---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise property tax information required in preliminary budgets"
description: "Revise property tax information required in preliminary budgets"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 37"
citation: "Montana HB 37 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Oblander"]
version_count: 23
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-09-11T19:34:10+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-07T20:51:03+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53338344-174a-418e-bfa3-2594afa74855"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0234?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "af00dc65b5a72c81f98f30f2a84c8945ca721844169597e1226f23a29df6349b"
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 37 (2025) — Revise property tax information required in preliminary budgets

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0037_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267405)
2. **HB0037_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272870)
3. **HB0037_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275385)
4. **HB0037_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276434)
5. **HB0037_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294675)
6. **HB0037_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296337)
7. **HB0037_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267194)
8. **HB0037_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296336)
9. **HB0037_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296339)
10. **HB0037_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316778)
11. **HB0037_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320356)
12. **HB0037_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324204)
13. **HB0037_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325684)
14. **HB0037_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296340)
15. **HB0037_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296419)
16. **HB0037_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296420)
17. **HB0037_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296421)
18. **HB0037_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308215)
19. **HB0037_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308216)
20. **HB0037_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308217)
21. **HB0037_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310840)
22. **HB0037_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296338)
23. **LC0234.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=265473)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **90–8** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **46–4** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **46–4** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **91–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Greg Oblander — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-11T19:34:10+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-09-16T20:29:46+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-09-26T13:17:53+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-10-07T19:14:33+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-11-08T21:46:38+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-11-15T22:19:51+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-11-18T20:14:18+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-12-07T00:53:08+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2024-12-07T00:54:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2024-12-20T22:11:39+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06T17:38:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-07T01:11:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Local Government
- **2025-01-14T22:14:55+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-15T21:00:00+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-15T21:19:05+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-17T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-17T20:18:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-20T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-20T21:34:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-20T22:34:54+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-21T16:24:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-21T16:24:28+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-15T00:51:19+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Local Government
- **2025-03-17T22:02:25+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
- **2025-03-18T19:15:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
- **2025-03-19T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-19T20:12:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-20T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T20:56:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T20:56:43+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-21T13:31:19+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-28T23:15:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-01T17:00:47+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-01T18:35:47+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-07T19:56:14+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-07T20:51:03+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/53338344-174a-418e-bfa3-2594afa74855`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).