2025 Montana Legislative Session

The 2025 Montana Legislative session is underway, bringing significant updates and changes to how citizens engage with the legislative process. With the opening of the session came updates to the bill tracking system and procedures for signing up to testify remotely. Keep reading to learn more about these developments and how you can stay involved.

At PCEC, we rely on our conservation partners in Helena to monitor key bills that affect environmental laws, land use, civil rights, wildlife management, energy, and water. Throughout the session, we will reach out to keep you informed about pressing issues and opportunities to take action.

To better serve you, we’d love your input on how you prefer to receive legislative updates and how you might like to engage. Please take a few minutes to fill out our 2025 legislative survey. 

We are closely collaborating with partners such as the Montana Environmental Information Center and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition to monitor laws that could impact us here in Park County. Additionally, PCEC is working alongside the Park High Green Initiative and Families for a Livable Climate to advocate for climate action and empower youth voices in this process.

If you're looking for more detailed information, we recommend following Montana Free Press, as well as the following nonprofits:

Montana Environmental Information Center

MEIC is a leading environmental voice in Helena, offering tools and resources to help you navigate the legislative process. Check out their legislative session webpage, the Legislative Toolkit will help you navigate the new Montana Legislative system to get you registered to testify from home or submit written comments. They also have a helpful bill tracker.

The easiest way to stay up-to-date is MEIC’s weekly legislative updates on Thursdays at 4:30 p.m. on Zoom.  You can view past recordings here.

Northern Plains Resource Council

Northern Plains is a leader in the state when it comes to clean energy, agriculture and quality of life, and we highly recommend following them for more information on those issues. You can see their legislative guide here.

Northern Plains also has a bill tracker available here.

Forward Montana

Forward Montana is publishing weekly blogs called "What the Helena" to help you keep you up-to-date on how proposed bills would affect young Montanans.

You can also listen to the "What the Helena" podcast.

Thank you for your commitment to protecting our community and environment. We look forward to collaborating with you throughout this legislative session.