---
type: "Bill"
title: "Study of wildland firefighting"
description: "Study of wildland firefighting"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 70"
citation: "Montana HB 70 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environmental Protection", "Fires and Fire Protection", "Interim Study Resolutions", "Local Government", "State Government", "State Lands"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steve Gist"]
version_count: 36
action_count: 40
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-10-09T20:09:46+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T21:41:39+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54aef7df-2e72-40a7-85a0-4e6d778276c5"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0548?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "c06a9b67c65dca2f383ecf6213ec68a445fa3e4669427a0303901bceb74a9fcd"
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 70 (2025) — Study of wildland firefighting

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0070.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295746)
2. **HB0070_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267767)
3. **HB0070_1(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297732)
4. **HB0070_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267768)
5. **HB0070_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275091)
6. **HB0070_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276163)
7. **HB0070_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277903)
8. **HB0070_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296846)
9. **HB0070_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297729)
10. **HB0070_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297730)
11. **HB0070_1(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297731)
12. **HB0070_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267766)
13. **HB0070_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297734)
14. **HB0070_2(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312523)
15. **HB0070_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297735)
16. **HB0070_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297736)
17. **HB0070_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297743)
18. **HB0070_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297747)
19. **HB0070_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297748)
20. **HB0070_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297758)
21. **HB0070_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306722)
22. **HB0070_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312520)
23. **HB0070_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297733)
24. **HB0070_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312527)
25. **HB0070_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324853)
26. **HB0070_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325857)
27. **HB0070_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313374)
28. **HB0070_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313375)
29. **HB0070_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313376)
30. **HB0070_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317128)
31. **HB0070_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320691)
32. **HB0070_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322373)
33. **HB0070_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322374)
34. **HB0070_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322375)
35. **HB0070_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312524)
36. **LC0548.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=266792)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **47–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **98–1** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **98–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **93–5** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in_as_amended — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steve Gist — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-09T20:09:46+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-04T22:36:17+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-12-04T22:52:02+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-05T20:33:07+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-12-05T20:37:14+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-06T16:00:50+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-12-06T20:50:28+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-12-07T16:55:47+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-10T01:24:46+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-12-12T16:10:10+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2024-12-12T16:11:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2024-12-20T22:12:49+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06T18:03:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-17T23:41:38+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Natural Resources
- **2025-01-28T00:47:37+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Natural Resources `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-28T20:22:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Natural Resources `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30T20:24:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-31T21:31:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-31T21:48:57+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-03T20:18:18+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-18T15:13:07+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07T23:20:36+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Natural Resources
- **2025-03-21T20:49:37+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended - (S) Natural Resources
- **2025-03-24T20:26:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred as Amended - (S) Natural Resources
- **2025-04-07T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07T21:19:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-08T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T20:52:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T21:47:24+00:00** (S) Returned to House with Amendments
- **2025-04-15T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15T19:53:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Senate Amendments Concurred `amendment-amendment, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-16T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T20:59:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed as Amended by Senate `passage, passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16T21:48:37+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-18T18:18:22+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`
- **2025-05-13T21:41:39+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/54aef7df-2e72-40a7-85a0-4e6d778276c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).