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type: "Bill"
title: "Allow county water and/or sewer districts to connect to a system beyond capacity"
description: "Allow county water and/or sewer districts to connect to a system beyond capacity"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 534"
citation: "Montana HB 534 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Environmental Protection", "Health", "Housing", "Local Government", "Rule Making", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Courtenay Sprunger"]
version_count: 23
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-11T22:06:37+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T22:01:10+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/733fd5c3-3a29-41ad-824c-035d711de494"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1128?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "4a1345c4a7962b9dd400fe2ba2041df36b0a32e18af703bfba32fbc08e322e75"
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 534 (2025) — Allow county water and/or sewer districts to connect to a system beyond capacity
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB0534_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283730)
2. **HB0534_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292275)
3. **HB0534_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301897)
4. **HB0534_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310063)
5. **HB0534_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310068)
6. **HB0534_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283475)
7. **HB0534_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310072)
8. **HB0534_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322397)
9. **HB0534_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322398)
10. **HB0534_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322399)
11. **HB0534_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324861)
12. **HB0534_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326048)
13. **HB0534_X(15).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327454)
14. **HB0534_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310073)
15. **HB0534_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310240)
16. **HB0534_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310241)
17. **HB0534_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310310)
18. **HB0534_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310311)
19. **HB0534_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311077)
20. **HB0534_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316969)
21. **HB0534_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320542)
22. **HB0534_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310069)
23. **LC1128.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281269)
## Votes
- Do Concur — **471** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **490** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **981** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **170** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **954** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **83** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Courtenay Sprunger — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-11-11T22:06:37+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-05T15:21:24+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-04T15:55:33+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-04T15:59:46+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-06T16:25:43+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-07T17:36:32+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-12T15:33:29+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-14T15:53:45+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-14T21:04:51+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-15T18:18:55+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-17T18:41:22+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-18T14:43:14+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-18T18:14:11+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18T19:39:53+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-24T20:19:16+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Local Government
- **2025-02-26T00:47:06+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26T20:32:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-03T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-03T20:24:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-04T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-04T20:19:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-04T21:24:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-05T15:28:59+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T15:51:09+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Local Government
- **2025-03-31T23:30:37+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
- **2025-04-01T19:19:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
- **2025-04-12T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-12T19:36:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-14T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T18:02:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T18:03:23+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-15T12:12:49+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-29T15:15:58+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-01T21:20:56+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-01T21:47:39+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-08T17:11:09+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13T22:01:10+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/733fd5c3-3a29-41ad-824c-035d711de494`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).