SB 87 Montana Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Modify holidays for certain employees and create an annual floating holiday

SB 87 eliminates the state general election day as a paid holiday for legislative employees and creates an annual floating holiday for qualified legislative branch workers. It revises the definition of "holiday" in Montana law to clarify that legislative employees will receive one flexible paid day off each year (the "floating holiday") instead of observing election day. This change directly affects all legislative branch employees who meet eligibility requirements under the revised code. The bill modifies existing provisions in Montana Code Annotated sections 2-18-601 and 2-18-603 to implement these specific holiday schedule adjustments.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2024
Committee Review
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
House Passage
Mar 2025
Signed into Law
Apr 2025
Introduced Dec 27, 2024 Signed Apr 4, 2025
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Floor votes · Senate Feb 7, 2025 · House Mar 20, 2025

How they voted

454
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 50
Feb 7, 2025
D Democratic18
17 Yea 1
94% Yea
R Republican32
28 Yea 4 Nay
87% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
37
Key actions
9
Committee
6
Apr 3, 2025
Signed into law
(S) Signed by Governor
upper
Mar 27, 2025
Lower · Passed
(H) Signed by Speaker
lower
Mar 26, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Signed by President
upper
Mar 20, 2025
House · Passed
House Vote: pass (76-22-2)
house
Feb 21, 2025
Lower · Passed
(H) Committee Report - (H) Legislative Administration
lower
Feb 21, 2025
Lower · Passed
(H) Committee Executive Action - (H) Legislative Administration
lower
Feb 10, 2025
Committee
(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Legislative Administration
lower
Feb 7, 2025
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (45-4-1)
senate
Feb 4, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Committee Report - (S) Legislative Administration
upper
Feb 4, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Committee Executive Action - (S) Legislative Administration
upper
Jan 7, 2025
Committee
(S) Referred to Committee - (S) Legislative Administration
upper
Dec 27, 2024
Introduced
(S) Introduced
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Derek Harvey
Derek Harvey
DDemocratic
MT
37