---
type: "Bill"
title: "Generally revise health utilization review laws"
description: "Generally revise health utilization review laws"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 449"
citation: "Montana SB 449 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care Services", "Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vince Ricci"]
version_count: 37
action_count: 46
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-12-14T14:43:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T13:41:57+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b26e7514-b386-437a-9dc5-0feeff7abd5d"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3200?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "917c41cc0a7a13ed87246717caffeb627148ae691fd663b4e33a67367a7f9b2f"
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 449 (2025) — Generally revise health utilization review laws

## Version chain

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

1. **LC3200.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285928)
2. **SB0449.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307318)
3. **SB0449.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307998)
4. **SB0449_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287879)
5. **SB0449_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293527)
6. **SB0449_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293700)
7. **SB0449_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307239)
8. **SB0449_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307538)
9. **SB0449_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307539)
10. **SB0449_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307540)
11. **SB0449_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307541)
12. **SB0449_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286819)
13. **SB0449_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307714)
14. **SB0449_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308002)
15. **SB0449_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309032)
16. **SB0449_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309444)
17. **SB0449_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311305)
18. **SB0449_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311307)
19. **SB0449_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307679)
20. **SB0449_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311311)
21. **SB0449_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312552)
22. **SB0449_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317089)
23. **SB0449_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320655)
24. **SB0449_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322680)
25. **SB0449_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322681)
26. **SB0449_X(15).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322682)
27. **SB0449_X(16).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324953)
28. **SB0449_X(17).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326790)
29. **SB0449_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311312)
30. **SB0449_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312113)
31. **SB0449_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312114)
32. **SB0449_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312115)
33. **SB0449_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312116)
34. **SB0449_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312119)
35. **SB0449_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312121)
36. **SB0449_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312551)
37. **SB0449_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311309)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **8–4** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in_as_amended — **20–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Vince Ricci — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-14T14:43:00+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-18T01:02:49+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-01-27T19:34:55+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-18T17:46:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-19T13:06:59+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-22T01:33:01+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-22T17:24:12+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-22T19:31:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-24T14:05:30+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-24T19:00:14+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-24T22:17:18+00:00** (S) Introduced
- **2025-02-25T00:51:08+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T20:06:54+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-27T18:27:02+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-01T14:12:55+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-01T18:30:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T07:26:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T16:15:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T19:25:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T01:59:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T16:18:44+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
- **2025-03-17T15:23:06+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T19:15:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-01T00:28:06+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-04-02T15:22:57+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-04-03T19:59:51+00:00** (H) Hearing Canceled - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-04-03T20:01:49+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-04-08T22:25:31+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-04-09T19:16:38+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-04-09T22:00:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred as Amended - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-04-11T14:30:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T17:02:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T21:01:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T23:58:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-12T01:02:51+00:00** (H) Returned to Senate with Amendments
- **2025-04-14T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-14T19:19:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading House Amendments Concurred `amendment-amendment, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-15T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T22:10:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed as Amended by House `passage, passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T22:36:28+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-16T21:47:39+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-22T23:00:10+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-01T18:00:14+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-01T18:36:33+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-08T14:31:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13T13:41:57+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/b26e7514-b386-437a-9dc5-0feeff7abd5d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).