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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revise election laws related to definitions"
+description: "Revise election laws related to definitions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 360"
+citation: "Montana SB 360 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Shelley Vance"]
+version_count: 14
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-11-23T18:54:08+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-05-08T21:05:33+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cc7e4162-d062-4ad6-86d8-f36eca784a2e"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1964?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "6c4a4ad4ef73d16cc51065188a2ee1f70f568cef4405b509383b38dfce667630"
+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 360 (2025) — Revise election laws related to definitions
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **LC1964.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282990)
+2. **SB0360_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293375)
+3. **SB0360_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300060)
+4. **SB0360_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309149)
+5. **SB0360_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309152)
+6. **SB0360_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284062)
+7. **SB0360_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316887)
+8. **SB0360_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320462)
+9. **SB0360_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321869)
+10. **SB0360_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321870)
+11. **SB0360_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321871)
+12. **SB0360_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324757)
+13. **SB0360_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326422)
+14. **SB0360_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310950)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Concur — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- do_pass — **9–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- be_concurred_in — **19–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Shelley Vance — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-11-23T18:54:08+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2025-02-12T22:55:58+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-02-13T22:42:31+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-02-16T17:14:43+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-02-16T18:33:28+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-02-16T18:51:29+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-02-17T19:05:26+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-02-19T14:55:03+00:00** (S) Introduced
+- **2025-02-19T20:09:05+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-21T15:55:44+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-25T18:14:07+00:00** (S) Hearing Canceled - (S) State Administration
+- **2025-02-27T15:06:16+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
+- **2025-03-01T03:23:30+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) State Administration `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-01T18:23:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) State Administration `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-05T15:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-05T17:34:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-06T15:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-06T19:14:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-06T20:25:25+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
+- **2025-03-07T17:20:03+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-17T19:15:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-18T14:14:02+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
+- **2025-03-28T16:36:05+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) State Administration
+- **2025-03-29T15:23:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) State Administration
+- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-10T20:00:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-11T21:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11T23:38:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11T23:39:04+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-04-12T18:46:50+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`
+- **2025-05-05T18:55:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-08T21:05:33+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/cc7e4162-d062-4ad6-86d8-f36eca784a2e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+