republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-32.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allow audio and video recording of public events"
description: "Allow audio and video recording of public events"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 32"
citation: "Montana HB 32 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Family Law", "State Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amy Regier"]
version_count: 29
action_count: 36
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-09-24T17:48:02+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-27T18:56:23+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2f4b0582-0ca3-4f02-8421-292f87b9ee74"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0316?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "c6a75cab9aab4996eee25c4c9a0533a61ee7add043c7fae017d9f2bbf67b7d0e"
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 32 (2025) — Allow audio and video recording of public events

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0032_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=274837)
2. **HB0032_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=274839)
3. **HB0032_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=274840)
4. **HB0032_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275618)
5. **HB0032_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276653)
6. **HB0032_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281288)
7. **HB0032_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283080)
8. **HB0032_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283081)
9. **HB0032_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=267227)
10. **HB0032_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283083)
11. **HB0032_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283084)
12. **HB0032_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283435)
13. **HB0032_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283436)
14. **HB0032_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289836)
15. **HB0032_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=289837)
16. **HB0032_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283082)
17. **HB0032_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295332)
18. **HB0032_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325744)
19. **HB0032_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327308)
20. **HB0032_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297306)
21. **HB0032_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297307)
22. **HB0032_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297308)
23. **HB0032_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310564)
24. **HB0032_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316526)
25. **HB0032_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320135)
26. **HB0032_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321306)
27. **HB0032_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324570)
28. **HB0032_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294164)
29. **LC0316.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=265453)

## Votes

- be_concurred_in — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **43–5** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **39–11** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Amy Regier — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-24T17:48:02+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-10-04T21:20:50+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-10-07T18:48:19+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-10-10T17:33:46+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-11-08T03:19:57+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-11-15T22:03:13+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-11-19T19:59:29+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-12-10T16:18:59+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2024-12-10T16:19:00+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2024-12-20T22:11:28+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-06T17:30:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-07T00:47:00+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
- **2025-01-10T19:00:12+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-10T20:44:46+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-13T20:00:01+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-13T20:09:01+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-14T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-14T21:13:01+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-14T21:30:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-15T20:14:01+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-16T17:27:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-07T20:59:09+00:00** (S) Hearing Canceled - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-02-12T14:46:26+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-02-12T17:43:00+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-02-12T20:08:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-02-14T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-14T20:38:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-15T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-15T17:51:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-15T17:52:07+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-02-18T17:07:30+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-02-19T15:00:11+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-20T18:00:38+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-02-20T18:35:28+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-27T16:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-02-27T18:56:23+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/2f4b0582-0ca3-4f02-8421-292f87b9ee74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).