republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-943.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establish the Montana rare disease advisory council"
description: "Establish the Montana rare disease advisory council"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 943"
citation: "Montana HB 943 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Health Care Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Paul Tuss"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 41
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-24T15:17:39+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-19T14:14:45+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a03a8dea-a3b8-47d4-86b9-5612aa14c659"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC4182?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "1307d2225220f21acc653017eea1a70b2a94b295fe127e62ad000e678ac0ec45"
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 943 (2025) — Establish the Montana rare disease advisory council

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0943_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301547)
2. **HB0943_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306581)
3. **HB0943_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310195)
4. **HB0943_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314184)
5. **HB0943_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301488)
6. **HB0943_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314187)
7. **HB0943_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314188)
8. **HB0943_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316360)
9. **HB0943_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314185)
10. **LC4182.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300712)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **35–15** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **34–16** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **7–4** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **16–5** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **70–30** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **63–34** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Paul Tuss — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-24T15:17:39+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-24T21:09:49+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-03-21T16:53:51+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-03-25T21:01:20+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-03-26T12:57:36+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-03-28T23:20:12+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-03-29T18:53:40+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-03-29T20:41:24+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-03-30T16:54:03+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-03-31T14:02:34+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-03-31T18:46:42+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-03-31T18:51:08+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-03-31T18:52:26+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T19:11:39+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-02T19:09:13+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-04-02T19:33:18+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-04-03T01:23:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-04-03T12:59:38+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Human Services
- **2025-04-03T23:18:20+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Human Services `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-04T00:29:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Human Services `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07T23:47:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-08T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T19:41:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08T20:44:16+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-04-09T20:01:37+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10T16:22:31+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-11T18:18:23+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
- **2025-04-15T00:34:13+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
- **2025-04-15T19:22:00+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`
- **2025-04-17T23:40:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-18T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-18T15:30:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-18T22:10:08+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-24T16:11:23+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-05-02T17:00:20+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-06T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-07T15:03:52+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13T19:44:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-19T14:14:45+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/a03a8dea-a3b8-47d4-86b9-5612aa14c659`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).