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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revise laws related to marking hides and meat"
+description: "Revise laws related to marking hides and meat"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 78"
+citation: "Montana SB 78 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Livestock"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Josh Kassmier"]
+version_count: 21
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-09-09T19:59:51+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-04-18T14:02:10+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/21c020ad-f1fc-49fe-89d4-ae86530a3e9a"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0199?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "4b5293dda76790ff24282b6072814ccbf58df34ca2eefb838f6a351eefe93a0f"
+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 78 (2025) — Revise laws related to marking hides and meat
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **LC0199.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=265311)
+2. **SB0078_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269524)
+3. **SB0078_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275146)
+4. **SB0078_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276215)
+5. **SB0078_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283884)
+6. **SB0078_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296303)
+7. **SB0078_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299328)
+8. **SB0078_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269523)
+9. **SB0078_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299327)
+10. **SB0078_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316551)
+11. **SB0078_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325652)
+12. **SB0078_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327267)
+13. **SB0078_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320153)
+14. **SB0078_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321381)
+15. **SB0078_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321382)
+16. **SB0078_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321383)
+17. **SB0078_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321384)
+18. **SB0078_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321386)
+19. **SB0078_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321388)
+20. **SB0078_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324597)
+21. **SB0078_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310590)
+
+## Votes
+
+- be_concurred_in — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- do_pass — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Pass — **48–2** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **98–1** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **49–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do Concur — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Josh Kassmier — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-09-09T19:59:51+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2024-10-10T20:48:04+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2024-10-10T21:30:42+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2024-10-10T21:31:36+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2024-10-23T13:20:04+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2024-10-25T19:40:55+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2024-11-07T00:10:09+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2024-11-15T22:21:29+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2024-11-18T20:15:08+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2024-12-27T19:20:18+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2024-12-27T20:20:00+00:00** (S) Introduced
+- **2025-01-06T21:54:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-07T22:05:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-17T15:51:16+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation
+- **2025-01-30T22:21:00+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-31T20:15:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-15T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-15T15:34:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-02-18T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-18T21:30:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-18T22:50:40+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
+- **2025-02-19T18:58:12+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Agriculture `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-19T20:10:01+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-17T22:33:20+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Agriculture
+- **2025-03-20T22:30:38+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Agriculture
+- **2025-03-21T19:44:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Agriculture
+- **2025-03-25T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-25T19:17:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-26T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-26T19:48:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-26T19:49:09+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-03-28T12:07:51+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-04-01T17:00:37+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-04-07T21:45:38+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-08T14:46:28+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-17T18:00:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-18T14:02:10+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/21c020ad-f1fc-49fe-89d4-ae86530a3e9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+