republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/sb-38.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Generally revise laws relating to attorney fees and prevailing parties for veto overrides	Generally revise laws relating to attorney fees and prevailing parties for veto overrides	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2025	SB 38	Montana SB 38 (2025)	bill	Civil Procedure	enacted	Greg Hertz	17	44	6	2024-10-24T20:34:58+00:00	2025-05-08T21:32:38+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/60a5f73b-7fbf-4fa6-8270-da85681fc709	https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0612?open_tab=sum	1d28e669a0c6001b099b0d798688f0dd36f689f057a5d33845146bf846df5dd9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana SB 38 (2025) — Generally revise laws relating to attorney fees and prevailing parties for veto overrides

Version chain

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

1. LC0612.pdf (committee substitute) — source
2. SB0038_1(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
3. SB0038_1(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
4. SB0038_1(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
5. SB0038_1(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
6. SB0038_1(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
7. SB0038_1(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
8. SB0038_1(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
9. SB0038_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
10. SB0038_X(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
11. SB0038_X(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
12. SB0038_X(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
13. SB0038_X(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
14. SB0038_X(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
15. SB0038_X(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
16. SB0038_X(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
17. SB0038_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Do Pass — 36–13 (pass) · upper
• do_pass — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• be_concurred_in — 12–8 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 58–41 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 32–18 (pass) · upper
• Do Concur — 58–42 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Greg Hertz — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-10-24T20:34:58+00:00 (LC) Drafter Assigned
• 2024-11-26T22:16:02+00:00 (LC) Draft in Legal Review
• 2024-11-26T22:50:39+00:00 (LC) Draft in Edit
• 2024-12-05T18:06:44+00:00 (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2024-12-09T18:10:26+00:00 (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2024-12-09T22:28:52+00:00 (LC) Draft in Assembly
• 2024-12-10T19:21:24+00:00 (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2024-12-12T16:52:41+00:00 (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2024-12-12T17:46:00+00:00 (S) Introduced
• 2024-12-18T17:04:44+00:00 (S) Fiscal Note Received receipt
• 2024-12-18T17:04:51+00:00 (S) Fiscal Note Unsigned
• 2024-12-18T17:38:57+00:00 (S) Fiscal Note Requested
• 2025-01-06T21:38:00+00:00 (S) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-01-07T21:39:00+00:00 (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-01-09T17:07:00+00:00 (S) Fiscal Note Printed
• 2025-01-22T19:12:17+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
• 2025-01-29T18:15:10+00:00 (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Judiciary committee-passage
• 2025-01-29T18:59:55+00:00 (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Judiciary committee-passage
• 2025-01-29T22:49:00+00:00 (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Judiciary committee-passage
• 2025-01-31T20:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-01-31T20:32:00+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading Passed reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-02-03T20:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-02-03T21:40:00+00:00 (S) 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-03T22:15:09+00:00 (S) Transmitted to House
• 2025-02-04T16:58:50+00:00 (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-04T20:10:01+00:00 (H) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-03-19T15:06:01+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
• 2025-03-24T23:56:54+00:00 (H) Hearing Canceled - (H) Judiciary
• 2025-03-25T00:01:06+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
• 2025-03-26T13:52:26+00:00 (H) Hearing Canceled - (H) Judiciary
• 2025-04-03T13:50:27+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
• 2025-04-08T16:43:18+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Judiciary
• 2025-04-08T21:19:00+00:00 (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Judiciary
• 2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-10T15:44:00+00:00 (H) 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-04-11T21:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-04-11T23:26:00+00:00 (H) 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-11T23:26:31+00:00 (S) Sent to Enrolling
• 2025-04-12T15:59:18+00:00 (S) Returned from Enrolling
• 2025-04-21T22:00:51+00:00 (S) Signed by President passage
• 2025-04-25T22:00:00+00:00 (H) Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-04-25T22:43:07+00:00 (S) Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-05T18:21:00+00:00 (S) Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-08T21:32:38+00:00 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/60a5f73b-7fbf-4fa6-8270-da85681fc709. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).