HB 668 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Revising alcohol law to prohibit certain licensees from offering gambling

HB 668 revises alcohol laws to prohibit certain licensees from offering gambling. The bill specifies that all-beverages licenses and beer and wine licenses issued to military clubs, veterans' organizations, and recognized national fraternal organizations after the bill's effective date will no longer be eligible to offer gambling activities. This means that these particular types of organizations, if granted a new alcohol license in the future, cannot also operate gambling on their premises. The change applies to newly issued licenses of these specific categories.
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 22, 2025 Signed May 13, 2025
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What changed between versions

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MINOR
The bill text was slightly modified to remove a period at the end of the effective date provision, and the document was finalized by removing the '- END -' marker. These are purely technical formatting changes with no impact on the bill's legal content or policy.
TECHNICAL

Removed a trailing period from the effective date provision and deleted the document end marker, resulting in minor formatting adjustments without substantive policy changes.

Floor votes · Senate Apr 11, 2025 · House Mar 7, 2025

How they voted

3315
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 50
Apr 11, 2025
D Democratic18
14 Yea 3 Nay 1
77% Yea
R Republican32
19 Yea 12 Nay 1
59% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
40
Key actions
9
Committee
6
May 8, 2025
Signed into law
(H) Signed by Governor
lower
May 1, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Signed by President
upper
Apr 29, 2025
Lower · Passed
(H) Signed by Speaker
lower
Apr 11, 2025
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (33-15-2)
senate
Mar 26, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Committee Report - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
upper
Mar 26, 2025
Upper · Passed
(S) Committee Executive Action - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
upper
Mar 17, 2025
Committee
(S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
upper
Mar 7, 2025
House · Passed
House Vote: pass (91-8-1)
house
Feb 27, 2025
Lower · Passed
(H) Committee Report - (H) Business and Labor
lower
Feb 27, 2025
Lower · Passed
(H) Committee Executive Action - (H) Business and Labor
lower
Feb 22, 2025
Committee
(H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor
lower
Feb 22, 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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