---
type: "Bill"
title: "Align provisional water rights with final decrees"
description: "Align provisional water rights with final decrees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 441"
citation: "Montana HB 441 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Russ Miner"]
version_count: 15
action_count: 49
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-11-16T19:01:57+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-08T18:46:52+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d554db7-8f58-4c92-aad8-1e6f2729d6f5"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1453?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "7d247c7a9a88b6103c0f560895fe226946a13f4fb8b6b3157899e88cae6b6bc0"
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 441 (2025) — Align provisional water rights with final decrees

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0441_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280562)
2. **HB0441_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291809)
3. **HB0441_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305112)
4. **HB0441_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309600)
5. **HB0441_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309603)
6. **HB0441_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280371)
7. **HB0441_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316955)
8. **HB0441_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320529)
9. **HB0441_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322139)
10. **HB0441_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322140)
11. **HB0441_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322141)
12. **HB0441_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324819)
13. **HB0441_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326197)
14. **HB0441_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311061)
15. **LC1453.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=278168)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **95–2** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **13–9** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **95–4** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Russ Miner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-16T19:01:57+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-02T19:36:25+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-01-30T18:53:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-01T03:53:18+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-03T16:22:06+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-03T17:29:06+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-04T00:15:52+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-05T15:02:44+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-07T18:05:58+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-10T14:29:03+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-10T14:34:21+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-02-10T17:05:33+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10T19:54:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-18T19:30:53+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Natural Resources
- **2025-02-21T17:12:30+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-02-21T18:03:36+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-02-22T15:02:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-02-25T00:25:49+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Natural Resources `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-25T20:18:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Natural Resources `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27T22:07:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Pass Consideration `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28T20:36:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-28T22:13:00+00:00** (H) Rereferred to Committee - (H) Appropriations `referral-committee, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28T22:18:11+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Appropriations
- **2025-03-01T00:15:42+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-01T20:43:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-03T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-03T22:00:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03T23:19:11+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-04T20:26:24+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-05T00:52:48+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T00:47:03+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Natural Resources
- **2025-04-04T22:50:34+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Natural Resources
- **2025-04-05T16:11:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Natural Resources
- **2025-04-10T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T23:08:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T01:09:01+00:00** (S) Rereferred to Committee - (S) Finance and Claims `referral-committee, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-11T02:57:28+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-04-11T19:41:06+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-04-11T21:23:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-04-12T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-12T20:34:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-12T20:34:21+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-15T05:55:05+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-23T23:30:28+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-25T20:15:22+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-25T21:33:14+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-05T18:37:31+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-08T18:46:52+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/6d554db7-8f58-4c92-aad8-1e6f2729d6f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).