---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enhance Medicaid rates for certain children's mental health services"
description: "Enhance Medicaid rates for certain children's mental health services"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 147"
citation: "Montana HB 147 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Mental Illness or Incapacity (see also: Institutions)", "Minors (see also: Family Law)", "Social Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jane Gillette"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 61
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2022-07-26T19:59:10+00:00"
last_action: "2023-05-19T20:00:40+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c20881dc-8e64-457a-9bc5-2db444a2cc0b"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/bill/20231/LC0156"
source_hash: "3622edfeacf38f18eb55dbf4eae831868e77963643b1da3a758daa07e58666b3"
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 147 (2023) — Enhance Medicaid rates for certain children's mental health services

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB0147.001.003_Amendments-in-Context_final-condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=3805)
2. **HB0147.001.003_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=3806)
3. **HB0147_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=3811)
4. **HB0147_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=3809)
5. **HB0147_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=3810)

## Votes

- (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- (S) 2nd Reading Concurred — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- (S) 3rd Reading Concurred — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred — **19–0** (pass) · upper
- (H) 2nd Reading Senate Amendments Concurred — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- (H) 2nd Reading Passed — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- (H) 3rd Reading Passed as Amended by Senate — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- (H) 3rd Reading Passed — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jane Gillette — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-05-19T20:00:40+00:00** Chapter Number Assigned `became-law`
- **2023-05-18T22:24:35+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-08T16:20:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-05-04T23:00:00+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-05-04T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-04-28T18:59:12+00:00** (C) Printed - Enrolled Version Available `enrolled`
- **2023-04-28T18:59:11+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2023-04-21T22:43:00+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2023-04-21T21:18:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed as Amended by Senate `passage, passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2023-04-21T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2023-04-20T21:23:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Senate Amendments Concurred `amendment-amendment, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-2`
- **2023-04-20T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2023-04-12T21:47:58+00:00** (S) Returned to House with Amendments
- **2023-04-11T19:28:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-04-11T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2023-04-07T19:26:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred
- **2023-04-06T22:00:01+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
- **2023-04-06T22:00:00+00:00** (S) Hearing
- **2023-03-23T22:53:12+00:00** (H) Revised Fiscal Note Printed
- **2023-03-23T20:17:00+00:00** (S) Rereferred to Committee `referral-committee, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23T19:26:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2023-03-23T19:00:26+00:00** (H) Revised Fiscal Note Signed
- **2023-03-23T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-22T22:14:29+00:00** (H) Revised Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2023-03-20T21:17:22+00:00** (C) Printed - New Version Available
- **2023-03-20T19:05:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred as Amended
- **2023-03-20T18:24:27+00:00** (H) Revised Fiscal Note Requested
- **2023-03-17T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended
- **2023-03-10T16:10:22+00:00** (C) Amendments Available
- **2023-02-15T22:00:13+00:00** (S) Hearing
- **2023-02-06T19:06:36+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-03T20:12:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2023-02-02T22:13:15+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2023-02-02T21:44:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-01T20:15:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01T00:38:51+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-24T22:00:27+00:00** (H) Hearing
- **2023-01-19T22:23:00+00:00** (H) Rereferred to Committee `referral-committee, referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19T21:31:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2023-01-17T20:13:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-16T18:04:54+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-12T22:00:23+00:00** (H) Hearing
- **2023-01-09T21:37:05+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2023-01-07T00:39:03+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Unsigned
- **2023-01-05T03:24:17+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2023-01-02T21:19:38+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2022-12-22T00:22:30+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee `referral-committee`
- **2022-12-21T22:02:30+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2022-12-21T20:21:59+00:00** (C) Introduced Bill Text Available Electronically
- **2022-12-14T23:01:39+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2022-12-14T23:01:38+00:00** (C) Fiscal Note Probable
- **2022-11-08T21:32:02+00:00** (C) Draft in Assembly
- **2022-11-08T16:35:24+00:00** (C) Executive Director Review
- **2022-11-01T14:15:27+00:00** (C) Bill Draft Text Available Electronically
- **2022-11-01T14:15:26+00:00** (C) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2022-10-25T05:26:44+00:00** (C) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2022-10-06T14:59:35+00:00** (C) Draft to Drafter - Edit Review
- **2022-09-19T13:31:05+00:00** (C) Draft in Edit
- **2022-09-15T20:45:21+00:00** (C) Draft in Legal Review
- **2022-09-06T21:50:32+00:00** (C) Draft to Requester for Review
- **2022-07-26T19:59:10+00:00** (C) Draft Request Received `receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c20881dc-8e64-457a-9bc5-2db444a2cc0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).