---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise alcohol laws relating to community care retirement facility licenses"
description: "Revise alcohol laws relating to community care retirement facility licenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 491"
citation: "Montana HB 491 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alcohol", "Revenue", "State", "Senior Citizens"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Katie Zolnikov"]
version_count: 33
action_count: 44
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-06T21:02:04+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-05T16:31:51+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/507e4090-8cb7-43cf-bf42-ed8b1e593140"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0889?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "957a7b8231d34433506d0719bd365d6b10363afa14b6833976003a2104d399d9"
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 491 (2025) — Revise alcohol laws relating to community care retirement facility licenses

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0491.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288026)
2. **HB0491_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282076)
3. **HB0491_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286478)
4. **HB0491_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288678)
5. **HB0491_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288679)
6. **HB0491_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288680)
7. **HB0491_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288681)
8. **HB0491_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291482)
9. **HB0491_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281946)
10. **HB0491_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288683)
11. **HB0491_2(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291485)
12. **HB0491_2(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293329)
13. **HB0491_2(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298850)
14. **HB0491_2(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308306)
15. **HB0491_2(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308308)
16. **HB0491_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288701)
17. **HB0491_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288731)
18. **HB0491_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288737)
19. **HB0491_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288745)
20. **HB0491_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288746)
21. **HB0491_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288758)
22. **HB0491_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288759)
23. **HB0491_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288799)
24. **HB0491_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288682)
25. **HB0491_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316832)
26. **HB0491_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320408)
27. **HB0491_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321547)
28. **HB0491_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321548)
29. **HB0491_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321549)
30. **HB0491_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324679)
31. **HB0491_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326015)
32. **HB0491_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310892)
33. **LC0889.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280665)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **46–4** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **91–8** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **9–3** (pass) · upper
- do_pass_as_amended — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **93–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **45–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Katie Zolnikov — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-06T21:02:04+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-06T03:02:01+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-06T13:54:10+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-06T18:24:38+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-07T16:02:25+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-10T22:41:42+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-11T15:06:19+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-11T17:34:24+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-12T16:22:59+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-13T18:43:52+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-13T18:57:43+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-13T18:59:57+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-02-13T19:00:28+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T19:41:47+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-19T23:14:48+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-02-22T16:14:08+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-02-22T19:35:09+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-02-24T14:32:20+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-02-24T17:53:44+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-02-26T19:43:41+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26T22:23:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04T22:30:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05T02:40:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T15:21:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T19:13:38+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-14T23:06:17+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-14T23:23:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-15T16:30:19+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-19T16:04:38+00:00** (S) Hearing Canceled - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-24T15:12:49+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-26T17:49:57+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-26T20:57:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-04-09T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09T20:31:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T18:16:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T18:16:24+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-11T16:15:31+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`
- **2025-05-05T16:31:51+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/507e4090-8cb7-43cf-bf42-ed8b1e593140`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).