---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise process for governor's veto receipt and delivery to the legislature"
description: "Revise process for governor's veto receipt and delivery to the legislature"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 344"
citation: "Montana SB 344 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature", "Public Officers and Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greg Hertz"]
version_count: 22
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-08T21:26:08+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-08T21:01:14+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aacb711a-3b75-4051-80f3-229f4c62443e"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2492?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "4f086813726a0a7c501bf3bc1dccb9e4f2389ebe49bc2a74caf6e274927bd462"
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 344 (2025) — Revise process for governor's veto receipt and delivery to the legislature

## Version chain

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

1. **LC2492.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282857)
2. **SB0344_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284306)
3. **SB0344_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293372)
4. **SB0344_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=301456)
5. **SB0344_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309134)
6. **SB0344_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309136)
7. **SB0344_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283409)
8. **SB0344_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309138)
9. **SB0344_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321862)
10. **SB0344_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322210)
11. **SB0344_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324842)
12. **SB0344_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326612)
13. **SB0344_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327713)
14. **SB0344_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309139)
15. **SB0344_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309328)
16. **SB0344_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309329)
17. **SB0344_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310952)
18. **SB0344_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316889)
19. **SB0344_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320464)
20. **SB0344_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321860)
21. **SB0344_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321861)
22. **SB0344_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309137)

## Votes

- be_concurred_in — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **44–6** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **90–9** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **48–2** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **93–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Greg Hertz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-08T21:26:08+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-08T21:26:08+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-12T18:13:42+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-12T22:14:09+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-15T14:36:32+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-16T16:19:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-16T16:21:03+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-17T19:09:58+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-17T23:18:58+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-18T01:01:21+00:00** (S) Introduced
- **2025-02-18T20:11:42+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-19T18:13:04+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Legislative Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28T00:43:14+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Legislative Administration
- **2025-03-01T20:53:22+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Legislative Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-03T20:24:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Legislative Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T15:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05T17:28:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T15:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T19:13:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T20:25:22+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
- **2025-03-07T17:20:09+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Legislative Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T19:15:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18T18:31:55+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Legislative Administration
- **2025-03-31T18:12:37+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Legislative Administration
- **2025-03-31T19:41:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Legislative Administration
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T19:49:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T21:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T23:37:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T23:38:01+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-12T18:51:48+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`
- **2025-05-08T21:00:00+00:00** (S) Filed with Secretary of State
- **2025-05-08T21:01:14+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/aacb711a-3b75-4051-80f3-229f4c62443e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).