---
type: "Bill"
title: "Generally revise conservation financing laws"
description: "Generally revise conservation financing laws"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 932"
citation: "Montana HB 932 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcohol", "Appropriations", "Environmental Protection", "Fish", "Revenue", "State", "State Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ken Walsh"]
version_count: 43
action_count: 51
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2024-11-19T14:07:58+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-19T14:06:35+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b32bf3cf-cf52-4d9b-8626-84109265d850"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1608?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "92bfb88df5e1c2043b60cffa9f8524940b8c5b79bec1695e774303edce161385"
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 932 (2025) — Generally revise conservation financing laws

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0932.001.002_Amendments-in-Context_final-condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310425)
2. **HB0932.001.002_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310423)
3. **HB0932.001.004_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312657)
4. **HB0932.001.005_Amendments-in-Context_final-condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312253)
5. **HB0932.001.005_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312252)
6. **HB0932.001.007_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315248)
7. **HB0932_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301196)
8. **HB0932_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305327)
9. **HB0932_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312693)
10. **HB0932_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315315)
11. **HB0932_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315316)
12. **HB0932_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315317)
13. **HB0932_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315318)
14. **HB0932_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301188)
15. **HB0932_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315320)
16. **HB0932_2(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317865)
17. **HB0932_2(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319468)
18. **HB0932_2(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319470)
19. **HB0932_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315334)
20. **HB0932_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315335)
21. **HB0932_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315378)
22. **HB0932_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315387)
23. **HB0932_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315389)
24. **HB0932_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315397)
25. **HB0932_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315399)
26. **HB0932_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315400)
27. **HB0932_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315319)
28. **HB0932_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319473)
29. **HB0932_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324481)
30. **HB0932_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325338)
31. **HB0932_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325339)
32. **HB0932_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325340)
33. **HB0932_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326272)
34. **HB0932_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319474)
35. **HB0932_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319845)
36. **HB0932_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319848)
37. **HB0932_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319855)
38. **HB0932_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319856)
39. **HB0932_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319870)
40. **HB0932_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319872)
41. **HB0932_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321073)
42. **HB0932_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319471)
43. **LC1608.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300586)

## Votes

- AMD-HB0932.001.005 McGillvray D/PASS — **47–3** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **70–30** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **71–27** (pass) · lower
- AMD-HB0932.001.004 Loge D/PASS — **33–16** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **16–7** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **88–12** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur As Amended — **36–14** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **38–11** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **89–11** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ken Walsh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-19T14:07:58+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-03-25T21:28:17+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-03-25T23:37:00+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-03-28T22:09:22+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-03-29T15:23:45+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-03-29T17:25:16+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-03-30T16:40:12+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-03-31T15:10:02+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-03-31T15:25:15+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-03-31T15:34:20+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-03-31T16:45:43+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T19:11:39+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-31T22:45:48+00:00** (H) Rereferred to Committee - (H) Appropriations `referral-committee, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T22:47:05+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Appropriations
- **2025-04-02T01:02:38+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-02T15:19:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-02T17:22:28+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-04-02T18:03:55+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-04-03T01:17:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-04-04T15:21:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-05T14:52:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-05T15:45:56+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-04-07T17:26:46+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Fish and Game
- **2025-04-07T19:13:37+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-07T19:34:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Fish and Game `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08T00:45:44+00:00** (S) Hearing Canceled - (S) Fish and Game
- **2025-04-10T18:31:14+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Fish and Game
- **2025-04-16T02:36:07+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Fish and Game
- **2025-04-16T19:23:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Fish and Game
- **2025-04-23T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23T20:35:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Motion to Amend Carried `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23T20:40:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Motion to Amend Carried `reading-2`
- **2025-04-23T20:48:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred as Amended `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-24T18:27:06+00:00** (H) Revised Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-04-25T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-25T17:26:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-25T18:59:43+00:00** (S) Returned to House with Amendments
- **2025-04-29T16:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29T16:52:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Senate Amendments Concurred `amendment-amendment, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-29T18:00:46+00:00** (H) Revised Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-04-29T19:10:22+00:00** (H) Revised Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-04-29T22:25:47+00:00** (H) Revised Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-04-30T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-30T16:59:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed as Amended by Senate `passage, passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-30T19:25:02+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-05-01T18:53:35+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-05-02T17:30:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-06T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-07T15:03:52+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13T19:43:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-19T14:06:35+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/b32bf3cf-cf52-4d9b-8626-84109265d850`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).