| Wednesday, Apr 23
🏠 House
🏛 Senate
🏠 House
Committee Hearings
Bill hearings allow the sponsor to explain a bill and enable public testimony.
Morning Policy Committees
👥 House State Administration
👥 House Business and Labor
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 House Human Services
👥 House Natural Resources
| 📋 HJ 71: Study resolution of the impact of federal funding changes on DEQ | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate |
| 📋 HJ 74: Study resolution analyzing water re-use in the state | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
👥 House Transportation
| 📋 HJ 70: Study resolution on impacts of federal funding changes on MDT | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate |
👥 House Education
| 📋 HJ 63: Request interim study on early literacy | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate |
| 📋 HJ 67: Study resolution on impacts of federal funding changes on OPI and OCHE | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate |
Other Committees
👥 House Appropriations
| 📋 SB 93: Revise income taxes related to retired military members | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 394: Provide for workers' compensation coverage of PTSD for first responders | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ❌Gov. |
| 📋 SB 424: Revising the disabled veteran property tax assistance program | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ❌Gov. |
| 📋 SB 553: Generally revise state policy laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 SJ 1: Senate joint rules resolution | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 SJ 13: Study resolution for emergency medical services | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 SJ 16: Joint resolution on automated vehicles | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 SJ 18: Resolution supporting recreation uses on Flathead Lake | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 SJ 19: Joint resolution to study public transportation | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 SJ 21: Interim study on interstate power grid development | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 HJ 43: Study resolution on coordinated homeless services | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate |
| 📋 HJ 50: Interim study of uniform common interest ownership laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HJ 52: Interim study on the Montana cattle industry | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HJ 57: Study resolution examining the effects of public safety communications on extreme weather responses | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate |
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Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
| 📋 SJ 10: Joint resolution honoring NCSL's 50th anniversary | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 HJ 42: Interim study on procurement, no-bid contracts, and transparency on no-bid purchases | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HJ 44: Interim study of endocrine-disrupting chemicals and water quality | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HJ 47: Study resolution on local government entity cooperation | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HJ 49: Interim study of U.S. Route 212 | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ❌Senate |
| 📋 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 54: Interim study on waste-to-energy | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate |
| 📋 HJ 55: Study resolution on property management licensing and practice | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 HJ 56: Study resolution of search and rescue services and funding | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
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🏛 Senate
Committee Hearings
Bill hearings allow the sponsor to explain a bill and enable public testimony.
Afternoon Policy Committees
👥 Senate Natural Resources
👥 Senate Public Health, Welfare and Safety
| 📋 HJ 26: Study guardianships and conservatorships | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate |
| 📋 SJ 48: Interim study of the public health and safety impacts of marijuana legalization | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 SJ 49: Interim study of youth and family behavioral health prevention | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House |
| 📋 SJ 50: Interim study of the medical response to COVID-19 | ❌1st Cmte. ⚪️Senate ⚪️House |
👥 Senate Local Government
👥 Senate State Administration
| 📋 SJ 40: Interim study on legislative branch procurement and leadership expenditures | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ❌House |
| 📋 SJ 45: Interim study to determine a use policy for the executive residence when the governor has an alternate residence | ✅1st Cmte. ❌Senate ⚪️House |
| 📋 HB 856: Revise incumbent vacancy in office laws | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 917: Revise campaign finance laws | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
Floor Debates
Debates are followed by Second Reading votes.
| 📋 HB 4: Appropriations by budget amendment | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✴️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 5: Long-range building appropriations | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✴️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 12: Montana historic preservation grants | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SR 21: Confirm governor's appointees for the board of pardons and parole | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate |
| 📋 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 |
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Final Votes
Final votes determine if a bill advances to the next chamber or to the governor.
| 📋 HB 2: General Appropriations Act | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✴️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 9: Cultural and aesthetic grants | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 10: Long-range information technology appropriations | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 11: Providing grants and appropriations through the Montana coal endowment program | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 372: Revise license fees used for funding of upland game bird enhancement program | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 SB 409: Generally revise laws related to the department of commerce | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✅House ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 643: Revise reimbursement costs to detention centers holding inmates in state custody | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ❌Gov. |
| 📋 HB 669: Revise laws related to educating children receiving in-state inpatient treatment of serious emotional disturbances | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
| 📋 HB 827: Revise social security income taxation | ✅1st Cmte. ❌House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 833: Provide funding to increase correctional capacity | ✅1st Cmte. ✅House ✅Senate ✅Gov. |
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