---
type: "Bill"
title: "Require public hearing before certain tax increment financing bonding"
description: "Require public hearing before certain tax increment financing bonding"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 19"
citation: "Montana HB 19 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - School Finance", "Local Finance", "Local Government", "Taxation", "Taxation--Property", "Taxation--Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Brewster"]
version_count: 28
action_count: 35
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-09-04T17:54:26+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-27T18:27:30+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cceddb21-20f9-474a-b375-689ba803d2c1"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0084?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "2e53b46027423d873195c6a9c372285e057599caf74fc5ad32f2e691f8f6c375"
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 19 (2025) — Require public hearing before certain tax increment financing bonding

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0019_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275051)
2. **HB0019_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276126)
3. **HB0019_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276896)
4. **HB0019_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276925)
5. **HB0019_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283068)
6. **HB0019_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=266367)
7. **HB0019_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283069)
8. **HB0019_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283074)
9. **HB0019_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283433)
10. **HB0019_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283434)
11. **HB0019_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283437)
12. **HB0019_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283438)
13. **HB0019_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289833)
14. **HB0019_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289834)
15. **HB0019_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283067)
16. **HB0019_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295331)
17. **HB0019_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325589)
18. **HB0019_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327239)
19. **HB0019_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297302)
20. **HB0019_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297303)
21. **HB0019_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297304)
22. **HB0019_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310563)
23. **HB0019_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316525)
24. **HB0019_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320134)
25. **HB0019_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321305)
26. **HB0019_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324569)
27. **HB0019_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294163)
28. **LC0084.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=265459)

## Votes

- be_concurred_in — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **49–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Larry Brewster — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-04T17:54:26+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-09-11T18:14:38+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-09-13T12:46:30+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-09-27T19:16:37+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-11-07T19:44:24+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-11-15T22:07:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-11-19T19:58:07+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-11-19T22:58:31+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2024-11-22T17:23:29+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2024-12-20T22:10:56+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06T17:24:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-07T01:35:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Taxation
- **2025-01-14T19:28:30+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Taxation `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-14T20:11:05+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Taxation `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-16T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-16T21:13:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-17T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-17T20:47:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-17T21:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-20T20:42:27+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-20T21:10:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23T18:57:59+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Taxation
- **2025-01-29T17:28:00+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Taxation
- **2025-01-29T22:34:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Taxation
- **2025-02-13T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-13T20:21:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-14T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-14T21:45:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-14T21:47:10+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-02-18T17:06:57+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`
- **2025-02-27T18:27:30+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/cceddb21-20f9-474a-b375-689ba803d2c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).