| Tuesday, Feb 25
🏠 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 613: Revise laws related to state aid to public libraries | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 618: Provide for a Montana individual freedom act | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 627: Revise reporting requirements related to public contracts | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 640: Revising membership in FURS to include airport authority public safety employees | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 645: Require ballot issue signature gatherers to be Montana citizens and registered voters | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 659: Revising marijuana election requirements in certain municipalities | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 673: Revise donor privacy laws for certain political contributions | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 674: Revise code commissioner duties to include repealing unconstitutional policies from Montana code | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
👥 House Business and Labor
| 📋 HB 516: Move workers' compensation court to judicial branch | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 632: Revise compensation of members of certain boards | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 639: Generally revise gambling laws | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
👥 House Judiciary
| 📋 HB 577: Providing that the highway patrol chief serves at the pleasure of the AG | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 House Fish, Wildlife and Parks
| 📋 HB 519: Repeal nonresident landowner preference for big game combo licenses | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 560: Establish the Montana hunters and anglers community fund | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 564: Require mandatory reporting of deer and elk hunting activity | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 568: Provide for the Montana Hunters First Act | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 661: Generally revise laws related to the unlawful harassment or harm of game animals, birds, fur-bearers, and predators | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
👥 House Local Government
| 📋 HB 520: Revise laws to clarify that local prohibitions on conveying family transfer parcels do not apply to conveyances involving lenders | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 534: Allow county water and/or sewer districts to connect to a system beyond capacity | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 561: Repeal county licensing of itinerant vendors | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 614: Allow for the termination of certain county zoning districts | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
👥 House Human Services
👥 House Agriculture
| 📋 HB 504: Expand livestock loss eligibility to include domestic bison | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 522: Provide pesticide warning label laws | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 HB 416: Require homeowners' associations to seek permission for entry on real property | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 437: Provide for dismissal of certain criminal charges against health care provider | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 469: Revise the exemption for out-of-state driver's licenses | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 473: Allow for automatic CMS medicare fee schedule updates | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
| 📋 HB 357: Provide funding for middle school career and technical education | ✅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 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. |
| 📋 HB 503: Generally revise traffic laws regarding evading or fleeing a peace officer | ✅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 332: Require appointment of clerk of supreme court | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 340: Generally revise laws relating to challenges brought under MEPA | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 342: Provide that chief justice appoints the court administrator | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
👥 Senate Legislative Administration
| 📋 HB 112: Code commissioner bill | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 115: Revise Montana code annotated publishing laws related to code commissioner duties | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Other Committees
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
| 📋 SB 50: Generally revise laws related to child abuse and neglect investigations | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 245: Revise the Montana HELP Act workforce development provisions and termination date | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 SB 53: Revise income tax laws to provide conforming changes for prior legislation | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 104: Expanding access to low-cost capital to certain eligible projects and entities | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 150: Generally revise alcohol and tobacco laws | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 222: Revise laws related to lobbying prohibitions for public employees | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 224: Create indigenous peoples day | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 250: Generally revise laws related to child and family ombudsman | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 251: Establish confidentiality for child and family ombudsman | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 257: Generally revise Smith River permit laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
| 📋 SJ 10: Joint resolution honoring NCSL's 50th anniversary | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 SB 12: Eliminate board of county printing and transfer duties to Dept of Administration | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 61: Revise inter-entity loan process | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 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. |