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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revise taxation of of certain telecommunications property"
+description: "Revise taxation of of certain telecommunications property"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 550"
+citation: "Montana SB 550 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Revenue", "Local", "Revenue", "State", "Taxation", "Taxation--Property"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dave Fern"]
+version_count: 17
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-12-20T14:30:55+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-05-16T16:27:45+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6cff9934-11da-49d4-8b9a-ea9de865c52f"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC4173?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "169d59d392ce543ad0bb0310cef0f94243bc08723b639972a64bd17e3a8fa0c5"
+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 550 (2025) — Revise taxation of of certain telecommunications property
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **LC4173.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297218)
+2. **SB0550_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304928)
+3. **SB0550_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311940)
+4. **SB0550_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316260)
+5. **SB0550_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316261)
+6. **SB0550_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298719)
+7. **SB0550_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318301)
+8. **SB0550_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327107)
+9. **SB0550_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318302)
+10. **SB0550_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318307)
+11. **SB0550_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318309)
+12. **SB0550_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320948)
+13. **SB0550_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323051)
+14. **SB0550_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323052)
+15. **SB0550_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323053)
+16. **SB0550_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325008)
+17. **SB0550_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317320)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Pass — **45–5** (pass) · upper
+- do_pass — **7–1** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **44–5** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- be_concurred_in — **16–5** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dave Fern — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-12-20T14:30:55+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2025-03-21T13:17:09+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-03-21T23:13:39+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-03-24T12:54:32+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-03-24T18:13:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-03-24T20:58:58+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-03-25T14:45:29+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-03-25T21:39:35+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-03-26T15:45:21+00:00** (S) Introduced
+- **2025-03-26T16:50:47+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Requested
+- **2025-03-26T20:49:29+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-26T21:07:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-27T19:13:23+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Taxation
+- **2025-04-01T18:46:14+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
+- **2025-04-01T22:05:43+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Signed
+- **2025-04-02T15:56:35+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Printed
+- **2025-04-02T16:48:49+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Taxation `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-02T19:23:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Taxation `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-03T23:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-04T00:27:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-04T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-04T19:34:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-04T21:09:34+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
+- **2025-04-07T15:54:30+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Taxation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-07T19:52:45+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-09T19:16:03+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Taxation
+- **2025-04-16T17:35:46+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Taxation
+- **2025-04-16T19:21:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Taxation
+- **2025-04-22T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-22T20:52:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-23T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-23T21:35:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-23T21:35:39+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-28T18:36:25+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-04-29T20:00:12+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-05-05T19:45:24+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-05-05T19:55:00+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-13T18:34:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-16T16:27:45+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/6cff9934-11da-49d4-8b9a-ea9de865c52f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+