| Wednesday, Apr 16
🏠 House
🏛 Senate
🏠 House
Committee Hearings
Bill hearings allow the sponsor to explain a bill and enable public testimony.
Morning Policy Committees
👥 House Rules
| 📋 SJ 1: Senate joint rules resolution | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 House Energy, Technology and Federal Relations
| 📋 SJ 21: Interim study on interstate power grid development | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 SJ 26: Joint resolution regarding the purchase and sale of stocks by members of congress | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 HJ 54: Interim study on waste-to-energy | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate |
| 📋 HJ 57: Study resolution examining the effects of public safety communications on extreme weather responses | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate |
👥 House Natural Resources
| 📋 HJ 62: Study resolution on wildfire safety | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
👥 House Education
| 📋 HJ 51: Request interim study on special education | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate |
| 📋 HJ 53: Request an interim study on school safety | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HJ 58: Request interim study on increasing impact of school counselors | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate |
| 📋 HJ 59: Request interim study on media literacy | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate |
Other Committees
👥 House Appropriations
| 📋 SB 74: Generally revise marijuana laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
👥 House Taxation
| 📋 SB 203: Revise income tax brackets to lower income taxes | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 321: Provide tax credits for children and child care | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 546: Provide income based tax credit | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Reconcil. ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 SB 550: Revise taxation of of certain telecommunications property | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 HB 6: Renewable resource grants | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 7: Reclamation and development grants | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SJ 11: Interim study on farmer's markets and food systems | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 HJ 26: Study guardianships and conservatorships | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HJ 27: Interim study on laws regarding morticians and funeral services | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HJ 28: Interim study to identify and improve access to federal grant opportunities for the state of Montana, tribal governments, and local government entities | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HB 31: Revise wind and solar facility decommissioning | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 84: Revise liability, training for prescribed fires | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 153: Revise laws related to the school funding interim commission. | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 202: Generally revise laws related to the unlawful use of aircraft for hunting | ✅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.
| 📋 HJ 23: Interim study on youth court laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HJ 30: Study resolution on incentivizing housing density and affordability | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HB 45: Generally revising telecommunications regulation laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HJ 46: Study resolution on data centers | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate |
| 📋 HB 62: Generally revise laws related to the administration of MPERA | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 70: Study of wildland firefighting | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 SB 103: Revise fee for issuing an execution or order of sale on foreclosure of lien | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 117: Revise government entity limitations on property tax increases | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 237: Require revenue interim committee to make a recommendation about property tax rates | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 238: Allow hunters to donate funds for archery equipment for disabled bowhunters | ✅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
| 📋 SJ 33: Interim study of the prescription drug supply chain | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 HB 584: Revising laws related to dental anesthesia inspections | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 832: Establish PTSD nonmedication therapy training grant program | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 850: Provide licensing and regulation of community health workers | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ❌Gov. |
| 📋 HB 872: Revise licensing laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 882: Generally revise alcohol laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 Senate State Administration
| 📋 SR 47: Confirm governor's appointees for public employees' retirement board | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SR 105: Confirm governor's appointee for director of the department of administration | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 HB 627: Revise reporting requirements related to public contracts | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 692: Generally revise the SMART Act | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
👥 Senate Public Health, Welfare and Safety
| 📋 SJ 30: Study the child abuse and neglect registry | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House |
| 📋 SJ 31: Interim study of mandatory reporting | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House |
| 📋 SJ 32: Study citizen's review board law for child protective service cases | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House |
| 📋 SJ 34: Interim study of child care | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House |
| 📋 SJ 36: Study dependent neglect standards for prosecutors | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 SJ 37: Interim survey of behavioral health services in Montana | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 SJ 41: Interim study of home-based and family child care providers | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House |
| 📋 HB 456: Provide best beginnings scholarships to child care workers | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✴️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 881: Revise medicaid buy-in program to include children with disabilities | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ❌Gov. |
| 📋 HB 953: Revise medicaid laws related to direct primary care | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
👥 Senate Highways and Transportation
| 📋 HB 940: Prohibit overnight camping on state highway right-of-way | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Other Committees
👥 Senate Finance and Claims
| 📋 HB 334: Generally revise disaster and emergency laws | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 643: Revise reimbursement costs to detention centers holding inmates in state custody | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ❌Gov. |
| 📋 HB 831: Increase elderly homeowner and renter income tax credit | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✴️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 833: Provide funding to increase correctional capacity | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 861: Provide statewide access to a K-12 digital toolkit | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ❌Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 HJ 6: Joint resolution recognizing the 250th birthday of the United States of America | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 SB 19: Revise sentencing laws related to theft | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SR 23: Confirm governor's appointee for the judicial standards commission | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SR 29: Confirm governor's appointee for board of crime control | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SB 40: Revise supreme court public records laws by opening deliberations and files to the public | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ❌Gov. |
| 📋 SR 42: Confirm governor's appointee for workers' compensation judge | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SB 69: Revise county attorney reporting requirements for child sexual abuse | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 77: Require conservation districts to comply with state procurement laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SR 93: Confirm governor's appointees for the board of crime control | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 SR 104: Confirm governor's appointee for director of the department of public health and human services | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
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Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
| 📋 HB 137: Revise securities laws relating to fees paid by certain licensees | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 147: Revise laws related to covenants to provide definition of enforcement action | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 416: Require homeowners' associations to seek permission for entry on real property | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 578: Generally revise laws related to restitution | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 587: Revise mine reclamation laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 665: Preclude non-profit officers from personal liability for unpaid tax withholding | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 672: Generally revise Montana department of transportation’s utility relocation process | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 679: Generally revised use of public equipment | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 808: Creating the Montana brownfields program | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |