Legislation: batch C — MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-668.md

@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revising alcohol law to prohibit certain licensees from offering gambling"
+description: "Revising alcohol law to prohibit certain licensees from offering gambling"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 668"
+citation: "Montana HB 668 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Gambling"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ed Buttrey"]
+version_count: 22
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-12-13T14:32:44+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-05-13T17:18:34+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d2431fd-13ce-48c5-b85a-8bdd8c7f8a83"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2998?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "1754e3c4e4b6e70b1ddec974095c2759f4ac09bea70784acf9ab0565c750075b"
+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 668 (2025) — Revising alcohol law to prohibit certain licensees from offering gambling
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB0668_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286032)
+2. **HB0668_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293881)
+3. **HB0668_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294106)
+4. **HB0668_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298851)
+5. **HB0668_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309747)
+6. **HB0668_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309751)
+7. **HB0668_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285955)
+8. **HB0668_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309753)
+9. **HB0668_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322444)
+10. **HB0668_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324876)
+11. **HB0668_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326721)
+12. **HB0668_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327748)
+13. **HB0668_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309755)
+14. **HB0668_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311017)
+15. **HB0668_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311480)
+16. **HB0668_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311481)
+17. **HB0668_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317022)
+18. **HB0668_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320590)
+19. **HB0668_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322442)
+20. **HB0668_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322443)
+21. **HB0668_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309752)
+22. **LC2998.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284621)
+
+## Votes
+
+- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **91–8** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **93–6** (pass) · lower
+- be_concurred_in — **11–1** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **33–15** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **31–18** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ed Buttrey — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-12-13T14:32:44+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2025-02-17T04:34:48+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-02-17T14:34:53+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-02-19T21:25:01+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-02-20T17:26:50+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-02-20T20:56:49+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-02-21T15:14:48+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-02-22T15:51:29+00:00** (H) Introduced
+- **2025-02-22T15:55:52+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
+- **2025-02-22T16:35:15+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-26T16:51:35+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
+- **2025-02-27T19:55:50+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-27T21:31:40+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
+- **2025-02-27T21:38:58+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
+- **2025-02-27T22:00:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
+- **2025-02-27T22:15:40+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-06T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-06T21:47:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-07T17:24:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
+- **2025-03-15T00:00:48+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-17T15:05:43+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-19T16:03:42+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
+- **2025-03-26T17:45:39+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
+- **2025-03-26T20:58:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
+- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-10T17:25:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-11T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11T21:42:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11T21:42:51+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-16T11:43:49+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-04-16T11:44:09+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-04-29T15:15:58+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-05-01T21:20:56+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-05-01T21:47:39+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-08T17:11:09+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-13T17:18:34+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/7d2431fd-13ce-48c5-b85a-8bdd8c7f8a83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+