---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise public safety officer certification standards"
description: "Revise public safety officer certification standards"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 75"
citation: "Montana HB 75 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Law Enforcement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steve Gist"]
version_count: 25
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-09-11T19:33:51+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T16:41:03+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6677de3d-2c33-416d-b4e5-2d886cc99ecf"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0233?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "420cff3aa7958aa4e1b7ba5847235ad4e26bf92774f0c0f3cd48eb765f208deb"
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 75 (2025) — Revise public safety officer certification standards

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0075_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267845)
2. **HB0075_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273235)
3. **HB0075_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275426)
4. **HB0075_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276474)
5. **HB0075_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285476)
6. **HB0075_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288201)
7. **HB0075_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267844)
8. **HB0075_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288202)
9. **HB0075_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288203)
10. **HB0075_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289038)
11. **HB0075_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289039)
12. **HB0075_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289046)
13. **HB0075_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289047)
14. **HB0075_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288200)
15. **HB0075_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300822)
16. **HB0075_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300823)
17. **HB0075_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300824)
18. **HB0075_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310622)
19. **HB0075_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316577)
20. **HB0075_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320177)
21. **HB0075_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324094)
22. **HB0075_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325679)
23. **HB0075_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327278)
24. **HB0075_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295352)
25. **LC0233.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=265312)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steve Gist — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-11T19:33:51+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-10-04T20:06:20+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-10-23T13:36:16+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-10-31T16:28:01+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-11-12T15:48:07+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-11-17T16:39:38+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-11-18T21:04:31+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-12-12T17:30:54+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2024-12-12T17:31:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2024-12-20T22:13:04+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06T18:06:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-07T00:57:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
- **2025-01-16T18:05:43+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-16T18:14:17+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-16T20:21:37+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-20T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-20T21:21:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-21T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-21T21:26:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-21T21:49:02+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-22T20:39:48+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-11T16:24:31+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T19:16:04+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-02-21T18:00:33+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-02-21T20:22:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-02-24T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24T21:50:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-25T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T21:27:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T21:27:38+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-02-27T21:10:58+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-07T17:00:56+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-18T13:15:18+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-18T16:15:15+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-27T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-27T16:41:03+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/6677de3d-2c33-416d-b4e5-2d886cc99ecf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).