---
type: "Bill"
title: "Generally revise traffic laws regarding evading or fleeing a peace officer"
description: "Generally revise traffic laws regarding evading or fleeing a peace officer"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 503"
citation: "Montana HB 503 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes", "Law Enforcement", "Traffic Regulations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Denise Baum"]
version_count: 17
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-13T15:29:53+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-05T16:38:26+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48429409-cfd0-4cd4-8bfb-cd2088c8d824"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3062?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "5a58f94f0313c606835f0285615a30afb0951a5051a0b3c07cdbdaa1b67592bb"
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 503 (2025) — Generally revise traffic laws regarding evading or fleeing a peace officer

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0503.001.002_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306045)
2. **HB0503.001.002_Amendments-in-Context_final-not condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306054)
3. **HB0503_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282528)
4. **HB0503_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287680)
5. **HB0503_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304784)
6. **HB0503_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308309)
7. **HB0503_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308310)
8. **HB0503_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308311)
9. **HB0503_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282168)
10. **HB0503_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316822)
11. **HB0503_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320398)
12. **HB0503_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321559)
13. **HB0503_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321560)
14. **HB0503_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321561)
15. **HB0503_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324682)
16. **HB0503_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310882)
17. **LC3062.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277978)

## Votes

- be_concurred_in — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **15–5** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **85–15** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **85–14** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **41–8** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **41–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Denise Baum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-13T15:29:53+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-30T20:17:09+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-31T20:08:38+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-01-31T21:59:55+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-03T02:14:13+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-03T13:16:25+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-04T19:38:57+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-13T14:51:04+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-13T22:03:12+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-14T16:40:19+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-14T19:50:59+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-17T16:29:26+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
- **2025-02-21T19:52:48+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`
- **2025-02-24T15:00:26+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-02-24T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24T21:30:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-25T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T21:05:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T21:21:50+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-26T20:26:19+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-07T14:26:22+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-03-07T17:46:38+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Unsigned
- **2025-03-07T18:41:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-03-19T16:19:44+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31T04:25:48+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-04-04T16:30:44+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-04-04T19:55:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-04-09T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09T20:48:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T18:22:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T18:22:58+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-11T15:56:39+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`
- **2025-05-05T16:38:26+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/48429409-cfd0-4cd4-8bfb-cd2088c8d824`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).