---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise laws for divisions of land exempt from subdivision review"
description: "Revise laws for divisions of land exempt from subdivision review"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 714"
citation: "Montana HB 714 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cities and Towns", "Counties", "Local Government", "Planning", "Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Larry Brewster"]
version_count: 34
action_count: 41
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-12-07T22:24:38+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T21:45:34+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d6fd47e-0bb8-4652-bd66-fe37a2cf0ba8"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2268?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "f728bcddc5ba7774aa87cb05ea1037205748609a61061faba7424ab1b8942fcb"
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 714 (2025) — Revise laws for divisions of land exempt from subdivision review

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0714.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305621)
2. **HB0714.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-not condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305734)
3. **HB0714.001.002_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305645)
4. **HB0714.001.002_Amendments-in-Context_final-not condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305646)
5. **HB0714.001.003_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306205)
6. **HB0714.001.003_combo_final-not condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306207)
7. **HB0714_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286828)
8. **HB0714_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287595)
9. **HB0714_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293910)
10. **HB0714_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294073)
11. **HB0714_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306087)
12. **HB0714_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306628)
13. **HB0714_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306629)
14. **HB0714_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306630)
15. **HB0714_1(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306631)
16. **HB0714_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286827)
17. **HB0714_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306737)
18. **HB0714_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308985)
19. **HB0714_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313530)
20. **HB0714_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313531)
21. **HB0714_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306736)
22. **HB0714_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313533)
23. **HB0714_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324886)
24. **HB0714_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326537)
25. **HB0714_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313760)
26. **HB0714_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313761)
27. **HB0714_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313762)
28. **HB0714_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317153)
29. **HB0714_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320716)
30. **HB0714_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322472)
31. **HB0714_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322473)
32. **HB0714_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322474)
33. **HB0714_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313532)
34. **LC2268.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286144)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **61–37** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **56–43** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **45–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **57–41** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **62–38** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in_as_amended — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **10–7** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **45–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Larry Brewster — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-07T22:24:38+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-07T22:24:38+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-03T16:25:55+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-18T15:16:57+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-18T15:33:21+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-22T18:46:53+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-23T20:58:57+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-23T21:20:23+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-24T20:39:23+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-24T22:19:45+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-24T22:31:47+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-25T18:11:56+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T20:06:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26T14:14:18+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Local Government
- **2025-02-26T16:09:51+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Local Government
- **2025-02-28T04:19:18+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-28T20:56:16+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T17:42:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T17:18:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T00:16:22+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-17T15:18:30+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T22:50:49+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Local Government
- **2025-04-07T23:56:39+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended - (S) Local Government
- **2025-04-08T20:28:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred as Amended - (S) Local Government
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T19:44:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:47:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-12T00:05:28+00:00** (S) Returned to House with Amendments
- **2025-04-17T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-17T20:51:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Senate Amendments Concurred `amendment-amendment, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-18T16:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-18T17:20:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed as Amended by Senate `passage, passage, reading-3, reading-3`
- **2025-04-18T19:12:20+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-20T19:18:27+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-29T15:00:58+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-01T20:30:56+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-01T21:48:39+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-08T17:11:09+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13T21:45:34+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/0d6fd47e-0bb8-4652-bd66-fe37a2cf0ba8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).