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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revise election laws related to ballot form and uniformity"
+description: "Revise election laws related to ballot form and uniformity"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 242"
+citation: "Montana SB 242 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Wendy McKamey"]
+version_count: 14
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-09-24T17:44:30+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-04-18T13:36:18+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47f93b50-a11d-4e1a-bc1a-72c9de48ec7a"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0310?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "6aedb00c93552982ffaf983a6bcdae1ed888ab8fcd2955db23dd5c530305476b"
+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 242 (2025) — Revise election laws related to ballot form and uniformity
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **LC0310.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269418)
+2. **SB0242_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282586)
+3. **SB0242_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=290432)
+4. **SB0242_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299424)
+5. **SB0242_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302211)
+6. **SB0242_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277210)
+7. **SB0242_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316618)
+8. **SB0242_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320211)
+9. **SB0242_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321359)
+10. **SB0242_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321360)
+11. **SB0242_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324591)
+12. **SB0242_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325751)
+13. **SB0242_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327058)
+14. **SB0242_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310671)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Pass — **31–19** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **34–16** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **71–28** (pass) · lower
+- be_concurred_in — **17–2** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **80–20** (pass) · lower
+- do_pass — **8–4** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Wendy McKamey — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-09-24T17:44:30+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2024-12-19T22:35:47+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2024-12-20T15:29:44+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2024-12-24T15:36:40+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2024-12-26T14:52:17+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2024-12-26T17:34:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2024-12-26T20:03:10+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-01-28T19:06:40+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-01-29T23:28:20+00:00** (S) Introduced
+- **2025-01-30T21:42:04+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-13T19:57:57+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-22T00:48:55+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
+- **2025-02-26T18:38:24+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-26T20:17:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-28T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-28T20:54:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-01T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-01T15:26:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-01T17:11:10+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
+- **2025-03-03T17:25:03+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-03T20:15:13+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-05T16:16:35+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
+- **2025-03-27T16:38:34+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) State Administration
+- **2025-03-27T19:35:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) State Administration
+- **2025-03-29T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-29T16:46:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-31T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-31T19:53:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-31T19:54:17+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-02T14:34:05+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-04-07T16:00:47+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-04-08T16:00:47+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-08T22:56:08+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-17T18:00:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-18T13:36:18+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/47f93b50-a11d-4e1a-bc1a-72c9de48ec7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+