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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Allow hunters to donate funds for archery equipment for disabled bowhunters"
+description: "Allow hunters to donate funds for archery equipment for disabled bowhunters"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 238"
+citation: "Montana SB 238 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Fish", "Revenue", "State", "Rule Making", "State Finance"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Janet Ellis"]
+version_count: 26
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2024-10-30T16:43:17+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-05-13T22:28:41+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/14865a93-8d87-430b-b0da-68ae92c3db46"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0634?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "e7152fcca8d1e27ada9a5fa58baa39d6e0d5d4711da6776ea7c8fd1aee44966e"
+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 238 (2025) — Allow hunters to donate funds for archery equipment for disabled bowhunters
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **LC0634.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269307)
+2. **SB0238_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282577)
+3. **SB0238_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286472)
+4. **SB0238_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286553)
+5. **SB0238_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286554)
+6. **SB0238_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304922)
+7. **SB0238_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306811)
+8. **SB0238_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312395)
+9. **SB0238_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312401)
+10. **SB0238_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277116)
+11. **SB0238_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312405)
+12. **SB0238_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322637)
+13. **SB0238_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322638)
+14. **SB0238_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322639)
+15. **SB0238_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324939)
+16. **SB0238_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325905)
+17. **SB0238_X(15).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327385)
+18. **SB0238_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312406)
+19. **SB0238_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312409)
+20. **SB0238_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313290)
+21. **SB0238_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313291)
+22. **SB0238_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313300)
+23. **SB0238_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=313301)
+24. **SB0238_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317124)
+25. **SB0238_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320688)
+26. **SB0238_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312402)
+
+## Votes
+
+- be_concurred_in — **20–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **79–21** (pass) · lower
+- do_pass — **8–3** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **38–12** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **38–11** (pass) · upper
+- to_table — **11–1** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **71–26** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Janet Ellis — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-10-30T16:43:17+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2024-12-11T20:25:01+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2024-12-11T22:43:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2024-12-18T14:53:16+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2024-12-18T17:05:11+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2024-12-19T14:40:27+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2024-12-20T19:36:09+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-01-29T16:01:14+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-01-29T21:52:30+00:00** (S) Introduced
+- **2025-01-30T21:41:13+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-13T19:34:35+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Requested
+- **2025-02-13T19:56:21+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Fish and Game `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-13T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Fish and Game
+- **2025-02-21T21:26:40+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
+- **2025-02-22T01:31:32+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Signed
+- **2025-02-24T16:30:08+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Printed
+- **2025-03-18T21:03:52+00:00** (S) Tabled in Committee - (S) Fish and Game `amendment-deferral`
+- **2025-04-01T21:42:38+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Fish and Game `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-02T19:17:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Fish and Game `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-03T23:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-04T00:20:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-04T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-04T19:32:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-04T21:09:27+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
+- **2025-04-07T15:46:24+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-07T19:39:01+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-07T22:21:36+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks
+- **2025-04-08T22:07:43+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks
+- **2025-04-09T20:09:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Fish, Wildlife and Parks
+- **2025-04-15T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-15T19:31:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-16T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-16T20:56:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-16T20:56:28+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-18T16:10:05+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-04-23T13:00:31+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-04-29T22:15:14+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-30T16:55:55+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-09T02:34:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-13T22:28:41+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/14865a93-8d87-430b-b0da-68ae92c3db46`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+