republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2021/hb-501.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Generally revise criminal procedure and criminal laws	Generally revise criminal procedure and criminal laws	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2021	HB 501	Montana HB 501 (2021)	bill	Crimes Criminal Procedure (see also: Law Enforcement)	enacted	Jeremy Trebas	5	53	8	2020-12-12	2021-05-14	openstates	ocd-bill/21e74e4b-c0d1-4fc1-96b7-aabbf1c25b73	http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/LAW0210W$BSIV.ActionQuery?P_BILL_NO1=501&P_BLTP_BILL_TYP_CD=HB&Z_ACTION=Find&P_SESS=20211	554937cc0f0fc4b4c0c99c5bd037601d64e510a3627f63004aff16b67cf8ca11	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana HB 501 (2021) — Generally revise criminal procedure and criminal laws

Version chain

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

1. HB0501_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
2. HB0501_2.pdf (committee substitute) — source
3. HB0501_3.pdf (committee substitute) — source
4. HB0501_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do Pass — 59–41 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 31–19 (pass) · upper
• Do Concur — 30–20 (pass) · upper
• Do Concur — 66–33 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 53–46 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 66–34 (pass) · lower
• DO PASS AS AMENDED — 12–7 (pass) · lower
• BE CONCURRED IN AS AMENDED — 6–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jeremy Trebas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-12 Draft Request Received
• 2020-12-28 Draft On Hold
• 2021-02-12 Draft Taken Off Hold
• 2021-02-12 Draft to Requester for Review
• 2021-02-15 Draft in Legal Review
• 2021-02-15 Draft in Edit
• 2021-02-17 Draft to Drafter - Edit Review
• 2021-02-17 Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2021-02-18 Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2021-02-18 Bill Draft Text Available Electronically
• 2021-02-18 Executive Director Review
• 2021-02-18 Draft in Assembly
• 2021-02-18 Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2021-02-18 Executive Director Final Review
• 2021-02-18 Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2021-02-18 Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2021-02-18 Introduced introduction
• 2021-02-19 Introduced Bill Text Available Electronically
• 2021-02-19 Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary referral-committee
• 2021-02-19 First Reading reading-1
• 2021-02-22 Hearing - (H) Judiciary
• 2021-02-23 Amendments Available
• 2021-02-26 Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Judiciary committee-passage
• 2021-02-26 Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Judiciary committee-passage
• 2021-02-27 Printed - New Version Available
• 2021-03-01 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2021-03-01 2nd Reading Passed reading-2
• 2021-03-02 Scheduled for 3rd Reading
• 2021-03-02 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2021-03-02 Transmitted to Senate
• 2021-03-08 First Reading reading-1
• 2021-03-08 Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary referral-committee
• 2021-03-22 Hearing - (S) Judiciary
• 2021-03-25 Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred as Amended - (S) Judiciary
• 2021-03-30 Committee Report--Bill Concurred as Amended - (S) Judiciary
• 2021-03-30 Printed - New Version Available
• 2021-04-09 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2021-04-09 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2
• 2021-04-12 Scheduled for 3rd Reading
• 2021-04-12 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-12 Returned to House with Amendments
• 2021-04-22 Scheduled for 2nd Reading
• 2021-04-22 2nd Reading Senate Amendments Concurred amendment-amendment, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2021-04-23 Scheduled for 3rd Reading
• 2021-04-23 3rd Reading Passed as Amended by Senate passage, reading-3
• 2021-04-23 Sent to Enrolling
• 2021-04-29 Returned from Enrolling
• 2021-04-29 Printed - Enrolled Version Available
• 2021-05-04 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-05-04 Signed by President
• 2021-05-04 Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2021-05-14 Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2021-05-14 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/21e74e4b-c0d1-4fc1-96b7-aabbf1c25b73. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).