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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revise local government public notice and resolution requirements"
+description: "Revise local government public notice and resolution requirements"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 394"
+citation: "Montana HB 394 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Cities and Towns", "City Officers", "Counties", "Local Government"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Larry Brewster"]
+version_count: 42
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2024-12-07T22:17:41+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-05-05T15:10:55+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b42a6040-bd0a-4981-bf51-f04a51efcaa1"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2263?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "c3ad5ee8398a507bb723f96ebcacf34103491c6db1c644932bae337a4df3c7d4"
+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 394 (2025) — Revise local government public notice and resolution requirements
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB0394.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283507)
+2. **HB0394.002.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301159)
+3. **HB0394.002.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301166)
+4. **HB0394_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279622)
+5. **HB0394_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284337)
+6. **HB0394_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284338)
+7. **HB0394_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284339)
+8. **HB0394_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284340)
+9. **HB0394_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279110)
+10. **HB0394_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284343)
+11. **HB0394_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284346)
+12. **HB0394_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284348)
+13. **HB0394_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284362)
+14. **HB0394_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284365)
+15. **HB0394_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284384)
+16. **HB0394_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286861)
+17. **HB0394_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301895)
+18. **HB0394_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302173)
+19. **HB0394_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284342)
+20. **HB0394_3(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302275)
+21. **HB0394_3(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302277)
+22. **HB0394_3(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302278)
+23. **HB0394_3(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302283)
+24. **HB0394_3(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306049)
+25. **HB0394_3(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311206)
+26. **HB0394_3(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311207)
+27. **HB0394_3.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302171)
+28. **HB0394_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311209)
+29. **HB0394_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321442)
+30. **HB0394_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321443)
+31. **HB0394_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324645)
+32. **HB0394_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326533)
+33. **HB0394_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311210)
+34. **HB0394_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311447)
+35. **HB0394_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311448)
+36. **HB0394_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311449)
+37. **HB0394_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311690)
+38. **HB0394_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317049)
+39. **HB0394_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320616)
+40. **HB0394_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321441)
+41. **HB0394_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311208)
+42. **LC2263.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=278688)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- be_concurred_in_as_amended — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- do_pass_as_amended — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Larry Brewster — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-12-07T22:17:41+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2025-01-31T16:21:03+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-02-01T03:17:05+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-02-04T15:45:49+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-02-04T17:23:23+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-02-04T19:34:03+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-02-05T14:33:07+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-02-05T18:51:35+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-02-05T19:06:19+00:00** (H) Introduced
+- **2025-02-06T17:55:00+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-06T20:19:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-10T17:22:51+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Local Government
+- **2025-02-19T00:01:30+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-19T20:20:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-22T17:04:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-02-24T22:07:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-24T22:29:07+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
+- **2025-03-03T18:22:25+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-16T18:53:58+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Local Government
+- **2025-03-31T23:27:21+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended - (S) Local Government
+- **2025-04-01T19:17:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred as Amended - (S) Local Government
+- **2025-04-05T14:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-05T15:21:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-07T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-07T21:46:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-07T23:51:14+00:00** (S) Returned to House with Amendments
+- **2025-04-14T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-14T20:28:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Senate Amendments Concurred `amendment-amendment, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-15T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-15T20:37:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed as Amended by Senate `passage, passage, reading-3, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-15T22:10:37+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-16T04:32:06+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-04-18T20:50:00+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`
+- **2025-05-05T15:10:55+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/b42a6040-bd0a-4981-bf51-f04a51efcaa1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+