---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establish Montana mining day"
description: "Establish Montana mining day"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 203"
citation: "Montana HB 203 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Mining and Minerals", "State Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Curtis Schomer"]
version_count: 26
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-16T22:05:43+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-28T19:05:09+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9925c18-5cec-47f3-812c-61ee397627ca"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1523?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "ab0ab4461551a1356d88679d2c02fb7e799970d0a11cfb94d073d4932c7c769a"
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 203 (2025) — Establish Montana mining day

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0203_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271826)
2. **HB0203_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271835)
3. **HB0203_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275263)
4. **HB0203_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276063)
5. **HB0203_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276754)
6. **HB0203_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280443)
7. **HB0203_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281910)
8. **HB0203_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271579)
9. **HB0203_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289846)
10. **HB0203_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289845)
11. **HB0203_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295322)
12. **HB0203_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320145)
13. **HB0203_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321314)
14. **HB0203_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324578)
15. **HB0203_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326251)
16. **HB0203_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326974)
17. **HB0203_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296023)
18. **HB0203_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297347)
19. **HB0203_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297348)
20. **HB0203_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297349)
21. **HB0203_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298784)
22. **HB0203_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298786)
23. **HB0203_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310578)
24. **HB0203_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316540)
25. **HB0203_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294168)
26. **LC1523.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270496)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **94–5** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **96–4** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **41–9** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **40–10** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **18–1** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **7–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Curtis Schomer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-16T22:05:43+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-06T20:27:59+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-06T21:31:59+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-01-09T22:56:45+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-01-13T16:02:14+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-01-13T22:22:02+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-01-13T23:28:05+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-14T17:18:23+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-14T22:55:35+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-15T18:07:28+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15T20:09:29+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-15T23:52:14+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-01-23T18:46:58+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-23T20:30:57+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-27T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-27T21:42:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-28T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-28T21:35:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-28T23:00:22+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-29T20:48:52+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-29T20:50:44+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-01T00:22:38+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-02-03T23:12:00+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-02-04T20:21:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-02-11T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-11T21:28:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-12T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-12T21:12:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-12T21:12:45+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-02-14T21:20:47+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-02-18T23:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-20T18:00:38+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-02-20T18:35:28+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-27T16:45:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-02-28T19:05:09+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/d9925c18-5cec-47f3-812c-61ee397627ca`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).