---
type: "Bill"
title: "Repeal county licensing of itinerant vendors"
description: "Repeal county licensing of itinerant vendors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 561"
citation: "Montana HB 561 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Trade Regulations and Competition"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Darling"]
version_count: 21
action_count: 34
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-22T21:05:17+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T22:07:37+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16072065-a4de-4f2a-af1d-a3970fd8cf7d"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1902?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "96b5d52b07551e10f5d094717e246591b346fae8b803b27539aa8c77f24e5170"
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 561 (2025) — Repeal county licensing of itinerant vendors

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0561_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284372)
2. **HB0561_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292279)
3. **HB0561_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301898)
4. **HB0561_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309730)
5. **HB0561_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309731)
6. **HB0561_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283894)
7. **HB0561_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309733)
8. **HB0561_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322408)
9. **HB0561_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324864)
10. **HB0561_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326397)
11. **HB0561_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327614)
12. **HB0561_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309734)
13. **HB0561_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311014)
14. **HB0561_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311476)
15. **HB0561_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311477)
16. **HB0561_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317020)
17. **HB0561_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320588)
18. **HB0561_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322406)
19. **HB0561_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322407)
20. **HB0561_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309732)
21. **LC1902.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281903)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **95–4** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **49–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Darling — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-22T21:05:17+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-10T16:41:00+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-10T23:48:34+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-13T15:08:12+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-13T18:36:46+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-13T19:57:12+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-17T13:58:22+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-18T17:55:14+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-18T22:54:30+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-19T19:30:41+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T19:52:09+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-24T20:19:18+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Local Government
- **2025-02-26T00:48:10+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`
- **2025-03-03T22:30:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-04T01:09:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-04T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-04T20:17:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-04T21:24:03+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-05T15:30:03+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T15:51:11+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Local Government
- **2025-03-31T23:37:44+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
- **2025-04-01T19:21:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T17:08:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:39:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:39:52+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-16T11:37:57+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-29T15:15:58+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-01T21:20:56+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-01T21:47:39+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-08T17:11:09+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13T22:07:37+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/16072065-a4de-4f2a-af1d-a3970fd8cf7d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).