---
type: "Bill"
title: "Require fee schedule and report for certain commitments"
description: "Require fee schedule and report for certain commitments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 949"
citation: "Montana HB 949 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Civil Procedure", "Health", "Health Care Services", "Mental Illness or Incapacity", "Rule Making", "Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mary Caferro"]
version_count: 18
action_count: 42
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-09-05T22:34:25+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-19T14:17:08+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58ed636d-7419-425b-a7ab-b150eef8ea69"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0157?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "45ba1b2118b846d8aae193ba10b294217823597103116abbd67b017d21ee6018"
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 949 (2025) — Require fee schedule and report for certain commitments

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0949.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304760)
2. **HB0949.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304722)
3. **HB0949_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302221)
4. **HB0949_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306583)
5. **HB0949_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310196)
6. **HB0949_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314191)
7. **HB0949_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301830)
8. **HB0949_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314193)
9. **HB0949_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314194)
10. **HB0949_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317357)
11. **HB0949_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320823)
12. **HB0949_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324316)
13. **HB0949_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325350)
14. **HB0949_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325351)
15. **HB0949_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325352)
16. **HB0949_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325625)
17. **HB0949_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314192)
18. **LC0157.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299267)

## Votes

- be_concurred_in — **8–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **76–21** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **33–17** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **37–11** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **20–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **82–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mary Caferro — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-05T22:34:25+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-08T16:47:31+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-01-08T16:47:57+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-03-24T18:59:44+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-03-26T02:37:08+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-03-26T12:34:53+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-03-27T13:18:13+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-03-27T14:51:19+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-03-27T15:09:34+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-03-27T17:16:22+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-03-31T21:39:01+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-03-31T21:51:24+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-03-31T21:53:49+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-04-01T01:40:47+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T19:14:18+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-03T12:59:39+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Human Services
- **2025-04-03T23:21:13+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Human Services `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-04T00:29:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Human Services `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-04T17:03:44+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-04-05T14:43:02+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-04-07T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07T23:59:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-08T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T19:42:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T20:44:19+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-04-08T22:17:35+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-04-09T20:02:30+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10T16:23:13+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-11T18:18:23+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
- **2025-04-15T00:37:49+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
- **2025-04-15T19:23:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
- **2025-04-17T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-17T23:42:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-18T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-18T22:10:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-18T22:10:43+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-24T16:18:07+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-05-02T17:00:20+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`
- **2025-05-13T19:45:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-19T14:17:08+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/58ed636d-7419-425b-a7ab-b150eef8ea69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).