---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise civil liability laws relating to equine activities and waivers"
description: "Revise civil liability laws relating to equine activities and waivers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 768"
citation: "Montana HB 768 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Liability"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Zack Wirth"]
version_count: 23
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-08T21:09:49+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-19T20:30:27+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a3788f4-4a03-49be-8234-d99f3ffdb26e"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2449?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "6de6af2ed175df48da5c9c5055ae361e5d4a76e5df570b3aaea9b737a4c31a37"
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 768 (2025) — Revise civil liability laws relating to equine activities and waivers

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0768_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288456)
2. **HB0768_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293944)
3. **HB0768_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294016)
4. **HB0768_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298852)
5. **HB0768_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314212)
6. **HB0768_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314213)
7. **HB0768_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287425)
8. **HB0768_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314215)
9. **HB0768_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325222)
10. **HB0768_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325223)
11. **HB0768_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325224)
12. **HB0768_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326606)
13. **HB0768_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327711)
14. **HB0768_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314216)
15. **HB0768_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316224)
16. **HB0768_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316225)
17. **HB0768_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316364)
18. **HB0768_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316365)
19. **HB0768_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317354)
20. **HB0768_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320821)
21. **HB0768_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324314)
22. **HB0768_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314214)
23. **LC2449.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286207)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **96–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **95–4** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **46–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **47–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Zack Wirth — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-08T21:09:49+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-08T21:09:49+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-19T20:25:49+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-20T21:11:41+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-23T17:01:37+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-24T04:59:20+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-24T14:29:37+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-24T20:02:48+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-25T20:11:28+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-26T17:21:04+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T20:05:50+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-28T01:32:21+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-02-28T17:46:59+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`
- **2025-03-06T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T22:00:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T17:25:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T00:46:50+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19T19:04:19+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19T19:05:52+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24T15:12:55+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-26T17:58:54+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-26T20:59:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-04-17T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-17T22:14:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-18T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-18T22:03:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-18T22:03:47+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-24T13:59:00+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-04-24T13:59:20+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-05-02T17:30:49+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-06T20:00:43+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-07T15:03:52+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13T19:24:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-19T20:30:27+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/2a3788f4-4a03-49be-8234-d99f3ffdb26e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).