Montana State Legislature
Legislative Finance Committee 2025 Biennium
Legislative Finance Committee
2025 Biennium
NEXT MEETING:
Management Advisory Workgroup (MAW)
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Location: MT State Capitol
Legislative Finance Committee (LFC)
Date: December 14, 2023
Time: 8:30 AM
Location: MT State Capitol
FUTURE MEETINGS:
March 14, 2024 // June 20, 2024 // September 12, 2024 // December 12, 2024
September 14, 2023
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Agenda
- Fiscal Report: Statewide Perspectives
- FYE 2023 Report Overview
- Federal COVID/IIJA Funding Summary Report
- Budget Amendment Report
- OBPP Budget Amendment Memo
- State Information Technology Services Division
- LFC Workplan
June 16, 2023
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Agenda
- LFD Web Statistics Memo (2023 Session)
- Budget Amendments Report (September 2022 - May 31, 2023)
- OBPP Budget Modifications Memo
- IT Project Portfolio Quarterly Report (June 2023)
- IT Project Portfolio Dashboard
- CIO Report Q3 (SITSD, January 1 - March 30, 2023)
- Miles City Data Center Q&A
May 19, 2023
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Agenda
- Role of the LFC
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Proposed Rules for LFC
- Adopted Rules for LFC (adopted May 19, 2023)
LFC REQUIRED REPORTS
- September, 2023
- 5-12-208 MCA Grant Reporting
- Department of Administration
- Department of Public Health & Human Services
- Montana University System
- Office of Budget & Program Planning
- Excess Cash Memo (FY 2023)
- Excess Fund Balance Report (FYE 2023)
- HB 146 Annual Report Memo to LFC (FYE 2023)
- HB 146 Annual Report to Legislature (FY 2023)
- HB 251 Quarterly Report (Q4, FY 2023)
- Public Service Announcements Memo (FYE 2023)
- Public Service Announcements Compiled Data (FYE 2023)
- Office of Public Instruction
- June, 2023
HB 358 QUARTERLY CLAIM REPORTS
- Quarter 2 Ending September 30, 2023
- Quarter 1 Ending June 30, 2023
Minutes and meeting videos will be uploaded once available.
Committee Members
- Rep Terry Falk
- Rep Eric Matthews
- Rep Llew Jones
- Rep David Bedey
- Rep Mary Caferro
- Rep Jim Hamilton
- Senator Tom McGillvray
- Senator Janet Ellis
- Senator Christopher Pope
- Senator Shane Morigeau
- Senator Carl Glimm
- Senator John Esp
Ex Officio
- Rep Terry Moore
- Rep Bob Keenan
- Rep Jerry Schillinger
- Rep Bill Mercer
- Rep Mike Hopkins
The Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) is a permanent joint administrative committee of the Montana Legislature. Administrative committees are created by state law to manage the administrative functions of the Legislative Branch; the LFC oversees the Legislative Fiscal Division.
The LFC meets during the interim between sessions to review fiscal issues. Meeting agendas, minutes, and reports will be added to this website as they become available.
To find out how vacancies are filled, what the powers and duties of the committee are, and other details associated with the LFC, see the Montana Code Annotated, Title 5, Chapter 12, Part 2.
"Section 10. Study of state budget process and personal services expenditures -- appropriation. (1) During the 2025 biennium interim, a subcommittee a working group composed of members from of the legislative finance committee, the legislative fiscal division, and the office of budget and program planning shall jointly study the process by which the state budgets for personal services conduct a study on the state budgeting process."
Continue reading about the state budget process and personal services study in HB 424.

