republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/hb-725.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Require that individuals may not be a precinct committee representative of more than one political party"
description: "Require that individuals may not be a precinct committee representative of more than one political party"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 725"
citation: "Montana HB 725 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lukas Schubert"]
version_count: 25
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-08T21:41:47+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-19T15:53:04+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15514dc2-c99c-4378-9d84-91fb8567b2e6"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2527?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "0e63a0dfa095ee0eacd0dfa0f4477f374497193a067c391fb5798bf00020289f"
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 725 (2025) — Require that individuals may not be a precinct committee representative of more than one political party

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0725_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287471)
2. **HB0725_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293919)
3. **HB0725_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294060)
4. **HB0725_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305135)
5. **HB0725_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314206)
6. **HB0725_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314207)
7. **HB0725_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287115)
8. **HB0725_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314209)
9. **HB0725_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325191)
10. **HB0725_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325192)
11. **HB0725_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325200)
12. **HB0725_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325207)
13. **HB0725_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325208)
14. **HB0725_X(15).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325209)
15. **HB0725_X(16).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326618)
16. **HB0725_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314210)
17. **HB0725_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316218)
18. **HB0725_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316219)
19. **HB0725_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317353)
20. **HB0725_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320820)
21. **HB0725_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324313)
22. **HB0725_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325189)
23. **HB0725_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325190)
24. **HB0725_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=314208)
25. **LC2527.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286160)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **41–8** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **76–23** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **15–4** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **81–18** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **46–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lukas Schubert — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-08T21:41:47+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-17T17:52:37+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-17T21:03:07+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-22T22:06:28+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-24T00:15:01+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-24T13:15:06+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-24T18:19:05+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-24T23:39:36+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-25T14:37:16+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-25T18:10:21+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T20:06:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26T22:28:41+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
- **2025-02-28T18:15:36+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-28T20:56:16+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05T22:24:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T16:48:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-15T00:25:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18T22:38:40+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02T16:15:29+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-04T23:16:33+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-05T16:20:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
- **2025-04-17T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-17T22:12:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-18T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-18T22:03:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-18T22:03:22+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-24T13:55:35+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-05-02T17:30:49+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-06T20:00:43+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-07T15:03:52+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13T19:22:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-19T15:53:04+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/15514dc2-c99c-4378-9d84-91fb8567b2e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).