---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise laws related to board seals and responsibilities"
description: "Revise laws related to board seals and responsibilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 227"
citation: "Montana SB 227 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Labor and Employment", "State Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wendy McKamey"]
version_count: 26
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-09-27T14:15:03+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-08T20:14:37+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2545b10b-10ca-44d4-a267-57b6f76811fb"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0419?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "5154a52be0da7944e190fb03e6c68e6b83ec7012facae304dac8195172244a28"
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 SB 227 (2025) — Revise laws related to board seals and responsibilities

## Version chain

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

1. **LC0419.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273808)
2. **SB0227_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276759)
3. **SB0227_1(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282965)
4. **SB0227_1(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283048)
5. **SB0227_1(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=290431)
6. **SB0227_1(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297516)
7. **SB0227_1(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309151)
8. **SB0227_1(15).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309153)
9. **SB0227_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282562)
10. **SB0227_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282821)
11. **SB0227_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282846)
12. **SB0227_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282938)
13. **SB0227_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282945)
14. **SB0227_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282962)
15. **SB0227_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282963)
16. **SB0227_1(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282964)
17. **SB0227_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276098)
18. **SB0227_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316883)
19. **SB0227_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320458)
20. **SB0227_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321801)
21. **SB0227_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321802)
22. **SB0227_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321803)
23. **SB0227_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324741)
24. **SB0227_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325766)
25. **SB0227_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327318)
26. **SB0227_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310946)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **99–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **49–1** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **98–1** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **49–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wendy McKamey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-27T14:15:03+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-22T19:50:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-22T23:26:23+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-01-23T19:11:07+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-01-24T15:06:32+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-01-24T18:42:54+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-01-25T21:47:03+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-27T19:24:10+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-29T00:05:04+00:00** (S) Introduced
- **2025-01-29T20:40:38+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-13T20:05:59+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-22T00:48:54+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs
- **2025-02-26T18:40:01+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26T20:16:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Business, Labor and Economic Affairs `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-28T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28T20:39:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-01T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-01T15:25:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-01T17:11:09+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
- **2025-03-03T17:25:06+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03T20:15:13+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-06T21:57:39+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-03-24T17:33:40+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-03-24T19:51:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Business and Labor
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T20:45:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T21:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T23:40:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T23:41:18+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-12T18:07:00+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-21T22:00:51+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-25T22:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-25T22:43:07+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-05T18:41:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-08T20:14:37+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/2545b10b-10ca-44d4-a267-57b6f76811fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).