--- type: "Bill" title: "Allowing for distillery warehouse receipts" description: "Allowing for distillery warehouse receipts" jurisdiction: "us/states/mt" legislature: "Montana Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "HB 549" citation: "Montana HB 549 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Alcohol"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Kerri Seekins-Crowe"] version_count: 19 action_count: 42 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2024-11-04T13:45:46+00:00" last_action: "2025-05-13T22:05:41+00:00" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff3c9b8d-85b4-45b2-81a1-f520b390cb56" source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0732?open_tab=sum" source_hash: "64bc255c642ae6be95033bd0fcfcd814e9bd0cfdb25e12cd4eb64e5f5bb6573b" 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 549 (2025) — Allowing for distillery warehouse receipts ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB0549_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293833) 2. **HB0549_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293979) 3. **HB0549_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298833) 4. **HB0549_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309727) 5. **HB0549_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309728) 6. **HB0549_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283843) 7. **HB0549_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311115) 8. **HB0549_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325975) 9. **HB0549_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327420) 10. **HB0549_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311474) 11. **HB0549_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311475) 12. **HB0549_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317019) 13. **HB0549_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320587) 14. **HB0549_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322403) 15. **HB0549_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322404) 16. **HB0549_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322405) 17. **HB0549_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324863) 18. **HB0549_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311012) 19. **LC0732.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281786) ## Votes - Do Pass — **90–9** (pass) · lower - Do Concur — **46–2** (pass) · upper - do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower - be_concurred_in — **10–2** (pass) · upper - Do Pass — **92–6** (pass) · lower - Do Concur — **46–4** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Kerri Seekins-Crowe — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-11-04T13:45:46+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned - **2025-02-06T02:53:59+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review - **2025-02-06T13:13:37+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit - **2025-02-06T13:55:44+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned - **2025-02-08T22:33:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit - **2025-02-13T13:47:48+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing - **2025-02-14T16:30:07+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review - **2025-02-14T21:19:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly - **2025-02-15T19:11:22+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery - **2025-02-17T23:11:47+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester - **2025-02-18T22:03:37+00:00** (H) Introduced - **2025-02-18T22:47:56+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested - **2025-02-19T19:32:10+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee` - **2025-02-19T19:52:09+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1` - **2025-02-20T22:28:31+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt` - **2025-02-20T23:24:10+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed - **2025-02-21T14:56:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed - **2025-02-21T15:16:31+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor - **2025-02-26T16:51:29+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor - **2025-02-28T17:34:48+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage` - **2025-02-28T20:56:16+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage` - **2025-03-05T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2` - **2025-03-05T17:20:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2` - **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3` - **2025-03-07T16:30:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3` - **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate - **2025-03-14T23:06:17+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1` - **2025-03-14T23:25:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee` - **2025-03-19T16:03:42+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs - **2025-03-26T17:39:40+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 - **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2` - **2025-04-10T17:06:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2` - **2025-04-11T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3` - **2025-04-11T21:38:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3` - **2025-04-11T21:39:03+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling - **2025-04-16T11:34:18+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling - **2025-04-29T15:15:58+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage` - **2025-05-01T21:20:56+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage` - **2025-05-01T21:47:39+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt` - **2025-05-08T17:11:09+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature` - **2025-05-13T22:05:41+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/ff3c9b8d-85b4-45b2-81a1-f520b390cb56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).