---
type: "Bill"
title: "Provide for voluntary cancellation and suspension of vehicle registration"
description: "Provide for voluntary cancellation and suspension of vehicle registration"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 235"
citation: "Montana HB 235 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Neil Duram"]
version_count: 31
action_count: 43
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-16T20:31:56+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-07T20:13:08+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/85830361-5095-40b5-abfe-e8a670ef8db9"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1501?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "ea35716836f43c98733293860228d9efcb17d2c9adee95efc875aa7cd30b7e59"
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 235 (2025) — Provide for voluntary cancellation and suspension of vehicle registration

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0235.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277039)
2. **HB0235_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272425)
3. **HB0235_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272427)
4. **HB0235_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275342)
5. **HB0235_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276392)
6. **HB0235_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277776)
7. **HB0235_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277777)
8. **HB0235_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277778)
9. **HB0235_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277779)
10. **HB0235_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272211)
11. **HB0235_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277783)
12. **HB0235_2(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299375)
13. **HB0235_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277784)
14. **HB0235_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277837)
15. **HB0235_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277838)
16. **HB0235_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277844)
17. **HB0235_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277850)
18. **HB0235_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277862)
19. **HB0235_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279840)
20. **HB0235_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295640)
21. **HB0235_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277780)
22. **HB0235_3.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299374)
23. **HB0235_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308163)
24. **HB0235_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308164)
25. **HB0235_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310833)
26. **HB0235_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316772)
27. **HB0235_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320350)
28. **HB0235_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324198)
29. **HB0235_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326224)
30. **HB0235_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308162)
31. **LC1501.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270334)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **48–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **98–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- do_pass_as_amended — **20–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Neil Duram — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-16T20:31:56+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-05T03:27:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-05T15:52:34+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-06T13:17:54+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-06T15:53:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-01-09T04:06:17+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-01-10T04:17:47+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-01-10T16:09:56+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-01-14T14:49:44+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-16T17:30:04+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-16T22:02:12+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-16T22:47:11+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-01-17T16:14:13+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-17T20:53:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-21T00:49:03+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-01-21T15:34:54+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-01-21T16:22:46+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-01-24T20:07:13+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-01-31T18:07:58+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31T18:52:57+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31T20:27:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Business and Labor `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-05T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-05T21:23:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-06T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-06T21:54:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-06T23:01:54+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-07T20:21:21+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-19T00:43:44+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Highways and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T15:39:47+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Highways and Transportation
- **2025-03-19T22:49:53+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Highways and Transportation
- **2025-03-20T21:46:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Highways and Transportation
- **2025-03-24T23:32:51+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Pass Consideration `reading-2`
- **2025-03-25T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-25T19:24:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-26T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-26T20:28:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-26T20:28:39+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-28T12:31:41+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-28T22:50:23+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-31T17:30:49+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-31T19:55:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-07T19:54:35+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-07T20:13:08+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/85830361-5095-40b5-abfe-e8a670ef8db9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).