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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Revise civil liability laws"
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description: "Revise civil liability laws"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
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legislature: "Montana Legislature"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 642"
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citation: "Montana HB 642 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Liability"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Greg Overstreet"]
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version_count: 19
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action_count: 37
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2024-12-08T21:09:39+00:00"
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last_action: "2025-05-05T17:10:37+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a8a3755-c2d5-4ba6-bf6a-70160c979e54"
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source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2448?open_tab=sum"
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source_hash: "4de7e6d46e00ee8f6dedb4b3351423efcd0e1c7bb593647f09f8360cea8105e8"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-mt"]
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---
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# Montana HB 642 (2025) — Revise civil liability laws
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB0642.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=290367)
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2. **HB0642.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-not condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=290368)
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3. **HB0642_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291163)
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4. **HB0642_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316430)
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5. **HB0642_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311993)
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6. **HB0642_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313156)
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7. **HB0642_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321628)
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8. **HB0642_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324703)
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9. **HB0642_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326605)
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10. **HB0642_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313157)
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11. **HB0642_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313191)
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12. **HB0642_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313192)
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13. **HB0642_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313203)
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14. **HB0642_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317116)
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15. **HB0642_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320681)
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16. **HB0642_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321626)
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17. **HB0642_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321627)
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18. **HB0642_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312345)
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19. **LC2448.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284646)
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## Votes
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- Do Pass — **57–42** (pass) · lower
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- Do Concur — **33–17** (pass) · upper
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- Do Pass — **57–42** (pass) · lower
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- do_pass_as_amended — **12–8** (pass) · lower
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- Do Concur — **34–16** (pass) · upper
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- be_concurred_in — **5–3** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Greg Overstreet — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-12-08T21:09:39+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
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- **2024-12-08T21:09:39+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
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- **2025-02-15T23:05:42+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
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- **2025-02-17T04:27:01+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
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- **2025-02-17T13:52:34+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
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- **2025-02-19T21:28:42+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
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- **2025-02-20T17:26:20+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
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- **2025-02-20T20:55:41+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
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- **2025-02-21T15:13:15+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
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- **2025-02-21T19:55:47+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
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- **2025-02-21T22:26:25+00:00** (H) Introduced
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- **2025-02-22T15:23:47+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary `referral-committee`
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- **2025-02-22T16:10:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-24T21:14:12+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
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- **2025-03-01T19:50:49+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
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- **2025-03-01T22:45:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
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- **2025-03-06T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-06T15:32:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
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- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
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- **2025-03-07T17:13:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
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- **2025-03-14T23:06:17+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
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- **2025-03-14T23:43:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-24T09:28:13+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
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- **2025-03-28T17:40:58+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
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- **2025-03-28T21:46:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
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- **2025-04-14T19:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-14T20:22:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
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- **2025-04-15T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-15T21:25:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-15T21:25:37+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
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- **2025-04-18T18:12:00+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
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- **2025-04-23T15:58:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-04-24T17:30:00+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
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- **2025-04-24T21:45:28+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2025-05-05T17:10:37+00:00** Chapter Number Assigned `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a8a3755-c2d5-4ba6-bf6a-70160c979e54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
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