Key bill progress
Major budget bills
| 📋 HB 2: General Appropriations Act Main state budget bill. | ✴️1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 13: State Employee Pay Plan and revising laws governing state employees Provides raises for state workers. | ✴️1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
Governor's budget
| 📋 SB 121: Reduce top marginal income tax rate and increase EITC Cuts Montana income taxes and expands the state Earned Income Tax Credit on a long-term basis. | ✅1st Cmte. ✴️Senate ⚪️House ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 212: Increase business equipment tax exemption Raises threshold for tax-exempt business property from $300,000 to $1 million. | ✅1st Cmte. ✴️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 222: Provide rebates of property taxes paid on a principal residence Would use a portion of the state budget surplus for short-term property tax rebates. | ✅1st Cmte. ✴️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 225: Establish adoption tax credit | ✅1st Cmte. ✴️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 251: Provide budget stability through investment and liability reduction “Debt-free in ‘23” bill that funds the pay down of some state bonds. | ✅1st Cmte. ✴️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 268: Establish a child tax credit through the individual income tax | ✴️1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
Other budget bills
| 📋 HB 192: Use surplus revenue for income tax and property tax refunds and payment of bonds Would put a portion of the state budget surplus to income tax rebates. | ✴️1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 280: Providing for circuit breaker income tax credit for property taxes paid Would create an income tax credit for property tax relief. | ✴️1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
| 📋 HB 307: Provide for tax rebate Larger $1.275 billion property and income tax rebate bill advanced by hardline Republicans. | ✴️1st Cmte. ⚪️House ⚪️Senate ⚪️Gov. |
Energy
Wildlife
| 📋 SB 85: Require management of delisted grizzly bears at sustainable levels Articulates a broad management framework for grizzlies if they are taken off the endangered species list. | ✅1st Cmte. ✅Senate ✴️House ⚪️Gov. |
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About the 2023 Montana Free Press Capitol Tracker
This guide is an effort to make the quantifiable aspects of the Montana Legislature more accessible to the public by compiling information about lawmakers, proposed bills and the legislative process. This is a project of Montana Free Press, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit newsroom that aims to provide Montanans with in-depth, nonpartisan news coverage.
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