HB 543 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Repeal termination date on reporting and disclosure of violence against health care employees

HB 543 repeals the termination date for laws requiring the reporting and disclosure of violence against healthcare employees. Previously, these reporting requirements were set to expire on a specific date. By repealing that sunset clause, this bill makes the reporting and disclosure obligations permanent. This ensures that information about violence affecting healthcare workers will continue to be collected and shared indefinitely.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2025
House Passage
Apr 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
May 2025
Introduced Feb 18, 2025 Signed May 13, 2025
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The bill text was cleaned up by removing unnecessary quotation marks and a redundant 'END' marker. The effective date remains unchanged, and no substantive policy, funding, or eligibility changes were made.
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Removed a stray closing quotation mark and the 'END' marker from the document text.

Floor votes · Senate Apr 17, 2025 · House Mar 7, 2025

How they voted

3119
Passed
Total votes 50
Apr 17, 2025
D Democratic18
18 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican32
13 Yea 19 Nay
59% Nay
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
40
Key actions
7
Committee
4
Amendments
1
May 8, 2025
Signed into law
(H) Signed by Governor
lower
May 2, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Signed by President
upper
Apr 29, 2025
Lower · Passed
(H) Signed by Speaker
lower
Apr 17, 2025
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (31-19)
senate
Apr 3, 2025
Amended
(S) Tabled in Committee - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
upper
Mar 14, 2025
Committee
(S) Referred to Committee - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
upper
Mar 7, 2025
House · Passed
House Vote: pass (93-6-1)
house
Mar 4, 2025
Lower · Passed
(H) Committee Report - (H) Business and Labor
lower
Mar 3, 2025
Lower · Passed
(H) Committee Executive Action - (H) Business and Labor
lower
Feb 19, 2025
Committee
(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor
lower
Feb 18, 2025
Introduced
(H) Introduced
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
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Photo of Ed Buttrey
Ed Buttrey
RRepublican
MT
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