HELENA — Almost four months after the end of the Montana Legislature’s 2025 session, there’s still one bill that passed the Legislature but hasn’t become law or been vetoed: Senate Bill 437. Republican leaders say they’re delaying that bill on purpose, in an effort to keep it from being held up in court.

“By holding SB 437, we’re making sure this legislation has the strongest chance to stand,” House Speaker Rep. Brandon Ler, R-Savage, said Monday in a statement shared by House Republican staff. “We will not sit back while partisan judges try to erase what the people’s representatives have enacted.”

SB 437, sponsored by Sen. Carl Glimm, R-Kila, seeks to define a person’s sex as being either male or female and fixed at birth. It followed SB 458, a similar bill from Glimm in the 2023 legisl

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