republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-195.md

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Bill	Revise noneconomic damages in medical malpractice actions	Revise noneconomic damages in medical malpractice actions	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2025	HB 195	Montana HB 195 (2025)	bill	Civil Procedure Liability Remedies Torts	enacted	Bill Mercer	15	41	6	2024-09-27T14:13:43+00:00	2025-03-27T15:16:17+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/7bd55195-e386-4f16-9404-07f63cde964b	https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0417?open_tab=sum	b9897c408ed91c6b762499a3ceb23f7b4df3d98f0461a0ae63a7255cb73155b3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana HB 195 (2025) — Revise noneconomic damages in medical malpractice actions

Version chain

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

1. HB0195_1(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
2. HB0195_1(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
3. HB0195_1(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
4. HB0195_1(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
5. HB0195_1(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
6. HB0195_1(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
7. HB0195_1(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
8. HB0195_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
9. HB0195_X(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
10. HB0195_X(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
11. HB0195_X(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
12. HB0195_X(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
13. HB0195_X(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
14. HB0195_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source
15. LC0417.pdf (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Do Concur — 47–2 (pass) · upper
• do_pass — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 48–2 (pass) · upper
• be_concurred_in — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass — 95–4 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 94–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Mercer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-09-27T14:13:43+00:00 (LC) Drafter Assigned
• 2024-12-24T18:20:39+00:00 (LC) Draft in Legal Review
• 2025-01-09T23:23:44+00:00 (LC) Draft in Edit
• 2025-01-10T22:07:15+00:00 (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2025-01-13T17:16:11+00:00 (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2025-01-13T23:13:28+00:00 (LC) Draft in Assembly
• 2025-01-14T16:19:39+00:00 (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2025-01-14T18:38:48+00:00 (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2025-01-14T18:43:14+00:00 (H) Introduced
• 2025-01-14T18:50:36+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Requested
• 2025-01-14T19:15:00+00:00 (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor referral-committee
• 2025-01-14T20:07:23+00:00 (H) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-01-15T00:23:43+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
• 2025-01-21T00:48:18+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Received receipt
• 2025-01-21T01:00:51+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Signed
• 2025-01-21T18:35:51+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor committee-passage
• 2025-01-21T19:01:00+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Printed
• 2025-01-21T19:40:39+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor committee-passage
• 2025-01-21T20:41:23+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
• 2025-01-27T21:40:00+00:00 (H) 2nd Reading Passed reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-01-28T20:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-01-28T21:34:00+00:00 (H) 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-28T23:00:20+00:00 (H) Transmitted to Senate
• 2025-01-29T20:47:47+00:00 (S) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-02-04T20:10:35+00:00 (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs referral-committee
• 2025-02-05T20:36:12+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
• 2025-02-14T18:13:00+00:00 (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
• 2025-02-14T22:08:00+00:00 (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
• 2025-02-20T23:38:51+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading Pass Consideration reading-2
• 2025-02-21T20:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-02-21T21:27:00+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-02-24T20:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-02-24T22:11:00+00:00 (S) 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-24T22:11:45+00:00 (H) Sent to Enrolling
• 2025-02-26T17:14:00+00:00 (H) Returned from Enrolling
• 2025-03-07T17:00:56+00:00 (H) Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-18T13:15:18+00:00 (S) Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-18T16:15:15+00:00 (H) Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-03-27T15:00:00+00:00 (H) Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-03-27T15:16:17+00:00 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7bd55195-e386-4f16-9404-07f63cde964b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).