| Wednesday, Mar 26
🏠 House
🏛 Senate
🏠 House
Committee Hearings
Bill hearings allow the sponsor to explain a bill and enable public testimony.
Morning Policy Committees
👥 House Judiciary
| 📋 SB 329: Require employers to use e-verify for employment eligibility | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 342: Provide that chief justice appoints the court administrator | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 375: Prohibit sale of edible products that contain hemp | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 SB 5: Revise compensation for county tax appeal board members | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 5: Long-range building appropriations | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✴️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 27: Generally revise marijuana licensing laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 101: Revise laws related to squatting | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 109: Revise workers' compensation definition of treating physician to include physical therapists | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 124: Revise electronic license privacy law | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 137: Require excusal of prospective jurors aged 75 and older | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 184: Provide that only contested precinct committee men/women need to be on the primary election ballot | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 315: Allocate funding for petroleum tank cleanup | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 340: Establish Montana's BEST program to bolster educator support and training | ✅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.
| 📋 SJ 6: Joint resolution for legislature's consent and approval long-range legislative branch capitol development plan | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 SB 9: Allow agency cash deposits biweekly | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 11: Revise local government ballot issue laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 29: Allow electronic submission of bonds for state construction projects | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 33: State buildings subject to state building code review | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 58: Revise vote count procedures | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 78: Revise laws related to marking hides and meat | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 132: Generally revise minor in possession laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 163: Generally revise privacy laws related to biometric, genetic, and neural data | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 211: Revise emergency use of epinephrine in school setting to include nasal spray | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
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🏛 Senate
Committee Hearings
Bill hearings allow the sponsor to explain a bill and enable public testimony.
Morning Policy Committees
👥 Senate Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
| 📋 HB 86: Generally revise beer wholesaler and table wine laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 491: Revise alcohol laws relating to community care retirement facility licenses | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 768: Revise civil liability laws relating to equine activities and waivers | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 Senate Highways and Transportation
| 📋 HB 345: Revise MDT and transportation commission roles in transit | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 351: Clarify point of taxation for gasoline and special fuels taxes | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 387: Revise laws related to highway reconstruction | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 HB 48: Exempt wastewater ponds from dam safety act | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 58: Revise distributions mine remediation | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 135: Create statutes of repose for claims against real estate appraisers | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 143: Revise definition of treating physician to include physician assistants without regard to proximity of other providers | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 173: Revise definition of victim in youth court act | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 178: Limit government use of AI systems | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 179: Revise election laws related to inactive voter status | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 189: Revise the petroleum storage tank cleanup eligibility requirements | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 219: Generally revise hunting laws related to unlawful contest or prize | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
| 📋 SB 23: Increase thresholds for railroad accident reporting requirements | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 64: Clarifying calculation of legislator compensation and expenses during the interim | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 92: Generally revise laws related to alcohol regulation | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 108: Eliminate reference to personal property farm manual for property tax purposes | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 113: Revise exemptions related to tow truck lien law | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 150: Generally revise alcohol and gaming laws | ✅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 210: Revise laws relating to unemployment insurance program collection rates and uses | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 235: Provide for voluntary cancellation and suspension of vehicle registration | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
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