---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise laws related to the judicial standards commission"
description: "Revise laws related to the judicial standards commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 431"
citation: "Montana HB 431 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts", "Judges and Justices"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Overstreet"]
version_count: 18
action_count: 38
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-11T14:50:32+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T15:35:13+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c0d50c9-e09b-43a1-bade-db706ca1d551"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2760?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "77d2dbd9c77e6652ef5451a7d5ee54ec25cb48ab724e9a9bab271351e6fde04a"
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 431 (2025) — Revise laws related to the judicial standards commission

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0431_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280547)
2. **HB0431_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287675)
3. **HB0431_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292116)
4. **HB0431_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295229)
5. **HB0431_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280234)
6. **HB0431_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295228)
7. **HB0431_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295231)
8. **HB0431_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327735)
9. **HB0431_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295389)
10. **HB0431_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295410)
11. **HB0431_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295415)
12. **HB0431_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310688)
13. **HB0431_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316628)
14. **HB0431_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320219)
15. **HB0431_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324099)
16. **HB0431_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326683)
17. **HB0431_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295230)
18. **LC2760.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279024)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **5–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **43–6** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **44–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Greg Overstreet — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-11T14:50:32+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-11T14:50:32+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-01-25T20:34:19+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-01-25T20:36:02+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-04T18:45:14+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-04T21:27:57+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-05T14:32:01+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-05T20:05:59+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-05T21:35:20+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-06T14:27:49+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-07T16:51:27+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-07T21:54:52+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-10T17:12:54+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10T19:54:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-12T21:50:38+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
- **2025-02-21T19:00:48+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-21T22:14:47+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-24T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24T20:43:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-25T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T21:04:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T21:21:46+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-26T20:25:02+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-28T16:16:50+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T20:20:37+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-03-04T19:16:01+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-03-04T20:21:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-03-17T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-17T19:26:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-18T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-18T20:31:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-18T20:31:45+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-19T17:54:40+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-21T23:00:36+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-24T23:00:15+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-25T15:11:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-27T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-27T15:35:13+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/5c0d50c9-e09b-43a1-bade-db706ca1d551`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).