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Votes at a glance: key bills and outcomes from the Montana House floor, March 12, 2025
Summary
The House considered numerous bills on March 12. This roundup lists recorded final votes, committee recommendations and concurrences reported on the floor during the day's session.
The Montana House recorded votes or committee recommendations on a series of bills during the March 12 floor session. Below is a concise list of those items, their outcomes and vote tallies where recorded in the floor transcript.
Committee recommendations / concurrences and second‑reading outcomes recorded on the floor that day
- House Bill 3 (supplemental, Committee of the Whole consideration): Committee recommended concurrence with Senate amendments (committee action recorded; committee rollcall not provided in excerpt).
- Senate amendments to House Bill 136 (insurance premium reductions for hazard mitigation): Committee recommended concurrence (motion carried in Committee of the Whole; detailed tally not provided in the excerpt).
- House Joint Resolution 14 (constitutional interpretation / Marbury v. Madison): Failed second reading, 45 yes, 55 no.
- House Bill 373 (redirect excess lottery revenue to schools): Failed second reading, 44 yes, 56 no.
- House Bill 27 (revising agricultural property classifications): Failed second reading, 40 yes, 60 no.
- House Bill 462 (identify high‑quality instructional materials; $5M one‑time appropriation): Passed second reading, 69 yes, 31 no.
- House Bill 334 (increase statutory appropriation for emergencies / expand uses): Passed second reading in committee 84 yes, 16 no (committee motion reported to floor as passed).
Concurrences with Senate bills reported and concurred in on the House floor (committee reports and recorded committee tallies where provided)
- Senate Bill 144 (rename Mental Health Oversight Advisory Council to Behavioral Health Advisory Council): Concurred in; committee tally recorded as 97 yes, 2 no on committee action in the House.
- Senate Bill 88 (certificate of need publication): Concurred in; committee recorded 95 yes, 3 no.
- Senate Bill 113 (towing and storage lien exemptions and clarifications): Concurred in after floor discussion; recorded committee tally 63 yes, 37 no on the House committee motion.
- Senate Bill 172 (expand resort tax infrastructure to include workforce housing): Concurred in on the House floor, committee motion recorded 58 yes, 42 no.
- Senate Bill 170 (remove sunset for Community Health Aide Program): Concurred in; recorded committee action 62 yes, 38 no.
Final passage votes announced on the House floor (bills read for final passage later in session)
The clerk announced recorded votes on a number of bills later in the day; the transcript includes these roll calls and outcomes:
- House Bill 190 (Establish American Rodeo as official state sport): Passed (95 yes, 2 no recorded).
- House Bill 197 (workers' compensation - return to work provisions): Passed (59 yes, 39 no recorded).
- House Bill 398 (insurance prior authorization for chronic conditions): Passed (90 yes, 8 no recorded).
- House Bill 419 (Medicaid cost reporting): Passed (clerk recorded passage; individual rollcall not printed in this excerpt).
- Senate Bill 23 (railroad accident reporting thresholds): Passed (97 yes, 1 no recorded).
- Senate Bill 51 (telecommunications provider registration): Passed (98 yes, 0 no recorded in initial tally; subsequent roll calls noted adjustments for other bills shown in transcript).
- Senate Bill 55: Passed (85 yes, 13 no recorded for that bill in the transcript).
- Senate Bill 64 (legislator compensation calculation during interim): Passed (90 yes, 8 no recorded).
- Senate Bill 82 (adjustments to blindness program): Passed (84 yes, 14 no recorded).
- Senate Bill 87 (modify holidays and create a floating holiday): Passed (76 yes, 22 no recorded).
Notes and context
- The transcript shows some committee motions and second‑reading actions coming from the Committee of the Whole and from standing committees. Where committee tallies were recorded in the floor transcript, they are shown above.
- Several bills were considered swiftly with limited floor debate; others, such as House Bills 373 and 27, drew extended discussion and formal rollcall records on second reading.
- Where the transcript shows an absentee or named vote (for example, the clerk reciting Representative Cunningham and Representative Lynch as voting one way on a committee motion), those details appear in the individual motion records in the day's proceedings.
