---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise laws relating to interim committees"
description: "Revise laws relating to interim committees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 142"
citation: "Montana HB 142 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lukas Schubert"]
version_count: 20
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-10-21T14:22:38+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T18:12:21+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6bdec36b-3cc1-47da-9351-e9534de62cc5"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0595?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "a1e9b44b31fc9abcb6c65a698897119f3fb6a21a5e28ff246c5f5bc24d088301"
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 142 (2025) — Revise laws relating to interim committees

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0142.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272630)
2. **HB0142_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270413)
3. **HB0142_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=274977)
4. **HB0142_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275645)
5. **HB0142_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276676)
6. **HB0142_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284252)
7. **HB0142_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300817)
8. **HB0142_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=270096)
9. **HB0142_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300816)
10. **HB0142_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316484)
11. **HB0142_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316485)
12. **HB0142_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316486)
13. **HB0142_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316487)
14. **HB0142_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317388)
15. **HB0142_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320847)
16. **HB0142_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324332)
17. **HB0142_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325891)
18. **HB0142_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327379)
19. **HB0142_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310634)
20. **LC0595.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267162)

## Votes

- do_pass — **8–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **32–16** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **4–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **32–18** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **54–44** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **53–47** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lukas Schubert — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-21T14:22:38+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-11-22T22:14:11+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-11-23T19:43:41+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-08T18:27:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-12-08T22:45:17+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-12-09T14:32:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-10T15:50:07+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-08T15:34:42+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-08T20:04:38+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-09T19:00:55+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Legislative Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-09T20:05:07+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-10T00:25:06+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Legislative Administration
- **2025-01-20T19:47:30+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Legislative Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-20T19:58:20+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Legislative Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-20T21:42:53+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Legislative Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-24T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-24T21:28:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-27T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-27T22:08:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-27T22:26:08+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-28T20:55:19+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-11T16:33:37+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Legislative Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T16:37:06+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Legislative Administration
- **2025-02-19T19:31:37+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Legislative Administration
- **2025-02-19T21:55:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Legislative Administration
- **2025-03-27T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-27T20:52:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-28T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-28T21:18:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-28T21:18:16+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-30T17:07:47+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-07T18:00:24+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-09T17:30:28+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-09T19:50:28+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-16T13:14:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-17T18:12:21+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/6bdec36b-3cc1-47da-9351-e9534de62cc5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).