---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise hard rock and rock products mining fees"
description: "Revise hard rock and rock products mining fees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 69"
citation: "Montana HB 69 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environmental Protection", "Mining and Minerals", "Revenue", "State", "Rule Making", "State Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steve Gist"]
version_count: 20
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-10-09T20:09:42+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-16T22:32:13+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1519846f-fb55-4dcd-9a19-bce6595100e7"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0538?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "dca8cc60888b9cf2eb32c29e6d44741d29b9991a4f3485ccf23d1593aec21a85"
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 69 (2025) — Revise hard rock and rock products mining fees

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0069_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267764)
2. **HB0069_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=274970)
3. **HB0069_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275638)
4. **HB0069_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276668)
5. **HB0069_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305113)
6. **HB0069_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314964)
7. **HB0069_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314967)
8. **HB0069_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267763)
9. **HB0069_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314971)
10. **HB0069_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325796)
11. **HB0069_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317218)
12. **HB0069_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317705)
13. **HB0069_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317706)
14. **HB0069_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320890)
15. **HB0069_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323096)
16. **HB0069_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323097)
17. **HB0069_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323098)
18. **HB0069_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325019)
19. **HB0069_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314968)
20. **LC0538.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=266778)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **90–8** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **94–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **46–2** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **12–2** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **49–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steve Gist — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-09T20:09:42+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-03T17:10:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-12-03T19:18:43+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-05T20:50:30+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-12-06T21:09:54+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-12-07T16:57:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-10T01:22:13+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-12-12T16:08:30+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2024-12-12T17:12:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2024-12-18T20:51:33+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2024-12-20T22:12:48+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06T18:02:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-07T01:28:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Natural Resources
- **2025-01-07T15:17:42+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-01-07T21:13:11+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-01-07T23:32:26+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-01-17T22:40:26+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Natural Resources `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-20T21:48:16+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Natural Resources `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-24T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-24T21:13:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-27T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-27T22:06:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-27T22:25:56+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-28T20:53:20+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-11T16:33:02+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T18:03:17+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Natural Resources
- **2025-03-21T16:45:01+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Natural Resources
- **2025-04-04T22:55:25+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Natural Resources
- **2025-04-05T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Natural Resources
- **2025-04-18T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-18T16:25:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-22T18:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T20:17:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T20:18:49+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-25T14:36:39+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-05-01T19:00:49+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-02T16:00:24+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-05T16:05:54+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-12T17:12:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-16T22:32:13+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/1519846f-fb55-4dcd-9a19-bce6595100e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).