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Bill Enact the "Free to Speak Act" Enact the "Free to Speak Act" us/states/mt Montana Legislature 2025 HB 400 Montana HB 400 (2025)
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Communications
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Montana HB 400 (2025) — Enact the "Free to Speak Act"

Version chain

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

  1. HB0400.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf (committee substitute) — source
  2. HB0400_1(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  3. HB0400_1(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  4. HB0400_1(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  5. HB0400_1(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  6. HB0400_1(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  7. HB0400_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
  8. HB0400_2(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  9. HB0400_2(10).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  10. HB0400_2(11).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  11. HB0400_2(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  12. HB0400_2(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  13. HB0400_2(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  14. HB0400_2(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  15. HB0400_2(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  16. HB0400_2(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  17. HB0400_2(8).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  18. HB0400_2(9).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  19. HB0400_2.pdf (committee substitute) — source
  20. HB0400_X(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  21. HB0400_X(10).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  22. HB0400_X(11).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  23. HB0400_X(12).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  24. HB0400_X(13).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  25. HB0400_X(14).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  26. HB0400_X(15).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  27. HB0400_X(16).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  28. HB0400_X(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  29. HB0400_X(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  30. HB0400_X(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  31. HB0400_X(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  32. HB0400_X(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  33. HB0400_X(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  34. HB0400_X(8).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  35. HB0400_X(9).pdf (committee substitute) — source
  36. HB0400_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source
  37. LC1522.pdf (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • do_pass_as_amended — 128 (pass) · lower
  • Do Pass — 5842 (pass) · lower
  • Do Concur — 2820 (pass) · upper
  • be_concurred_in — 53 (pass) · upper
  • Do Pass — 5642 (pass) · lower
  • Do Concur — 2822 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Braxton Mitchell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-11-16T22:01:29+00:00 (LC) Drafter Assigned
  • 2025-01-31T16:41:34+00:00 (LC) Draft in Legal Review
  • 2025-01-31T17:11:34+00:00 (LC) Draft in Edit
  • 2025-01-31T17:33:19+00:00 (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
  • 2025-01-31T17:50:23+00:00 (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
  • 2025-01-31T18:05:19+00:00 (LC) Draft in Assembly
  • 2025-02-04T13:10:41+00:00 (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
  • 2025-02-04T19:53:11+00:00 (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
  • 2025-02-05T22:05:32+00:00 (H) Introduced
  • 2025-02-06T17:55:39+00:00 (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2025-02-06T20:22:00+00:00 (H) First Reading reading-1
  • 2025-02-11T16:22:32+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
  • 2025-02-17T18:33:55+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Judiciary committee-passage
  • 2025-02-17T20:29:00+00:00 (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Judiciary committee-passage
  • 2025-02-20T20:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
  • 2025-02-20T21:06:00+00:00 (H) 2nd Reading Passed reading-2, reading-2
  • 2025-02-21T20:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
  • 2025-02-21T22:10:00+00:00 (H) 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
  • 2025-02-21T22:30:33+00:00 (H) Transmitted to Senate
  • 2025-02-24T20:27:17+00:00 (S) First Reading reading-1
  • 2025-03-03T18:11:35+00:00 (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2025-03-28T19:31:44+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
  • 2025-04-03T17:57:51+00:00 (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
  • 2025-04-03T20:26:00+00:00 (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
  • 2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
  • 2025-04-10T15:57:00+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2, reading-2
  • 2025-04-11T16:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
  • 2025-04-11T21:29:00+00:00 (S) 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
  • 2025-04-11T21:30:13+00:00 (H) Sent to Enrolling
  • 2025-04-15T06:41:33+00:00 (H) Returned from Enrolling
  • 2025-04-23T22:30:00+00:00 (H) Signed by Speaker passage
  • 2025-04-25T13:30:00+00:00 (S) Signed by President passage
  • 2025-04-25T17:55:00+00:00 (H) Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
  • 2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00 (H) Signed by Governor executive-signature
  • 2025-05-05T15:17:34+00:00 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7f03b2c3-901f-4e8d-ad8a-06b38b1bf2cd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).