republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-680.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Generally revise trade and commerce laws"
description: "Generally revise trade and commerce laws"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 680"
citation: "Montana HB 680 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic Development", "Public Contracts", "Trade Regulations and Competition"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ken Walsh"]
version_count: 23
action_count: 43
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-14T20:08:27+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-19T15:15:08+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/540b6eef-3f99-4d08-aa84-95f3a11c0c56"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3617?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "b11cb60a128a62b7134c12a6037c3f9f6c61cfcaba6c20ff2d820db44fe1e074"
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 680 (2025) — Generally revise trade and commerce laws

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0680_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286679)
2. **HB0680_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293887)
3. **HB0680_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294105)
4. **HB0680_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315380)
5. **HB0680_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318623)
6. **HB0680_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318734)
7. **HB0680_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318736)
8. **HB0680_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286342)
9. **HB0680_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318738)
10. **HB0680_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325168)
11. **HB0680_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325169)
12. **HB0680_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325170)
13. **HB0680_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326922)
14. **HB0680_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318739)
15. **HB0680_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319024)
16. **HB0680_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319025)
17. **HB0680_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319026)
18. **HB0680_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319029)
19. **HB0680_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=319030)
20. **HB0680_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321011)
21. **HB0680_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324446)
22. **HB0680_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318737)
23. **LC3617.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284911)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **96–3** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **16–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **94–4** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **42–6** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **45–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ken Walsh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-14T20:08:27+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-14T20:08:27+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-14T22:57:49+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-17T18:58:54+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-17T22:19:47+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-20T17:43:08+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-20T20:26:06+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-20T21:00:58+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-20T23:52:35+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-21T16:30:30+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-24T14:45:07+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-24T15:02:58+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-02-24T16:01:32+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24T20:09:59+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26T18:29:53+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-02-26T22:25:04+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-02-27T16:19:28+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-02-27T16:19:36+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-02-27T19:28:52+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27T22:15:40+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05T17:17:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T16:30:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T00:03:37+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-17T15:07:44+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01T22:17:41+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-03T01:40:01+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-23T23:11:01+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-24T19:17:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-25T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-25T15:29:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-28T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-28T22:06:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29T14:29:31+00:00** (S) Returned to House
- **2025-04-29T15:26:00+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-29T22:10:45+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-05-02T19:00:46+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-06T20:00:43+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-07T15:03:52+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13T19:17:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-19T15:15:08+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/540b6eef-3f99-4d08-aa84-95f3a11c0c56`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).