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Votes at a glance: selected bills the Montana Senate passed on March 3, 2025
Summary
A roundup of bills that received floor action on March 3, 2025, including second‑ and third‑reading passages and recorded vote tallies where provided in the transcript.
At the March 3, 2025 floor session the Montana Senate recorded votes on a large number of bills. Below are selected outcomes from the transcript and the clerk’s recorded tallies as read on the floor. This roundup lists each bill and the action recorded during the session.
Votes reported on the floor (selected):
- Senate Bill 299 (parental access/education) — Passed second reading; clerk reported 31 Aye, 19 Nay. - Senate Bill 315 (Petroleum Tank Release Compensation Board; preventive reimbursement) — Passed second reading; clerk recorded 49 Aye, 0 Nay (recorded as "49 senators vote"). - Senate Bill 318 (child custody/domestic violence training) — Passed second reading; clerk recorded 41 Aye, 9 Nay. - House Bill 80 (state land agricultural cash leases) — Concurred by committee; clerk recorded 47 Aye, 3 Nay on floor concurrence. - Senate Bill 265 (network tokens / CBDC prohibition) — Passed second reading; clerk recorded 45 Aye, 4 Nay. - Senate Bill 67 (automated driving systems) — Amendment adopted unanimously (50–0); final second‑reading vote as amended recorded 37 Aye, 13 Nay. - Senate Bill 301 (electric transmission/CPCN and rate procedures) — Passed second reading; clerk recorded 50 Aye, 0 Nay. - Senate Bill 355 (competitive bidding for transmission) — Passed second reading; clerk recorded 50 Aye (vote recorded in committee report). - Senate Bill 395 (standing to maintain lawsuits) — Passed second reading; clerk recorded 29 Aye, 20 Nay. - Senate Bill 422 (insurer step‑therapy restrictions for metastatic cancer) — Passed second reading 32 Aye, 17 Nay; the Senate later voted to reconsider and return the bill to second reading (motion to reconsider recorded as 50 Aye) so a negotiated amendment could be attached. - Senate Bill 411 (treat audio‑visual recordings as testamentary writings) — Passed second reading; clerk recorded 35 Aye, 15 Nay as reported on the floor.
Third‑reading results (selected bills that passed on final passage as read aloud by the clerk later in the session): a long series of bills were read and recorded on third reading with votes recorded by the clerk; the transcript lists many bills that passed on third reading with their tallies (examples below):
- Senate Bill 266 — Passed (33 Aye, 17 Nay). - Senate Bill 328 — Passed (50 Aye, 0 Nay). - Senate Bill 335 — Passed (28 Aye, 22 Nay). - Senate Bill 338 — Passed (50 Aye, 0 Nay). - Senate Bill 341 — Passed (45 Aye, 5 Nay). - Senate Bill 347 — Passed (50 Aye, 0 Nay). - Senate Bill 366 — Passed (49 Aye, 1 Nay). - House Bill 54 — Passed (50 Aye, 0 Nay). - House Bill 79 — Passed (49 Aye, 1 Nay).
Note: this roundup captures the actions and vote tallies as read into the record during the March 3 floor session transcript. For final bill status and bill text, the official legislative journal and the enrolled bill text posted by the Secretary of the Senate should be consulted. If a bill was returned to second reading via motion to reconsider (SB 422), further floor action is pending once amendments are officially attached.
