republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/sb-228.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise laws related to public charging stations for electric vehicles"
description: "Revise laws related to public charging stations for electric vehicles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 228"
citation: "Montana SB 228 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Taxation", "Taxation--Transportation and Vehicles", "Utilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Denley Loge"]
version_count: 33
action_count: 39
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-11-16T21:15:28+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-18T13:42:13+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3d15782-b411-4eb7-bca0-51a6cded4744"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1513?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "3345a5c4b8e71334964e800c20c160a221bdb32a1602930481798fcda19b9bad"
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 SB 228 (2025) — Revise laws related to public charging stations for electric vehicles

## Version chain

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

1. **LC1513.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269326)
2. **SB0228.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284770)
3. **SB0228.002.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295887)
4. **SB0228.002.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295612)
5. **SB0228.002.002_Amendments-in-Context_final-condensed.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297834)
6. **SB0228.002.002_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297832)
7. **SB0228_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276760)
8. **SB0228_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277155)
9. **SB0228_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285073)
10. **SB0228_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285074)
11. **SB0228_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285076)
12. **SB0228_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285077)
13. **SB0228_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276100)
14. **SB0228_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285079)
15. **SB0228_2(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300613)
16. **SB0228_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285083)
17. **SB0228_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285084)
18. **SB0228_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285168)
19. **SB0228_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285172)
20. **SB0228_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285175)
21. **SB0228_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287818)
22. **SB0228_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288308)
23. **SB0228_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295852)
24. **SB0228_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285078)
25. **SB0228_3.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300611)
26. **SB0228_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316605)
27. **SB0228_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320200)
28. **SB0228_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321365)
29. **SB0228_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321366)
30. **SB0228_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321367)
31. **SB0228_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324593)
32. **SB0228_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326240)
33. **SB0228_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310652)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **89–11** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **49–1** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **20–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **90–9** (pass) · lower
- AMD-SB0228.002.002 Reavis DO PASS — **39–61** (fail) · lower
- Do Pass — **46–3** (pass) · upper
- do_pass_as_amended — **10–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Denley Loge — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-16T21:15:28+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-10T17:14:23+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-12-12T20:09:47+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-18T16:52:09+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-12-18T19:12:31+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-12-19T16:06:08+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-20T19:34:44+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-28T17:26:08+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-29T00:08:32+00:00** (S) Introduced
- **2025-01-29T20:40:46+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-29T20:44:14+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-01-29T20:52:20+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Energy, Technology & Federal Relations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30T20:38:30+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Energy, Technology & Federal Relations
- **2025-02-19T00:29:43+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (S) Energy, Technology & Federal Relations `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-20T20:11:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended - (S) Energy, Technology & Federal Relations `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-21T16:57:55+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-02-21T16:58:02+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-02-24T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24T20:49:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-25T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T21:20:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T22:15:50+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
- **2025-02-26T17:12:09+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Taxation `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T20:20:30+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-28T17:38:51+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Taxation
- **2025-03-20T16:57:59+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Taxation
- **2025-03-20T19:41:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Taxation
- **2025-03-27T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-27T21:10:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Motion to Amend Failed `amendment-failure, failure, reading-2`
- **2025-03-27T21:15:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-28T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-28T19:34:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-28T19:34:01+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-30T14:50:06+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-02T18:00:52+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-08T15:45:31+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-08T22:56:08+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-17T18:00:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-18T13:42:13+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/a3d15782-b411-4eb7-bca0-51a6cded4744`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).