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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Provide that chief justice appoints the court administrator"
+description: "Provide that chief justice appoints the court administrator"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 342"
+citation: "Montana SB 342 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts", "Public Officers and Employees"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["John Fuller"]
+version_count: 23
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-11-29T14:37:21+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-05-08T20:58:57+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7116714f-4685-4868-8835-ff514e611845"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2062?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "9a9896519949054ec419588bbca5a9316da8b2426a568ca117a0451701ad75c9"
+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 342 (2025) — Provide that chief justice appoints the court administrator
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **LC2062.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281742)
+2. **SB0342_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283377)
+3. **SB0342_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284302)
+4. **SB0342_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291830)
+5. **SB0342_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309127)
+6. **SB0342_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309129)
+7. **SB0342_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283376)
+8. **SB0342_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309132)
+9. **SB0342_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321857)
+10. **SB0342_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321858)
+11. **SB0342_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321859)
+12. **SB0342_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324755)
+13. **SB0342_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326478)
+14. **SB0342_X(15).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327651)
+15. **SB0342_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309133)
+16. **SB0342_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309338)
+17. **SB0342_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309339)
+18. **SB0342_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309342)
+19. **SB0342_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309343)
+20. **SB0342_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310957)
+21. **SB0342_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316894)
+22. **SB0342_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320469)
+23. **SB0342_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309130)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Concur — **57–42** (pass) · lower
+- be_concurred_in — **12–8** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **32–16** (pass) · upper
+- do_pass — **5–3** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **58–42** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **32–18** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- John Fuller — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-11-29T14:37:21+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2024-12-02T20:25:06+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
+- **2025-02-04T21:00:53+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
+- **2025-02-10T19:50:49+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-02-10T23:35:40+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-02-12T19:20:54+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-02-13T00:20:14+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-02-13T13:33:01+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-02-17T14:14:27+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-02-17T23:02:59+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-02-17T23:35:43+00:00** (S) Introduced
+- **2025-02-18T01:12:26+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-19T18:12:35+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-23T03:25:22+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
+- **2025-02-25T17:42:22+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-25T21:43:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-01T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-01T18:08:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-03T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-03T22:10:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-03T23:21:47+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
+- **2025-03-04T18:26:34+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-04T20:09:38+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-19T15:05:59+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
+- **2025-03-24T23:56:52+00:00** (H) Hearing Canceled - (H) Judiciary
+- **2025-03-26T13:52:41+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
+- **2025-04-03T18:19:15+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Judiciary
+- **2025-04-04T00:38:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Judiciary
+- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-10T17:24:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-11T21:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11T23:35:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11T23:36:05+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-12T20:04:42+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-04-21T22:00:51+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-04-25T22:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-25T22:43:07+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-05T18:53:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-08T20:58:57+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/7116714f-4685-4868-8835-ff514e611845`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+