---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise terms for forest lands taxation advisory committee"
description: "Revise terms for forest lands taxation advisory committee"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 17"
citation: "Montana HB 17 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Forests and Forestry", "Taxation", "Taxation--Property", "Taxation--Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Thane"]
version_count: 29
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-09-04T17:53:06+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-27T18:24:41+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/804ffc9c-635b-4937-b7ca-df37711e8f60"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0079?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "dd1ee0a4d81bf7498ee96f6209c4231705c704550dfbd89221c9e059b4da74a9"
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 17 (2025) — Revise terms for forest lands taxation advisory committee

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0017_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271263)
2. **HB0017_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271332)
3. **HB0017_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271333)
4. **HB0017_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271363)
5. **HB0017_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273764)
6. **HB0017_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275475)
7. **HB0017_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276522)
8. **HB0017_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282366)
9. **HB0017_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=266363)
10. **HB0017_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282367)
11. **HB0017_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282368)
12. **HB0017_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282838)
13. **HB0017_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282839)
14. **HB0017_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282840)
15. **HB0017_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289793)
16. **HB0017_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289794)
17. **HB0017_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282365)
18. **HB0017_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295325)
19. **HB0017_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325584)
20. **HB0017_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297299)
21. **HB0017_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297300)
22. **HB0017_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297301)
23. **HB0017_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310562)
24. **HB0017_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316524)
25. **HB0017_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320133)
26. **HB0017_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321304)
27. **HB0017_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324568)
28. **HB0017_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294162)
29. **LC0079.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=265463)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **49–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **47–3** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark Thane — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-04T17:53:06+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-09-10T17:51:30+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-09-13T12:20:35+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-10-17T16:09:05+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-11-07T19:38:33+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-11-15T22:10:25+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-11-18T19:15:56+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-11-18T22:04:40+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2024-11-22T17:19:24+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2024-12-20T22:10:52+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06T17:23:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-07T01:33:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Taxation
- **2025-01-09T18:29:26+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Taxation `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-09T20:02:29+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Taxation `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-10T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-10T20:25:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-13T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-13T20:38:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-13T23:18:55+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-14T20:10:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-15T19:30:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-16T16:02:10+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Taxation
- **2025-01-23T17:43:00+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Taxation
- **2025-01-24T21:08:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Taxation
- **2025-02-12T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-12T21:06:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-13T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-13T21:19:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-13T21:20:36+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-02-17T16:36:05+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-02-19T15:00:11+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-20T18:00:38+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-02-20T18:35:28+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-27T16:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-02-27T18:24:41+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/804ffc9c-635b-4937-b7ca-df37711e8f60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).