republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2021/sb-149.md

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Bill	Exempt health care sharing ministries from insurance laws	Exempt health care sharing ministries from insurance laws	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2021	SB 149	Montana SB 149 (2021)	bill	Health (see also: Health Care Services; Safety) Insurance Religion	enacted	Tom McGillvray	6	55	10	2020-11-13	2021-05-07	openstates	ocd-bill/2357b892-4453-40c3-9f74-e5c190f2b1fa	http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0210W$BSIV.ActionQuery?P_BILL_NO1=149&P_BLTP_BILL_TYP_CD=SB&Z_ACTION=Find&P_SESS=20211	91df7310a7bbcf2633cc9bccd0cb4d7167ad9d5a32dce341f0751fddf4f9221d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana SB 149 (2021) — Exempt health care sharing ministries from insurance laws

Version chain

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

1. SB0149_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
2. SB0149_2.pdf (committee substitute) — source
3. SB0149_3.pdf (committee substitute) — source
4. SB0149_4.pdf (committee substitute) — source
5. SB0149_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AMD-002 Stafman D/PASS — 32–67 (fail) · lower
• DO PASS AS AMENDED — 8–3 (pass) · upper
• BE CONCURRED IN AS AMENDED — 10–9 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 31–19 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass As Amended — 31–19 (pass) · upper
• Do Concur — 68–31 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 31–19 (pass) · upper
• Do Concur — 65–33 (pass) · lower
• AMD-001 McGillvray D/PASS — 47–3 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass — 31–19 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Tom McGillvray — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-11-13 Draft Request Received
• 2021-01-12 Draft to Requester for Review
• 2021-01-13 Draft in Legal Review
• 2021-01-14 Draft in Edit
• 2021-01-18 Draft to Drafter - Edit Review
• 2021-01-18 Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2021-01-19 Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2021-01-19 Bill Draft Text Available Electronically
• 2021-01-20 Executive Director Review
• 2021-01-20 Draft in Assembly
• 2021-01-20 Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2021-01-20 Executive Director Final Review
• 2021-01-20 Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2021-01-25 Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2021-01-26 Introduced introduction
• 2021-01-26 Introduced Bill Text Available Electronically
• 2021-01-26 First Reading reading-1
• 2021-02-01 Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor, and Economic Affairs referral-committee
• 2021-02-05 Amendments Available
• 2021-02-05 Hearing - (S) Business, Labor, and Economic Affairs
• 2021-02-09 Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (S) Business, Labor, and Economic Affairs committee-passage
• 2021-02-09 Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended - (S) Business, Labor, and Economic Affairs committee-passage
• 2021-02-11 Printed - New Version Available
• 2021-02-16 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2021-02-16 2nd Reading Motion to Amend Carried
• 2021-02-16 2nd Reading Passed as Amended reading-2
• 2021-02-16 Printed - New Version Available
• 2021-02-18 Scheduled for 3rd Reading
• 2021-02-18 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-18 Transmitted to House
• 2021-02-22 Referred to Committee - (H) Human Services referral-committee
• 2021-02-22 First Reading reading-1
• 2021-03-16 Hearing - (H) Human Services
• 2021-03-26 Tabled in Committee - (H) Human Services amendment-deferral
• 2021-04-12 Taken from Table in Committee - (H) Human Services
• 2021-04-12 Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended - (H) Human Services
• 2021-04-13 Committee Report--Bill Concurred as Amended - (H) Human Services
• 2021-04-15 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2021-04-15 2nd Reading Motion to Amend Failed amendment-failure
• 2021-04-15 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2
• 2021-04-20 Scheduled for 3rd Reading
• 2021-04-20 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-20 Returned to Senate with Amendments
• 2021-04-22 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2021-04-22 2nd Reading House Amendments Concurred amendment-amendment, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2021-04-23 Scheduled for 3rd Reading
• 2021-04-23 3rd Reading Passed as Amended by House passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-23 Sent to Enrolling
• 2021-04-27 Returned from Enrolling
• 2021-04-27 Printed - Enrolled Version Available
• 2021-04-30 Signed by President
• 2021-05-04 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-05-04 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-07 Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-07 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2357b892-4453-40c3-9f74-e5c190f2b1fa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).