| Wednesday, Apr 9
🏠 House
🏛 Senate
🏠 House
Committee Hearings
Bill hearings allow the sponsor to explain a bill and enable public testimony.
Morning Policy Committees
👥 House Judiciary
| 📋 SB 70: Generally revise laws related to supervision on probation | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 84: Generally revise laws related to presentence investigations | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 201: Revise contaminated property cleanup laws for dangerous drugs | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 312: Generally revise laws for crime victims | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 457: Revise laws regarding legislative subpoenas | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 474: Require acceptance of religious and personal medical exemptions to required immunizations | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 508: Generally revise driving under the influence laws for THC levels in drivers under 21 | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
👥 House State Administration
| 📋 SB 564: Revise government transparency laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
👥 House Business and Labor
| 📋 SB 446: Revise laws related to healthcare utilization review | ❌1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 447: Revise laws related to prior authorization | ❌1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 449: Generally revise health utilization review laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 House Transportation
| 📋 SJ 19: Joint resolution to study public transportation | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
👥 House Energy, Technology and Federal Relations
| 📋 SJ 12: Interim study on energy transmission | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 HJ 46: Study resolution on data centers | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate |
👥 House Education
| 📋 SB 258: Revise school funding laws to clarify the legislature's authority related to inflationary adjustments | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ❌Gov. |
| 📋 SB 486: Revise equal opportunity education savings account funding | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 525: Authorize use of school chaplains in school districts and public charter schools | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
Other Committees
👥 House Appropriations
| 📋 SB 19: Revise sentencing laws related to theft | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 50: Generally revise laws related to child abuse and neglect investigations | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 67: Provide for the use of autonomous vehicles | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 147: Generally revise Montana Indian child welfare laws | ❌1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 151: Direct the director of the public defender's office to create units for family defense and children's representation | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 278: Revise education laws to support advanced opportunities | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 296: Enhance penalty for crime against vulnerable person | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 311: Enhance legislative understanding of state-tribal relations | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 348: Revise laws on sexual assault | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 524: Revise laws relating to category D assisted living facilities | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
👥 House Taxation
| 📋 HJ 2: Revenue estimating resolution | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate |
| 📋 SB 247: Modify tax classification of shooting ranges | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 327: Revise motor vehicle registration fees | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 339: Revise oil and gas production damage mitigation account | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 343: Revert revenue from coal tax to coal trust | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 409: Generally revise laws related to the department of commerce | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 SB 50: Generally revise laws related to child abuse and neglect investigations | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 136: Prohibit consent as a defense for physician assisted suicide | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 151: Direct the director of the public defender's office to create units for family defense and children's representation | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 221: Generally revise the Montana environmental policy act | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 224: Create indigenous peoples day | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 297: Generally revise privacy laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 348: Revise laws on sexual assault | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 364: Establish kill switch laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 369: Strengthen suicide prevention efforts in schools | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 404: Require reporting of building permits for appraisal information | ✅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.
Morning Policy Committees
👥 Senate Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
👥 Senate Legislative Administration
👥 Senate Judiciary
| 📋 HJ 9: Joint resolution in support of Israel | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HB 275: Provide for a driving privilege card | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 469: Revise the exemption for out-of-state driver's licenses | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 575: Generally revise the proceedings in which a public defender may be assigned | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 643: Revise reimbursement costs to detention centers holding inmates in state custody | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ❌Gov. |
| 📋 HB 662: Revise the Montana driver privacy protection act | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 Senate Natural Resources
Other Committees
👥 Senate Taxation
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
| 📋 HB 567: Revise education laws related to multidistrict agreements | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 585: Revise provider rate laws for physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, and occupational therapists | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ❌Gov. |
| 📋 HB 628: Revise early literacy targeted intervention laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✴️Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 HB 45: Generally revising telecommunications regulation laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 151: Revise educational laws pertaining to recruitment and retention and MSDB | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 267: Revise DUI laws related to enacting Bobby's law | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 276: Standardize service of process for professional licenses | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 398: Generally revise insurance laws related to prior authorization of chronic conditions | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 403: Generally revise laws related to state hospital | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 444: Generally revise tenant landlord laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 471: Revise education laws related to human sexuality and identity instruction | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 491: Revise alcohol laws relating to community care retirement facility licenses | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 493: Establish the crime of possession of stolen firearm or ammunition | ✅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.
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