republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2017/hb-172.md

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Bill	Generally revise telephone cooperative laws	Generally revise telephone cooperative laws	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2017	HB 172	Montana HB 172 (2017)	bill	Energy Information Technology (see also: Communications)	enacted	Ross H Fitzgerald	1	64	11	2016-12-05	2017-03-31	openstates	ocd-bill/8ee35029-e90c-47ff-8d19-29fbf81f48cf	http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0203W$BSRV.ActionQuery?P_SESS=20171&P_BLTP_BILL_TYP_CD=&P_BILL_NO=&P_BILL_DFT_NO=LC1695&P_CHPT_NO=&Z_ACTION=Find&P_SBJT_SBJ_CD=&P_ENTY_ID_SEQ=	dcb7341296be9e010e76505487c8583965004a54ce63b1047d5ba727366d6964	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana HB 172 (2017) — Generally revise telephone cooperative laws

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do Pass — 87–12 (pass) · legislature
• Do Pass — 83–16 (pass) · legislature
• Do Pass — 93–7 (pass) · legislature
• BE CONCURRED IN AS AMENDED — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
• Do Pass — 91–6 (pass) · legislature
• Do Not Concur — 78–22 (pass) · legislature
• Do Adopt — 42–7 (pass) · legislature
• Do Concur — 39–9 (pass) · legislature
• Do Concur — 50–0 (pass) · legislature
• DO PASS AS AMENDED — 16–3 (pass) · legislature
• Do Concur — 47–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Ross H Fitzgerald — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-05 Draft Request Received
• 2016-12-13 Draft to Requester for Review
• 2016-12-29 Draft On Hold
• 2017-01-01 Draft to Requester for Review
• 2017-01-01 Draft to Requester for Review
• 2017-01-01 Draft in Legal Review
• 2017-01-02 Draft in Edit
• 2017-01-02 Draft to Drafter - Edit Review [SMH]
• 2017-01-03 Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2017-01-03 Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2017-01-03 Bill Draft Text Available Electronically
• 2017-01-03 Executive Director Review
• 2017-01-03 Draft in Assembly
• 2017-01-03 Executive Director Final Review
• 2017-01-03 Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2017-01-05 Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2017-01-05 Introduced introduction
• 2017-01-05 Referred to Committee referral-committee
• 2017-01-05 First Reading reading-1
• 2017-01-05 Introduced Bill Text Available Electronically
• 2017-01-13 Hearing
• 2017-01-19 Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended committee-passage
• 2017-01-19 Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended committee-passage
• 2017-01-19 Printed - New Version Available
• 2017-01-23 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2017-01-23 2nd Reading Passed reading-2
• 2017-01-24 Scheduled for 3rd Reading
• 2017-01-24 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2017-01-24 Transmitted to Senate
• 2017-01-25 First Reading reading-1
• 2017-01-25 Referred to Committee referral-committee
• 2017-02-03 Hearing
• 2017-02-08 Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended
• 2017-02-08 Committee Report--Bill Concurred as Amended
• 2017-02-10 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2017-02-10 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2
• 2017-02-13 Scheduled for 3rd Reading
• 2017-02-13 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-13 Returned to House with Amendments
• 2017-02-13 Printed - New Version Available
• 2017-02-16 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2017-02-16 2nd Reading Senate Amendments Not Concurred
• 2017-02-16 Conference Committee Appointed
• 2017-02-17 Conference Committee Appointed
• 2017-03-13 Hearing
• 2017-03-13 Conference Committee Report Received
• 2017-03-14 Conference Committee Report Received
• 2017-03-15 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2017-03-15 2nd Reading Conference Committee Report Adopted reading-2
• 2017-03-16 Scheduled for 3rd Reading
• 2017-03-16 3rd Reading Conference Committee Report Adopted reading-3
• 2017-03-16 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2017-03-16 2nd Reading Conference Committee Report Adopted reading-2
• 2017-03-17 Scheduled for 3rd Reading
• 2017-03-17 3rd Reading Conference Committee Report Adopted reading-3
• 2017-03-20 Printed - New Version Available
• 2017-03-20 Sent to Enrolling
• 2017-03-20 Printed - Enrolled Version Available
• 2017-03-21 Returned from Enrolling
• 2017-03-22 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-03-23 Signed by President
• 2017-03-24 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-03-31 Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2017-03-31 Chapter Number Assigned

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ee35029-e90c-47ff-8d19-29fbf81f48cf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).