republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2017/sb-44.md

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Bill	Provide process to hold patients harmless from balance billing by air ambulance	Provide process to hold patients harmless from balance billing by air ambulance	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2017	SB 44	Montana SB 44 (2017)	bill	Health Care Services (see also: Health) Insurance Rule Making	enacted	Gordon Vance	1	77	11	2016-08-30	2017-04-25	openstates	ocd-bill/ec8f924c-cac0-4e5f-8d2a-e54d4b237ad5	http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0203W$BSRV.ActionQuery?P_SESS=20171&P_BLTP_BILL_TYP_CD=&P_BILL_NO=&P_BILL_DFT_NO=LC0379&P_CHPT_NO=&Z_ACTION=Find&P_SBJT_SBJ_CD=&P_ENTY_ID_SEQ=	136d1b2fe3edfe1979c756df907133f61ab58a392a653ae10540f5b0f969ad54	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana SB 44 (2017) — Provide process to hold patients harmless from balance billing by air ambulance

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do Pass — 50–0 (pass) · legislature
• Do Concur — 96–4 (pass) · legislature
• DO PASS AS AMENDED — 17–0 (pass) · legislature
• Do Pass — 50–0 (pass) · legislature
• Do Concur — 46–0 (pass) · legislature
• Do Pass — 48–0 (pass) · legislature
• BE CONCURRED IN AS AMENDED — 18–1 (pass) · legislature
• Do Concur — 95–4 (pass) · legislature
• Do Concur — 49–0 (pass) · legislature
• DO PASS AS AMENDED — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
• BE CONCURRED IN — 21–1 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Gordon Vance — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-08-30 Draft Request Received
• 2016-10-26 Fiscal Note Probable
• 2016-10-26 Draft to Requester for Review
• 2016-11-05 Draft in Legal Review
• 2016-11-17 Draft in Edit
• 2016-11-23 Draft to Drafter - Edit Review [KWK]
• 2016-11-23 Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2016-11-29 Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2016-11-29 Bill Draft Text Available Electronically
• 2016-11-29 Executive Director Review
• 2016-11-29 Draft in Assembly
• 2016-11-30 Pre-Introduction Letter Sent
• 2016-12-12 Pre-Introduction Letter Sent
• 2016-12-13 Introduced introduction
• 2016-12-13 Introduced Bill Text Available Electronically
• 2016-12-13 Fiscal Note Requested
• 2016-12-29 Referred to Committee referral-committee
• 2017-01-02 Fiscal Note Received
• 2017-01-02 First Reading reading-1
• 2017-01-09 Fiscal Note Printed
• 2017-01-09 Sponsor Rebuttal to Fiscal Note Received
• 2017-01-09 Sponsor Rebuttal to Fiscal Note Signed
• 2017-01-09 Sponsor Rebuttal to Fiscal Note Printed
• 2017-01-10 Hearing
• 2017-02-03 Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended committee-passage
• 2017-02-06 Revised Fiscal Note Requested
• 2017-02-06 Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended committee-passage
• 2017-02-06 Printed - New Version Available
• 2017-02-09 Revised Fiscal Note Received
• 2017-02-09 Revised Fiscal Note Printed
• 2017-02-09 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2017-02-09 2nd Reading Passed reading-2
• 2017-02-09 Rereferred to Committee referral-committee
• 2017-02-16 Hearing
• 2017-02-21 Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended committee-passage
• 2017-02-22 Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended committee-passage
• 2017-02-22 Printed - New Version Available
• 2017-02-24 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2017-02-24 Revised Fiscal Note Requested
• 2017-02-24 2nd Reading Passed reading-2
• 2017-02-24 Scheduled for 3rd Reading
• 2017-02-24 On Motion Rules Suspended
• 2017-02-24 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-24 Revised Fiscal Note Received
• 2017-02-24 Transmitted to House
• 2017-03-01 Referred to Committee referral-committee
• 2017-03-01 First Reading reading-1
• 2017-03-08 Revised Fiscal Note Printed
• 2017-03-09 Hearing Canceled
• 2017-03-23 Hearing
• 2017-03-28 Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended
• 2017-03-28 Committee Report--Bill Concurred as Amended
• 2017-03-28 Revised Fiscal Note Requested
• 2017-03-28 Printed - New Version Available
• 2017-03-30 Revised Fiscal Note Received
• 2017-03-31 Revised Fiscal Note Printed
• 2017-04-03 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2017-04-03 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2
• 2017-04-03 Rereferred to Committee referral-committee
• 2017-04-04 Hearing
• 2017-04-04 Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred
• 2017-04-04 Committee Report--Bill Concurred
• 2017-04-05 Scheduled for 3rd Reading
• 2017-04-05 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2017-04-05 Returned to Senate with Amendments
• 2017-04-07 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2017-04-07 2nd Reading House Amendments Concurred amendment-passage, reading-2, amendment-amendment
• 2017-04-08 Scheduled for 3rd Reading
• 2017-04-08 3rd Reading Passed as Amended by House passage, reading-3
• 2017-04-08 Sent to Enrolling
• 2017-04-10 Printed - Enrolled Version Available
• 2017-04-10 Returned from Enrolling
• 2017-04-12 Signed by President
• 2017-04-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-04-19 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2017-04-25 Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2017-04-25 Chapter Number Assigned

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ec8f924c-cac0-4e5f-8d2a-e54d4b237ad5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).