republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-475.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Regulate restraints on women while giving childbirth"
description: "Regulate restraints on women while giving childbirth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 475"
citation: "Montana HB 475 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corrections", "Health", "Local Government", "Minors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James Reavis"]
version_count: 23
action_count: 38
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-11-17T14:32:38+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-05T16:25:14+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb8a280e-398b-4ee2-b717-d4c3a5a0a4b3"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1575?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "1cedd20b62c9d05040ac19a15bf06293e57e3d095e92130bdd494a77d9d939bf"
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 475 (2025) — Regulate restraints on women while giving childbirth

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0475_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282057)
2. **HB0475_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287679)
3. **HB0475_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=306370)
4. **HB0475_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310006)
5. **HB0475_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310008)
6. **HB0475_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281619)
7. **HB0475_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310010)
8. **HB0475_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321535)
9. **HB0475_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321536)
10. **HB0475_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321537)
11. **HB0475_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324675)
12. **HB0475_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326261)
13. **HB0475_X(15).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327551)
14. **HB0475_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310011)
15. **HB0475_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310328)
16. **HB0475_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310329)
17. **HB0475_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310340)
18. **HB0475_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310342)
19. **HB0475_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311092)
20. **HB0475_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316987)
21. **HB0475_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320557)
22. **HB0475_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310009)
23. **LC1575.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279554)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **43–4** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **6–2** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **18–2** (pass) · lower
- to_take_from_the_table — **5–3** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **46–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **96–4** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- James Reavis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-17T14:32:38+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-05T03:42:37+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-05T16:02:49+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-06T17:35:48+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-06T22:15:37+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-07T20:58:35+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-10T15:51:51+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-12T19:12:14+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-12T21:38:51+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-13T18:04:55+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T19:41:47+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-14T21:40:10+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
- **2025-02-21T19:41:38+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-21T22:14:47+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-24T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24T21:20:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-25T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T21:08:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T21:21:49+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-26T20:26:04+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-03T21:28:37+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21T16:49:38+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Not Concurred - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-03-21T16:51:00+00:00** (S) Tabled in Committee - (S) Judiciary `amendment-deferral`
- **2025-04-03T17:58:44+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-04-07T17:08:33+00:00** (S) Taken from Table in Committee - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-04-08T18:31:07+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-04-08T19:21:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-04-12T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-12T18:56:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-14T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T17:58:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T17:58:45+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-15T14:59:46+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-23T22:30:32+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-24T17:45:00+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-24T21:45:28+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-05T16:25:14+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/cb8a280e-398b-4ee2-b717-d4c3a5a0a4b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).