---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise firefighter qualifications"
description: "Revise firefighter qualifications"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 362"
citation: "Montana SB 362 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["City Officers", "Fires and Fire Protection", "Local Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tony Tezak"]
version_count: 19
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-13T16:02:33+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-08T21:07:52+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/823e67a6-c549-439d-8be0-0d36b6637556"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3112?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "86f3b8b3aaac9fac443eefaad3f91a15ceb6094bf89601624b0c998c255ef233"
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 SB 362 (2025) — Revise firefighter qualifications

## Version chain

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

1. **LC3112.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283052)
2. **SB0362_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293377)
3. **SB0362_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306850)
4. **SB0362_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309157)
5. **SB0362_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309162)
6. **SB0362_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284142)
7. **SB0362_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309165)
8. **SB0362_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321874)
9. **SB0362_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324758)
10. **SB0362_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326744)
11. **SB0362_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309166)
12. **SB0362_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309292)
13. **SB0362_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309294)
14. **SB0362_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310941)
15. **SB0362_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316878)
16. **SB0362_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320453)
17. **SB0362_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321872)
18. **SB0362_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321873)
19. **SB0362_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309164)

## Votes

- do_pass — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **95–5** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **43–7** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **47–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tony Tezak — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-13T16:02:33+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-13T16:02:33+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-11T00:33:14+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-13T00:49:33+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-13T22:19:48+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-17T15:30:59+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-17T17:36:31+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-17T18:41:44+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-17T20:15:30+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-18T18:06:35+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-19T16:45:47+00:00** (S) Introduced
- **2025-02-19T20:09:05+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-21T15:56:18+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-22T00:42:45+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Local Government
- **2025-02-28T23:29:22+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-01T18:24:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T15:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05T17:48:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T15:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T19:14:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T20:25:27+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
- **2025-03-07T17:17:19+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T19:15:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-28T23:49:56+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Local Government
- **2025-04-09T00:09:45+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Local Government
- **2025-04-09T20:13:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Local Government
- **2025-04-10T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T23:40:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T21:01:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T23:49:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T23:50:01+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-12T17:06:25+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-21T22:00:51+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-25T22:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-25T22:43:07+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-05T18:57:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-08T21:07:52+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/823e67a6-c549-439d-8be0-0d36b6637556`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).