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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Repeal county licensing of transient retail merchants"
+description: "Repeal county licensing of transient retail merchants"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 443"
+citation: "Montana HB 443 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Local Government"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Braxton Mitchell"]
+version_count: 36
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-11-27T19:25:13+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-05-05T15:56:31+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c1bfb06b-6ee5-408e-b531-5c8b736f1e86"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2006?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "ab67200470ee2d8399354fdfa209dd1cc97d649bb2868586503f622199171590"
+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 443 (2025) — Repeal county licensing of transient retail merchants
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB0443.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284689)
+2. **HB0443_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280898)
+3. **HB0443_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288499)
+4. **HB0443_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288500)
+5. **HB0443_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288501)
+6. **HB0443_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288502)
+7. **HB0443_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280497)
+8. **HB0443_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288504)
+9. **HB0443_2(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310151)
+10. **HB0443_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288512)
+11. **HB0443_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288513)
+12. **HB0443_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288586)
+13. **HB0443_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288592)
+14. **HB0443_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288606)
+15. **HB0443_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291810)
+16. **HB0443_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296917)
+17. **HB0443_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310149)
+18. **HB0443_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288503)
+19. **HB0443_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310157)
+20. **HB0443_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320563)
+21. **HB0443_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321487)
+22. **HB0443_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321488)
+23. **HB0443_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321489)
+24. **HB0443_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324661)
+25. **HB0443_X(15).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326446)
+26. **HB0443_X(16).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327638)
+27. **HB0443_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310158)
+28. **HB0443_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310381)
+29. **HB0443_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310382)
+30. **HB0443_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310383)
+31. **HB0443_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310386)
+32. **HB0443_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310387)
+33. **HB0443_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311100)
+34. **HB0443_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316994)
+35. **HB0443_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310152)
+36. **LC2006.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279074)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Pass — **63–35** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **47–1** (pass) · upper
+- do_pass_as_amended — **16–1** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **67–33** (pass) · lower
+- be_concurred_in — **8–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **44–6** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Braxton Mitchell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-11-27T19:25:13+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2025-02-03T15:22:04+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-02-03T16:54:42+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-02-05T17:43:42+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-02-05T19:16:39+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-02-05T20:53:54+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-02-06T14:46:49+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-02-10T19:38:39+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-02-10T19:45:32+00:00** (H) Introduced
+- **2025-02-11T17:40:30+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-11T18:27:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Local Government
+- **2025-02-11T20:01:28+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-13T18:51:48+00:00** (H) Hearing Canceled - (H) Local Government
+- **2025-02-17T19:04:27+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Local Government
+- **2025-02-26T00:30:37+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-26T20:33:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-01T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-01T21:46:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-03T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-03T22:09:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-03T23:19:11+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
+- **2025-03-04T20:26:40+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-05T00:53:05+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-05T16:51:11+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Local Government
+- **2025-03-21T21:55:52+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
+- **2025-03-24T20:35:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
+- **2025-04-12T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-12T17:44:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-14T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-14T17:55:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-14T17:56:20+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-15T16:33:16+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-04-23T22:30:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-25T13:30:00+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-04-25T17:55:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-05T15:56:31+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/c1bfb06b-6ee5-408e-b531-5c8b736f1e86`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+