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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revise medicaid laws related to direct primary care"
+description: "Revise medicaid laws related to direct primary care"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 953"
+citation: "Montana HB 953 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Appropriations", "Health Care Services", "Professions and Occupations Generally"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ed Buttrey"]
+version_count: 30
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-10-04T19:00:19+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-05-16T21:01:51+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a83991f-f529-4aec-9b0e-8ea6d2377bf9"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0451?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "ad5d63e50e452cca0adc39b5d0c9ef82212d3f20c28629c4612f2133bf100a86"
+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 953 (2025) — Revise medicaid laws related to direct primary care
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB0953.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=303955)
+2. **HB0953.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-not condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304371)
+3. **HB0953_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301908)
+4. **HB0953_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304436)
+5. **HB0953_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304437)
+6. **HB0953_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304438)
+7. **HB0953_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304439)
+8. **HB0953_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301907)
+9. **HB0953_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304441)
+10. **HB0953_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304442)
+11. **HB0953_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304549)
+12. **HB0953_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304550)
+13. **HB0953_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304551)
+14. **HB0953_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304621)
+15. **HB0953_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306586)
+16. **HB0953_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317790)
+17. **HB0953_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317791)
+18. **HB0953_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304440)
+19. **HB0953_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317793)
+20. **HB0953_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327360)
+21. **HB0953_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318480)
+22. **HB0953_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318481)
+23. **HB0953_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320965)
+24. **HB0953_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323213)
+25. **HB0953_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323214)
+26. **HB0953_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323215)
+27. **HB0953_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325049)
+28. **HB0953_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325854)
+29. **HB0953_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317792)
+30. **LC0451.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299214)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Pass — **73–24** (pass) · lower
+- to_table — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **28–22** (pass) · upper
+- do_pass_as_amended — **18–3** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **78–22** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **31–19** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ed Buttrey — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-10-04T19:00:19+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2025-03-25T19:45:31+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-03-26T12:38:40+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-03-27T00:43:07+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-03-27T15:46:57+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-03-27T17:15:23+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-03-27T18:19:28+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-03-31T18:32:08+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-04-01T00:27:18+00:00** (H) Introduced
+- **2025-04-01T01:39:55+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
+- **2025-04-01T15:19:14+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01T19:14:18+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-03T12:59:39+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Human Services
+- **2025-04-03T23:24:18+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Human Services `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-04T00:30:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Human Services `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-07T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-08T00:23:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-08T13:41:05+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
+- **2025-04-08T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-08T19:43:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-08T20:44:22+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
+- **2025-04-08T21:29:25+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
+- **2025-04-09T13:36:37+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
+- **2025-04-10T16:23:52+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-15T17:35:46+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
+- **2025-04-17T00:51:30+00:00** (S) Tabled in Committee - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety `amendment-deferral`
+- **2025-04-18T22:36:00+00:00** (S) Rereferred to Committee - (S) Finance and Claims `referral-committee, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-22T21:41:00+00:00** (S) Taken from Committee; Placed on 2nd Reading - (S) Finance and Claims `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-23T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-23T19:23:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-24T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-24T22:24:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-24T22:24:41+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-28T21:18:05+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-05-01T18:30:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-05-02T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-05-05T16:05:54+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-13T20:21:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-16T21:01:51+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/5a83991f-f529-4aec-9b0e-8ea6d2377bf9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+