republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-719.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise election laws related to an elector's date of birth"
description: "Revise election laws related to an elector's date of birth"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 719"
citation: "Montana HB 719 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Braxton Mitchell"]
version_count: 25
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-10T20:23:26+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-08T19:47:49+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e68cd63-658c-4a5f-ab7b-977c06ebdcd1"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2654?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "24952e42946db0dee56101ac4f69ee81ebe14174bbe42542e950af833892f245"
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 719 (2025) — Revise election laws related to an elector's date of birth

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0719_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287004)
2. **HB0719_1(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315159)
3. **HB0719_1(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315160)
4. **HB0719_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287556)
5. **HB0719_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293915)
6. **HB0719_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294065)
7. **HB0719_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308994)
8. **HB0719_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315154)
9. **HB0719_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315156)
10. **HB0719_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315157)
11. **HB0719_1(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315158)
12. **HB0719_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287003)
13. **HB0719_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315162)
14. **HB0719_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324838)
15. **HB0719_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326659)
16. **HB0719_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317244)
17. **HB0719_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317832)
18. **HB0719_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317833)
19. **HB0719_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320897)
20. **HB0719_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322197)
21. **HB0719_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322198)
22. **HB0719_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322199)
23. **HB0719_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322200)
24. **HB0719_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=315161)
25. **LC2654.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285881)

## Votes

- be_concurred_in — **6–3** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **10–9** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **32–18** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **31–19** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **57–42** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **56–42** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Braxton Mitchell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-10T20:23:26+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-02T23:11:47+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-14T23:07:23+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-17T19:20:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-18T13:11:31+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-21T21:43:51+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-22T16:16:44+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-22T16:38:07+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-24T14:11:42+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-24T16:42:40+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-24T23:03:03+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-24T23:03:04+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-25T18:10:40+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T20:06:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26T22:25:09+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-02-27T19:32:35+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27T22:15:40+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T01:44:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T17:41:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T00:19:49+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-17T15:19:51+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25T14:24:32+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-03-25T18:22:22+00:00** (S) Hearing Canceled - (S) State Administration
- **2025-03-26T14:59:33+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-12T00:05:19+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-12T15:28:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-18T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-18T18:16:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-22T18:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T21:15:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-22T21:15:19+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-25T17:40:40+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-25T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-28T14:00:37+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-28T17:25:57+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-05T18:37:31+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-08T19:47:49+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/3e68cd63-658c-4a5f-ab7b-977c06ebdcd1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).