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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revise laws on state appointments and vacancies of executive boards and commissions"
+description: "Revise laws on state appointments and vacancies of executive boards and commissions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 215"
+citation: "Montana HB 215 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["State Government"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Caleb Hinkle"]
+version_count: 22
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-11-19T14:59:53+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-04-07T23:08:24+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/baca2331-36f0-4eaa-b5da-ed47f5a859ee"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1642?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "01976d2b6339baf4e0cffa750df2dcfa0e17a0910e97a100d75d62d6cca46e08"
+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 HB 215 (2025) — Revise laws on state appointments and vacancies of executive boards and commissions
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB0215_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272147)
+2. **HB0215_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275288)
+3. **HB0215_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276344)
+4. **HB0215_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279837)
+5. **HB0215_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298059)
+6. **HB0215_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271735)
+7. **HB0215_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298058)
+8. **HB0215_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298061)
+9. **HB0215_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320373)
+10. **HB0215_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324218)
+11. **HB0215_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326287)
+12. **HB0215_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327564)
+13. **HB0215_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298589)
+14. **HB0215_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298590)
+15. **HB0215_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298591)
+16. **HB0215_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308381)
+17. **HB0215_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308382)
+18. **HB0215_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308383)
+19. **HB0215_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310857)
+20. **HB0215_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316795)
+21. **HB0215_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298060)
+22. **LC1642.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270149)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Concur — **31–19** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **58–41** (pass) · lower
+- be_concurred_in — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **58–42** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **33–17** (pass) · upper
+- do_pass — **12–8** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Caleb Hinkle — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-11-19T14:59:53+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2025-01-07T20:12:22+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-01-07T22:53:03+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-01-08T18:25:47+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-01-10T16:13:45+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-01-11T14:33:34+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-01-14T16:03:54+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-01-14T17:31:50+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-01-15T18:42:04+00:00** (H) Introduced
+- **2025-01-16T18:38:01+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-16T20:07:15+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-20T23:56:32+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
+- **2025-02-03T18:22:20+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-03T19:23:49+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-03T20:17:22+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-05T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-05T20:53:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-02-06T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-06T21:52:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-06T23:01:49+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
+- **2025-02-07T20:20:27+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-19T00:43:12+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-17T14:38:13+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
+- **2025-03-19T15:27:53+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
+- **2025-03-19T21:09:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
+- **2025-03-21T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-21T20:03:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-24T19:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-24T19:49:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-24T19:49:56+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-03-26T11:25:29+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-03-28T23:30:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-01T17:00:47+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-04-01T18:35:47+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-07T20:00:44+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-07T23:08:24+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/baca2331-36f0-4eaa-b5da-ed47f5a859ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+