republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-538.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Revise 911 emergency telephone system laws	Revise 911 emergency telephone system laws	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2025	HB 538	Montana HB 538 (2025)	bill	Communications Emergency Services	enacted	Melissa Nikolakakos	20	45	6	2024-12-31T19:47:19+00:00	2025-05-08T19:06:45+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/3aee6dbe-5397-4e68-a4b2-24169663cf53	https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC4219?open_tab=sum	4f8db825ec65f255886f39786618f7e7990d28410ed8f45506b265b3e376febb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana HB 538 (2025) — Revise 911 emergency telephone system laws

Version chain

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

1. HB0538_1(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
2. HB0538_1(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
3. HB0538_1(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
4. HB0538_1(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
5. HB0538_1(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
6. HB0538_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
7. HB0538_X(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
8. HB0538_X(10).pdf (committee substitute) — source
9. HB0538_X(11).pdf (committee substitute) — source
10. HB0538_X(12).pdf (committee substitute) — source
11. HB0538_X(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
12. HB0538_X(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
13. HB0538_X(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
14. HB0538_X(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
15. HB0538_X(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
16. HB0538_X(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
17. HB0538_X(8).pdf (committee substitute) — source
18. HB0538_X(9).pdf (committee substitute) — source
19. HB0538_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source
20. LC4219.pdf (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• do_pass — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 50–0 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 49–0 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass — 99–1 (pass) · lower
• be_concurred_in — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Melissa Nikolakakos — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-12-31T19:47:19+00:00 (LC) Drafter Assigned
• 2024-12-31T19:47:20+00:00 (LC) Draft On Hold
• 2025-01-07T17:35:19+00:00 (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
• 2025-02-03T21:18:02+00:00 (LC) Draft in Legal Review
• 2025-02-04T21:58:48+00:00 (LC) Draft in Edit
• 2025-02-06T18:42:56+00:00 (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2025-02-07T17:18:37+00:00 (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2025-02-08T22:56:01+00:00 (LC) Drafter Assigned
• 2025-02-08T23:20:27+00:00 (LC) Draft in Edit
• 2025-02-09T19:30:20+00:00 (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2025-02-10T17:10:33+00:00 (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2025-02-10T23:11:22+00:00 (LC) Draft in Assembly
• 2025-02-11T15:40:23+00:00 (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2025-02-17T17:39:02+00:00 (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2025-02-18T19:10:51+00:00 (H) Introduced
• 2025-02-18T19:16:25+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Requested
• 2025-02-19T19:34:06+00:00 (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Energy, Technology and Federal Relations referral-committee
• 2025-02-19T19:52:09+00:00 (H) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-02-20T00:02:52+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Energy, Technology and Federal Relations
• 2025-02-21T23:48:52+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Energy, Technology and Federal Relations committee-passage
• 2025-02-25T22:00:52+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Received receipt
• 2025-02-26T15:47:29+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Signed
• 2025-02-26T16:25:00+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Printed
• 2025-02-26T20:23:00+00:00 (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Energy, Technology and Federal Relations committee-passage
• 2025-03-01T20:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-03-01T21:54:00+00:00 (H) 2nd Reading Passed reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-03-03T20:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-03-03T22:03:00+00:00 (H) 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-03T23:19:20+00:00 (H) Transmitted to Senate
• 2025-03-04T20:30:09+00:00 (S) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-03-05T00:55:17+00:00 (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration referral-committee
• 2025-03-12T14:44:15+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
• 2025-03-31T23:02:43+00:00 (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
• 2025-04-01T19:19:00+00:00 (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
• 2025-04-14T16:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-14T16:45:00+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-04-15T19:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-04-15T21:08:00+00:00 (S) 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-15T21:10:12+00:00 (H) Sent to Enrolling
• 2025-04-17T13:25:33+00:00 (H) Returned from Enrolling
• 2025-04-24T23:00:29+00:00 (H) Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-04-25T18:15:35+00:00 (S) Signed by President passage
• 2025-04-25T21:33:14+00:00 (H) Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-05T18:37:31+00:00 (H) Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-08T19:06:45+00:00 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3aee6dbe-5397-4e68-a4b2-24169663cf53. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).