---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise laws relating to unemployment insurance program collection rates and uses"
description: "Revise laws relating to unemployment insurance program collection rates and uses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 210"
citation: "Montana HB 210 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Revenue", "State", "State Finance", "Unemployment Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steve Fitzpatrick"]
version_count: 25
action_count: 50
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-09-09T20:57:26+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-07T20:04:44+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7478125e-3393-4b75-8ff2-ee05ec7bd13d"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0212?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "4014e4defc61942df4333510da192748c1e72636d4d87226266c202f549825d1"
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 210 (2025) — Revise laws relating to unemployment insurance program collection rates and uses

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0210_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271791)
2. **HB0210_1(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301215)
3. **HB0210_1(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301694)
4. **HB0210_1(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307810)
5. **HB0210_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271792)
6. **HB0210_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271793)
7. **HB0210_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275255)
8. **HB0210_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276313)
9. **HB0210_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279334)
10. **HB0210_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295205)
11. **HB0210_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298101)
12. **HB0210_1(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299379)
13. **HB0210_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271671)
14. **HB0210_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299378)
15. **HB0210_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308155)
16. **HB0210_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308156)
17. **HB0210_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310832)
18. **HB0210_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316771)
19. **HB0210_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318802)
20. **HB0210_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320996)
21. **HB0210_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324436)
22. **HB0210_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325660)
23. **HB0210_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327011)
24. **HB0210_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308154)
25. **LC0212.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271055)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **23–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **49–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **49–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **22–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steve Fitzpatrick — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-09T20:57:26+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-08T18:12:30+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-08T21:43:57+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-01-13T17:13:33+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-01-13T21:23:19+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-01-14T17:19:13+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-01-15T01:31:45+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-15T15:19:16+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-15T15:45:01+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-15T15:46:42+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-01-15T18:05:43+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15T20:09:31+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-16T22:25:23+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-01-23T15:41:09+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-01-23T23:33:47+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-01-27T18:36:32+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27T20:38:30+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27T22:01:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-29T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-29T21:26:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-29T21:34:00+00:00** (H) Rereferred to Committee - (H) Appropriations `referral-committee, referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29T22:22:39+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Appropriations
- **2025-02-03T23:06:14+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-04T20:28:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-05T21:45:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-05T22:02:48+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-06T20:32:23+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-20T18:27:53+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T21:23:39+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-02-28T20:20:34+00:00** (S) Hearing Canceled - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-06T18:41:18+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-15T16:35:32+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-19T14:20:00+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-19T21:08:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-21T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-21T19:40:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-21T20:41:00+00:00** (S) Rereferred to Committee - (S) Finance and Claims `referral-committee, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21T23:20:46+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-03-25T17:14:11+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-03-25T19:17:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-03-26T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-26T20:42:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-26T20:43:18+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-28T12:54:09+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-28T22:50:23+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-31T17:30:49+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-31T19:55:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-07T19:54:26+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-07T20:04:44+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/7478125e-3393-4b75-8ff2-ee05ec7bd13d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).