---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise enlisted militia compensation for SAD"
description: "Revise enlisted militia compensation for SAD"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 72"
citation: "Montana HB 72 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brad Barker"]
version_count: 21
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-09-23T13:04:17+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T21:27:09+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/831be19e-016a-4e13-9b28-ccbe8809beca"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0278?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "5d568673727fd604ae327354b0bce8ca63f2c4d105d9e659726c078525836f0e"
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 72 (2025) — Revise enlisted militia compensation for SAD

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0072_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267774)
2. **HB0072_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275103)
3. **HB0072_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276174)
4. **HB0072_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276930)
5. **HB0072_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287020)
6. **HB0072_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291875)
7. **HB0072_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267773)
8. **HB0072_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291876)
9. **HB0072_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291877)
10. **HB0072_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291993)
11. **HB0072_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291994)
12. **HB0072_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291995)
13. **HB0072_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291874)
14. **HB0072_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310621)
15. **HB0072_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316576)
16. **HB0072_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320176)
17. **HB0072_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324093)
18. **HB0072_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325724)
19. **HB0072_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327298)
20. **HB0072_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295356)
21. **LC0278.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=265436)

## Votes

- be_concurred_in — **6–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **37–13** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **39–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brad Barker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-23T13:04:17+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-11-13T22:22:56+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-11-13T23:11:00+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-11-14T18:07:08+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-11-14T21:54:29+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-11-17T19:05:18+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-11-19T00:15:03+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-12-12T21:45:30+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2024-12-12T21:46:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2024-12-20T22:12:54+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06T18:04:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-07T02:01:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-01-14T17:07:38+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-14T20:06:19+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-16T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-16T21:25:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-17T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-17T20:49:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-17T21:06:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-20T20:44:16+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-20T21:12:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-01T00:23:09+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-02-24T23:00:50+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-02-25T20:41:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-03-01T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-01T16:48:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-03T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-03T22:17:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03T22:18:09+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-05T21:59:34+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-17T13:30:56+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`
- **2025-03-27T19:57:07+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-27T21:27:09+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/831be19e-016a-4e13-9b28-ccbe8809beca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).