republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-196.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	Revise digital ID certification laws	Revise digital ID certification laws	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2025	HB 196	Montana HB 196 (2025)	bill	Alcohol Information Technology	enacted	Braxton Mitchell	26	37	6	2024-11-19T14:46:44+00:00	2025-04-07T23:00:26+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0977376c-8653-4770-98d5-6d6d7f2a70b9	https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1632?open_tab=sum	0063bb46921093d2d394c90e7def0b1d35e56ec7db1cb63f4001a3b42f2fd14b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana HB 196 (2025) — Revise digital ID certification laws

Version chain

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

1. HB0196_1(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
2. HB0196_1(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
3. HB0196_1(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
4. HB0196_1(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
5. HB0196_1(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
6. HB0196_1(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
7. HB0196_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
8. HB0196_2.pdf (committee substitute) — source
9. HB0196_X(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
10. HB0196_X(10).pdf (committee substitute) — source
11. HB0196_X(11).pdf (committee substitute) — source
12. HB0196_X(12).pdf (committee substitute) — source
13. HB0196_X(13).pdf (committee substitute) — source
14. HB0196_X(14).pdf (committee substitute) — source
15. HB0196_X(15).pdf (committee substitute) — source
16. HB0196_X(16).pdf (committee substitute) — source
17. HB0196_X(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
18. HB0196_X(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
19. HB0196_X(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
20. HB0196_X(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
21. HB0196_X(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
22. HB0196_X(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
23. HB0196_X(8).pdf (committee substitute) — source
24. HB0196_X(9).pdf (committee substitute) — source
25. HB0196_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source
26. LC1632.pdf (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Do Concur — 48–2 (pass) · upper
• do_pass — 16–4 (pass) · lower
• be_concurred_in — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass — 84–16 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 85–15 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 44–6 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Braxton Mitchell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-11-19T14:46:44+00:00 (LC) Drafter Assigned
• 2025-01-11T18:16:03+00:00 (LC) Draft in Legal Review
• 2025-01-11T22:19:32+00:00 (LC) Draft in Edit
• 2025-01-13T18:12:16+00:00 (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2025-01-13T20:24:52+00:00 (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2025-01-14T15:22:20+00:00 (LC) Draft in Assembly
• 2025-01-14T16:26:08+00:00 (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2025-01-14T18:27:57+00:00 (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2025-01-14T18:56:52+00:00 (H) Introduced
• 2025-01-15T18:06:54+00:00 (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor referral-committee
• 2025-01-15T20:09:27+00:00 (H) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-01-16T20:17:54+00:00 (H) Hearing Canceled - (H) Business and Labor
• 2025-01-16T22:25:24+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
• 2025-01-27T18:45:33+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor committee-passage
• 2025-01-27T20:38:32+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor committee-passage
• 2025-01-27T22:00:00+00:00 (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor committee-passage
• 2025-02-04T20:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-02-04T20:26:00+00:00 (H) 2nd Reading Passed reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-02-05T20:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-02-05T21:47:00+00:00 (H) 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-05T22:02:46+00:00 (H) Transmitted to Senate
• 2025-02-06T20:32:01+00:00 (S) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-02-17T18:26:00+00:00 (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Energy, Technology & Federal Relations referral-committee
• 2025-03-12T17:50:45+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) Energy, Technology & Federal Relations
• 2025-03-18T22:59:26+00:00 (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Energy, Technology & Federal Relations
• 2025-03-19T21:08:00+00:00 (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Energy, Technology & Federal Relations
• 2025-03-21T19:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-03-21T19:37:00+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-03-24T19:30:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-03-24T19:47:00+00:00 (S) 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-24T19:47:35+00:00 (H) Sent to Enrolling
• 2025-03-26T05:00:55+00:00 (H) Returned from Enrolling
• 2025-03-28T23:30:00+00:00 (H) Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-04-01T17:00:47+00:00 (S) Signed by President passage
• 2025-04-01T18:35:47+00:00 (H) Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-04-07T19:59:19+00:00 (H) Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-07T23:00:26+00:00 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0977376c-8653-4770-98d5-6d6d7f2a70b9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).