republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-891.md

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Bill	Provide subpoena powers to the office of inspector general	Provide subpoena powers to the office of inspector general	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2025	HB 891	Montana HB 891 (2025)	bill	Appropriations Health Care Services Law Enforcement State Government	enacted	Bill Mercer	20	41	6	2024-12-11T14:12:56+00:00	2025-05-19T22:36:38+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c2169fad-7003-43ca-b4ad-25dbf01f99a3	https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2722?open_tab=sum	055bcb70f39215b715ff207786cb93ba5eeccc0af9a3c20d06d6aac50e6c9714	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana HB 891 (2025) — Provide subpoena powers to the office of inspector general

Version chain

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

1. HB0891_1(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
2. HB0891_1(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
3. HB0891_1(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
4. HB0891_1(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
5. HB0891_1(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
6. HB0891_1(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
7. HB0891_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
8. HB0891_X(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
9. HB0891_X(10).pdf (committee substitute) — source
10. HB0891_X(11).pdf (committee substitute) — source
11. HB0891_X(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
12. HB0891_X(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
13. HB0891_X(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
14. HB0891_X(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
15. HB0891_X(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
16. HB0891_X(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
17. HB0891_X(8).pdf (committee substitute) — source
18. HB0891_X(9).pdf (committee substitute) — source
19. HB0891_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source
20. LC2722.pdf (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• do_pass — 11–10 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 32–18 (pass) · upper
• Do Concur — 32–18 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass — 57–41 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 64–36 (pass) · lower
• be_concurred_in — 7–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bill Mercer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-12-11T14:12:56+00:00 (LC) Drafter Assigned
• 2024-12-11T14:12:56+00:00 (LC) Draft On Hold
• 2025-03-25T00:33:12+00:00 (LC) Draft in Legal Review
• 2025-03-25T12:12:44+00:00 (LC) Draft in Edit
• 2025-03-25T19:21:02+00:00 (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2025-03-26T02:16:20+00:00 (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2025-03-26T13:29:35+00:00 (LC) Draft in Assembly
• 2025-03-26T15:15:08+00:00 (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2025-03-27T15:16:34+00:00 (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2025-03-27T15:45:50+00:00 (H) Introduced
• 2025-03-27T15:47:43+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Requested
• 2025-03-27T16:31:00+00:00 (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Human Services referral-committee
• 2025-03-27T19:11:01+00:00 (H) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-01T16:22:44+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Human Services
• 2025-04-02T01:06:31+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Human Services committee-passage
• 2025-04-02T16:41:04+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Received receipt
• 2025-04-02T18:19:00+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Signed
• 2025-04-02T23:19:00+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Printed
• 2025-04-02T23:35:00+00:00 (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Human Services committee-passage
• 2025-04-04T14:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-04T16:09:00+00:00 (H) 2nd Reading Passed reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-04-05T14:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-04-05T14:57:00+00:00 (H) 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-05T15:45:39+00:00 (H) Transmitted to Senate
• 2025-04-07T19:13:37+00:00 (S) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-07T19:43:00+00:00 (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety referral-committee
• 2025-04-07T22:50:15+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
• 2025-04-15T00:30:53+00:00 (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
• 2025-04-15T19:42:00+00:00 (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
• 2025-04-17T19:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-17T22:59:00+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-04-18T15:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-04-18T22:14:00+00:00 (S) 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-22T14:33:57+00:00 (S) Returned to House
• 2025-04-22T19:39:00+00:00 (H) Sent to Enrolling
• 2025-04-24T14:36:57+00:00 (H) Returned from Enrolling
• 2025-05-02T17:00:20+00:00 (H) Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-05-06T20:00:07+00:00 (S) Signed by President passage
• 2025-05-07T15:03:52+00:00 (H) Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13T19:38:00+00:00 (H) Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-19T22:36:38+00:00 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c2169fad-7003-43ca-b4ad-25dbf01f99a3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).