---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allow for temporary door locks during emergency situations"
description: "Allow for temporary door locks during emergency situations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 651"
citation: "Montana HB 651 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Buildings and Building Regulations", "Fires and Fire Protection"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amy Regier"]
version_count: 17
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-15T16:49:21+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-05T17:15:06+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73224781-0cd6-49e6-b7af-f7d70b3099c3"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC4026?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "37b4168623a504aa51dccb07f39e63c92b05147860fa943b14a224785643c575"
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 651 (2025) — Allow for temporary door locks during emergency situations

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0651_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286063)
2. **HB0651_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293872)
3. **HB0651_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294083)
4. **HB0651_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311701)
5. **HB0651_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311702)
6. **HB0651_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285795)
7. **HB0651_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311705)
8. **HB0651_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313160)
9. **HB0651_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313161)
10. **HB0651_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317111)
11. **HB0651_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320676)
12. **HB0651_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321635)
13. **HB0651_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321636)
14. **HB0651_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321637)
15. **HB0651_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324706)
16. **HB0651_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311703)
17. **LC4026.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284757)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **96–3** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Amy Regier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-15T16:49:21+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-14T20:39:56+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-14T21:30:24+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-20T14:50:29+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-20T16:08:23+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-20T20:43:38+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-21T00:03:47+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-21T22:34:15+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-21T22:40:39+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-22T15:16:32+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-22T16:10:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-22T18:24:08+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-02-26T22:25:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-02-27T19:16:51+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27T22:15:40+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T21:42:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T17:24:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-14T23:58:17+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-17T15:02:37+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18T20:52:12+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-03-26T21:01:44+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-03-27T19:28:03+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-14T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-14T17:30:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-15T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T21:27:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T21:27:20+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-18T12:30:48+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-23T23:00:32+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-24T17:30:00+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`
- **2025-05-05T17:15:06+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/73224781-0cd6-49e6-b7af-f7d70b3099c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).