---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise laws for agricultural vehicles on the highway"
description: "Revise laws for agricultural vehicles on the highway"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 739"
citation: "Montana HB 739 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Motor Vehicles", "State Government", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Byrne"]
version_count: 37
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-14T16:02:29+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T18:47:03+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60c90105-16de-434f-929c-b44b48866bb8"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3293?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "fef6ab05f1630b446b7272c0871175647c21cc083b3a7e8fe600da5180c52fc1"
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 739 (2025) — Revise laws for agricultural vehicles on the highway

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0739.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=290376)
2. **HB0739_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287511)
3. **HB0739_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291395)
4. **HB0739_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291396)
5. **HB0739_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291397)
6. **HB0739_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291398)
7. **HB0739_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287199)
8. **HB0739_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291401)
9. **HB0739_2(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310065)
10. **HB0739_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291402)
11. **HB0739_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291429)
12. **HB0739_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291430)
13. **HB0739_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291432)
14. **HB0739_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293928)
15. **HB0739_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294044)
16. **HB0739_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300607)
17. **HB0739_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310064)
18. **HB0739_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291399)
19. **HB0739_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310067)
20. **HB0739_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321299)
21. **HB0739_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322505)
22. **HB0739_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322506)
23. **HB0739_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322507)
24. **HB0739_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324897)
25. **HB0739_X(15).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326826)
26. **HB0739_X(16).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327038)
27. **HB0739_X(17).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327877)
28. **HB0739_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310459)
29. **HB0739_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310461)
30. **HB0739_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310462)
31. **HB0739_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310463)
32. **HB0739_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310464)
33. **HB0739_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310487)
34. **HB0739_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316516)
35. **HB0739_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320128)
36. **HB0739_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310066)
37. **LC3293.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286211)

## Votes

- do_pass_as_amended — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **98–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ed Byrne — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-14T16:02:29+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-14T16:02:30+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-18T17:15:55+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-18T22:27:19+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-18T22:42:10+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-23T17:07:03+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-23T21:06:32+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-23T21:21:36+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-25T15:24:41+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-25T16:05:46+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-25T18:50:29+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T20:06:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-27T18:25:37+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Transportation
- **2025-03-01T01:26:06+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Transportation `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-01T01:26:09+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Transportation `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-01T22:45:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Transportation `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T01:15:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T17:36:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T00:31:07+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18T15:15:14+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Highways and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18T19:19:09+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Highways and Transportation
- **2025-03-19T23:34:08+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Highways and Transportation
- **2025-03-28T22:57:48+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Highways and Transportation
- **2025-03-31T19:25:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Highways and Transportation
- **2025-04-11T22:32:04+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Pass Consideration `reading-2`
- **2025-04-12T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-12T16:19:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-14T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T17:47:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T17:47:33+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-15T18:21:51+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`
- **2025-05-13T18:47:03+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/60c90105-16de-434f-929c-b44b48866bb8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).