---
type: "Bill"
title: "Require signature for voter registration cancellation"
description: "Require signature for voter registration cancellation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 193"
citation: "Montana HB 193 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Darling"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-13T21:07:24+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-06T03:22:02+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b597ce2-e9d9-4133-82e2-ce397993e992"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3193?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "95a7d9e23f03c9869a2cae88b8c88cec85b26e6f9a36886affe119e065627c41"
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 193 (2025) — Require signature for voter registration cancellation

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0193_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271489)
2. **HB0193_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275242)
3. **HB0193_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276301)
4. **HB0193_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279374)
5. **HB0193_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307799)
6. **HB0193_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307803)
7. **HB0193_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271357)
8. **HB0193_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316812)
9. **HB0193_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320388)
10. **HB0193_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324611)
11. **HB0193_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327846)
12. **HB0193_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310872)
13. **LC3193.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270767)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **48–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Julie Darling — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-13T21:07:24+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-09T18:56:37+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-09T23:39:25+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-01-10T19:49:36+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-01-10T21:41:38+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-01-11T14:58:00+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-01-14T16:13:20+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-14T17:56:29+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-14T18:58:47+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14T20:07:23+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-15T23:51:49+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-01-28T18:45:27+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-28T18:46:48+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-28T20:20:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03T20:56:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-04T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-04T21:20:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04T23:11:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-05T20:28:35+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-19T00:56:54+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T18:07:03+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-03-21T09:05:02+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-03-26T20:53:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-08T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-08T20:02:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-09T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T19:26:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-09T19:26:55+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-10T23:42:43+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-18T21:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-22T13:30:24+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-22T18:10:24+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-01T21:03:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-06T03:22:02+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/2b597ce2-e9d9-4133-82e2-ce397993e992`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).