---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise criteria for cultural and arts grant program"
description: "Revise criteria for cultural and arts grant program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 757"
citation: "Montana HB 757 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Arts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Fitzpatrick"]
version_count: 21
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-10T14:46:16+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-19T20:26:36+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85ccec67-91e0-4291-9e03-f9ef80b6c599"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2597?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "547ae383b631dc3aa03d62ff9b33a794b6660c87dbc80a6ece838a71dfc01c1f"
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 757 (2025) — Revise criteria for cultural and arts grant program

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0757.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289153)
2. **HB0757_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287592)
3. **HB0757_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293935)
4. **HB0757_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294031)
5. **HB0757_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301290)
6. **HB0757_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302975)
7. **HB0757_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315423)
8. **HB0757_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315424)
9. **HB0757_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287289)
10. **HB0757_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315426)
11. **HB0757_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326647)
12. **HB0757_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317285)
13. **HB0757_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318083)
14. **HB0757_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318084)
15. **HB0757_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320932)
16. **HB0757_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324389)
17. **HB0757_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325216)
18. **HB0757_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325217)
19. **HB0757_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325218)
20. **HB0757_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315425)
21. **LC2597.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286171)

## Votes

- do_pass — **17–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **40–5** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **62–37** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **58–41** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **40–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John Fitzpatrick — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-10T14:46:16+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-10T14:46:16+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-17T23:31:43+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-18T16:53:37+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-18T19:58:10+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-22T22:30:41+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-24T00:09:16+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-24T02:16:04+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-24T18:16:51+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-25T16:20:52+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-25T17:48:16+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-25T18:47:10+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T20:06:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-25T21:46:07+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Appropriations
- **2025-02-27T23:40:27+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-28T20:33:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T22:43:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T17:27:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T00:37:27+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18T22:42:43+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Finance and Claims `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T22:15:36+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-04-02T17:19:46+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-04-02T19:43:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-04-18T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-18T18:30:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-22T18:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T20:30:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T20:30:37+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-27T14:51:52+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-05-02T17:30:49+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-06T20:00:43+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-07T15:03:52+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13T19:23:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-19T20:26:36+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/85ccec67-91e0-4291-9e03-f9ef80b6c599`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).