--- type: "Bill" title: "Revise election laws related to an elector's date of birth" description: "Revise election laws related to an elector's date of birth" jurisdiction: "us/states/mt" legislature: "Montana Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "HB 719" citation: "Montana HB 719 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Elections"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Braxton Mitchell"] version_count: 25 action_count: 40 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2024-12-10T20:23:26+00:00" last_action: "2025-05-08T19:47:49+00:00" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e68cd63-658c-4a5f-ab7b-977c06ebdcd1" source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2654?open_tab=sum" source_hash: "24952e42946db0dee56101ac4f69ee81ebe14174bbe42542e950af833892f245" 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 719 (2025) — Revise election laws related to an elector's date of birth ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB0719_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287004) 2. **HB0719_1(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315159) 3. **HB0719_1(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315160) 4. **HB0719_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287556) 5. **HB0719_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293915) 6. **HB0719_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294065) 7. **HB0719_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308994) 8. **HB0719_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315154) 9. **HB0719_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315156) 10. **HB0719_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315157) 11. **HB0719_1(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315158) 12. **HB0719_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287003) 13. **HB0719_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315162) 14. **HB0719_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324838) 15. **HB0719_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326659) 16. **HB0719_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317244) 17. **HB0719_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317832) 18. **HB0719_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317833) 19. **HB0719_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320897) 20. **HB0719_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322197) 21. **HB0719_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322198) 22. **HB0719_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322199) 23. **HB0719_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322200) 24. **HB0719_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315161) 25. **LC2654.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285881) ## Votes - be_concurred_in — **6–3** (pass) · upper - do_pass — **10–9** (pass) · lower - Do Concur — **32–18** (pass) · upper - Do Concur — **31–19** (pass) · upper - Do Pass — **57–42** (pass) · lower - Do Pass — **56–42** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Braxton Mitchell — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-12-10T20:23:26+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned - **2025-01-02T23:11:47+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold - **2025-02-14T23:07:23+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold - **2025-02-17T19:20:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review - **2025-02-18T13:11:31+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit - **2025-02-21T21:43:51+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing - **2025-02-22T16:16:44+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review - **2025-02-22T16:38:07+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly - **2025-02-24T14:11:42+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery - **2025-02-24T16:42:40+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester - **2025-02-24T23:03:03+00:00** (H) Introduced - **2025-02-24T23:03:04+00:00** (H) Introduced - **2025-02-25T18:10:40+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee` - **2025-02-25T20:06:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1` - **2025-02-26T22:25:09+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration - **2025-02-27T19:32:35+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage` - **2025-02-27T22:15:40+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage` - **2025-03-06T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2` - **2025-03-07T01:44:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2` - **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3` - **2025-03-07T17:41:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3` - **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate - **2025-03-15T00:19:49+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1` - **2025-03-17T15:19:51+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee` - **2025-03-25T14:24:32+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration - **2025-03-25T18:22:22+00:00** (S) Hearing Canceled - (S) State Administration - **2025-03-26T14:59:33+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration - **2025-04-12T00:05:19+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration - **2025-04-12T15:28:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration - **2025-04-18T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2` - **2025-04-18T18:16:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2` - **2025-04-22T18:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3` - **2025-04-22T21:15:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3` - **2025-04-22T21:15:19+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling - **2025-04-25T17:40:40+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling - **2025-04-25T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage` - **2025-04-28T14:00:37+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage` - **2025-04-28T17:25:57+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt` - **2025-05-05T18:37:31+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature` - **2025-05-08T19:47:49+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/3e68cd63-658c-4a5f-ab7b-977c06ebdcd1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).