---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise inter-entity loan process"
description: "Revise inter-entity loan process"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 61"
citation: "Montana HB 61 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Rule Making", "State Finance", "State Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gary Parry"]
version_count: 23
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-09-23T12:53:56+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T21:12:45+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/04426e9f-724f-49f2-bd5a-966492a44c12"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0273?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "6318f149f6e8fc55ad18552e67ca7fa44702f4009da1a0002305b83d9570df3c"
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 61 (2025) — Revise inter-entity loan process

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0061_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267690)
2. **HB0061_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271984)
3. **HB0061_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272041)
4. **HB0061_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275278)
5. **HB0061_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276334)
6. **HB0061_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282807)
7. **HB0061_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288205)
8. **HB0061_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267689)
9. **HB0061_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288206)
10. **HB0061_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288214)
11. **HB0061_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288215)
12. **HB0061_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289041)
13. **HB0061_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289042)
14. **HB0061_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289044)
15. **HB0061_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289045)
16. **HB0061_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288204)
17. **HB0061_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310618)
18. **HB0061_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316573)
19. **HB0061_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320173)
20. **HB0061_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324090)
21. **HB0061_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325719)
22. **HB0061_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295349)
23. **LC0273.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=265821)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **94–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **37–13** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **97–3** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **38–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gary Parry — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-23T12:53:56+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-11-15T17:10:10+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-11-18T15:20:20+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-11-19T20:16:19+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-11-20T15:56:11+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-11-20T19:43:01+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-11-21T20:57:27+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-12-11T23:09:37+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2024-12-18T20:50:56+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2024-12-18T21:09:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2024-12-20T22:12:31+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06T17:58:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-07T01:59:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-01-07T15:13:30+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-01-07T19:12:30+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-01-07T23:47:35+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-01-10T20:20:00+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-10T20:44:48+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-14T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-14T20:39:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-15T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-15T21:09:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-16T15:42:56+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-16T20:14:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-17T15:39:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-01T00:22:36+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-02-14T23:49:00+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-02-15T15:28:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-02-15T21:45:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24T21:42:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-25T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T21:24:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T21:24:50+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-02-27T21:09:42+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T17:00:56+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-18T13:15:18+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-18T16:15:15+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-27T19:58:13+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-27T21:12:45+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/04426e9f-724f-49f2-bd5a-966492a44c12`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).