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Senate Bill 99 is carried by Sen. John Fuller, R-Whitefish.

About $56 million is for bills from the fiscal year that's ending and $123 million is to cover unanticipated costs beyond what's in the state budget lawmakers are advancing. 

House Bill 2 is the state’s main budget bill. This session’s two-year spending package is $14.3 billion including both state and federal dollars. 

Senate Bill 99, from Republican Sen. John Fuller of Whitefish, has already passed the Senate and was debated Monday in a House committee.

A bill that would define sex in state law is poised to clear the Senate after it passed an initial vote Wednesday.

The Legislature this week worked through hearings for some legislation that would, if passed, ask voters to make changes to the state Constituion in the fall of 2024.

Montana lawmakers on Tuesday took an initial vote to provide 12 months of postpartum health care coverage for people covered by Medicaid.

Senate Bill 458 is from Sen. Carl Glimm, R-Kila. It would define sex based on sex organs and chromosomes.

Supporters of a change that would provide people with Medicaid coverage for 12 months after giving birth made their pleas to legislators to approve funding for the proposal.