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type: "Bill"
title: "Revising alcohol law to prohibit certain licensees from offering gambling"
description: "Revising alcohol law to prohibit certain licensees from offering gambling"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 668"
citation: "Montana HB 668 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Gambling"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Buttrey"]
version_count: 22
action_count: 38
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-13T14:32:44+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T17:18:34+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d2431fd-13ce-48c5-b85a-8bdd8c7f8a83"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2998?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "1754e3c4e4b6e70b1ddec974095c2759f4ac09bea70784acf9ab0565c750075b"
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 668 (2025) — Revising alcohol law to prohibit certain licensees from offering gambling
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB0668_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286032)
2. **HB0668_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293881)
3. **HB0668_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294106)
4. **HB0668_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298851)
5. **HB0668_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309747)
6. **HB0668_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309751)
7. **HB0668_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285955)
8. **HB0668_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309753)
9. **HB0668_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322444)
10. **HB0668_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324876)
11. **HB0668_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326721)
12. **HB0668_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327748)
13. **HB0668_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309755)
14. **HB0668_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311017)
15. **HB0668_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311480)
16. **HB0668_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311481)
17. **HB0668_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317022)
18. **HB0668_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320590)
19. **HB0668_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322442)
20. **HB0668_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322443)
21. **HB0668_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309752)
22. **LC2998.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284621)
## Votes
- do_pass — **200** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **918** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **936** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **111** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **3315** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **3118** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Ed Buttrey — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-12-13T14:32:44+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-17T04:34:48+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-17T14:34:53+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-19T21:25:01+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-20T17:26:50+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-20T20:56:49+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-21T15:14:48+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-22T15:51:29+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-22T15:55:52+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-02-22T16:35:15+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T16:51:35+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-02-27T19:55:50+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27T21:31:40+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-02-27T21:38:58+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-02-27T22:00:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-02-27T22:15:40+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T21:47:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T17:24:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T00:00:48+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-17T15:05:43+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19T16:03:42+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-26T17:45:39+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-26T20:58:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T17:25:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:42:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:42:51+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-16T11:43:49+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-04-16T11:44:09+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`
- **2025-05-13T17:18:34+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/7d2431fd-13ce-48c5-b85a-8bdd8c7f8a83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).