---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise laws to clarify that local prohibitions on conveying family transfer parcels do not apply to conveyances involving lenders"
description: "Revise laws to clarify that local prohibitions on conveying family transfer parcels do not apply to conveyances involving lenders"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 520"
citation: "Montana HB 520 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Credit Transactions", "Family Law", "Financial Institutions", "Local Government", "Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Brewster"]
version_count: 20
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-08T22:34:06+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-05T16:42:13+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8bd4fc6-6640-4dad-a520-d58537f62edb"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2576?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "8f72241b3dc86ade20f543d1e3aadd92833ff172d7bcd8a959e94006ff8815fb"
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 520 (2025) — Revise laws to clarify that local prohibitions on conveying family transfer parcels do not apply to conveyances involving lenders

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0520_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283708)
2. **HB0520_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283723)
3. **HB0520_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296861)
4. **HB0520_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309928)
5. **HB0520_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311243)
6. **HB0520_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311244)
7. **HB0520_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283169)
8. **HB0520_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311246)
9. **HB0520_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324685)
10. **HB0520_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326640)
11. **HB0520_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311247)
12. **HB0520_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311384)
13. **HB0520_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311385)
14. **HB0520_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317000)
15. **HB0520_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320569)
16. **HB0520_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321568)
17. **HB0520_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321569)
18. **HB0520_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321570)
19. **HB0520_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311245)
20. **LC2576.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281968)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **48–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Larry Brewster — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-08T22:34:06+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-11T19:48:09+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-11T23:19:24+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-13T18:34:29+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-13T19:38:22+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-13T23:43:12+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-15T20:00:48+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-17T18:34:37+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-17T19:17:33+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-18T18:17:02+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18T19:39:53+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-24T20:19:12+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Local Government
- **2025-02-26T00:45:51+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26T20:32:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-28T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28T21:30:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-01T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-01T22:14:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03T20:21:16+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-05T00:43:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05T16:54:37+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Local Government
- **2025-03-21T21:09:54+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
- **2025-03-24T20:35:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
- **2025-04-12T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-12T19:24:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-14T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T18:00:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T19:39:04+00:00** (S) Returned to House
- **2025-04-15T21:22:43+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-16T01:38:55+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-23T22:30:32+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-24T17:45:00+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-24T21:45:28+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-05T16:42:13+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/b8bd4fc6-6640-4dad-a520-d58537f62edb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).