---
type: "Bill"
title: "Repeal termination date on reporting and disclosure of violence against health care employees"
description: "Repeal termination date on reporting and disclosure of violence against health care employees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 543"
citation: "Montana HB 543 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Labor and Employment", "Professions and Occupations Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Buttrey"]
version_count: 21
action_count: 38
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-11-23T20:44:54+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T22:03:34+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0acc1bf-0f10-4c93-89f7-867135607cda"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1973?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "514fad62d922076c6814c56f6860daa83d5b4950dbbba8befd2cf1f220363946"
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 543 (2025) — Repeal termination date on reporting and disclosure of violence against health care employees

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0543_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293832)
2. **HB0543_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293977)
3. **HB0543_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312980)
4. **HB0543_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312981)
5. **HB0543_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283682)
6. **HB0543_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312983)
7. **HB0543_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322401)
8. **HB0543_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322402)
9. **HB0543_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324862)
10. **HB0543_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326428)
11. **HB0543_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327030)
12. **HB0543_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312984)
13. **HB0543_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313621)
14. **HB0543_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313622)
15. **HB0543_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315167)
16. **HB0543_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315168)
17. **HB0543_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317245)
18. **HB0543_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320763)
19. **HB0543_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322400)
20. **HB0543_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312982)
21. **LC1973.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282982)

## Votes

- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **31–19** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **93–6** (pass) · lower
- Take HB 543 from Comm-Smith — **28–22** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **89–8** (pass) · lower
- to_table — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **31–19** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ed Buttrey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-23T20:44:54+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-13T20:21:18+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-13T21:44:50+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-15T22:47:36+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-16T16:35:20+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-16T19:02:50+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-17T19:00:01+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-18T17:18:46+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-18T19:55:19+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-19T19:33:37+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T19:52:09+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-27T01:04:49+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-02-28T01:35:15+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-03-01T21:02:50+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-03-03T14:50:32+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-03-03T18:37:52+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04T01:36:48+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05T23:04:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T16:53:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-14T23:06:17+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-14T23:25:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27T19:27:09+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
- **2025-04-03T02:53:00+00:00** (S) Tabled in Committee - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety `amendment-deferral`
- **2025-04-15T21:45:00+00:00** (S) Taken from Committee; Placed on 2nd Reading - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-16T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16T20:36:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-17T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-17T19:21:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-17T19:22:21+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-19T20:16:35+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-29T22:00:37+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-02T16:30:36+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-02T17:24:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-08T17:11:09+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13T22:03:34+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/c0acc1bf-0f10-4c93-89f7-867135607cda`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).