---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise candidate campaign finance reporting laws"
description: "Revise candidate campaign finance reporting laws"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 770"
citation: "Montana HB 770 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jodee Etchart"]
version_count: 20
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-12T14:22:34+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-19T20:36:57+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e2f2f9d-10e5-41cc-ba77-d77e66d560ba"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2880?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "010937f4f0e9330ffe07ac7fe42b778465dc43d5223f11a4cbacd8454e2bc30b"
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 770 (2025) — Revise candidate campaign finance reporting laws

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0770_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287431)
2. **HB0770_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288466)
3. **HB0770_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293946)
4. **HB0770_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294012)
5. **HB0770_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306033)
6. **HB0770_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315436)
7. **HB0770_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315437)
8. **HB0770_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287430)
9. **HB0770_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315439)
10. **HB0770_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326722)
11. **HB0770_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317288)
12. **HB0770_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318089)
13. **HB0770_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318090)
14. **HB0770_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320914)
15. **HB0770_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324371)
16. **HB0770_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325228)
17. **HB0770_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325229)
18. **HB0770_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325230)
19. **HB0770_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315438)
20. **LC2880.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286458)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **56–43** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **11–8** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **42–5** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **55–43** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **48–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jodee Etchart — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-12T14:22:34+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-21T01:03:19+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-21T13:35:58+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-24T16:00:48+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-24T17:34:04+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-24T20:05:55+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-24T22:45:44+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-25T18:10:07+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-25T20:13:44+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-26T17:21:00+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T20:05:50+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26T22:28:48+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-02-28T18:24:41+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-28T20:56:16+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T15:48:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T17:14:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T00:49:09+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19T19:06:31+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26T14:59:32+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-07T22:59:46+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-08T19:32:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-18T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-18T19:09:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-22T18:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T20:33:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T20:33:11+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-27T15:04:14+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-05-02T17:30:49+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-06T20:00:43+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-07T15:03:52+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13T19:25:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-19T20:36:57+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/6e2f2f9d-10e5-41cc-ba77-d77e66d560ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).