---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise election laws regarding residency"
description: "Revise election laws regarding residency"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 413"
citation: "Montana HB 413 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jane Gillette"]
version_count: 18
action_count: 36
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-11-16T19:12:13+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-05T15:28:20+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0b634d1-3c6c-48f9-9f96-bb72221ac490"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1459?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "8e87c19e94a3de29c4e0fcd5a82f9bc1d6e9cd426ff2bf37f91b708a264cc051"
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 413 (2025) — Revise election laws regarding residency

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0413.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288160)
2. **HB0413.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-not condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288161)
3. **HB0413_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280080)
4. **HB0413_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280083)
5. **HB0413_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289397)
6. **HB0413_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295669)
7. **HB0413_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309853)
8. **HB0413_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309854)
9. **HB0413_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279612)
10. **HB0413_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316977)
11. **HB0413_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320548)
12. **HB0413_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321459)
13. **HB0413_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321460)
14. **HB0413_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321461)
15. **HB0413_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324651)
16. **HB0413_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326167)
17. **HB0413_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311083)
18. **LC1459.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=278150)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **55–45** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **56–42** (pass) · lower
- AMD-HB0413.001.001 Strand DO PASS — **45–54** (fail) · lower
- do_pass — **11–8** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **5–4** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **30–18** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **31–19** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jane Gillette — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-16T19:12:13+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-30T22:54:48+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-02T20:23:45+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-03T15:54:58+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-03T16:42:50+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-03T23:49:08+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-04T17:59:01+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-06T17:08:34+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-06T20:10:43+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-07T18:07:46+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-07T20:05:13+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-18T16:47:25+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-02-24T16:32:50+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-24T22:02:52+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-26T21:52:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Motion to Amend Failed `amendment-failure, failure, reading-2`
- **2025-02-26T21:58:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-27T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-27T22:03:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-27T22:18:26+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-28T20:12:45+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-04T01:03:53+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T14:48:00+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-03-19T23:59:05+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-03-20T21:52:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T16:07:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:30:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:30:51+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-15T06:44:20+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-23T22:30:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-25T13:30:00+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-25T17:55:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-05T15:28:20+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/b0b634d1-3c6c-48f9-9f96-bb72221ac490`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).