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type: "Bill"
title: "Renewable resource bonds and loans"
description: "Renewable resource bonds and loans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 8"
citation: "Montana HB 8 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Appropriations", "Coal Tax Fund Principal", "Debt", "Creation of State", "State Finance", "Water"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Fitzpatrick"]
version_count: 22
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-10-31T19:15:15+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-08T14:39:37+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d89b6a79-cf15-4860-a1a7-67c27971e896"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0713?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "09f3444b20c48a02ddce914a3126b12ac2267b6dec33761cf41525176029e500"
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 8 (2025) — Renewable resource bonds and loans
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB0008_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267677)
2. **HB0008_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275085)
3. **HB0008_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276158)
4. **HB0008_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301224)
5. **HB0008_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302189)
6. **HB0008_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309926)
7. **HB0008_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311234)
8. **HB0008_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311239)
9. **HB0008_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267676)
10. **HB0008_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311241)
11. **HB0008_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324782)
12. **HB0008_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325956)
13. **HB0008_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311242)
14. **HB0008_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311389)
15. **HB0008_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311390)
16. **HB0008_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317002)
17. **HB0008_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320571)
18. **HB0008_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322026)
19. **HB0008_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322027)
20. **HB0008_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322028)
21. **HB0008_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311240)
22. **LC0713.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=266622)
## Votes
- Do Pass — **916** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **220** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **500** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **480** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **945** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **230** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- John Fitzpatrick — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-10-31T19:15:15+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-11-25T21:07:11+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-11-26T15:53:45+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-11-29T17:03:55+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-12-02T16:33:05+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-12-04T22:02:45+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-04T22:50:59+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-12-11T22:54:45+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2024-12-11T23:00:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2024-12-18T20:45:16+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2024-12-20T22:10:35+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06T17:19:01+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-07T15:14:20+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-01-07T20:46:55+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-01-07T23:32:45+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-01-22T01:10:48+00:00** (H) Hearing - Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Long Range Planning (F)
- **2025-02-18T17:39:34+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Appropriations
- **2025-02-25T00:58:49+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-25T20:11:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Appropriations `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-28T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28T21:07:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-01T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-01T22:20:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03T20:18:09+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-05T00:37:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Finance and Claims `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21T02:12:08+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-04-01T16:07:52+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-04-02T19:33:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Finance and Claims
- **2025-04-12T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-12T16:55:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-14T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T17:49:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T19:38:55+00:00** (S) Returned to House
- **2025-04-15T21:17:12+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-16T01:48:47+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-23T23:30:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-25T19:00:35+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-25T21:32:14+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-05T18:37:31+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-08T14:39:37+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/d89b6a79-cf15-4860-a1a7-67c27971e896`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).