---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise voluntary payment laws to include all claims"
description: "Revise voluntary payment laws to include all claims"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 324"
citation: "Montana HB 324 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Civil Procedure", "Financial Institutions", "Liability", "Remedies", "Torts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steve Fitzpatrick"]
version_count: 26
action_count: 43
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-09-09T15:41:40+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-05T14:21:49+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43772072-0153-401f-b665-74397ace0a50"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0198?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "71f1e919e4e21e30f2b0534897bac5b81d6df9498f3a0e372c8e2e02f48180df"
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 324 (2025) — Revise voluntary payment laws to include all claims

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0324.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279441)
2. **HB0324.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=278742)
3. **HB0324_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275894)
4. **HB0324_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276717)
5. **HB0324_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279701)
6. **HB0324_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279702)
7. **HB0324_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279703)
8. **HB0324_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279704)
9. **HB0324_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275759)
10. **HB0324_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279706)
11. **HB0324_2(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306943)
12. **HB0324_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279708)
13. **HB0324_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279709)
14. **HB0324_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279791)
15. **HB0324_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279792)
16. **HB0324_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279793)
17. **HB0324_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282634)
18. **HB0324_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295873)
19. **HB0324_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306941)
20. **HB0324_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279705)
21. **HB0324_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316757)
22. **HB0324_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320336)
23. **HB0324_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324630)
24. **HB0324_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325657)
25. **HB0324_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310814)
26. **LC0198.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269606)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- do_pass_as_amended — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steve Fitzpatrick — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-09T15:41:40+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-24T18:00:18+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-12-26T17:02:41+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-28T17:02:56+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-12-29T19:37:39+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-12-30T15:00:04+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-31T20:02:33+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-28T15:50:26+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-28T16:09:21+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-28T16:11:19+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-01-28T17:58:26+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28T20:03:21+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-29T22:32:28+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-02-03T15:45:58+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-02-03T17:51:17+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Unsigned
- **2025-02-04T19:32:21+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-02-05T17:59:32+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05T18:05:57+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05T22:30:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-13T21:09:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-14T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-14T21:12:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-14T21:37:36+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-20T23:10:48+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-21T17:55:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T21:24:39+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-03T19:06:06+00:00** (S) Hearing Canceled - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-06T18:39:15+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-15T16:33:47+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-20T17:20:15+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-20T21:49:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-04-07T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07T19:55:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-08T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T20:39:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T20:39:15+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-10T14:35:45+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-18T19:00:46+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-22T00:00:24+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-22T18:10:24+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-05T14:21:49+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/43772072-0153-401f-b665-74397ace0a50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).