| Tuesday, Apr 1
🏠 House
🏛 Senate
🏠 House
Committee Hearings
Bill hearings allow the sponsor to explain a bill and enable public testimony.
Morning Policy Committees
👥 House Business and Labor
| 📋 HJ 29: Joint resolution recognizing the strong bilateral relationship between Montana and Taiwan | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HJ 33: Resolution to urge U.S. Congress to take action relating to mortgage trigger leads | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HB 867: Revise labor laws relating to the medical assistance program | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 908: Generally revise employee tax credit laws to include apprentices | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 929: Generally revise laws relating to chiropractic practitioners | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 931: Allow for nonprofit development and management of attainable workforce housing on state lands | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
👥 House State Administration
| 📋 HB 851: Create department of health services | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 856: Revise incumbent vacancy in office laws | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 879: Interim study bill on the impacts of federal actions on the state of Montana | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 917: Revise campaign finance laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 938: Generally revise lobbying laws relating to state and local government agencies and non-governmental organizations | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
👥 House Judiciary
| 📋 HB 896: Prohibit harboring or assisting illegal aliens | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 921: Constitutional amendment prohibiting distribution or receipt of child pornography | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate |
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 House Agriculture
| 📋 SJ 11: Interim study on farmer's markets and food systems | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 HJ 34: Resolution supporting Montana's beef producers | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HB 928: Revise tax rate for agricultural property owned by certain nonprofits | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
👥 House Fish, Wildlife and Parks
| 📋 HB 847: Provide funding for grizzly bear management | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 897: Generally revise laws related to shed hunting on wildlife management areas | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 907: Generally revise fish and game laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 930: Revise watercraft laws related to nighttime boating and skiing | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
👥 House Human Services
| 📋 HB 881: Revise medicaid buy-in program to include children with disabilities | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ❌Gov. |
| 📋 HB 884: Establish a behavioral health trust fund | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 885: Generally revise Medicaid laws to improve customer service | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 891: Provide subpoena powers to the office of inspector general | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 902: Generally revise Montana SNAP program laws | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
👥 House Local Government
| 📋 HB 871: Revise requirements to connect to municipal water/sewer system | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 887: Provide property tax relief funded with lodging tax revenue | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 888: Revise local board of health rules for isolation and quarantine | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 889: Revise local growth policy and county zoning laws | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 901: Create a fire department health and safety grant program | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ❌Gov. |
Other Committees
👥 House Appropriations
| 📋 HB 220: Provide for a child tax credit | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 366: Provide appropriation to DOJ for Lake County reimbursement related to PL 280 | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 499: Extend the grow your own grant program | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✴️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 537: Provide for a birth day tax credit for the birth of a child | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 826: Generally revise tobacco tax laws | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 848: Provide funding for regional rail authorities | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 849: Provide for special motorcycle plates promoting motorcycle safety | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 850: Provide licensing and regulation of community health workers | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ❌Gov. |
| 📋 HB 858: Revise coal severance tax coal washing credit | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 868: Revise taxation of net long-term capital gains | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
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👥 House Taxation
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Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 HJ 24: Joint house resolution supporting Utah in their land lawsuit against the United States | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate |
| 📋 HJ 25: Joint house resolution calling for the repeal of the 17th Amendment | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate |
| 📋 HJ 31: Joint resolution honoring educational support professionals | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 SB 42: Provide for the partisan election of judges and justices | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 167: Provide funding for noxious weed trust | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ❌Gov. |
| 📋 SB 191: Provide for the licensure of residential treatment centers | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 200: Generally revise cooperative laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 244: Revise laws related to health insurance coverage of behavioral health screening | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ❌Gov. |
| 📋 SB 246: Provide for Montana First Procurement laws and establish reporting requirements | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 252: Revise land use laws related to manufactured and factory built homes | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
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Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
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🏛 Senate
Committee Hearings
Bill hearings allow the sponsor to explain a bill and enable public testimony.
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 Senate Education and Cultural Resources
👥 Senate Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation
| 📋 HB 401: Prohibit the sale of lab-grown meat in the state of Montana | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 624: Revise agriculture laws related to beehives | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 767: Revise county predator control laws to include goats | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 SR 19: Confirm governor's appointees for the board of hail insurance | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SR 26: Confirm governor's appointees for historical society board of trustees | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SR 31: Confirm governor's appointee for the board of public education | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SR 32: Confirm governor's appointee for the board of public education | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SR 34: Confirm governor's appointee for livestock loss board | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SR 35: Confirm governor's appointee for board of livestock | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SR 45: Confirm governor's appointees for board of veterinary medicine | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SR 53: Confirm governor's appointee for the board of public education | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 HB 127: Revise laws related to the fire suppression account | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 247: Modify tax classification of shooting ranges | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
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Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
| 📋 SJ 13: Study resolution for emergency medical services | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 SJ 17: Resolution requesting an interim study on hunter satisfaction | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House |
| 📋 SJ 19: Joint resolution to study public transportation | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 HB 67: Generally revise laws related to the administration of TRS | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 101: Revise laws related to squatting | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 124: Revise electronic license privacy law | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 128: Protect volunteer emergency service providers from termination | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 218: Revising the practice of optometry to include certain laser procedures and in-office surgical procedures | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 227: Establish a contingent litigation fund for occupational licensing boards and programs | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 233: Provide for transfer of title of open spaces in final plat to HOA | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
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