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Votes at a glance: key Senate committee recommendations and floor actions, Feb. 11
Summary
A roundup of committee recommendations and recorded floor votes from the Montana Senate on Feb. 11, including bills recommended to pass, bills concurred from the House, and bills postponed.
The Montana Senate’s committee of the whole issued multiple committee recommendations and recorded votes on Feb. 11. This roundup lists the formal actions recorded in committee or on the floor that day.
Nut graf: several bills were recommended to pass, some were passed as amended, one large healthcare bill was indefinitely postponed and multiple House bills were concurred in; the listing below captures the formal motions, recorded tallies and outcomes as recorded by the clerk in the transcript.
Key committee recommendations and outcomes (as recorded in the committee report and floor action):
- Senate Bill 211 — recommended do pass (committee recorded 49 ayes, 1 nay). (See separate story.) - Senate Bill 191 — recommended do pass (committee recorded 42 ayes, 8 nays). (See separate story.) - Senate Bill 172 — recommended do pass (committee recorded 42 ayes, 8 nays). (See separate story.) - Senate Bill 193 — recommended do pass (committee recorded 30 ayes, 20 nays on second reading; committee report lists SB 193 as passed on second reading). - Senate Bill 241 — recommended do pass (committee recorded 49 ayes, 1 nay). - Senate Bill 217 — recommended do pass (committee recorded votes for amendment and final recommendation; committee report lists SB 217 as passed on second reading). (See separate story.) - Senate Bill 70 — recommended do pass as amended (amendment adopted 48–2; final recommendation 47–3). (See separate story.) - House Bill 83 — Senate concurrence recommended (committee recommended concurrence and floor later recorded concurrence). - House Bill 203 (Montana Mining Day) — Senate concurrence recommended and recorded on floor (40 ayes, 10 nays recorded on concurrence). - Senate Bill 62 — failed second reading (20 ayes, 30 nays); a subsequent motion to indefinitely postpone passed (31 ayes, 19 nays) and SB 62 was indefinitely postponed.
Third‑reading outcomes recorded later in the day (floor roll calls during third reading): a number of bills were passed on the floor after recorded votes, including (as recorded in the transcript): House Bill 122, Senate Bill 138, Senate Bill 156, Senate Bill 162, Senate Bill 170, Senate Bill 171 and others; the clerk recorded the results for each final passage on the floor.
This roundup covers the formal recorded outcomes from the committee of the whole and the Senate floor on Feb. 11. For detailed debate and sponsor remarks, refer to the individual stories on bills that drew extended discussion.
