---
type: "Bill"
title: "Generally revise qualifications for county water and sewer board of directors"
description: "Generally revise qualifications for county water and sewer board of directors"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 716"
citation: "Montana HB 716 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Elections", "Public Officers and Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alanah Griffith"]
version_count: 20
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-14T21:43:22+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T21:48:21+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ec3dfdc-fc96-4513-a6b3-0ba9dd45687c"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3750?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "02978fbd00e82b521bf45baea22e65c3dc61eb495c85d985b0b45678bec96bbc"
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 716 (2025) — Generally revise qualifications for county water and sewer board of directors

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0716_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287581)
2. **HB0716_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293912)
3. **HB0716_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294070)
4. **HB0716_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306088)
5. **HB0716_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309776)
6. **HB0716_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309777)
7. **HB0716_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286837)
8. **HB0716_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309780)
9. **HB0716_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322478)
10. **HB0716_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324888)
11. **HB0716_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309781)
12. **HB0716_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311021)
13. **HB0716_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311482)
14. **HB0716_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311483)
15. **HB0716_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317023)
16. **HB0716_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320591)
17. **HB0716_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322476)
18. **HB0716_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322477)
19. **HB0716_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309778)
20. **LC3750.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286168)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **92–7** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **95–4** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **42–5** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alanah Griffith — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-14T21:43:22+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-18T18:02:54+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-19T13:08:27+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-22T22:23:36+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-24T00:12:43+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-24T13:10:08+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-24T18:23:23+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-24T22:09:30+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-24T22:25:14+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-25T18:11:50+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T20:06:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26T14:14:18+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Local Government
- **2025-02-26T16:09:52+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Local Government
- **2025-02-28T04:21:23+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-28T20:56:16+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Local Government `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05T17:05:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T16:28:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T00:17:45+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-17T15:19:04+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T22:50:59+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Local Government
- **2025-04-07T23:58:57+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
- **2025-04-08T19:30:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Local Government
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T19:48:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:48:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T21:51:35+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-16T11:47:45+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-29T15:15:58+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-01T21:20:56+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-01T21:47:39+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-08T17:11:09+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13T21:48:21+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/8ec3dfdc-fc96-4513-a6b3-0ba9dd45687c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).