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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revise criteria for cultural and arts grant program"
+description: "Revise criteria for cultural and arts grant program"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 757"
+citation: "Montana HB 757 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Arts"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["John Fitzpatrick"]
+version_count: 21
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-12-10T14:46:16+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-05-19T20:26:36+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85ccec67-91e0-4291-9e03-f9ef80b6c599"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2597?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "547ae383b631dc3aa03d62ff9b33a794b6660c87dbc80a6ece838a71dfc01c1f"
+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 757 (2025) — Revise criteria for cultural and arts grant program
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB0757.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289153)
+2. **HB0757_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287592)
+3. **HB0757_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293935)
+4. **HB0757_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294031)
+5. **HB0757_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301290)
+6. **HB0757_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302975)
+7. **HB0757_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315423)
+8. **HB0757_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315424)
+9. **HB0757_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287289)
+10. **HB0757_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315426)
+11. **HB0757_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326647)
+12. **HB0757_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317285)
+13. **HB0757_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318083)
+14. **HB0757_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318084)
+15. **HB0757_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320932)
+16. **HB0757_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324389)
+17. **HB0757_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325216)
+18. **HB0757_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325217)
+19. **HB0757_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325218)
+20. **HB0757_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315425)
+21. **LC2597.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286171)
+
+## Votes
+
+- do_pass — **17–6** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **40–5** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **62–37** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **58–41** (pass) · lower
+- be_concurred_in — **22–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **40–10** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- John Fitzpatrick — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-12-10T14:46:16+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2024-12-10T14:46:16+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
+- **2025-02-17T23:31:43+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
+- **2025-02-18T16:53:37+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-02-18T19:58:10+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-02-22T22:30:41+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-02-24T00:09:16+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-02-24T02:16:04+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-02-24T18:16:51+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-02-25T16:20:52+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-02-25T17:48:16+00:00** (H) Introduced
+- **2025-02-25T18:47:10+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-25T20:06:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-25T21:46:07+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Appropriations
+- **2025-02-27T23:40:27+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-28T20:33:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-06T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-06T22:43:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-07T17:27:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
+- **2025-03-15T00:37:27+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-18T22:42:43+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Finance and Claims `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01T22:15:36+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Finance and Claims
+- **2025-04-02T17:19:46+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Finance and Claims
+- **2025-04-02T19:43:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Finance and Claims
+- **2025-04-18T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-18T18:30:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-22T18:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-22T20:30:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-22T20:30:37+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-27T14:51:52+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-05-02T17:30:49+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-05-06T20:00:43+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-05-07T15:03:52+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-13T19:23:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-19T20:26:36+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/85ccec67-91e0-4291-9e03-f9ef80b6c599`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+