--- type: "Bill" title: "Revise meeting date for presidential electors to align with federal law" description: "Revise meeting date for presidential electors to align with federal law" jurisdiction: "us/states/mt" legislature: "Montana Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "HB 380" citation: "Montana HB 380 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Elections"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Morgan Thiel"] version_count: 16 action_count: 38 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2024-11-27T19:52:29+00:00" last_action: "2025-05-05T14:46:02+00:00" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/37863759-7a11-4eb1-abc0-3a919c3c1042" source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2017?open_tab=sum" source_hash: "2f9d8826c2b895992bb745b024ca0b61de2783fd4d63ee5a94a604865e30ebf2" 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 380 (2025) — Revise meeting date for presidential electors to align with federal law ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **HB0380_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=278255) 2. **HB0380_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=278814) 3. **HB0380_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284522) 4. **HB0380_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299113) 5. **HB0380_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310023) 6. **HB0380_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310026) 7. **HB0380_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=278254) 8. **HB0380_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311595) 9. **HB0380_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311596) 10. **HB0380_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317045) 11. **HB0380_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320612) 12. **HB0380_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324640) 13. **HB0380_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326450) 14. **HB0380_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327024) 15. **HB0380_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311052) 16. **LC2017.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275840) ## Votes - Do Concur — **43–5** (pass) · upper - Do Concur — **44–6** (pass) · upper - be_concurred_in — **8–1** (pass) · upper - Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower - Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower - do_pass — **19–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Morgan Thiel — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-11-27T19:52:29+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned - **2024-11-27T19:52:30+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold - **2025-01-27T20:15:35+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold - **2025-01-27T22:01:52+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review - **2025-01-28T17:17:48+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit - **2025-01-28T19:01:58+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing - **2025-01-28T19:47:36+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review - **2025-01-28T22:53:35+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly - **2025-01-29T15:28:04+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery - **2025-02-03T18:06:09+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester - **2025-02-03T19:19:01+00:00** (H) Introduced - **2025-02-04T16:59:58+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee` - **2025-02-04T20:07:23+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1` - **2025-02-04T21:56:01+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration - **2025-02-14T18:03:03+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage` - **2025-02-14T20:14:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage` - **2025-02-18T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2` - **2025-02-18T21:03:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2` - **2025-02-19T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3` - **2025-02-19T21:43:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3` - **2025-02-19T22:12:19+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate - **2025-02-20T20:17:06+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1` - **2025-03-01T22:00:02+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee` - **2025-03-12T14:45:52+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration - **2025-03-26T20:40:36+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration - **2025-03-27T19:24:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration - **2025-04-11T22:25:16+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Pass Consideration `reading-2` - **2025-04-12T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2` - **2025-04-12T15:54:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2` - **2025-04-14T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3` - **2025-04-14T17:41:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3` - **2025-04-14T17:41:57+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling - **2025-04-16T14:36:44+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling - **2025-04-23T22:30:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage` - **2025-04-25T13:30:00+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage` - **2025-04-25T17:55:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt` - **2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature` - **2025-05-05T14:46:02+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/37863759-7a11-4eb1-abc0-3a919c3c1042`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).