republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/sb-511.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Generally revising laws related to litigation financing"
description: "Generally revising laws related to litigation financing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 511"
citation: "Montana SB 511 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corporations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Hertz"]
version_count: 23
action_count: 41
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-13T14:20:46+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-08T14:27:42+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8f1c624-5d87-48e3-8cc8-4f561c76c3a0"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2979?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "fa5156c1f88037a97ffe20d6006f4101fb27c9624273927a975a26e100c5b90f"
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 511 (2025) — Generally revising laws related to litigation financing

## Version chain

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

1. **LC2979.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286278)
2. **SB0511_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293550)
3. **SB0511_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293720)
4. **SB0511_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300103)
5. **SB0511_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309279)
6. **SB0511_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309280)
7. **SB0511_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287938)
8. **SB0511_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309282)
9. **SB0511_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320509)
10. **SB0511_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322017)
11. **SB0511_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322018)
12. **SB0511_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322019)
13. **SB0511_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324779)
14. **SB0511_X(15).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326794)
15. **SB0511_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309283)
16. **SB0511_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309464)
17. **SB0511_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309465)
18. **SB0511_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309466)
19. **SB0511_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309640)
20. **SB0511_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309641)
21. **SB0511_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310998)
22. **SB0511_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316934)
23. **SB0511_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309281)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **43–7** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **77–22** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **84–16** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **34–15** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **17–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Greg Hertz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-13T14:20:46+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-13T14:20:46+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-13T15:31:40+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-17T22:07:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-18T13:30:39+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-24T00:41:33+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-24T17:11:16+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-24T20:02:46+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-24T22:14:18+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-25T21:49:52+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-25T22:56:44+00:00** (S) Introduced
- **2025-02-26T01:32:12+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-02-26T20:27:22+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26T20:33:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28T20:23:11+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-03-04T18:54:21+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04T23:19:38+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-03-04T23:19:44+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Unsigned
- **2025-03-04T23:24:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T22:46:18+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-03-06T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T22:56:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T00:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T01:53:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T16:19:10+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
- **2025-03-17T15:27:09+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T19:15:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-17T21:10:27+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-03-28T17:15:45+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-03-29T15:19:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-04-11T14:30:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T19:23:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T21:01:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-12T00:00:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-12T00:01:30+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-14T13:40:48+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-21T22:00:17+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-25T20:40:10+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-25T21:18:10+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-05T19:19:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-08T14:27:42+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/e8f1c624-5d87-48e3-8cc8-4f561c76c3a0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).