---
type: "Bill"
title: "Provide for restitution payments to children of certain homicide victims"
description: "Provide for restitution payments to children of certain homicide victims"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 712"
citation: "Montana HB 712 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts", "Crimes", "Liability", "Torts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Carter"]
version_count: 22
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-10T18:58:02+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T20:55:02+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8b965bd-e014-4232-b6e3-da1e0856453a"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2636?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "35cac644126857c2991e402639e3ec5e960066ec1b9070f928415ff3a858c4e6"
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 712 (2025) — Provide for restitution payments to children of certain homicide victims

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0712_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287602)
2. **HB0712_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293908)
3. **HB0712_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294076)
4. **HB0712_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295911)
5. **HB0712_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312995)
6. **HB0712_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312996)
7. **HB0712_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286822)
8. **HB0712_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312998)
9. **HB0712_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322467)
10. **HB0712_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322468)
11. **HB0712_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324884)
12. **HB0712_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326652)
13. **HB0712_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312999)
14. **HB0712_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313627)
15. **HB0712_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313628)
16. **HB0712_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315177)
17. **HB0712_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315178)
18. **HB0712_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317249)
19. **HB0712_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320766)
20. **HB0712_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322466)
21. **HB0712_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312997)
22. **LC2636.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286198)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **48–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **45–5** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bob Carter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-10T18:58:02+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-17T21:37:48+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-17T22:30:25+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-23T02:51:13+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-23T16:32:56+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-23T17:19:18+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-24T14:27:14+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-24T18:18:37+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-24T22:18:03+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-25T18:12:01+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T20:06:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-27T21:15:16+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
- **2025-02-28T21:48:44+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
- **2025-03-03T19:04:15+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04T01:36:48+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T23:17:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T17:29:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T00:14:39+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-17T15:17:52+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18T14:42:57+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-03-20T17:55:07+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-03-21T20:37:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-04-16T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16T20:40:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-17T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-17T19:22:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-17T19:22:45+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-19T20:25:09+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`
- **2025-05-13T20:55:02+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/b8b965bd-e014-4232-b6e3-da1e0856453a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).