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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revise administration of property tax exemptions"
+description: "Revise administration of property tax exemptions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 29"
+citation: "Montana HB 29 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Rule Making", "Taxation", "Taxation--Property", "Taxation--Property"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sherry Essmann"]
+version_count: 31
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-09-04T17:51:48+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-03-04T21:57:53+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2092a2c1-b2a0-49ae-933d-b43a8d5f4298"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0078?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "c053956fd33910df9ed8c92607adf0cc3e0f91397df976fc4cb7e1ed7459eb8a"
+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 29 (2025) — Revise administration of property tax exemptions
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB0029_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272869)
+2. **HB0029_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275384)
+3. **HB0029_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276432)
+4. **HB0029_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276889)
+5. **HB0029_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284073)
+6. **HB0029_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284074)
+7. **HB0029_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267221)
+8. **HB0029_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284076)
+9. **HB0029_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284121)
+10. **HB0029_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284700)
+11. **HB0029_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284701)
+12. **HB0029_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284708)
+13. **HB0029_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284709)
+14. **HB0029_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292351)
+15. **HB0029_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292352)
+16. **HB0029_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284075)
+17. **HB0029_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294450)
+18. **HB0029_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321312)
+19. **HB0029_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324576)
+20. **HB0029_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325583)
+21. **HB0029_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327236)
+22. **HB0029_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295341)
+23. **HB0029_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297361)
+24. **HB0029_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297367)
+25. **HB0029_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297368)
+26. **HB0029_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297370)
+27. **HB0029_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310571)
+28. **HB0029_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316533)
+29. **HB0029_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320141)
+30. **HB0029_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294172)
+31. **LC0078.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=265464)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Concur — **46–4** (pass) · upper
+- do_pass — **21–0** (pass) · lower
+- be_concurred_in — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **48–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sherry Essmann — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-09-04T17:51:48+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2024-09-10T17:38:43+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2024-09-13T12:17:58+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2024-09-26T18:30:53+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2024-11-07T19:37:36+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2024-11-15T22:11:03+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2024-11-18T19:45:30+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2024-12-06T22:38:52+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2024-12-06T22:40:22+00:00** (H) Introduced
+- **2024-12-18T20:47:17+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
+- **2024-12-20T22:11:18+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-06T17:28:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-07T01:37:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Taxation
+- **2025-01-07T15:49:37+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
+- **2025-01-08T18:05:50+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
+- **2025-01-08T19:24:39+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
+- **2025-01-14T19:28:32+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Taxation `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-14T20:11:06+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Taxation `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-17T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-17T20:14:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-01-20T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-01-20T21:34:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-20T22:34:51+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
+- **2025-01-21T16:20:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-21T16:24:02+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-23T18:57:59+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Taxation
+- **2025-01-29T17:28:00+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Taxation
+- **2025-01-29T22:34:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Taxation
+- **2025-02-15T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-15T17:17:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-02-18T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-18T22:30:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-18T22:30:55+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-02-20T10:22:00+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-02-26T16:46:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-02-26T18:54:59+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-02-26T19:30:20+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-04T20:44:48+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-04T21:57:53+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/2092a2c1-b2a0-49ae-933d-b43a8d5f4298`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+