Committee
Montana House Human Services Committee
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committee members
Lyn Bennett (R)
Ed Buttrey (R)
Brian Close (D)
Melody Cunningham (D)
Scott DeMarois (D)
Chair
Jodee Etchart (R)
Vice Chair
SJ Howell (D)
Steven Kelly (R)
Brandon Ler (R)
Kathy Love (R)
Valerie Moore (R)
Nelly Nicol (R)
George Nikolakakos (R)
James Reavis (D)
Amy Regier (R)
Curtis Schomer (R)
Jade Sooktis (D)
Katie Sullivan (D)
Jane Weber (D)
Zooey Zephyr (D)
| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB38 | Revise laws relate to disability parking | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 12/20/2024 |
| HB50 | Provide protections to parents and pregnant women with substance use disorder | Dead | 12/20/2024 |
| HB56 | Establish ambulance provider assessment fee program | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 12/20/2024 |
| HB76 | Generally revise laws related to the board of behavioral health | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 12/20/2024 |
| HB77 | Generally revise laws related to child abuse and neglect investigations by the department of public health and human services | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 12/20/2024 |
| HB161 | Establish a vending machine account in the special revenue fund | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/10/2025 |
| HB184 | Revise laws that may diminish the dignity of individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/14/2025 |
| HB185 | Provide for continuous healthy Montana kids plan eligibility for children under 6 | Dead | 01/14/2025 |
| HB230 | Generally revise Medicaid laws | Dead | 01/16/2025 |
| HB236 | Provide for evaluations of defendants in detention centers or state prisons | Dead | 01/17/2025 |
| HB245 | Revise the Montana HELP Act workforce development provisions and termination date | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/17/2025 |
| HB253 | Mandate disclosure of certain information in public health emergency | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/20/2025 |
| HB273 | Provide for limitations on collection of medical debt | Dead | 01/22/2025 |
| HB274 | Provide medicaid coverage for medical respite care for homeless people | Dead | 01/22/2025 |
| HB341 | Revise laws relating to brain injuries | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/31/2025 |
| HB352 | Revise child support guideline laws and establish a committee | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/30/2025 |
| HB360 | Establish the child care workforce recruitment and retention support payment program | Dead | 01/31/2025 |
| HB364 | Generally revise laws related to immunizations | Dead | 01/31/2025 |
| HB377 | Generally revise access by parent to child patient health care information | Dead | 02/03/2025 |
| HB381 | Provide for educational credit for students volunteering in long term care, nursing home, home care, and child care settings | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/04/2025 |
| HB386 | Revising laws related to continuous medicaid eligibility | Dead | 02/05/2025 |
| HB397 | Revise laws related to privacy in mental health digital service | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/06/2025 |
| HB398 | Generally revise insurance laws related to prior authorization of chronic conditions | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/06/2025 |
| HB399 | Revise prior authorization laws | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/06/2025 |
| HB403 | Generally revise laws related to state hospital | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/06/2025 |
| HB419 | Implementing cost reporting for certain Medicaid service provider types | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/07/2025 |
| HB456 | Provide best beginnings scholarships to child care workers | Passed | 02/12/2025 |
| HB457 | Revise best beginnings eligibility | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| HB473 | Allow for automatic CMS medicare fee schedule updates | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/13/2025 |
| HB476 | Establish grant program for newborn safety devices | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/13/2025 |
| HB494 | Revise tobacco settlement allocations | Dead | 02/14/2025 |
| HB498 | Prohibit adding fluoride to public water supply systems | Dead | 02/14/2025 |
| HB510 | Generally revise medicaid services | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| HB565 | Require health insurance companies doing business in Montana to cover IVF treatment | Dead | 02/19/2025 |
| HB574 | Authorizing implementation of the certified community behavioral health clinic model | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/19/2025 |
| HB576 | Revise funding for medicaid and health and support services to children and to adults who are aged, blind, and disabled | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/19/2025 |
| HB601 | Create online portal for community assisters related to Medicaid | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/20/2025 |
| HB687 | Revise age of expanded Medicaid participants required to engage in community engagement activities | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/24/2025 |
| HB689 | Provide for pricing transparency requirements for hospitals | Dead | 02/24/2025 |
| HB694 | Revise laws related to child abuse and neglect | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/25/2025 |
| HB732 | Establish prompt cost report reimbursement act | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/25/2025 |
| HB749 | Revise procurement laws to provide priority criteria for certain public assistance and human services contractors | Dead | 02/25/2025 |
| HB750 | Provide for annual increase of Medicaid provider reimbursement rates | Dead | 02/25/2025 |
| HB765 | Reestablish the working interdisciplinary network of guardianship stakeholders | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| HB783 | Generally revise health insurance laws relating to certain conditions | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| HB796 | Providing for department of labor and industry and licensing boards to request health care information by administrative process | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| HB807 | Prohibiting vaccines allowed under an emergency use authorization or undergoing safety trials to be required | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| HB825 | Generally revise laws related to health care proxy decisionmakers | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/27/2025 |
| HB835 | Extend at-home infant care program | Dead | 03/18/2025 |
| HB843 | Create Montana emergency solutions grant for rapid re-housing | Dead | 03/19/2025 |
| HB881 | Revise medicaid buy-in program to include children with disabilities | Vetoed | 03/27/2025 |
| HB884 | Establish a behavioral health trust fund | Dead | 03/27/2025 |
| HB885 | Generally revise Medicaid laws to improve customer service | Dead | 03/27/2025 |
| HB891 | Provide subpoena powers to the office of inspector general | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/27/2025 |
| HB902 | Generally revise Montana SNAP program laws | Dead | 03/28/2025 |
| HB912 | Generally revise behavioral health laws to create a secure forensic facility | Dead | 03/29/2025 |
| HB934 | Establish the Senior and Long-Term Care Home and Community-Based Services Access and Stabilization Act | Dead | 03/31/2025 |
| HB943 | Establish the Montana rare disease advisory council | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/31/2025 |
| HB949 | Require fee schedule and report for certain commitments | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/31/2025 |
| HB953 | Revise medicaid laws related to direct primary care | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/01/2025 |
| HJ19 | Resolution to provide for frontotemporal degeneration awareness week | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/21/2025 |
| HJ26 | Study guardianships and conservatorships | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/20/2025 |
| HJ43 | Study resolution on coordinated homeless services | Dead | 04/03/2025 |
| HJ66 | Study resolution on impact of federal funding changes on DPHHS | Dead | 04/18/2025 |
| HJ75 | Interim study of the Montana state hospital | Dead | 04/23/2025 |
| SB17 | Revise laws related to hearings after the emergency removal and protective placement of a child | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/31/2025 |
| SB18 | Revise the definition of child abuse or neglect | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/31/2025 |
| SB72 | Provide presumptive eligibility for Medicaid coverage of home and community-based services | Vetoed | 02/25/2025 |
| SB73 | Generally revise laws relating to protective care | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/31/2025 |
| SB82 | Establish adjustment to blindness program | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/05/2025 |
| SB85 | Establish a vending machine account in the special revenue fund | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/10/2025 |
| SB86 | Generally revise automatic external defibrillator (AED) program laws | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/31/2025 |
| SB88 | Revise laws related to the publication process of certificate of need letters of intent | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 01/31/2025 |
| SB95 | Provide funding for suicide prevention | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/24/2025 |
| SB112 | Revise laws related to state purchase of opioid antagonists | Dead | 02/05/2025 |
| SB144 | Change name of mental health advisory council to behavioral health advisory council | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/05/2025 |
| SB147 | Generally revise Montana Indian child welfare laws | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/26/2025 |
| SB170 | Eliminate termination date of community health aide program | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/12/2025 |
| SB180 | Generally revise laws related to the determination of the best interests of the child in custody and adoption proceedings | Dead | 03/04/2025 |
| SB191 | Provide for the licensure of residential treatment centers | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/13/2025 |
| SB194 | Eliminate the board of public assistance | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/05/2025 |
| SB206 | Generally revise laws related to child abuse and neglect proceedings and investigations | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/22/2025 |
| SB211 | Revise emergency use of epinephrine in school setting to include nasal spray | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/13/2025 |
| SB231 | Require department of public health and human services to file attachments to affidavit in child abuse or neglect proceedings | Dead | 03/05/2025 |
| SB248 | Provide that legislator access to CPS records includes drug testing results | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/22/2025 |
| SB249 | Revise child abuse and neglect laws involving adjudication | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/22/2025 |
| SB251 | Establish confidentiality for child and family ombudsman | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/27/2025 |
| SB256 | Generally revise child abuse and neglect laws | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/22/2025 |
| SB272 | Create rules of conduct for child protection specialists | Dead | 02/26/2025 |
| SB296 | Enhance penalty for crime against vulnerable person | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/03/2025 |
| SB300 | Providing protections for service dogs and handlers | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/05/2025 |
| SB319 | Generally revise health care laws related to doulas | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/27/2025 |
| SB354 | Prohibit purchase of soft drinks and candy with SNAP benefits | Dead | 03/07/2025 |
| SB390 | Revise definitions in clean indoor air act | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/17/2025 |
| SB412 | Provide for fee waivers of government documents to former foster children | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/19/2025 |
| SB435 | Generally revise laws related to mentally ill individuals | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/07/2025 |
| SB464 | Revise laws related to appointment of special advocates in abuse and neglect cases | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/17/2025 |
| SB466 | Establish factors when determining best interest of child | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/17/2025 |
| SB468 | Establish central registry for individuals who are the subject of a substantiated report of child abuse or neglect | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/17/2025 |
| SB503 | Allow use of expired opioid antagonists | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/17/2025 |
| SB516 | Update licensing requirements for facilities licensed by the department of public health and human services | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/17/2025 |
| SB524 | Revise laws relating to category D assisted living facilities | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/17/2025 |
| SB535 | Revise laws related to experimental treatments | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/07/2025 |
| SB560 | Provide for a hospital community benefit fee | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/07/2025 |
| SB563 | Creating the Montana Bridge to Medical Residency Act | Dead | 04/07/2025 |
| SB565 | Creating the Montana endowment for early childhood and related structure | Dead | 04/07/2025 |
| SJ13 | Study resolution for emergency medical services | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/03/2025 |
| SJ29 | Interim study resolution on coordinating efforts between OPI and DPHHS in addressing the impacts on children of prenatal exposure to meth and fentanyl | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/23/2025 |
| SJ30 | Study the child abuse and neglect registry | Dead | 04/25/2025 |
| SJ31 | Interim study of mandatory reporting | Dead | 04/25/2025 |
| SJ32 | Study citizen's review board law for child protective service cases | Dead | 04/25/2025 |
| SJ34 | Interim study of child care | Dead | 04/25/2025 |
| SJ36 | Study dependent neglect standards for prosecutors | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/25/2025 |
| SJ37 | Interim survey of behavioral health services in Montana | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/25/2025 |