# Montana HB 707: Require Corrections to consider inmate family connections during placement

Montana HB 707, Require Corrections to consider inmate family connections during placement, is a 69th Legislature, Regular Session (2025) House bill sponsored by Jane Gillette (Republican); status signed, last action 2025-05-13 (Chapter Number Assigned) (as of 2026-10-12).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MT-HB707-2025
- 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 707
- State: Montana
- Session: 69th Legislature, Regular Session (2025)
- Title: Require Corrections to consider inmate family connections during placement
- Status: signed
- Chamber: House
- Introduced: 2025-02-24
- Last action: 2025-05-13, Chapter Number Assigned
- Sponsor: Jane Gillette (Republican)
- Cosponsors: 1
- Subjects: Courts, Judges and Justices, Corrections, Family Law
- Touches household money: no
- Roll calls: 4 (284 yes, 10 no in all)
- Economic provisions PRIA read: 2

## Summary

No summary available.

## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read

- Keep family ties in out-of-state transfers: benefit, low. The Department of Corrections must consider an inmate’s ties to family before placing or moving them to a prison outside Montana. The agency must weigh how the person can keep contact with family. The law does not set a formula for measuring family ties.
- Emergency rules for prison overcrowding and housing: mixed, medium. If a prison or the state system stays over its emergency capacity for 30 straight days, the director may declare an emergency. The department can pause new admissions to that prison or system until the population falls to 95% or less of emergency capacity. Inmates stay in department custody and are…

## Sponsors and cosponsors

- Sponsor: Jane Gillette (Republican), House
- Cosponsor: Barry Usher (Republican), Senate

## Roll call votes

| Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2025-04-14 | Senate | Do Concur | pass | 46 | 2 |   |
| 2025-04-12 | Senate | Do Concur | pass | 48 | 1 |   |
| 2025-03-07 | House | Do Pass | pass | 95 | 4 |   |
| 2025-03-06 | House | Do Pass | pass | 95 | 3 |   |

## Actions (25)

- 2025-05-13: Chapter Number Assigned (House)
- 2025-05-08: Signed by Governor (House)
- 2025-05-01: Transmitted to Governor (House)
- 2025-05-01: Signed by President (Senate)
- 2025-04-29: Signed by Speaker (House)
- 2025-04-15: Returned from Enrolling (House)
- 2025-04-14: Sent to Enrolling (House)
- 2025-04-14: 3rd Reading (Senate)
- 2025-04-12: 2nd Reading (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: Committee Report (Senate)
- 2025-04-09: Committee Executive Action (Senate)
- 2025-04-07: Hearing (Senate)
- 2025-03-28: Hearing Canceled (Senate)
- 2025-03-20: Hearing (Senate)
- 2025-03-17: Referred to Committee (Senate)
- 2025-03-14: 1st Reading (Senate)
- 2025-03-07: Transmitted to Senate (House)
- 2025-03-07: 3rd Reading (House)
- 2025-03-06: 2nd Reading (House)
- 2025-03-01: Committee Report (House)
- 2025-03-01: Committee Executive Action (House)
- 2025-02-25: Hearing (House)
- 2025-02-25: 1st Reading (House)
- 2025-02-25: Referred to Committee (House)
- 2025-02-24: Introduced (House)

## Bill text

- Enrolled, 2025-04-14: [PDF](https://docs.legmt.gov/download-ticket?ticketId=abd9d25b-5cc9-4338-92d2-1ee1f4593e43)
- Introduced, 2025-02-24: [PDF](https://docs.legmt.gov/download-ticket?ticketId=d5600fc5-b625-4071-919d-8c705e8b4ff8)

## 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 424: Revising the disabled veteran property tax assistance program (vetoed)
- SB 422: Generally revise laws relating to insurance coverage relating to cancer (vetoed)

## Sources
- [Enrolled (PDF)](https://docs.legmt.gov/download-ticket?ticketId=abd9d25b-5cc9-4338-92d2-1ee1f4593e43)
- [Introduced (PDF)](https://docs.legmt.gov/download-ticket?ticketId=d5600fc5-b625-4071-919d-8c705e8b4ff8)

## 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 424: Revising the disabled veteran property tax assistance program](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MT-SB424-2025)
- [SB 422: Generally revise laws relating to insurance coverage relating to cancer](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MT-SB422-2025)
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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/MT-HB707-2025 (as of 2026-10-12).