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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Establish a contingent litigation fund for occupational licensing boards and programs"
+description: "Establish a contingent litigation fund for occupational licensing boards and programs"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 227"
+citation: "Montana HB 227 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Appropriations", "Labor and Employment", "Revenue", "State", "Rule Making"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jodee Etchart"]
+version_count: 20
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-09-27T14:15:59+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-04-17T17:36:24+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61e42531-a967-493c-8966-c6b59b6a0c13"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0421?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "4f424963bc1dfb4ec0cbc7f988da6daed855f73366e9193c1dec57081c5ec4c1"
+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 227 (2025) — Establish a contingent litigation fund for occupational licensing boards and programs
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB0227_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272224)
+2. **HB0227_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275312)
+3. **HB0227_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276366)
+4. **HB0227_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=278535)
+5. **HB0227_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282596)
+6. **HB0227_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282598)
+7. **HB0227_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295424)
+8. **HB0227_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302816)
+9. **HB0227_1(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302817)
+10. **HB0227_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271876)
+11. **HB0227_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316427)
+12. **HB0227_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316428)
+13. **HB0227_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316429)
+14. **HB0227_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317378)
+15. **HB0227_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320840)
+16. **HB0227_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324327)
+17. **HB0227_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325768)
+18. **HB0227_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327319)
+19. **HB0227_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310678)
+20. **LC0421.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269817)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Concur — **35–15** (pass) · upper
+- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **35–15** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **96–3** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **94–5** (pass) · lower
+- be_concurred_in — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jodee Etchart — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-09-27T14:15:59+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2024-09-27T14:15:59+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
+- **2024-12-31T18:27:29+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-01-01T17:13:17+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-01-06T15:38:51+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-01-08T15:39:28+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-01-09T21:20:12+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-01-10T22:31:20+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-01-13T23:56:19+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-01-15T22:19:40+00:00** (H) Introduced
+- **2025-01-15T22:20:59+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
+- **2025-01-16T18:34:40+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-16T20:07:18+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-20T20:51:40+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
+- **2025-01-27T19:06:04+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-27T20:38:36+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-27T22:07:32+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
+- **2025-01-27T22:07:51+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
+- **2025-01-28T13:15:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
+- **2025-01-28T20:25:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-31T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-31T21:13:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-02-03T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-03T21:40:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-03T22:43:46+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
+- **2025-02-04T20:18:43+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-18T18:56:44+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-25T20:22:16+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
+- **2025-03-19T17:37:32+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
+- **2025-03-20T21:45:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
+- **2025-03-31T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-31T20:35:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-01T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-01T21:21:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-01T21:21:42+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-03T05:12:05+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-04-07T18:00:24+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-09T17:30:28+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-04-09T19:50:28+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-16T13:16:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-17T17:36:24+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/61e42531-a967-493c-8966-c6b59b6a0c13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+