---
type: "Bill"
title: "Standardize service of process for professional licenses"
description: "Standardize service of process for professional licenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 276"
citation: "Montana HB 276 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Randyn Gregg"]
version_count: 16
action_count: 42
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-09-09T20:58:59+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-05T13:53:18+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/025fc6d7-6a0a-4e2a-ad06-c93adde96879"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0215?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "63ebc347d1a4885a7fef093bb71a606cf71350f69d77b66ede331ca7f3bc8e80"
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 276 (2025) — Standardize service of process for professional licenses

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0276.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306643)
2. **HB0276_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273584)
3. **HB0276_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275446)
4. **HB0276_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276494)
5. **HB0276_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279379)
6. **HB0276_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295881)
7. **HB0276_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308269)
8. **HB0276_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308270)
9. **HB0276_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273279)
10. **HB0276_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316817)
11. **HB0276_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320393)
12. **HB0276_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324620)
13. **HB0276_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325663)
14. **HB0276_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327271)
15. **HB0276_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310877)
16. **LC0215.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269678)

## Votes

- be_concurred_in — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **49–1** (pass) · upper
- AMD-HB0276.001.001 Olsen D/PASS — **17–33** (fail) · upper
- Do Concur — **46–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Randyn Gregg — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-09T20:58:59+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-30T15:55:44+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-12-30T17:36:57+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-31T17:04:39+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-01-02T16:21:09+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-01-03T21:24:20+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-01-06T15:10:31+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-21T19:16:42+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-21T22:16:35+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-21T22:28:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-01-22T18:04:14+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-22T20:09:41+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-27T15:15:46+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-01-28T15:05:26+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-01-28T15:23:01+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-01-28T22:43:40+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-01-29T15:34:24+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-29T15:38:03+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-29T20:21:06+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03T21:16:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-04T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-04T21:22:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04T23:12:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-05T20:29:34+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-19T00:57:21+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21T15:21:35+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-20T17:27:19+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-20T21:48:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-04-09T00:14:07+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Pass Consideration `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09T22:15:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Motion to Amend Failed `amendment-failure, failure, reading-2`
- **2025-04-09T22:16:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T18:11:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T18:11:56+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-11T14:20:05+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-18T21:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-22T13:30:24+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-22T18:10:24+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-01T21:05:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-05T13:53:18+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/025fc6d7-6a0a-4e2a-ad06-c93adde96879`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).