republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/sb-373.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise laws related to enforcement of liens"
description: "Revise laws related to enforcement of liens"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 373"
citation: "Montana SB 373 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic Development", "Property", "Secured Transactions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry Usher"]
version_count: 24
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-08T02:15:49+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-08T21:12:22+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80d2a37e-bfb5-415e-90fc-0ad48fed5be4"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2345?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "bb40764863b020c6abb1ac5ec167cadf760f1d5810786ad556a7b6026c22ad17"
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 SB 373 (2025) — Revise laws related to enforcement of liens

## Version chain

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

1. **LC2345.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284255)
2. **SB0373_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285403)
3. **SB0373_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291836)
4. **SB0373_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299392)
5. **SB0373_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309168)
6. **SB0373_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309172)
7. **SB0373_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284607)
8. **SB0373_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309175)
9. **SB0373_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316896)
10. **SB0373_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320471)
11. **SB0373_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321880)
12. **SB0373_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321881)
13. **SB0373_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321882)
14. **SB0373_X(15).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324760)
15. **SB0373_X(16).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326567)
16. **SB0373_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309176)
17. **SB0373_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309344)
18. **SB0373_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309345)
19. **SB0373_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309346)
20. **SB0373_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309347)
21. **SB0373_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309348)
22. **SB0373_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309349)
23. **SB0373_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310959)
24. **SB0373_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309174)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **43–7** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **11–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **94–4** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **39–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Barry Usher — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-08T02:15:49+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-08T02:15:49+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-01-29T00:22:32+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-01-29T19:00:09+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-19T18:01:16+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-19T18:44:37+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-19T18:56:07+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-19T19:32:56+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-19T19:44:11+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-19T19:46:00+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-19T20:09:58+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-19T22:07:29+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-19T23:31:15+00:00** (S) Introduced
- **2025-02-20T20:21:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-20T20:22:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24T22:48:38+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-02-26T18:46:31+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26T20:53:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-01T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-01T17:01:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-03T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-03T22:07:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03T23:21:53+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
- **2025-03-04T18:25:25+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T20:09:38+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-17T20:33:01+00:00** (H) Rereferred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T21:10:08+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-03-27T16:03:07+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-03-27T19:20:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T17:08:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T21:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T23:33:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T23:34:15+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-12T20:40:36+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-21T22:00:51+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-25T21:15:16+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-25T22:00:05+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-05T18:58:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-08T21:12:22+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/80d2a37e-bfb5-415e-90fc-0ad48fed5be4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).