republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-249.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	Include digital identifications in alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana laws	Include digital identifications in alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana laws	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2025	HB 249	Montana HB 249 (2025)	bill	Alcohol Information Technology Tobacco	enacted	Braxton Mitchell	25	36	6	2024-11-19T14:45:57+00:00	2025-04-07T23:09:56+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/afa6a242-5ba1-4dcd-af42-efc59cfcac18	https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1631?open_tab=sum	98c2d2b1b07b3529d82e545131e76d8858496d674241f80525972356690511c7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana HB 249 (2025) — Include digital identifications in alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana laws

Version chain

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

1. HB0249_1(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
2. HB0249_1(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
3. HB0249_1(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
4. HB0249_1(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
5. HB0249_1(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
6. HB0249_1(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
7. HB0249_1(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
8. HB0249_1(8).pdf (committee substitute) — source
9. HB0249_1(9).pdf (committee substitute) — source
10. HB0249_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
11. HB0249_2.pdf (committee substitute) — source
12. HB0249_X(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
13. HB0249_X(10).pdf (committee substitute) — source
14. HB0249_X(11).pdf (committee substitute) — source
15. HB0249_X(12).pdf (committee substitute) — source
16. HB0249_X(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
17. HB0249_X(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
18. HB0249_X(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
19. HB0249_X(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
20. HB0249_X(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
21. HB0249_X(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
22. HB0249_X(8).pdf (committee substitute) — source
23. HB0249_X(9).pdf (committee substitute) — source
24. HB0249_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source
25. LC1631.pdf (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• do_pass — 19–1 (pass) · lower
• be_concurred_in — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass — 86–13 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 89–10 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 46–4 (pass) · upper
• Do Concur — 48–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Braxton Mitchell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-11-19T14:45:57+00:00 (LC) Drafter Assigned
• 2025-01-14T15:38:46+00:00 (LC) Draft in Legal Review
• 2025-01-14T23:00:07+00:00 (LC) Draft in Edit
• 2025-01-15T15:21:17+00:00 (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2025-01-15T19:32:18+00:00 (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2025-01-16T19:34:53+00:00 (LC) Draft in Assembly
• 2025-01-16T21:13:50+00:00 (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2025-01-17T18:39:43+00:00 (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2025-01-17T19:00:13+00:00 (H) Introduced
• 2025-01-20T17:21:11+00:00 (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Business and Labor referral-committee
• 2025-01-20T20:18:34+00:00 (H) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-01-28T22:43:41+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Business and Labor
• 2025-01-29T15:26:34+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor committee-passage
• 2025-01-29T17:35:46+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor committee-passage
• 2025-01-29T20:21:06+00:00 (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Business and Labor committee-passage
• 2025-01-31T20:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-01-31T21:15:00+00:00 (H) 2nd Reading Passed reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-02-03T20:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-02-03T21:40:00+00:00 (H) 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-03T22:43:47+00:00 (H) Transmitted to Senate
• 2025-02-04T20:18:52+00:00 (S) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-02-13T16:29:04+00:00 (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Energy, Technology & Federal Relations referral-committee
• 2025-02-13T20:30:36+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) Energy, Technology & Federal Relations
• 2025-03-18T23:00:58+00:00 (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Energy, Technology & Federal Relations
• 2025-03-19T21:10:00+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
• 2025-03-21T20:05:00+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-03-24T19:30:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-03-24T19:50:00+00:00 (S) 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-24T19:50:58+00:00 (H) Sent to Enrolling
• 2025-03-26T11:51:16+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
• 2025-04-07T20:00:53+00:00 (H) Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-04-07T23:09:56+00:00 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/afa6a242-5ba1-4dcd-af42-efc59cfcac18. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).