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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Notaries not required for vehicle title transfer"
+description: "Notaries not required for vehicle title transfer"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 165"
+citation: "Montana HB 165 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Rule Making"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ken Walsh"]
+version_count: 18
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-11-06T21:03:09+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-04-07T14:48:14+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dd54fe54-222a-4f81-9959-5b329d07fbf2"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0890?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "43557e662bad691099059372eb4f594dc76dd180848928c7cf3b1a042ea408ca"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-mt"]
+---
+
+# Montana HB 165 (2025) — Notaries not required for vehicle title transfer
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB0165_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270691)
+2. **HB0165_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275177)
+3. **HB0165_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276244)
+4. **HB0165_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277147)
+5. **HB0165_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277265)
+6. **HB0165_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295639)
+7. **HB0165_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299383)
+8. **HB0165_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299384)
+9. **HB0165_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270553)
+10. **HB0165_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307789)
+11. **HB0165_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307790)
+12. **HB0165_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310821)
+13. **HB0165_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316763)
+14. **HB0165_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320342)
+15. **HB0165_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324194)
+16. **HB0165_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326006)
+17. **HB0165_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307788)
+18. **LC0890.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269390)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Pass — **92–8** (pass) · lower
+- be_concurred_in — **6–2** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **37–13** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **39–11** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **91–9** (pass) · lower
+- do_pass — **9–5** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ken Walsh — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-11-06T21:03:09+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2024-12-13T12:39:21+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2024-12-13T16:05:32+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2024-12-23T19:28:30+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2024-12-27T16:34:31+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2024-12-28T14:09:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2024-12-31T21:34:25+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-01-08T16:06:01+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-01-10T14:35:57+00:00** (H) Introduced
+- **2025-01-10T19:06:07+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-10T20:47:41+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-11T00:15:20+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Transportation
+- **2025-01-22T22:50:00+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Transportation `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-23T20:30:54+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Transportation `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-27T22:28:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Pass Consideration `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-28T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-28T20:16:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-01-29T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-01-29T21:43:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-29T22:19:26+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
+- **2025-01-30T21:48:49+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-18T18:40:59+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Highways and Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-20T15:39:47+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Highways and Transportation
+- **2025-03-19T22:44:54+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Highways and Transportation
+- **2025-03-20T21:43:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Highways and Transportation
+- **2025-03-24T23:31:55+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Pass Consideration `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-25T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-25T19:23:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-26T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-26T20:41:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-26T20:42:30+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-03-28T12:46:37+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-03-28T22:50:23+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-03-31T17:30:49+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-03-31T19:55:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-07T14:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-07T14:48:14+00:00** Chapter Number Assigned `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dd54fe54-222a-4f81-9959-5b329d07fbf2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+