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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise special session polling laws"
description: "Revise special session polling laws"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 348"
citation: "Montana HB 348 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["George Nikolakakos"]
version_count: 27
action_count: 39
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-12-08T21:33:16+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-16T19:53:51+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aeb022b7-840e-4cb2-9cb0-94c393fb3fb0"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2506?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "f322875c9035019b3cdd3d076379e319cec294832f1d31f44e01ae7e6c6fd77f"
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 348 (2025) — Revise special session polling laws
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB0348.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281212)
2. **HB0348.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294693)
3. **HB0348.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281211)
4. **HB0348.001.004_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296745)
5. **HB0348.001.005_Amendments-in-Context_final-full(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296744)
6. **HB0348.001.005_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296743)
7. **HB0348.001.006_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300838)
8. **HB0348_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277395)
9. **HB0348_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286745)
10. **HB0348_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314916)
11. **HB0348_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315046)
12. **HB0348_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315047)
13. **HB0348_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315048)
14. **HB0348_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277128)
15. **HB0348_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315051)
16. **HB0348_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326616)
17. **HB0348_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327715)
18. **HB0348_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317230)
19. **HB0348_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317925)
20. **HB0348_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317926)
21. **HB0348_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320900)
22. **HB0348_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323166)
23. **HB0348_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323167)
24. **HB0348_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323168)
25. **HB0348_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325035)
26. **HB0348_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315049)
27. **LC2506.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=274064)
## Votes
- Do Concur — **2921** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **6532** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **6436** (pass) · lower
- Take HB 348 from Comm-Kassmier — **2822** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **95** (pass) · lower
- to_table — **51** (pass) · upper
- AMD-HB0348.001.001 Regier DO PASS — **4258** (fail) · lower
- Do Concur — **2921** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- George Nikolakakos — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-12-08T21:33:16+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-08T21:33:16+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-01-13T00:11:13+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-01-13T00:13:14+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-01-23T22:20:08+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-01-23T22:34:19+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-01-24T15:10:59+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-01-25T21:54:59+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-01-25T23:06:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-01-28T13:53:33+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-28T23:03:43+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-29T22:00:28+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-30T17:17:25+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Legislative Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T19:59:51+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-31T21:41:52+00:00** (H) Hearing Canceled - (H) Legislative Administration
- **2025-02-01T00:59:55+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Legislative Administration
- **2025-02-10T19:24:17+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Legislative Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10T19:27:30+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Legislative Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-10T20:25:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Legislative Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-21T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-21T20:56:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Motion to Amend Failed `amendment-failure, failure, reading-2`
- **2025-02-21T20:58:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-22T16:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-22T19:04:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-24T21:51:30+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-25T20:42:43+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-04T00:47:04+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Legislative Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T16:31:32+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Legislative Administration
- **2025-04-09T13:23:30+00:00** (S) Tabled in Committee - (S) Legislative Administration `amendment-deferral`
- **2025-04-17T19:29:00+00:00** (S) Taken from Committee; Placed on 2nd Reading - (S) Legislative Administration `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-18T20:51:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-22T18:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T21:08:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T21:08:41+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-25T19:45:00+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-05-01T19:00:49+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-02T16:00:24+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-05T16:05:54+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-16T19:53:51+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/aeb022b7-840e-4cb2-9cb0-94c393fb3fb0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).