HJ 39 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Joint resolution protecting public lands.

House Joint Resolution 39 is a legislative statement from the Montana Legislature concerning public lands. The resolution supports keeping national public lands under the stewardship of the United States government and federal land management agencies. It expresses opposition to any efforts to sell, transfer, or dispose of national or state public lands. The resolution also encourages Montana's Governor, Attorney General, and Congressional Delegation to oppose future attempts to sell, transfer, or dispose of national public lands.
Bill status died 2 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2025
House Failed
Apr 2025
Governor
Introduced Mar 28, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025
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What changed between versions

LC2568.pdf HJ0039_1.pdf · 2 edits
MINOR
The bill was renumbered from LC 2568 to HJ 39 and reclassified as a 'House Joint Resolution' rather than a Senate-initiated bill. The substantive text regarding the protection of public lands remains unchanged, but the document now includes a new 'Authorized Print Version' header and page numbering format.
TECHNICAL

Bill number changed from LC 2568 to HJ 39 and the title was updated to reflect it is a House Joint Resolution.

Added 'Authorized Print Version' header and updated page numbering style to match the new bill number.

Floor votes · House Apr 2, 2025

How they voted

4448
Failed · 8 other
Total votes 100
Apr 2, 2025
D Democratic42
40 Yea 2
95% Yea
R Republican58
4 Yea 48 Nay 6
82% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
21
Key actions
0
Committee
1
Amendments
1
Apr 2, 2025
Vote failed
House Vote: fail (44-48-8)
house
Apr 2, 2025
Amended
(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) Natural Resources
lower
Mar 29, 2025
Committee
(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Natural Resources
lower
Mar 28, 2025
Introduced
(H) Introduced
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Photo of Josh Seckinger
Josh Seckinger
DDemocratic
MT
62