# Montana HB 129: Provide income tax benefit to support emergency response volunteers Montana HB 129, Provide income tax benefit to support emergency response volunteers, is a 69th Legislature, Regular Session (2025) House bill sponsored by Llew Jones (Republican); status signed, last action 2025-05-16 (Chapter Number Assigned); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-12). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MT-HB129-2025 - As of: 2026-10-12 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Montana HB 129 - State: Montana - Session: 69th Legislature, Regular Session (2025) - Title: Provide income tax benefit to support emergency response volunteers - Status: signed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2025-01-07 - Last action: 2025-05-16, Chapter Number Assigned - Sponsor: Llew Jones (Republican) - Cosponsors: 1 - Subjects: Emergency Services, Taxation--Individual Income, Fires and Fire Protection, Revenue, State, Taxation - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 6 (312 yes, 87 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 2 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - New $3,000 tax break for volunteer responders: benefit, high. Beginning with tax year 2026, qualified volunteer firefighters and volunteer emergency care providers can subtract $3,000 when figuring Montana income tax. You must be an active, unpaid member of the same Montana volunteer fire company or the same EMS service for the entire calendar year. You must… - Yearly inflation raises senior and volunteer tax breaks: benefit, low. Montana adjusts the age‑65 subtraction and the volunteer subtraction each year for inflation. The Department of Revenue does the calculation by November 1 and rounds to the nearest $10. The new amounts apply for that tax year. The inflation increase for the volunteer subtraction applies to tax year… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Llew Jones (Republican), House - Cosponsor: Wendy McKamey (Republican), Senate ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-04-24 | Senate | Do Concur | pass | 32 | 18 | | | 2025-04-23 | Senate | Place on Third Reading-Kassmier | pass | 28 | 22 | | | 2025-04-23 | Senate | Take HB 129 from Comm-Kassmier | pass | 26 | 23 | | | 2025-04-17 | Senate | Do Concur | pass | 32 | 18 | | | 2025-02-05 | House | Do Pass | pass | 96 | 4 | | | 2025-01-28 | House | Do Pass | pass | 98 | 2 | | ## Actions (33) - 2025-05-16: Chapter Number Assigned (House) - 2025-05-12: Signed by Governor (House) - 2025-05-05: Transmitted to Governor (House) - 2025-05-02: Signed by President (Senate) - 2025-05-01: Signed by Speaker (House) - 2025-04-28: Returned from Enrolling (House) - 2025-04-24: Sent to Enrolling (House) - 2025-04-24: 3rd Reading (Senate) - 2025-04-23: Motion (Senate) - 2025-04-23: Take from Committee; Place on 2nd Reading (Senate) - 2025-04-17: Rereferred to Committee (Senate) - 2025-04-17: 2nd Reading (Senate) - 2025-04-16: Committee Report (Senate) - 2025-04-16: Committee Executive Action (Senate) - 2025-03-12: Hearing (Senate) - 2025-02-20: Referred to Committee (Senate) - 2025-02-06: 1st Reading (Senate) - 2025-02-05: Transmitted to Senate (House) - 2025-02-05: 3rd Reading (House) - 2025-02-04: Committee Report (House) - 2025-02-03: Committee Executive Action (House) - 2025-01-29: Hearing (House) - 2025-01-28: Rereferred to Committee (House) - 2025-01-28: 2nd Reading (House) - 2025-01-17: Committee Report (House) - 2025-01-17: Committee Executive Action (House) - 2025-01-14: Fiscal Note Printed (House) - 2025-01-13: Fiscal Note Received (House) - 2025-01-10: Hearing (House) - 2025-01-08: 1st Reading (House) - 2025-01-08: Referred to Committee (House) - 2025-01-07: Fiscal Note Requested (House) - 2025-01-07: Introduced (House) ## Bill text - Enrolled, 2025-04-25: [PDF](https://docs.legmt.gov/download-ticket?ticketId=7c15b0aa-271b-4a86-a56d-d8d1a550547f) - Introduced, 2025-01-07: [PDF](https://docs.legmt.gov/download-ticket?ticketId=ae72620c-7b7f-4c96-b7fd-05ac067125f8) ## Related bills - SB 437: Revise definition of sex in Montana law (signed) - HB 831: Increase elderly homeowner and renter income tax credit (vetoed) - HB 628: Revise early literacy targeted intervention laws (vetoed) - SB 410: Provide for Montana genomic security act (vetoed) - SB 422: Generally revise laws relating to insurance coverage relating to cancer (vetoed) - SB 424: Revising the disabled veteran property tax assistance program (vetoed) ## Sources - [Enrolled (PDF)](https://docs.legmt.gov/download-ticket?ticketId=7c15b0aa-271b-4a86-a56d-d8d1a550547f) - [Introduced (PDF)](https://docs.legmt.gov/download-ticket?ticketId=ae72620c-7b7f-4c96-b7fd-05ac067125f8) ## Related - [SB 437: Revise definition of sex in Montana law](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MT-SB437-2025) - [HB 831: Increase elderly homeowner and renter income tax credit](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MT-HB831-2025) - [HB 628: Revise early literacy targeted intervention laws](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MT-HB628-2025) - [SB 410: Provide for Montana genomic security act](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MT-SB410-2025) - [SB 422: Generally revise laws relating to insurance coverage relating to cancer](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MT-SB422-2025) - [SB 424: Revising the disabled veteran property tax assistance program](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MT-SB424-2025) - [Montana bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/montana/bills) - [Montana state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/montana) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MT-HB129-2025 (as of 2026-10-12).