| Thursday, Feb 27
🏠 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 651: Allow for temporary door locks during emergency situations | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 678: Revise statement of purpose and implication for ballot issues | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 679: Generally revised use of public equipment | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 680: Generally revise trade and commerce laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 705: Generally revise laws related to county and city central committees | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 719: Revise election laws related to an elector's date of birth | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 722: Provide a retention period for electronic communications after a public employee's employment ends | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
👥 House Business and Labor
| 📋 HB 563: Revise laws related to filing and participation in licensing complaint investigations | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 583: Revise laws relating to the state lottery and review authority | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 611: Generally revise salaries for certain elected officials | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 656: Revising the fund structure and use of employment security account | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 667: Revise labor laws relating to employers and public service | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 668: Revising alcohol law to prohibit certain licensees from offering gambling | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 House Fish, Wildlife and Parks
| 📋 HB 554: Remove FWP requirement to regulate wolves as furbearers or game animals | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 762: Require the department of fish, wildlife, and parks to publish a report on river usage | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ❌Gov. |
| 📋 HB 763: Generally revise laws related to the block management program. | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
👥 House Local Government
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👥 House Human Services
| 📋 HB 687: Revise age of expanded Medicaid participants required to engage in community engagement activities | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 689: Provide for pricing transparency requirements for hospitals | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
👥 House Agriculture
| 📋 HB 624: Revise agriculture laws related to beehives | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 649: Establish a farm to food bank program | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
Other Committees
👥 House Appropriations
| 📋 HB 10: Long-range information technology appropriations | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 314: Create a state energy authority | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 HB 295: Revise laws related to judicial transparency and elections | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 354: Revise penalties for criminal trespass while fishing, trapping, hunting, or collecting antlers/sheds/horns | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 382: Establish the specie legal tender act | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 423: Revise election laws related to active and inactive voter lists | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 458: Generally revise laws related to physician assistants | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 479: Require candidates for office to disclose foreign citizenship | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 480: Revise when a party in a proceeding is entitled to jury trial | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 485: Revise residential home construction contract laws | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 488: Allowing a disabled voter to electronically return a ballot | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
| 📋 HB 154: Establish a housing fairness tax credit | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 155: Revise class four residential and commercial property taxes | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 377: Generally revise access by parent to child patient health care information | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 408: Revise laws to protect children from obscene content through electronic devices | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 413: Revise election laws regarding residency | ✅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 348: Revise laws on sexual assault | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 389: Require operators of self-storage facilities to mitigate damages | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 398: Revise laws related to collections-related actions in municipal court | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 421: Require the refund of certain residential lease application fees | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 Senate Fish and Game
| 📋 SB 403: Grant the fish and wildlife commission authority to set muzzleloader season | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 427: Provide trapping setback distances for certain roads and trails | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 441: Establishing the Montana block management enforcement network | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 514: Generally revise laws related to upland game bird seasons | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
👥 Senate Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation
| 📋 HB 119: Establish the Montana Cattle Committee | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 414: Generally revise laws relating to garbage feeding | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 509: Revise ownership laws related to farm equipment embedded software- electronic control unit, sensor, switches, and controls | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
👥 Senate Education and Cultural Resources
Other Committees
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
| 📋 SB 90: Redistribute certain state tax revenue to primary residence property tax relief | ✅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 250: Generally revise laws related to child and family ombudsman | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 270: Revise laws related to antlerless elk licenses | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 393: Provide funding for enforcement of PL 280 | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 SB 205: Revise laws related to voter approval for property tax levies and bonds | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 263: Revise state ownership of water rights on state lands | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
| 📋 HB 20: Require voted levies to be in dollars rather than mills | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 42: Provide for the partisan election of judges and justices | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 82: Generally revise laws related to crimes against children | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 214: Revise zoning laws to clarify decisions regarding prior nonconforming use of property | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 245: Revise the Montana HELP Act workforce development provisions and termination date | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 279: Adopt the dietitian licensure compact | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 305: Revise funeral trust laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |