---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise laws related to the conduct of school district elections"
description: "Revise laws related to the conduct of school district elections"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 125"
citation: "Montana HB 125 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - K-12", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Bedey"]
version_count: 23
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-16T18:17:37+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-08T14:54:39+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9c776d0-f1cc-4721-92cf-2f6b4d64340d"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1446?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "2f324b748086130cdea4c065a2a6f253d2d89bd1313bf592ee0a9817b5111c96"
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 125 (2025) — Revise laws related to the conduct of school district elections

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0125_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270131)
2. **HB0125_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=274973)
3. **HB0125_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275641)
4. **HB0125_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276672)
5. **HB0125_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295666)
6. **HB0125_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309984)
7. **HB0125_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309987)
8. **HB0125_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269938)
9. **HB0125_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311553)
10. **HB0125_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322046)
11. **HB0125_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322048)
12. **HB0125_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324787)
13. **HB0125_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326264)
14. **HB0125_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311554)
15. **HB0125_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317039)
16. **HB0125_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320606)
17. **HB0125_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322041)
18. **HB0125_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322042)
19. **HB0125_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322043)
20. **HB0125_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322044)
21. **HB0125_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322045)
22. **HB0125_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311044)
23. **LC1446.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269473)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- David Bedey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-16T18:17:37+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-23T02:35:46+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-12-26T18:16:30+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-27T15:01:29+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-12-27T16:05:57+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-12-28T14:06:09+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-31T21:35:42+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-07T17:46:44+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-07T19:57:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-08T19:04:23+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-08T20:11:04+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-14T15:15:20+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-01-21T17:18:07+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-21T20:41:20+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-24T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-24T21:16:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-27T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-27T22:06:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-27T22:26:02+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-28T20:54:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-11T16:34:19+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21T19:36:32+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-03-19T23:46:01+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-03-20T21:42:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-03-25T20:02:30+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Pass Consideration `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T22:22:23+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Pass Consideration `reading-2`
- **2025-04-12T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-12T15:38:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-14T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T17:38:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T17:38:09+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-16T14:07:45+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-23T23:30:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-25T19:00:35+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-25T21:32:14+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-05T18:37:31+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-08T14:54:39+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/f9c776d0-f1cc-4721-92cf-2f6b4d64340d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).