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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Repeal DLI commissioner signature requirement"
+description: "Repeal DLI commissioner signature requirement"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 54"
+citation: "Montana HB 54 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gary Parry"]
+version_count: 24
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-09-23T12:53:14+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-03-27T21:09:43+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c40fbca-211c-46b1-9533-564e4525c012"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0272?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "318b64f431dff30d65787bc87274cd09c5a2817b1de05536cf1490e0b2fdd83f"
+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 54 (2025) — Repeal DLI commissioner signature requirement
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB0054_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267603)
+2. **HB0054_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267604)
+3. **HB0054_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=274842)
+4. **HB0054_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275620)
+5. **HB0054_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276655)
+6. **HB0054_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285890)
+7. **HB0054_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291879)
+8. **HB0054_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267602)
+9. **HB0054_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291880)
+10. **HB0054_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291881)
+11. **HB0054_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291975)
+12. **HB0054_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291978)
+13. **HB0054_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291979)
+14. **HB0054_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291980)
+15. **HB0054_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291981)
+16. **HB0054_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291878)
+17. **HB0054_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310617)
+18. **HB0054_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316572)
+19. **HB0054_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320172)
+20. **HB0054_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324089)
+21. **HB0054_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325718)
+22. **HB0054_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327295)
+23. **HB0054_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295311)
+24. **LC0272.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=266803)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- do_pass — **19–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- be_concurred_in — **9–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gary Parry — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-09-23T12:53:14+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2024-12-06T17:51:23+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2024-12-06T18:01:29+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2024-12-06T18:42:08+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2024-12-09T18:11:08+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2024-12-09T22:27:30+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2024-12-10T19:21:48+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2024-12-11T15:50:45+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2024-12-11T16:00:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
+- **2024-12-18T20:48:41+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
+- **2024-12-20T22:12:15+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-06T17:52:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-07T01:58:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
+- **2025-01-07T15:09:58+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
+- **2025-01-07T19:13:48+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
+- **2025-01-07T23:47:47+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
+- **2025-01-10T20:25:00+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-10T20:44:47+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-13T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-13T20:13:01+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-01-14T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-01-14T21:14:01+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-14T21:30:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
+- **2025-01-15T20:15:01+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-16T17:29:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-04T16:50:00+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
+- **2025-02-04T20:44:08+00:00** (S) Hearing Canceled - (S) State Administration
+- **2025-02-17T17:46:52+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
+- **2025-02-22T00:37:15+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
+- **2025-02-24T20:21:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
+- **2025-03-01T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-01T16:44:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-03T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-03T22:18:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-03T22:19:15+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-03-05T21:59:59+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-03-17T13:30:56+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-03-18T13:15:18+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-03-18T16:15:15+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-27T19:58:02+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-27T21:09:43+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/9c40fbca-211c-46b1-9533-564e4525c012`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+