republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-183.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enact PA licensure compact"
description: "Enact PA licensure compact"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 183"
citation: "Montana HB 183 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Health Care Services", "Interstate Cooperation", "Professions and Occupations O-Z", "Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jodee Etchart"]
version_count: 24
action_count: 41
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-12T14:19:41+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-04T01:46:07+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c54c0ea8-240e-4802-abec-764d5eae1c96"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2876?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "c316bf6655133ab277e04aa87ced88777e154d77f21dda84c20499d966958cde"
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 183 (2025) — Enact PA licensure compact

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0183_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271442)
2. **HB0183_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275226)
3. **HB0183_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276058)
4. **HB0183_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276750)
5. **HB0183_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286496)
6. **HB0183_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294737)
7. **HB0183_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294738)
8. **HB0183_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271062)
9. **HB0183_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294752)
10. **HB0183_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310745)
11. **HB0183_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316684)
12. **HB0183_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320268)
13. **HB0183_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324134)
14. **HB0183_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326703)
15. **HB0183_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294754)
16. **HB0183_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294851)
17. **HB0183_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294854)
18. **HB0183_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294856)
19. **HB0183_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295372)
20. **HB0183_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305227)
21. **HB0183_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305228)
22. **HB0183_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305230)
23. **HB0183_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294740)
24. **LC2876.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270087)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **48–2** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **47–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jodee Etchart — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-12T14:19:41+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-01T00:05:58+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-01T19:56:47+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-01-08T16:26:49+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-01-08T23:57:18+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-01-10T03:27:13+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-01-10T23:26:47+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-13T19:42:00+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-13T19:53:56+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-13T19:57:06+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-01-14T17:16:05+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14T19:43:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-01-14T20:07:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-16T21:27:22+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-01-20T18:37:38+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-01-20T20:51:03+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-01-20T21:50:46+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-01-21T14:45:16+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-01-22T18:28:39+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-22T20:15:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-27T21:26:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-28T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-28T21:33:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-28T23:00:16+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-29T20:46:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-11T16:37:53+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T23:16:18+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-02-24T17:58:40+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-02-24T20:22:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-15T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-15T16:05:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-17T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T20:14:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T20:14:14+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-18T16:43:28+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-21T23:00:36+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-24T23:00:15+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-25T15:11:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-03T20:30:35+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-04T01:46:07+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/c54c0ea8-240e-4802-abec-764d5eae1c96`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).