---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise Montana arts council chair responsibilities"
description: "Revise Montana arts council chair responsibilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 786"
citation: "Montana HB 786 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Julie Darling"]
version_count: 19
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-22T21:03:21+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-19T20:55:37+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae40fab6-52db-463b-b631-639b43437091"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1899?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "cdcbefe584464f547b275aa0f1156e657cd56e388e637637944527a8e40d764a"
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 786 (2025) — Revise Montana arts council chair responsibilities

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0786_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288408)
2. **HB0786_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293949)
3. **HB0786_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294008)
4. **HB0786_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304316)
5. **HB0786_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315448)
6. **HB0786_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315449)
7. **HB0786_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287699)
8. **HB0786_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315451)
9. **HB0786_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326394)
10. **HB0786_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317292)
11. **HB0786_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318093)
12. **HB0786_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=318094)
13. **HB0786_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320933)
14. **HB0786_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324390)
15. **HB0786_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325238)
16. **HB0786_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325239)
17. **HB0786_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325240)
18. **HB0786_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315450)
19. **LC1899.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286277)

## Votes

- be_concurred_in — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **47–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Julie Darling — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-22T21:03:21+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-19T17:36:07+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-20T14:41:19+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-24T00:22:23+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-24T16:11:44+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-24T16:19:35+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-24T19:56:31+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-25T18:33:14+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-25T21:27:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-25T21:48:20+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-02-26T17:17:56+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T20:05:50+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26T22:28:49+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-02-28T16:51:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-02-28T17:25:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-02-28T18:26:05+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-28T18:40:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-02-28T20:56:16+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`
- **2025-03-06T23:38:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T17:31:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T00:52:48+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19T19:07:36+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Education and Cultural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26T14:54:50+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-04-03T22:31:50+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-04-04T20:02:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-04-18T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-18T19:14:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-22T18:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T20:36:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T20:37:54+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-27T15:10:01+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`
- **2025-05-13T19:27:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-19T20:55:37+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/ae40fab6-52db-463b-b631-639b43437091`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).