---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise age of expanded Medicaid participants required to engage in community engagement activities"
description: "Revise age of expanded Medicaid participants required to engage in community engagement activities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 687"
citation: "Montana HB 687 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Health Care Services", "Labor and Employment", "Social Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bill Mercer"]
version_count: 21
action_count: 49
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-12-14T17:22:29+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-08T19:45:26+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0bf593c-31e0-4185-aafa-1f8c6d332c89"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3436?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "b454f7084eae660168d5b05415592b9726c08660bc2740cba40aafa3a91f6aff"
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 687 (2025) — Revise age of expanded Medicaid participants required to engage in community engagement activities

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0687_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286663)
2. **HB0687_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292283)
3. **HB0687_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=303513)
4. **HB0687_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309617)
5. **HB0687_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309618)
6. **HB0687_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309619)
7. **HB0687_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286433)
8. **HB0687_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309621)
9. **HB0687_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322196)
10. **HB0687_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324837)
11. **HB0687_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326872)
12. **HB0687_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309622)
13. **HB0687_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310217)
14. **HB0687_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310218)
15. **HB0687_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311057)
16. **HB0687_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316951)
17. **HB0687_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320525)
18. **HB0687_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322194)
19. **HB0687_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322195)
20. **HB0687_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309620)
21. **LC3436.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286083)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **58–41** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **32–18** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **57–42** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **14–9** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **7–4** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **12–9** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **15–7** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **32–17** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bill Mercer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-14T17:22:29+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-24T21:32:34+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-19T17:02:33+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-19T17:02:44+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-19T17:47:59+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-20T15:54:51+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-22T17:44:12+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-22T20:06:35+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-22T20:09:04+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-23T19:21:37+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-24T17:14:46+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-24T17:15:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-24T17:22:52+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-02-24T19:13:49+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24T20:09:59+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26T00:05:21+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Human Services
- **2025-02-28T00:14:45+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Human Services `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-28T14:21:07+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-02-28T16:15:35+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-02-28T16:17:06+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-02-28T20:40:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Human Services `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-03T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-03T20:22:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-03T21:53:00+00:00** (H) Rereferred to Committee - (H) Appropriations `referral-committee, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T22:28:47+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Appropriations
- **2025-03-03T22:57:58+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04T01:47:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-04T20:23:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-04T21:24:07+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-05T15:31:05+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27T19:27:13+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
- **2025-04-03T02:55:24+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
- **2025-04-03T20:53:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T17:36:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T01:06:01+00:00** (S) Rereferred to Committee - (S) Finance and Claims `referral-committee, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-11T02:57:31+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-04-11T19:45:27+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-04-11T21:25:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-04-12T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-12T20:30:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-12T20:30:34+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-15T05:37:58+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-23T23:30:28+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-25T20:15:22+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-25T21:33:14+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-05T18:37:31+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-08T19:45:26+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/e0bf593c-31e0-4185-aafa-1f8c6d332c89`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).