---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adopt Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act"
description: "Adopt Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 111"
citation: "Montana HB 111 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Information Technology", "Legislature"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steve Fitzpatrick"]
version_count: 27
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-09-04T18:23:08+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-04T21:53:01+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/701432fe-2484-4256-bfaf-19c56030d809"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0110?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "b79c900deeb640b790184e936e209bd97c00ea30e969e7da4597e53983a75405"
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 HB 111 (2025) — Adopt Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB0111_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269443)
2. **HB0111_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275132)
3. **HB0111_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276201)
4. **HB0111_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277643)
5. **HB0111_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284251)
6. **HB0111_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294895)
7. **HB0111_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294898)
8. **HB0111_1(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294982)
9. **HB0111_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269442)
10. **HB0111_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295369)
11. **HB0111_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304947)
12. **HB0111_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304948)
13. **HB0111_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310723)
14. **HB0111_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316661)
15. **HB0111_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320246)
16. **HB0111_X(15).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324114)
17. **HB0111_X(16).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325609)
18. **HB0111_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304723)
19. **HB0111_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304815)
20. **HB0111_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304887)
21. **HB0111_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304901)
22. **HB0111_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304906)
23. **HB0111_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304907)
24. **HB0111_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304938)
25. **HB0111_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304946)
26. **HB0111_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294983)
27. **LC0110.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=266259)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **86–14** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **93–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **19–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Steve Fitzpatrick — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-09-04T18:23:08+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-11-22T19:16:27+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-11-22T21:43:04+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-11-26T19:55:09+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-11-27T00:00:30+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-11-27T15:41:07+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-03T23:19:02+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-12-26T21:09:24+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2024-12-26T21:10:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2024-12-26T21:30:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2024-12-30T20:18:34+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06T18:35:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-07T02:05:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-01-07T15:43:44+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-01-08T16:04:14+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Unsigned
- **2025-01-08T19:21:33+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-01-16T18:25:18+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-16T20:20:54+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-21T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-21T20:33:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-22T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-22T21:29:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-22T22:40:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-23T20:39:27+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-13T17:09:08+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Legislative Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T16:37:05+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Legislative Administration
- **2025-02-19T19:30:42+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Legislative Administration
- **2025-03-03T23:37:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Legislative Administration
- **2025-03-15T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-15T15:51:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-17T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T20:10:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T20:10:57+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-18T18:36:22+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-21T23:00:36+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-24T23:00:15+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-25T15:11:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-03T21:06:09+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-04T21:53:01+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/701432fe-2484-4256-bfaf-19c56030d809`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).