---
type: "Bill"
title: "Feed bill to fund 69th legislative session and prepare for 2027"
description: "Feed bill to fund 69th legislative session and prepare for 2027"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1"
citation: "Montana HB 1 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Legislature"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Llew Jones"]
version_count: 27
action_count: 47
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-11-14T15:52:11+00:00"
last_action: "2025-01-30T15:07:35+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d87c78df-a424-452a-b661-4e99cdc83194"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1374?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "a28b1c5492750b1fca48f5db48d0902825ed1186ddc2a1984bf7c46c03ba6059"
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 1 (2025) — Feed bill to fund 69th legislative session and prepare for 2027

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0001.001.002_Amendments-in-Context_final-full(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271814)
2. **HB0001.001.002_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270289)
3. **HB0001.001.003_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271556)
4. **HB0001.001.004_Amendments-in-Context_final-full(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273361)
5. **HB0001.001.004_Amendments-in-Context_final-full(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295185)
6. **HB0001.001.004_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272295)
7. **HB0001_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267610)
8. **HB0001_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270068)
9. **HB0001_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272873)
10. **HB0001_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273616)
11. **HB0001_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273666)
12. **HB0001_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275473)
13. **HB0001_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276520)
14. **HB0001_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320096)
15. **HB0001_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267198)
16. **HB0001_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284116)
17. **HB0001_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295300)
18. **HB0001_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295318)
19. **HB0001_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297285)
20. **HB0001_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297286)
21. **HB0001_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297287)
22. **HB0001_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310560)
23. **HB0001_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316522)
24. **HB0001_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324510)
25. **HB0001_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326209)
26. **HB0001_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294160)
27. **LC1374.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=266081)

## Votes

- AMD-HB0001.001.002 Caferro DO PASS — **41–59** (fail) · lower
- Do Pass — **97–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **49–1** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **95–5** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **23–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in_as_amended — **19–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Llew Jones — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-14T15:52:11+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-11-16T16:29:28+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-11-18T15:43:46+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-11-19T18:10:59+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-11-22T15:14:18+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-11-24T19:08:13+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-11-25T15:48:55+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-11-26T15:29:29+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-03T23:10:46+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-12-04T19:05:15+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-04T19:34:53+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-04T20:37:58+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-12-04T20:52:00+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-12-04T22:06:05+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-04T22:42:23+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-12-06T22:26:34+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2024-12-06T23:12:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2024-12-20T22:10:15+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06T17:13:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-07T21:11:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Appropriations
- **2025-01-08T00:53:08+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-08T20:05:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-09T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-09T21:22:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Motion to Amend Failed `amendment-failure, failure, reading-2`
- **2025-01-09T21:23:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-10T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-10T20:42:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-13T20:13:00+00:00** (S) Introduced
- **2025-01-13T20:14:01+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-13T20:32:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Finance and Claims `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13T20:36:00+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-01-15T21:33:52+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-01-17T20:35:47+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-01-17T20:41:51+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-01-20T20:46:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-01-21T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-21T20:21:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-22T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-22T20:52:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-22T21:22:05+00:00** (S) Returned to House
- **2025-01-22T21:36:42+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-01-22T23:05:00+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-01-22T23:27:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-01-23T14:20:00+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-01-23T14:55:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-01-28T18:51:02+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-01-30T15:07:35+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/d87c78df-a424-452a-b661-4e99cdc83194`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).