specialists | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 288: Expedite seized property after law investigation | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 306: Prohibit sale of tax deed to foreign entity | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
| 📋 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. |
| 📋 SB 56: Supplemental employer contribution for PERS, HPORS, SRS, GWPORS | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅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. |