2021 LEGISLATURE - RECAP

Good Bills,
Bad Kills

The bills below represent the good legislation proposed by Democrats in the last half of the session that Republicans defeated — but that would have passed under a Democratic majority.

  • HB 30 - Revise provision on filling conservation district board vacancies - Jessica Karjala

  • HB 36 - Establish missing persons response team training grant program - Sharon Stewart-Peregoy

  • HB 59 - Revise funding provisions in PERS - Jim Hamilton

  • HB 86 - Allow the creation of regional fire protection authorities - Mary Ann Dunwell

  • HB 99 - Revise laws related to utility preapproval - Denise Hayman

  • HB 114 - Revise privacy in communication exception laws - Mary Ann Dunwell

  • HB 134 - Allow zoning for duplex, triplex, and fourplex housing in certain municipalities - Danny Tenenbaum

  • HB 150 - Establish a carbon cost community dividend fee on large emission sources - Mary Ann Dunwell

  • HB 156 - Revise trash tie-down laws - Dave Fern

  • HB 166 - Expanding the transformational learning program to include magnet schools - Dave Fern

  • HB 182 - Revising laws related to utility deadband mechanisms - Laurie Bishop

  • HB 183 - Eliminate requirement that offenders pay public defender fees - Danny Tenenbaum

  • HB 189 - Generally revise criminal sentencing and judgment laws - Danny Tenenbaum

  • HB 203- Revise reporting requirements for third-party settlement organizations - Jim Hamilton

  • HB 212 - General revision of laws regarding general contractors - Sara Novak

  • HB 219 - Create computer coding student employment pilot program - Jonathan Windy Boy

  • HB 248 - Revise the Montana primary election date - Kelly Kortum

  • HB 274 - Family Preservation Act for applied behavior analysis for at-risk families - Mary Caferro

  • HB 296 - Establish grant program and other uses of DD general fund appropriation - Mary Caferro

  • HB 299 - Revise insurance requirements for diabetes self-management education - Mary Ann Dunwell

  • HB 319 - Revise dates for special purpose elections - Alice Buckley

  • HB 347 - Revise laws on non-party candidate ballot access - Dave Fern

  • HB 335 - Repeal death penalty - Ed Stafman

  • HB 354 - Revise laws regarding driving while intoxicated costs - Frank Smith

  • HB 366 - Generally revising election terminology for mail and absentee ballots - Kelly Kortum

  • HB 369 - Support school-based prevention programs - Mary Caferro

  • HB 376 - Revise laws to bring electric and telephone coops in compliance with federal law - Jonathan Windy Boy

  • HB 378 - Create a mini-COBRA law for small employer health insurance plans - Mark Thane

  • HB 381 - Provide for gender identity diversity in political organizations - Mary Ann Dunwell

  • HB 387 - Revise small energy generation facility requirements and transition costs - Ed Stafman

  • HB 388 - Establish a Montana Health Crisis Preparedness Program - Ed Stafman

  • HB 389 - Require certain power production facilities to file a bond - Ed Stafman

  • HB 405 - Revising laws pertaining to candidate reporting and disclosure - Jim Hamilton

  • HB 410 - Pollinator protection act - Andrea Olsen

  • HB 411 - Revise business filing requirements at the Secretary of State's office - Andrea Olsen

  • HB 412 - Restore right for worker to choose treating physician in workers' compensation - Andrea Olsen

  • HB 413 - Revise insurance laws regarding uninsured, underinsured motorists - Andrea Olsen

  • HB 431 - Revise property tax on intangible personal property - Mary Ann Dunwell

  • HB 441 - Revise age requirements for election judges - Kelly Kortum

  • HB 452 - Permit local governments to use ranked choice voting in local elections - Kelly Kortum

  • HB 458 - Revise crime of impersonation of a public servant - Ed Stafman

  • HB 467 - Revise public education laws to ban lunch shaming - Jessica Karjala

  • HB 469 - Allow emergency funds to be used for the Emergency Management Assistance Compact - Sara Novak

  • HB 487 - Make Indian language education an allowable TANF work activity - Jonathan Windy Boy

  • HB 509 - Revising robocall fines - Danny Tenenbaum

  • HB 516 - Revising property entry laws for property tax valuation purposes - Derek Harvey

  • HB 521 - Revising property exempt from execution - Donavon Hawk

  • HB 532 - Generally revise bond and levy notification laws - Willis Curdy

  • HB 544 - Generally revise trademark law and procedure - Katie Sullivan

  • HB 546 - Revise civil actions for constitutional rights violations - Andrea Olsen

  • HB 547 - Require legislative fiscal division to contract for actuarial services - Jim Hamilton

  • HB 550 - Establish presumption in workers compensation for COVID-19 - Andrea Olsen

  • HB 551 - Revise claimants ability to receive insurance information before litigation - Andrea Olsen

  • HB 561 - Generally revise involuntary commitment hearing requirements - Jim Hamilton

  • HB 577 - Revise laws related to facial recognition technology - Katie Sullivan

  • HB 580 - Revising laws related to political committees - Tyson Running Wolf

  • HB 582 - Clarify employer limitations in the Montana Medical Marijuana Act - Rob Farris-Olsen

  • HB 600 - Private sector hiring preference protection for spouses of military members - Mary Caferro

  • HB 601 - Establishing requirements for certain long-term care facilities - Dave Fern

  • HB 604 - Revise compensation of deputy sheriffs - Sara Novak

  • HB 607 - Generally revising energy generation laws and renewable requirements - Andrea Olsen

  • HB 613 - Generally revise laws related to tribal voting - Sharon Stewart-Peregoy

  • HB 621 - Revise distribution of marijuana revenue and provide tribal govt allocations

  • - Jonathan Windy Boy

  • HB 623 - Appropriate funds for suicide prevention grants - Jessica Karjala

  • HB 626 - Revise resident nonbeneficiary student reimbursement for tribal colleges - Tyson Running Wolf

  • HB 631 - Increase state earned income tax credit - Emma Kerr-Carpenter

  • HB 638 - Provide for property tax fairness credit - Dave Fern

  • HB 642 - Establish a farm-to-school grant program at OPI - Laurie Bishop

  • HB 646 - Generally revise environmental, tax, and labor laws - Mary Ann Dunwell

  • HB 650 - Establish business income and venture capital credits - Jim Hamilton

  • HB 654 - Increase funding for higher education - Andrea Olsen

  • HB 657 - Establish the rural broadband revolving loan account - Tyson Running Wolf

  • HB 659 - Generally revise criminal laws - Andrea Olsen

  • HB 657 - Establish the rural broadband revolving loan account - Kelly Kortum

  • HB 662 - Establish the Mary Fields memorial highway - Jessica Karjala

  • HB 664 - Create insulin safety net program - Katie Sullivan

  • HB 668 - Generally revise corporation laws regarding tribal entities - Sharon Stewart-Peregoy

  • HB 672 - Provide for property tax circuit breaker funded by revised capital gains credit - Jim Hamilton

  • HB 673 - Providing for the Montana broadband coordinator - Katie Sullivan

  • HB 679 - Generally revise laws related to health care services - Jessica Karjala

  • HB 684 - Revise laws related to school bus safety - Mark Thane

  • HB 687 - Create mortality review commission for people with developmental disabilities - Danny Tenenbaum

  • HB 698 - Limiting when defendant released pretrial may be charged certain costs/fees - Alice Buckley

  • HB 708 - Study of food security and agricultural prosperity - Andrea Olsen

  • HB 710 - Enact online personal information protection act - Andrea Olsen

  • HB 712 - Generally revise transportation laws - Rynalea Whiteman Pena

  • HJ 3 - Joint resolution regarding Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks - Tom France

  • HJ 12 - Resolution that white supremacist neo-Nazi violence is domestic terrorism - Mary Ann Dunwell

  • HJ 15 - Resolution to recognize benefits of connected trail networks across Montana - Marilyn Marler

  • HJ 18 - Joint Resolution urging Wyoming fed and state agencies to stop elk feeding - Rob Farris-Olsen

  • HJ 22 - Interim study on public transportation - Andrea Olsen

  • HJ 24 - Study resolution on the Montana state flag - Moffie Funk

  • HJ 25 - Request interim study of student debt - Sara Novak

  • HJ 26 - Study landlord-tenant laws - Kathy Kelker

  • HJ 32 - Study of discrimination in Montana's criminal justice system - Ed Stafman

  • HJ 33 - Interim study to reduce inadvertent dog trapping - Tom France

  • HJ 42 - Requesting interim study of bicycle trail routes in Montana - Tom France

  • HJ 50 - Interim study on health care - Andrea Olsen

  • HJ 52 - Study of pollinator population health - Andrea Olsen

  • HJ 53 - Study establishment of a state bank - Andrea Olsen

  • HJ 54 - Interim study on highway safety - Andrea Olsen

  • HR 3 - Resolution for a U.S. Constitutional amendment regarding campaign contributions - Andrea Olsen

  • HR 4 - Resolution to limit the production of nuclear weapons - Andrea Olsen