---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise building code council membership laws"
description: "Revise building code council membership laws"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 144"
citation: "Montana HB 144 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Buildings and Building Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eric Tilleman"]
version_count: 22
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-07T21:52:59+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-07T22:45:41+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63403ad3-ebdf-4689-b43d-8cfe86ad9d76"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2251?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "785a5387623f077026d4325936f0cebbab81154839476f2f4e5a3fb74f2ffe9e"
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 144 (2025) — Revise building code council membership laws

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0144_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270421)
2. **HB0144_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=274979)
3. **HB0144_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275647)
4. **HB0144_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276678)
5. **HB0144_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294666)
6. **HB0144_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296363)
7. **HB0144_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270140)
8. **HB0144_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296362)
9. **HB0144_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296365)
10. **HB0144_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320364)
11. **HB0144_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324210)
12. **HB0144_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326529)
13. **HB0144_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296366)
14. **HB0144_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296435)
15. **HB0144_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296436)
16. **HB0144_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308355)
17. **HB0144_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308356)
18. **HB0144_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308357)
19. **HB0144_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310848)
20. **HB0144_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316786)
21. **HB0144_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296364)
22. **LC2251.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269323)

## Votes

- do_pass — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **29–21** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **94–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **31–19** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **98–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Eric Tilleman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-07T21:52:59+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-11T19:59:58+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-12-11T22:29:54+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-17T23:30:35+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-12-18T17:56:50+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-12-19T14:42:16+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-20T19:35:42+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-08T15:31:55+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-08T21:03:08+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-09T19:01:36+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-09T20:05:08+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-14T20:19:15+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Local Government
- **2025-01-21T23:23:54+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-22T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-22T20:14:58+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-24T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-24T21:33:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-27T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-27T22:09:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-27T22:26:11+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-28T20:55:40+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-18T01:29:32+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-22T00:42:44+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Local Government
- **2025-03-17T22:04:43+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
- **2025-03-18T19:16:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
- **2025-03-19T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-19T20:36:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-20T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T20:57:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T20:58:01+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-21T13:52:58+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-28T23:15:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-01T17:00:47+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-01T18:35:47+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-07T19:58:13+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-07T22:45:41+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/63403ad3-ebdf-4689-b43d-8cfe86ad9d76`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).