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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revising laws related to professional licensing injunctions and penalties"
+description: "Revising laws related to professional licensing injunctions and penalties"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 296"
+citation: "Montana HB 296 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts", "Professions and Occupations Generally", "Remedies"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ron Marshall"]
+version_count: 15
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-10-04T19:11:22+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-05-05T14:05:49+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/531d1397-1dac-4c10-a582-7506c5121fb3"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0456?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "0069df80abe5c276e4f9c9cf77017ff72bda0872c3e1a254f7a455e49ef7a783"
+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 296 (2025) — Revising laws related to professional licensing injunctions and penalties
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB0296_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273768)
+2. **HB0296_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273956)
+3. **HB0296_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275495)
+4. **HB0296_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276541)
+5. **HB0296_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279842)
+6. **HB0296_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295446)
+7. **HB0296_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308280)
+8. **HB0296_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308282)
+9. **HB0296_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273767)
+10. **HB0296_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316815)
+11. **HB0296_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320391)
+12. **HB0296_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324625)
+13. **HB0296_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325823)
+14. **HB0296_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310875)
+15. **LC0456.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270870)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Pass — **96–4** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **97–2** (pass) · lower
+- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
+- be_concurred_in — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **44–6** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **45–3** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ron Marshall — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-10-04T19:11:22+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2024-10-04T19:11:23+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
+- **2024-12-31T19:15:12+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-01-08T19:22:33+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-01-10T21:34:04+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-01-13T17:15:02+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-01-13T23:10:18+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-01-14T16:16:04+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-01-23T17:13:22+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-01-23T17:28:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
+- **2025-01-23T18:51:42+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-23T20:08:27+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-28T14:17:47+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
+- **2025-01-30T18:19:54+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-30T18:22:35+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-31T20:27:07+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-04T21:07:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Pass Consideration `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-05T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-05T21:30:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-02-06T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-06T21:55:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-06T23:01:58+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
+- **2025-02-07T20:22:10+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-14T18:59:41+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-27T21:20:51+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
+- **2025-03-02T18:24:05+00:00** (S) Hearing Canceled - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
+- **2025-03-07T23:19:28+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
+- **2025-03-15T16:32:12+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
+- **2025-03-19T17:44:29+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
+- **2025-03-20T21:48:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
+- **2025-04-09T00:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-09T00:26:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-10T18:04:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-10T18:05:07+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-11T12:51:02+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`
+- **2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-05T14:05:49+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/531d1397-1dac-4c10-a582-7506c5121fb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+