---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise county clerk and recorder fee for recording documents"
description: "Revise county clerk and recorder fee for recording documents"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 192"
citation: "Montana HB 192 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local Government", "Property", "Revenue", "State", "Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Darling"]
version_count: 39
action_count: 48
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-11-16T18:25:44+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T21:48:04+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e296c7ff-5182-4160-8122-267c04ff5372"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1448?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "27b970a860bccb02e4b5ae001b9a50e0419d1eab720b5be1ef5087cfb9b5e2bc"
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 192 (2025) — Revise county clerk and recorder fee for recording documents

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0192.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295186)
2. **HB0192.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-not condensed(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297016)
3. **HB0192.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-not condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295187)
4. **HB0192_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271487)
5. **HB0192_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275241)
6. **HB0192_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276300)
7. **HB0192_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279373)
8. **HB0192_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296859)
9. **HB0192_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297679)
10. **HB0192_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297680)
11. **HB0192_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297681)
12. **HB0192_1(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297682)
13. **HB0192_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271355)
14. **HB0192_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297684)
15. **HB0192_2(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311106)
16. **HB0192_2(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313496)
17. **HB0192_2(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313497)
18. **HB0192_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297685)
19. **HB0192_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297686)
20. **HB0192_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297690)
21. **HB0192_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297691)
22. **HB0192_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297692)
23. **HB0192_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297696)
24. **HB0192_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307411)
25. **HB0192_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311103)
26. **HB0192_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297683)
27. **HB0192_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313499)
28. **HB0192_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324855)
29. **HB0192_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326191)
30. **HB0192_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313500)
31. **HB0192_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313730)
32. **HB0192_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313731)
33. **HB0192_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317150)
34. **HB0192_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320713)
35. **HB0192_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322379)
36. **HB0192_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322380)
37. **HB0192_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322381)
38. **HB0192_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313498)
39. **LC1448.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270044)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **46–4** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **89–10** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **87–13** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **44–5** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **18–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **96–2** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in_as_amended — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Darling — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-16T18:25:44+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-07T04:11:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-07T15:27:50+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-07T15:51:53+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-07T15:57:25+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-01-08T16:25:54+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-01-08T19:43:13+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-01-10T03:15:43+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-01-10T23:20:40+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-13T17:33:31+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-14T17:55:57+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-14T17:58:20+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-01-14T18:58:45+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14T20:07:22+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-20T15:53:02+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-01-21T19:00:45+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T22:13:36+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-01-22T15:48:49+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-01-30T17:02:20+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30T17:10:35+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30T20:18:22+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03T21:20:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-04T21:19:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04T23:10:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-05T20:28:24+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-19T00:56:40+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05T16:53:13+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Local Government
- **2025-03-21T21:07:34+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended - (S) Local Government
- **2025-03-24T20:27:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred as Amended - (S) Local Government
- **2025-03-25T15:54:35+00:00** (H) Revised Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-03-28T20:53:43+00:00** (H) Revised Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-03-29T16:49:44+00:00** (H) Revised Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-04-08T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-08T20:01:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-09T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T19:26:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T22:06:12+00:00** (S) Returned to House with Amendments
- **2025-04-17T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-17T20:36:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Senate Amendments Concurred `amendment-amendment, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-18T16:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-18T16:59:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed as Amended by Senate `passage, passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-18T18:57:45+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-20T14:31:39+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-29T22:00:37+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-02T16:30:36+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-02T17:24:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-08T17:11:09+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13T21:48:04+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/e296c7ff-5182-4160-8122-267c04ff5372`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).