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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revise laws on a judge's ability to provide bail to certain defendants"
+description: "Revise laws on a judge's ability to provide bail to certain defendants"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 415"
+citation: "Montana HB 415 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts", "Criminal Procedure", "Judges and Justices"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Amy Regier"]
+version_count: 29
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-12-08T02:52:12+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-05-05T15:31:45+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1fc5fe9-6245-438a-b9d1-6193dc289d14"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2371?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "e7dade510d0dda670d6e65d36c4b71a1e5fc59d2fb26fbc9caef784e93d10026"
+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 415 (2025) — Revise laws on a judge's ability to provide bail to certain defendants
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **HB0415_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280060)
+2. **HB0415_1(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310427)
+3. **HB0415_1(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310445)
+4. **HB0415_1(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310489)
+5. **HB0415_1(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311129)
+6. **HB0415_1(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311132)
+7. **HB0415_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285766)
+8. **HB0415_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298038)
+9. **HB0415_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310401)
+10. **HB0415_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310402)
+11. **HB0415_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310415)
+12. **HB0415_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310417)
+13. **HB0415_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310424)
+14. **HB0415_1(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310426)
+15. **HB0415_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279616)
+16. **HB0415_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311134)
+17. **HB0415_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324653)
+18. **HB0415_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326579)
+19. **HB0415_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327697)
+20. **HB0415_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311135)
+21. **HB0415_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311607)
+22. **HB0415_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311609)
+23. **HB0415_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317046)
+24. **HB0415_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320613)
+25. **HB0415_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321465)
+26. **HB0415_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321466)
+27. **HB0415_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321467)
+28. **HB0415_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311133)
+29. **LC2371.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277328)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Concur — **45–5** (pass) · upper
+- be_concurred_in — **7–1** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **61–39** (pass) · lower
+- do_pass — **15–5** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **34–14** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **63–35** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Amy Regier — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-12-08T02:52:12+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2024-12-08T02:52:13+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
+- **2024-12-21T22:34:40+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
+- **2025-01-22T20:49:42+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-01-29T22:11:29+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-01-30T17:03:46+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-01-30T19:20:30+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-01-31T19:48:50+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-02-04T13:25:51+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-02-06T18:25:20+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-02-06T20:12:39+00:00** (H) Introduced
+- **2025-02-07T18:06:18+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-07T20:05:13+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-07T23:08:29+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
+- **2025-02-17T18:57:17+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-17T20:28:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-20T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-20T20:38:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-02-21T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-21T22:10:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-21T22:30:34+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
+- **2025-02-24T20:27:35+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-03T18:11:54+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-18T15:16:13+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
+- **2025-03-25T16:38:54+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
+- **2025-03-25T19:25:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
+- **2025-04-12T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-12T17:37:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-14T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-14T17:54:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-14T17:54:38+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-16T14:43:34+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-04-23T22:30:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-25T13:30:00+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-04-25T17:55:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-05T15:31:45+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/a1fc5fe9-6245-438a-b9d1-6193dc289d14`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+