--- type: "Bill" title: "Revise election administrator laws" description: "Revise election administrator laws" jurisdiction: "us/states/mt" legislature: "Montana Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "HB 293" citation: "Montana HB 293 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Counties", "Elections"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Tom Millett"] version_count: 14 action_count: 43 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2024-11-27T20:13:58+00:00" last_action: "2025-05-05T14:03:26+00:00" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f00727c-f862-49b3-a7c0-27ca8d4365cc" source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2029?open_tab=sum" source_hash: "249f6d5ea456f0832b89b6b1f14b3b2e01cd5c97c98b8be7b7711de545baec2d" 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 293 (2025) — Revise election administrator laws ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB0293_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273958) 2. **HB0293_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275497) 3. **HB0293_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276543) 4. **HB0293_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282631) 5. **HB0293_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296925) 6. **HB0293_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308271) 7. **HB0293_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308274) 8. **HB0293_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273692) 9. **HB0293_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316814) 10. **HB0293_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320390) 11. **HB0293_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324624) 12. **HB0293_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326459) 13. **HB0293_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310874) 14. **LC2029.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269150) ## Votes - Do Pass — **96–4** (pass) · lower - Do Pass — **90–4** (pass) · lower - Do Concur — **41–9** (pass) · upper - do_pass — **17–2** (pass) · lower - be_concurred_in — **8–1** (pass) · upper - Do Concur — **44–4** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Tom Millett — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-11-27T20:13:58+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned - **2024-12-11T18:46:16+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review - **2024-12-11T19:23:30+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit - **2024-12-16T15:41:22+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing - **2024-12-16T17:21:24+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review - **2024-12-17T14:09:49+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly - **2024-12-20T19:26:24+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery - **2025-01-15T18:33:55+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester - **2025-01-16T18:44:39+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned - **2025-01-16T18:51:55+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review - **2025-01-16T18:58:24+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit - **2025-01-17T00:07:03+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing - **2025-01-17T14:45:00+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review - **2025-01-18T15:50:32+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly - **2025-01-20T18:27:51+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery - **2025-01-21T18:03:22+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester - **2025-01-22T23:02:32+00:00** (H) Introduced - **2025-01-23T18:53:15+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee` - **2025-01-23T20:08:26+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1` - **2025-01-23T22:36:07+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration - **2025-02-11T19:30:00+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage` - **2025-02-11T20:10:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage` - **2025-02-13T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2` - **2025-02-13T20:49:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2` - **2025-02-14T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3` - **2025-02-14T21:11:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3` - **2025-02-14T21:37:30+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate - **2025-02-15T15:31:58+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1` - **2025-02-21T17:54:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee` - **2025-03-17T18:07:00+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration - **2025-03-21T09:09:38+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 - **2025-04-09T00:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2` - **2025-04-09T00:21:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2` - **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3` - **2025-04-10T18:05:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3` - **2025-04-10T18:05:48+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling - **2025-04-11T12:28:30+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` - **2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature` - **2025-05-05T14:03:26+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/5f00727c-f862-49b3-a7c0-27ca8d4365cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).