---
type: "Bill"
title: "Provide deadline to file for property tax relief from a disaster"
description: "Provide deadline to file for property tax relief from a disaster"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 89"
citation: "Montana HB 89 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency Services", "Taxation", "Taxation--Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shane Klakken"]
version_count: 24
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-09-04T18:15:05+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-07T21:07:15+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88333c91-43b4-42e0-800d-47ca5368c874"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0095?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "64defa3928e67bcb2bef3a3cd6894c37d26730f1496f3badf23e8d9709905ed8"
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 89 (2025) — Provide deadline to file for property tax relief from a disaster

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0089_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269213)
2. **HB0089_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273236)
3. **HB0089_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275427)
4. **HB0089_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276475)
5. **HB0089_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285438)
6. **HB0089_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294736)
7. **HB0089_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294741)
8. **HB0089_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294742)
9. **HB0089_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269212)
10. **HB0089_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294744)
11. **HB0089_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316783)
12. **HB0089_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320361)
13. **HB0089_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324208)
14. **HB0089_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325598)
15. **HB0089_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294745)
16. **HB0089_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294782)
17. **HB0089_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294783)
18. **HB0089_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295368)
19. **HB0089_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308231)
20. **HB0089_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308232)
21. **HB0089_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308233)
22. **HB0089_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310845)
23. **HB0089_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294743)
24. **LC0095.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=266783)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **18–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **85–14** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **86–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Shane Klakken — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-04T18:15:05+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-05T18:39:19+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-12-05T19:09:57+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-06T02:12:37+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-12-06T17:24:37+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-12-06T17:34:11+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-06T20:49:49+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-12-16T21:17:07+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2024-12-16T21:17:08+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2024-12-20T22:13:39+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06T18:19:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-07T01:38:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Taxation
- **2025-01-14T19:28:33+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Taxation `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-14T20:11:06+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Taxation `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-20T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-20T21:22:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-21T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-21T21:26:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-21T21:49:04+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-22T20:40:17+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-11T16:24:51+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T20:32:20+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Taxation
- **2025-02-21T16:43:35+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Taxation
- **2025-02-21T20:22:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Taxation
- **2025-03-15T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-15T15:45:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-17T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T20:10:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T20:10:09+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-18T15:08:19+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-28T23:15:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-01T17:00:47+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-01T18:35:47+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-07T19:57:20+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-07T21:07:15+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/88333c91-43b4-42e0-800d-47ca5368c874`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).