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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revise workers' compensation insurance related to who may receive payments"
+description: "Revise workers' compensation insurance related to who may receive payments"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 338"
+citation: "Montana SB 338 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Workers' Compensation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Greg Hertz"]
+version_count: 15
+action_count: 42
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-11-22T17:33:27+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-04-17T19:52:18+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c487bd32-04a2-4468-81c1-9c896cfe85c7"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1805?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "21cf5413c4b8eea99f4f9b74935ba49820d2a5d56cb7bd88e19cc60f0933baa0"
+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 SB 338 (2025) — Revise workers' compensation insurance related to who may receive payments
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **LC1805.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281784)
+2. **SB0338_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283517)
+3. **SB0338_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291828)
+4. **SB0338_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296602)
+5. **SB0338_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302450)
+6. **SB0338_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283109)
+7. **SB0338_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316642)
+8. **SB0338_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317428)
+9. **SB0338_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317429)
+10. **SB0338_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317431)
+11. **SB0338_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320859)
+12. **SB0338_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324340)
+13. **SB0338_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326358)
+14. **SB0338_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327595)
+15. **SB0338_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310703)
+
+## Votes
+
+- do_pass — **12–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- be_concurred_in — **20–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Greg Hertz — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-11-22T17:33:27+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2025-02-10T16:00:13+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-02-11T00:08:07+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-02-13T13:46:39+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-02-14T16:28:52+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-02-14T21:11:10+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-02-15T19:06:42+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-02-17T16:21:58+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-02-17T17:17:52+00:00** (S) Introduced
+- **2025-02-17T23:18:23+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-18T01:12:26+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-21T00:25:58+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
+- **2025-02-26T18:50:35+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-26T20:17:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-01T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-01T15:48:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-03T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-03T22:05:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-03T23:21:46+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
+- **2025-03-04T17:40:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
+- **2025-03-04T18:27:45+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-04T20:09:38+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-07T01:35:23+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
+- **2025-03-07T16:46:54+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Requested
+- **2025-03-07T16:46:59+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
+- **2025-03-07T16:47:27+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Requested
+- **2025-03-14T15:47:25+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
+- **2025-03-14T15:47:34+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Unsigned
+- **2025-03-17T12:46:41+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Printed
+- **2025-03-21T17:36:42+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Business and Labor
+- **2025-03-21T19:37:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Business and Labor
+- **2025-03-31T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-31T20:25:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-01T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-01T20:13:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-01T20:13:22+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-02T22:44:12+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-04-07T16:00:02+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-04-08T16:15:25+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-08T22:56:08+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-16T18:00:07+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-17T19:52:18+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/c487bd32-04a2-4468-81c1-9c896cfe85c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+