republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-246.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Provide for standardization of substantial equivalency determinations in professional licensing	Provide for standardization of substantial equivalency determinations in professional licensing	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2025	HB 246	Montana HB 246 (2025)	bill	Professions and Occupations Generally	enacted	Ed Buttrey	21	40	6	2024-09-09T21:00:19+00:00	2025-04-04T01:49:52+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/549f0316-e262-4c6d-9365-543d49e8ccd0	https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0218?open_tab=sum	bebc24298582258954099eb43f73decd02b4f7972447fcaedbe56a42ec8bf1fb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana HB 246 (2025) — Provide for standardization of substantial equivalency determinations in professional licensing

Version chain

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

1. HB0246_1(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
2. HB0246_1(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
3. HB0246_1(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
4. HB0246_1(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
5. HB0246_1(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
6. HB0246_1(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
7. HB0246_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
8. HB0246_X(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
9. HB0246_X(10).pdf (committee substitute) — source
10. HB0246_X(11).pdf (committee substitute) — source
11. HB0246_X(12).pdf (committee substitute) — source
12. HB0246_X(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
13. HB0246_X(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
14. HB0246_X(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
15. HB0246_X(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
16. HB0246_X(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
17. HB0246_X(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
18. HB0246_X(8).pdf (committee substitute) — source
19. HB0246_X(9).pdf (committee substitute) — source
20. HB0246_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source
21. LC0218.pdf (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Do Concur — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• do_pass — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 100–0 (pass) · lower
• be_concurred_in — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass — 100–0 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 49–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ed Buttrey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-09-09T21:00:19+00:00 (LC) Drafter Assigned
• 2024-12-30T16:17:24+00:00 (LC) Draft in Legal Review
• 2024-12-30T17:46:29+00:00 (LC) Draft in Edit
• 2024-12-31T19:13:39+00:00 (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2025-01-02T16:16:12+00:00 (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2025-01-03T21:08:16+00:00 (LC) Draft in Assembly
• 2025-01-06T15:11:44+00:00 (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2025-01-16T19:08:08+00:00 (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2025-01-17T17:48:43+00:00 (H) Introduced
• 2025-01-17T17:56:01+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Requested
• 2025-01-17T18:38:30+00:00 (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor referral-committee
• 2025-01-17T20:56:00+00:00 (H) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-01-20T22:19:58+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
• 2025-01-21T00:49:30+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Received receipt
• 2025-01-21T13:58:39+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Signed
• 2025-01-21T16:26:00+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Printed
• 2025-01-23T19:30:38+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
• 2025-01-28T19:59:51+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor committee-passage
• 2025-01-28T21:27:00+00:00 (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor committee-passage
• 2025-02-03T20:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-02-03T21:07:00+00:00 (H) 2nd Reading Passed reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-02-04T20:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-02-04T21:22:00+00:00 (H) 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04T23:12:00+00:00 (H) Transmitted to Senate
• 2025-02-05T20:29:17+00:00 (S) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-02-19T00:57:07+00:00 (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs referral-committee
• 2025-02-22T00:48:56+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
• 2025-03-01T20:07:19+00:00 (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
• 2025-03-03T22:40:00+00:00 (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
• 2025-03-17T19:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-03-17T19:16:00+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-03-18T19:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-03-18T20:30:00+00:00 (S) 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-18T20:30:33+00:00 (H) Sent to Enrolling
• 2025-03-19T16:51:23+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
• 2025-04-03T20:31:08+00:00 (H) Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-04T01:49:52+00:00 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/549f0316-e262-4c6d-9365-543d49e8ccd0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).