---
type: "Bill"
title: "Generally revising board of massage therapy member qualifications"
description: "Generally revising board of massage therapy member qualifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 720"
citation: "Montana HB 720 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations Generally"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nelly Nicol"]
version_count: 23
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-14T23:39:14+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T21:54:44+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/09142f70-a405-47bb-a7fd-d734c8c55fa3"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC4311?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "d343c5a0624fb3fbc63331b3c8a267934c1986fbfcfa222ddc913ff4527293b1"
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 720 (2025) — Generally revising board of massage therapy member qualifications

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0720_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287524)
2. **HB0720_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287537)
3. **HB0720_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287606)
4. **HB0720_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293916)
5. **HB0720_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294064)
6. **HB0720_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300002)
7. **HB0720_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309783)
8. **HB0720_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309785)
9. **HB0720_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287010)
10. **HB0720_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309788)
11. **HB0720_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322487)
12. **HB0720_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324891)
13. **HB0720_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327130)
14. **HB0720_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309789)
15. **HB0720_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310226)
16. **HB0720_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310227)
17. **HB0720_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311066)
18. **HB0720_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316960)
19. **HB0720_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320533)
20. **HB0720_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322485)
21. **HB0720_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322486)
22. **HB0720_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309786)
23. **LC4311.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286283)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **96–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **96–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **44–4** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **10–2** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **16–4** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **47–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nelly Nicol — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-14T23:39:14+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-20T22:40:16+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-20T23:06:39+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-24T02:18:35+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-24T14:33:43+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-24T14:42:25+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-24T19:27:27+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-24T22:32:18+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-24T23:04:01+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-25T18:10:38+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T20:06:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-28T20:14:03+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-03-01T20:04:15+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-01T22:45:18+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T23:20:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T17:30:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T00:20:21+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-17T15:20:06+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24T15:25:21+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-28T15:25:27+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-28T21:49:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T19:49:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:49:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:51:44+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-15T06:31:12+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-29T15:15:58+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-01T21:20:56+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-01T21:47:39+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-08T17:11:09+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13T21:54:44+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/09142f70-a405-47bb-a7fd-d734c8c55fa3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).