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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Providing authority for municipalities to control unauthorized occupancy of municipal property"
+description: "Providing authority for municipalities to control unauthorized occupancy of municipal property"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 208"
+citation: "Montana HB 208 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Cities and Towns", "Local Government"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Greg Overstreet"]
+version_count: 30
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-11-27T20:12:13+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-05-06T03:27:18+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0a227457-d449-468d-8ba5-5af21b8ca925"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2028?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "72525315ebd080670c4221d5e48dfbae9086ac69ab0e345bdcf1316d257cbe42"
+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 208 (2025) — Providing authority for municipalities to control unauthorized occupancy of municipal property
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB0208.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=278757)
+2. **HB0208_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271787)
+3. **HB0208_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275250)
+4. **HB0208_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276308)
+5. **HB0208_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280108)
+6. **HB0208_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280109)
+7. **HB0208_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280110)
+8. **HB0208_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280111)
+9. **HB0208_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271648)
+10. **HB0208_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280114)
+11. **HB0208_2(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301918)
+12. **HB0208_2(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307806)
+13. **HB0208_2(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307808)
+14. **HB0208_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280124)
+15. **HB0208_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280125)
+16. **HB0208_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280158)
+17. **HB0208_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280161)
+18. **HB0208_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280164)
+19. **HB0208_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282626)
+20. **HB0208_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282847)
+21. **HB0208_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282848)
+22. **HB0208_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280112)
+23. **HB0208_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316819)
+24. **HB0208_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320395)
+25. **HB0208_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324613)
+26. **HB0208_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326458)
+27. **HB0208_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327010)
+28. **HB0208_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327869)
+29. **HB0208_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310879)
+30. **LC2028.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270661)
+
+## Votes
+
+- be_concurred_in — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **79–21** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **43–6** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **77–17** (pass) · lower
+- do_pass_as_amended — **16–1** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **38–11** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Greg Overstreet — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-11-27T20:12:13+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2025-01-03T18:28:47+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-01-09T17:35:05+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-01-10T18:13:55+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-01-10T22:34:53+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-01-11T15:35:14+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-01-14T15:08:53+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-01-14T18:53:54+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-01-15T14:46:52+00:00** (H) Introduced
+- **2025-01-15T18:05:30+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-15T20:09:31+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-17T19:44:29+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Local Government
+- **2025-02-06T22:21:25+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-06T22:37:38+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-07T20:22:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-13T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-13T20:23:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-02-14T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-14T21:08:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-14T21:37:16+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
+- **2025-02-15T15:30:46+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-21T17:49:36+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-16T18:53:57+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Local Government
+- **2025-03-31T23:15:37+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
+- **2025-04-01T19:15:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
+- **2025-04-08T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-08T20:04:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-09T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-09T19:26:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-09T19:28:11+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-11T13:37:21+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-04-18T21:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-22T13:30:24+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-04-22T18:10:24+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-01T21:03:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-06T03:27:18+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/0a227457-d449-468d-8ba5-5af21b8ca925`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+