---
type: "Bill"
title: "Generally revise laws related to alcohol regulation"
description: "Generally revise laws related to alcohol regulation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 92"
citation: "Montana HB 92 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcohol"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Buttrey"]
version_count: 17
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-09-09T20:02:24+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-07T14:29:32+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0edbada0-39f4-4a7c-98ee-06520bbfe4e4"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0203?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "6b94b7326799e07d02da0b2b5d43aae8371bad90e1c292b618bcd6a6e94e0d2e"
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 92 (2025) — Generally revise laws related to alcohol regulation

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0092_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269222)
2. **HB0092_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275120)
3. **HB0092_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276190)
4. **HB0092_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276946)
5. **HB0092_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295422)
6. **HB0092_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299404)
7. **HB0092_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299405)
8. **HB0092_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269221)
9. **HB0092_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307757)
10. **HB0092_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307758)
11. **HB0092_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310812)
12. **HB0092_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316755)
13. **HB0092_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320334)
14. **HB0092_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324187)
15. **HB0092_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325651)
16. **HB0092_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307756)
17. **LC0203.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=266656)

## Votes

- be_concurred_in — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **98–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **98–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **49–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **47–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ed Buttrey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-09T20:02:24+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-11-19T18:01:50+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-11-22T15:12:11+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-11-27T18:36:03+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-11-29T13:30:20+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-11-29T13:34:58+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-03T23:06:15+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-12-16T21:26:17+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2024-12-16T21:27:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2024-12-20T22:13:47+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06T18:21:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-09T18:28:49+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-01-15T18:00:58+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-15T21:19:06+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-21T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-21T20:28:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-22T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-22T21:27:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-22T22:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-23T20:38:47+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-18T15:03:50+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T18:26:53+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-19T17:26:36+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-20T21:40:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-25T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-25T19:59:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-26T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-26T20:44:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-26T20:45:09+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-28T12:35:42+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-28T22:50:23+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-31T17:30:49+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-31T19:55:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-07T14:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-07T14:29:32+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/0edbada0-39f4-4a7c-98ee-06520bbfe4e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).