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Votes at a glance: House advances multiple bills on second and third reading
Summary
The Montana House advanced or passed a package of bills on the floor: multiple bills were recommended do pass on second reading and several were passed on third reading. Tallies and brief descriptions are listed below for each bill recorded in the transcript.
The House considered multiple bills on second and third reading and recorded the following outcomes. Short descriptions are the bill titles as read on the floor; vote tallies are the recorded clerk counts.
- House Bill 50 — “an act providing protections to parents and pregnant women with substance use disorder” — second reading recommendation passed (100 yes, 0 no).
- House Bill 104 — “an act generally revising powers and duties of agents, adding human trafficking, prostitution and Internet crimes against children to the list of offenses an agent appointed by the attorney general has concurrent jurisdiction to investigate” — second reading recommendation passed (100 yes, 0 no).
- House Bill 98 — “an act revising laws related to the possession and validation of licenses, permits or tags” — second reading recommendation passed (99 yes, 1 no).
- House Bill 78 — “an act generally revising pet insurance, creating the Montana Pet Insurance Act” — second reading recommendation passed (96 yes, 4 no).
- House Bill 33 — “revised law related to petitions to initiate agents” — third reading passage (100 yes, 0 no).
- House Bill 39 — “repeal law disallowing parties from contributing to judicial candidates” — third reading passage (57 yes, 43 no).
- House Bill 60 — “generally revised state auditor laws” — third reading passage (100 yes, 0 no).
- House Bill 61 — “revised inter‑entity loan process” — third reading passage (94 yes, 6 no).
- House Bill 62 — “generally revised laws related to the administration of AMPARA” — third reading passage (100 yes, 0 no).
- House Bill 63 — “extend application of Bond Validating Act” — third reading passage (99 yes, 1 no).
- House Bill 68 — “authorize county commissioners to initiate mandamus proceedings” — third reading passage (98 yes, 1 no).
- Senate Bill 59 — "staff sergeant Arthur J. Rambo Memorial Bridge" — third reading passage (97 yes, 2 no recorded as clerk comment "I too have voted no").
These items were moved and recorded by committee chairs and the clerk; most second‑reading motions were phrased as the committee recommending the bill "do pass." The committee of the whole report was adopted on a separate vote (72 yes, 28 no). Several bills were presented with minimal floor debate; others (notably HB121) drew extended discussion on the floor and are covered in a separate article.
Listed titles and short descriptions reflect the bill language as read on the House floor; where the transcript included no further detail, the description is verbatim from the clerk’s reading.
