---
type: "Bill"
title: "Eliminate the Scenic-Historic Byways Advisory Council"
description: "Eliminate the Scenic-Historic Byways Advisory Council"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 309"
citation: "Montana SB 309 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Becky Beard"]
version_count: 22
action_count: 42
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-08T21:18:23+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T20:13:15+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/972d2445-ea7d-4d64-890f-e2a15603a555"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2472?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "ea967a58ae5568291d4ad3e05611de85faabaaaed69ea4b404c2b52500c3f359"
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 309 (2025) — Eliminate the Scenic-Historic Byways Advisory Council

## Version chain

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

1. **LC2472.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280368)
2. **SB0309_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282030)
3. **SB0309_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=291824)
4. **SB0309_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294669)
5. **SB0309_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298658)
6. **SB0309_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281445)
7. **SB0309_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298657)
8. **SB0309_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298666)
9. **SB0309_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321340)
10. **SB0309_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321341)
11. **SB0309_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321342)
12. **SB0309_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324586)
13. **SB0309_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326609)
14. **SB0309_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298667)
15. **SB0309_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299250)
16. **SB0309_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299251)
17. **SB0309_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299252)
18. **SB0309_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310581)
19. **SB0309_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316542)
20. **SB0309_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320147)
21. **SB0309_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321316)
22. **SB0309_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=298659)

## Votes

- do_pass — **5–3** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **36–14** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **96–3** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **42–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Becky Beard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-08T21:18:23+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-08T21:18:23+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2024-12-17T16:49:58+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2024-12-30T18:54:33+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-07T15:56:43+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-07T16:21:46+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-09T17:44:45+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-10T17:10:46+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-10T23:16:41+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-11T15:41:04+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-12T19:11:37+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-12T20:28:12+00:00** (S) Introduced
- **2025-02-13T18:00:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-13T18:38:47+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Highways and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T19:12:34+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-02-15T15:55:24+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Highways and Transportation
- **2025-02-21T00:56:21+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-02-21T15:26:52+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-02-21T21:05:00+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-02-21T23:15:30+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Highways and Transportation `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-24T20:32:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Highways and Transportation `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-01T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-01T17:35:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-03T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-03T22:09:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-03T23:21:42+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
- **2025-03-04T18:27:54+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T20:09:38+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-06T16:46:42+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Transportation
- **2025-03-17T22:04:24+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Transportation
- **2025-03-18T19:13:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Transportation
- **2025-03-24T19:30:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-24T20:16:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-25T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-25T19:33:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-25T19:34:11+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-27T12:26:09+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-31T16:30:42+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-07T18:30:08+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-08T14:45:19+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-17T18:00:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-18T20:13:15+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/972d2445-ea7d-4d64-890f-e2a15603a555`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).