---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarifying laws related to real estate appraisers"
description: "Clarifying laws related to real estate appraisers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 426"
citation: "Montana HB 426 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Valerie Moore"]
version_count: 19
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-16T21:11:06+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-07T23:17:14+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44206de5-21ff-436f-988e-b07f75f7246b"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1511?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "54360199fbc5c6bf3f7cc9057bc7c14a68167409b6a54d19896f0ea7f2d519ae"
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 426 (2025) — Clarifying laws related to real estate appraisers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0426_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280533)
2. **HB0426_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285767)
3. **HB0426_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295207)
4. **HB0426_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298007)
5. **HB0426_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280005)
6. **HB0426_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298006)
7. **HB0426_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298012)
8. **HB0426_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324223)
9. **HB0426_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326238)
10. **HB0426_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298603)
11. **HB0426_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298604)
12. **HB0426_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308402)
13. **HB0426_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308403)
14. **HB0426_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308404)
15. **HB0426_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310864)
16. **HB0426_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316804)
17. **HB0426_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320380)
18. **HB0426_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298008)
19. **LC1511.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277435)

## Votes

- do_pass — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **47–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **98–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **96–2** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **48–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Valerie Moore — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-16T21:11:06+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-28T22:20:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-29T20:49:25+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-01-30T21:23:11+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-01-31T01:22:34+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-01-31T19:19:25+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-04T13:32:10+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-07T17:17:25+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-07T18:34:24+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-10T17:13:09+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10T19:54:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-10T20:13:06+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-02-14T17:28:18+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-14T17:59:11+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-14T20:09:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-20T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-20T21:08:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-21T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-21T22:11:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-21T22:30:34+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-24T20:27:51+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-03T18:12:07+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06T18:41:17+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-15T16:35:31+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-19T14:19:10+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-19T21:11:00+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`
- **2025-03-21T20:11:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-24T19:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-24T19:53:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-24T19:53:27+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-26T12:27:04+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-28T23:30:00+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`
- **2025-04-07T20:02:31+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-07T23:17:14+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/44206de5-21ff-436f-988e-b07f75f7246b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).