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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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---
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Revise election administrator laws"
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description: "Revise election administrator laws"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
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legislature: "Montana Legislature"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 293"
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citation: "Montana HB 293 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Counties", "Elections"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Tom Millett"]
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version_count: 14
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action_count: 43
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2024-11-27T20:13:58+00:00"
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last_action: "2025-05-05T14:03:26+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5f00727c-f862-49b3-a7c0-27ca8d4365cc"
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source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2029?open_tab=sum"
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source_hash: "249f6d5ea456f0832b89b6b1f14b3b2e01cd5c97c98b8be7b7711de545baec2d"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-mt"]
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---
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# Montana HB 293 (2025) — Revise election administrator laws
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB0293_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273958)
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2. **HB0293_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275497)
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3. **HB0293_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276543)
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4. **HB0293_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282631)
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5. **HB0293_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296925)
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6. **HB0293_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308271)
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7. **HB0293_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308274)
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8. **HB0293_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=273692)
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9. **HB0293_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316814)
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10. **HB0293_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320390)
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11. **HB0293_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324624)
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12. **HB0293_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326459)
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13. **HB0293_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310874)
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14. **LC2029.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269150)
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## Votes
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- Do Pass — **96–4** (pass) · lower
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- Do Pass — **90–4** (pass) · lower
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- Do Concur — **41–9** (pass) · upper
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- do_pass — **17–2** (pass) · lower
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- be_concurred_in — **8–1** (pass) · upper
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- Do Concur — **44–4** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Tom Millett — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-11-27T20:13:58+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
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- **2024-12-11T18:46:16+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
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- **2024-12-11T19:23:30+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
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- **2024-12-16T15:41:22+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
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- **2024-12-16T17:21:24+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
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- **2024-12-17T14:09:49+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
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- **2024-12-20T19:26:24+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
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- **2025-01-15T18:33:55+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
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- **2025-01-16T18:44:39+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
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- **2025-01-16T18:51:55+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
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- **2025-01-16T18:58:24+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
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- **2025-01-17T00:07:03+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
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- **2025-01-17T14:45:00+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
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- **2025-01-18T15:50:32+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
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- **2025-01-20T18:27:51+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
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- **2025-01-21T18:03:22+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
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- **2025-01-22T23:02:32+00:00** (H) Introduced
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- **2025-01-23T18:53:15+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-23T20:08:26+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
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- **2025-01-23T22:36:07+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
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- **2025-02-11T19:30:00+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-11T20:10:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-13T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-13T20:49:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
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- **2025-02-14T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
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- **2025-02-14T21:11:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-02-14T21:37:30+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
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- **2025-02-15T15:31:58+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-21T17:54:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-17T18:07:00+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
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- **2025-03-21T09:09:38+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
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- **2025-03-26T20:55:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
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- **2025-04-09T00:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
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- **2025-04-09T00:21:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
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- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-10T18:05:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-10T18:05:48+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
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- **2025-04-11T12:28:30+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
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- **2025-04-18T21:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-04-22T13:30:24+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
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- **2025-04-22T18:10:24+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2025-05-05T14:03:26+00:00** Chapter Number Assigned `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5f00727c-f862-49b3-a7c0-27ca8d4365cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
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