---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarifying laws related to professional license discipline"
description: "Clarifying laws related to professional license discipline"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 435"
citation: "Montana HB 435 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations Generally", "Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jodee Etchart"]
version_count: 31
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-10-04T19:07:59+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-05T15:51:38+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91eba08d-fce1-4f89-b7bd-f96ea9635da7"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0453?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "00192397da43a825d28a32681b287de312ac1692620c9fd40931af53a5f31985"
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 435 (2025) — Clarifying laws related to professional license discipline

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0435.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283154)
2. **HB0435_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280555)
3. **HB0435_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283700)
4. **HB0435_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283701)
5. **HB0435_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283702)
6. **HB0435_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283703)
7. **HB0435_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280248)
8. **HB0435_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283705)
9. **HB0435_2(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286750)
10. **HB0435_2(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299995)
11. **HB0435_2(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309893)
12. **HB0435_2(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309898)
13. **HB0435_2(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309900)
14. **HB0435_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283706)
15. **HB0435_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283707)
16. **HB0435_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283728)
17. **HB0435_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283734)
18. **HB0435_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283735)
19. **HB0435_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283736)
20. **HB0435_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283741)
21. **HB0435_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283749)
22. **HB0435_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283704)
23. **HB0435_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316980)
24. **HB0435_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320551)
25. **HB0435_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321478)
26. **HB0435_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321479)
27. **HB0435_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321480)
28. **HB0435_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324658)
29. **HB0435_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325821)
30. **HB0435_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311086)
31. **LC0453.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270320)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **95–3** (pass) · lower
- do_pass_as_amended — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **95–5** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jodee Etchart — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-04T19:07:59+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-10-04T19:07:59+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2024-12-31T19:07:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-06T14:35:13+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-01-09T00:55:16+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-01-09T17:38:18+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-01-09T21:26:33+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-01-13T23:44:51+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-07T17:18:42+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-07T22:03:09+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-07T22:07:59+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-02-10T17:11:06+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
- **2025-02-13T17:49:42+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-02-13T20:26:11+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-02-14T14:28:25+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-02-18T16:34:36+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-18T20:08:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-21T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-21T21:17:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-22T16:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-22T19:06:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-24T21:51:35+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-25T20:44:49+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-04T00:50:08+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-15T16:31:16+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-28T15:07:02+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-28T21:32:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T16:17:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:32:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:32:29+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-15T07:03:22+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-23T22:30:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-25T13:30:00+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-25T17:55:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-05T15:51:38+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/91eba08d-fce1-4f89-b7bd-f96ea9635da7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).