---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise election laws related to voter cancellation"
description: "Revise election laws related to voter cancellation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 248"
citation: "Montana HB 248 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Braxton Mitchell"]
version_count: 18
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-10T20:23:50+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T19:08:03+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28170308-bab1-4442-9896-dcca91998761"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2653?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "f40b6b5f944e25af9cb6f29e056e18b3341174ba8c7404a077ee60fe580a01de"
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 248 (2025) — Revise election laws related to voter cancellation

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0248_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272753)
2. **HB0248_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275372)
3. **HB0248_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276421)
4. **HB0248_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280242)
5. **HB0248_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296924)
6. **HB0248_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299700)
7. **HB0248_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302801)
8. **HB0248_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302803)
9. **HB0248_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272351)
10. **HB0248_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316623)
11. **HB0248_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320215)
12. **HB0248_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321213)
13. **HB0248_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321214)
14. **HB0248_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321215)
15. **HB0248_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324543)
16. **HB0248_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326658)
17. **HB0248_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310680)
18. **LC2653.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271652)

## Votes

- do_pass — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Braxton Mitchell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-10T20:23:50+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-02T23:11:21+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-01-13T22:36:25+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-01-13T22:56:57+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-14T22:32:38+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-01-15T14:57:34+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-01-15T15:29:12+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-01-16T13:36:50+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-01-16T15:53:48+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-17T18:40:15+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-17T18:58:33+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-20T17:21:14+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-20T20:18:34+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-23T22:36:28+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-01-31T18:24:46+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-31T20:27:07+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-06T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-06T21:16:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-07T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-07T21:39:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-07T22:01:23+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-10T20:10:14+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-20T16:41:51+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T18:07:01+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-03-21T09:08:24+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-03-26T20:55:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-03-31T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-31T20:43:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-01T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T21:31:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T21:31:38+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-03T05:21:28+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-07T18:00:24+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-09T17:30:28+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-09T19:50:28+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-17T19:58:14+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-18T19:08:03+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/28170308-bab1-4442-9896-dcca91998761`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).