republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-575.md

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Bill	Generally revise the proceedings in which a public defender may be assigned	Generally revise the proceedings in which a public defender may be assigned	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2025	HB 575	Montana HB 575 (2025)	bill	Courts Criminal Procedure State Government	enacted	Peter Strand	19	43	7	2024-11-16T21:17:45+00:00	2025-05-19T22:23:45+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/8d18d665-e87f-4da2-a3e2-240c7512db60	https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1518?open_tab=sum	eab15d7aff8c1584e2a977a38099aaba3cec28f8d8b22406dd99f193e422b322	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana HB 575 (2025) — Generally revise the proceedings in which a public defender may be assigned

Version chain

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

1. HB0575_1(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
2. HB0575_1(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
3. HB0575_1(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
4. HB0575_1(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
5. HB0575_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
6. HB0575_X(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
7. HB0575_X(10).pdf (committee substitute) — source
8. HB0575_X(11).pdf (committee substitute) — source
9. HB0575_X(12).pdf (committee substitute) — source
10. HB0575_X(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
11. HB0575_X(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
12. HB0575_X(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
13. HB0575_X(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
14. HB0575_X(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
15. HB0575_X(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
16. HB0575_X(8).pdf (committee substitute) — source
17. HB0575_X(9).pdf (committee substitute) — source
18. HB0575_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source
19. LC1518.pdf (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Do Pass — 68–29 (pass) · lower
• do_pass — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• to_table — 5–3 (pass) · upper
• Do Concur — 27–23 (pass) · upper
• Take HB 575 from Comm-Boldman — 27–23 (pass) · upper
• Do Pass — 57–42 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 25–24 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Peter Strand — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-11-16T21:17:45+00:00 (LC) Drafter Assigned
• 2024-11-17T01:05:03+00:00 (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
• 2024-11-17T01:05:23+00:00 (LC) Draft in Legal Review
• 2024-11-17T01:05:23+00:00 (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
• 2024-11-22T14:47:08+00:00 (LC) Draft in Edit
• 2024-12-04T21:19:00+00:00 (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2024-12-05T17:47:01+00:00 (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2024-12-09T14:27:49+00:00 (LC) Draft in Assembly
• 2024-12-10T16:11:47+00:00 (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2025-02-19T17:00:48+00:00 (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2025-02-19T17:05:21+00:00 (H) Introduced
• 2025-02-19T19:27:29+00:00 (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-19T19:52:09+00:00 (H) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-02-20T18:38:14+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
• 2025-02-25T18:53:39+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary committee-passage
• 2025-02-25T21:02:00+00:00 (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary committee-passage
• 2025-02-27T22:08:00+00:00 (H) 2nd Reading Pass Consideration reading-2
• 2025-02-28T20:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-02-28T20:59:00+00:00 (H) 2nd Reading Passed reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-02-28T22:27:51+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Requested
• 2025-03-01T20:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-03-01T22:21:00+00:00 (H) 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-03T20:22:01+00:00 (S) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-03-04T00:52:36+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Received receipt
• 2025-03-04T17:17:29+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Unsigned
• 2025-03-05T17:18:29+00:00 (H) Fiscal Note Printed
• 2025-03-06T18:00:00+00:00 (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-25T14:27:18+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
• 2025-04-08T21:30:29+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
• 2025-04-09T17:53:30+00:00 (S) Tabled in Committee - (S) Judiciary amendment-deferral
• 2025-04-24T23:23:00+00:00 (S) Taken from Committee; Placed on 2nd Reading - (S) Judiciary reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-04-25T15:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-25T16:24:00+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-04-28T19:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-04-28T21:44:00+00:00 (S) 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-29T14:29:29+00:00 (S) Returned to House
• 2025-04-29T14:29:41+00:00 (H) Sent to Enrolling
• 2025-04-30T04:25:16+00:00 (H) Returned from Enrolling
• 2025-05-02T19:00:46+00:00 (H) Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-05-06T20:00:07+00:00 (S) Signed by President passage
• 2025-05-07T15:03:52+00:00 (H) Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13T18:50:00+00:00 (H) Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-19T22:23:45+00:00 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8d18d665-e87f-4da2-a3e2-240c7512db60. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).