---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise laws for lobbyist payment threshold"
description: "Revise laws for lobbyist payment threshold"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 804"
citation: "Montana HB 804 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steve Fitzpatrick"]
version_count: 31
action_count: 41
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-12-08T16:56:13+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T19:30:01+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e38d2a7e-1f43-4360-8ee4-c139d273efff"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2379?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "1762f47c8c285900438cf47f5d6ddf6194e54d2961b74c4d900ad6e62bf805f1"
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 804 (2025) — Revise laws for lobbyist payment threshold

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0804.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297421)
2. **HB0804_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288575)
3. **HB0804_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293958)
4. **HB0804_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293997)
5. **HB0804_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297076)
6. **HB0804_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306036)
7. **HB0804_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306476)
8. **HB0804_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306477)
9. **HB0804_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306478)
10. **HB0804_1(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306479)
11. **HB0804_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288158)
12. **HB0804_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306557)
13. **HB0804_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308988)
14. **HB0804_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313810)
15. **HB0804_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313811)
16. **HB0804_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306556)
17. **HB0804_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313813)
18. **HB0804_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322548)
19. **HB0804_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322549)
20. **HB0804_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324911)
21. **HB0804_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326585)
22. **HB0804_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313933)
23. **HB0804_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313934)
24. **HB0804_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316250)
25. **HB0804_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316251)
26. **HB0804_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316282)
27. **HB0804_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317327)
28. **HB0804_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320803)
29. **HB0804_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322547)
30. **HB0804_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313812)
31. **LC2379.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287097)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **91–7** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **13–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **92–7** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **59–41** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **35–13** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in_as_amended — **8–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **56–42** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **39–9** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steve Fitzpatrick — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-08T16:56:13+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-08T16:56:13+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-24T17:14:56+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-24T17:17:47+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-24T17:17:47+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-24T22:52:17+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-25T05:05:57+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-25T17:52:33+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-25T18:53:20+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-26T13:10:56+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-26T15:26:28+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-26T15:41:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-26T18:36:42+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T20:05:50+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26T22:28:50+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-02-28T18:26:53+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-28T20:56:16+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-07T00:57:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T17:34:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T01:03:55+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19T19:13:56+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26T14:59:33+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-07T23:05:07+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-08T19:33:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred as Amended - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T20:29:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:53:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-12T00:05:32+00:00** (S) Returned to House with Amendments
- **2025-04-17T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-17T20:23:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Senate Amendments Concurred `amendment-amendment, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-18T16:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-18T16:55:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed as Amended by Senate `passage, passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-18T19:25:12+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-21T21:44:33+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-29T15:00:58+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-01T20:30:56+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-01T21:48:39+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-08T17:11:09+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13T19:30:01+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/e38d2a7e-1f43-4360-8ee4-c139d273efff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).