---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise pharmacy laws"
description: "Revise pharmacy laws"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 794"
citation: "Montana HB 794 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care Services", "Professions and Occupations O-Z"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Curtis Schomer"]
version_count: 22
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-10-29T12:10:52+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-19T20:57:21+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2339f3ee-b49e-4ca0-9169-3e5480c0d434"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0631?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "54e2fa202fe9dcf7d75dc1638968fec81425153eea3e9f7ecfe20cfa5c0d4c64"
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 794 (2025) — Revise pharmacy laws

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0794_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288535)
2. **HB0794_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293954)
3. **HB0794_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294003)
4. **HB0794_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300006)
5. **HB0794_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314217)
6. **HB0794_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314218)
7. **HB0794_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288097)
8. **HB0794_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314230)
9. **HB0794_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325241)
10. **HB0794_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325242)
11. **HB0794_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325243)
12. **HB0794_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325902)
13. **HB0794_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314231)
14. **HB0794_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316226)
15. **HB0794_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316230)
16. **HB0794_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316232)
17. **HB0794_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316361)
18. **HB0794_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317356)
19. **HB0794_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320822)
20. **HB0794_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324315)
21. **HB0794_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314220)
22. **LC0631.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286680)

## Votes

- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Curtis Schomer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-29T12:10:52+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-17T19:37:45+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-18T13:17:29+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-24T18:36:09+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-24T21:42:47+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-24T21:52:01+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-25T18:58:30+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-25T23:58:47+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-26T14:35:23+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-26T17:16:10+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T20:05:50+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-28T01:35:09+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-03-01T21:02:44+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-03-03T14:50:29+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-03-03T18:45:00+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04T01:36:48+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`
- **2025-03-06T16:44:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T17:16:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T00:58:46+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19T19:09:09+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24T15:07:18+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-28T15:08:08+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-28T21:51:00+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`
- **2025-04-17T22:16:00+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`
- **2025-04-18T22:03:56+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-24T14:06:27+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-05-02T17:30:49+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-06T20:00:07+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-07T15:03:52+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13T19:27:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-19T20:57:21+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/2339f3ee-b49e-4ca0-9169-3e5480c0d434`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).