---
type: "Bill"
title: "Repeal process to establish county owned scales"
description: "Repeal process to establish county owned scales"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 430"
citation: "Montana HB 430 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Local Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Braxton Mitchell"]
version_count: 21
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-27T19:23:34+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-05T15:50:18+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bebf9c92-c4bf-4024-ae50-d5cdd5b391cc"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2005?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "25a7a8e32cefbd2f2cad8a96382363acaaa040586f5b980309ef40ccb4c619a0"
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 430 (2025) — Repeal process to establish county owned scales

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0430_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280544)
2. **HB0430_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286748)
3. **HB0430_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296916)
4. **HB0430_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310126)
5. **HB0430_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310129)
6. **HB0430_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280232)
7. **HB0430_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310133)
8. **HB0430_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321476)
9. **HB0430_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321477)
10. **HB0430_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324657)
11. **HB0430_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326445)
12. **HB0430_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310134)
13. **HB0430_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310390)
14. **HB0430_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310394)
15. **HB0430_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310395)
16. **HB0430_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316512)
17. **HB0430_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320124)
18. **HB0430_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321295)
19. **HB0430_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321475)
20. **HB0430_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310130)
21. **LC2005.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=278944)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **81–19** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **10–7** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **47–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **75–23** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **46–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Braxton Mitchell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-27T19:23:34+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-03T15:10:47+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-03T16:56:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-04T21:04:53+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-05T17:20:22+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-05T17:46:52+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-06T15:01:15+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-07T19:34:48+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-07T21:53:24+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-10T17:12:57+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10T19:54:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-13T22:42:40+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Local Government
- **2025-02-19T00:02:07+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19T20:19:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-21T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-21T21:06:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-22T16:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-22T19:05:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-24T21:51:33+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-25T20:44:30+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-04T00:49:39+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05T16:51:10+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Local Government
- **2025-03-21T21:54:35+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
- **2025-03-24T20:34:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
- **2025-04-12T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-12T17:41:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-14T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T17:55:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T17:56:14+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-15T16:54:44+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`
- **2025-05-05T15:50:18+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/bebf9c92-c4bf-4024-ae50-d5cdd5b391cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).