republic-os/legislation/us/states/mt/2025/sb-552.md

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Bill	Generally revise criminal justice laws	Generally revise criminal justice laws	us/states/mt	Montana Legislature	2025	SB 552	Montana SB 552 (2025)	bill	Criminal Procedure Revenue State	enacted	Barry Usher	20	41	6	2024-08-27T18:55:08+00:00	2025-05-16T16:29:35+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/cba5e5b6-9e78-41c0-a000-6545cbdab95f	https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0041?open_tab=sum	d933ec171160a0cd2accae19da6c74367cebdfcd13f457feb2134db7359dc318	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-mt

Montana SB 552 (2025) — Generally revise criminal justice laws

Version chain

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

1. LC0041.pdf (committee substitute) — source
2. SB0552_1(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
3. SB0552_1(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
4. SB0552_1(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
5. SB0552_1(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
6. SB0552_1(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
7. SB0552_1.pdf (committee substitute) — source
8. SB0552_X(1).pdf (committee substitute) — source
9. SB0552_X(10).pdf (committee substitute) — source
10. SB0552_X(11).pdf (committee substitute) — source
11. SB0552_X(12).pdf (committee substitute) — source
12. SB0552_X(2).pdf (committee substitute) — source
13. SB0552_X(3).pdf (committee substitute) — source
14. SB0552_X(4).pdf (committee substitute) — source
15. SB0552_X(5).pdf (committee substitute) — source
16. SB0552_X(6).pdf (committee substitute) — source
17. SB0552_X(7).pdf (committee substitute) — source
18. SB0552_X(8).pdf (committee substitute) — source
19. SB0552_X(9).pdf (committee substitute) — source
20. SB0552_X.pdf (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Do Pass — 48–0 (pass) · upper
• Do Concur — 92–7 (pass) · lower
• Do Pass — 46–2 (pass) · upper
• do_pass — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• be_concurred_in — 17–3 (pass) · lower
• Do Concur — 91–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barry Usher — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-08-27T18:55:08+00:00 (LC) Drafter Assigned
• 2024-11-26T22:30:16+00:00 (LC) Draft On Hold
• 2024-11-26T22:30:20+00:00 (LC) Draft On Hold
• 2025-03-19T21:34:02+00:00 (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
• 2025-03-24T17:53:21+00:00 (LC) Draft in Legal Review
• 2025-03-24T23:33:47+00:00 (LC) Draft in Edit
• 2025-03-25T18:04:08+00:00 (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
• 2025-03-26T13:17:47+00:00 (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
• 2025-03-26T13:24:29+00:00 (LC) Draft in Assembly
• 2025-03-26T15:10:47+00:00 (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
• 2025-03-26T20:43:45+00:00 (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
• 2025-03-26T21:44:18+00:00 (S) Introduced
• 2025-03-27T19:18:33+00:00 (S) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-03-27T19:19:00+00:00 (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-31T19:19:38+00:00 (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
• 2025-04-03T16:54:04+00:00 (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Judiciary committee-passage
• 2025-04-03T20:12:00+00:00 (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Judiciary committee-passage
• 2025-04-04T00:01:47+00:00 (S) Fiscal Note Received receipt
• 2025-04-04T00:01:54+00:00 (S) Fiscal Note Unsigned
• 2025-04-04T16:41:36+00:00 (S) Fiscal Note Printed
• 2025-04-04T19:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-05T00:12:00+00:00 (S) 2nd Reading Passed reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-04-05T14:00:00+00:00 (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-04-05T14:26:00+00:00 (S) 3rd Reading Passed passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-05T16:50:26+00:00 (S) Transmitted to House
• 2025-04-07T15:54:52+00:00 (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-04-07T19:53:16+00:00 (H) First Reading reading-1
• 2025-04-12T03:48:46+00:00 (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
• 2025-04-16T17:30:03+00:00 (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Judiciary
• 2025-04-16T19:19:00+00:00 (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Judiciary
• 2025-04-22T19:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-04-22T20:43:00+00:00 (H) 2nd Reading Concurred reading-2, reading-2
• 2025-04-23T19:00:00+00:00 (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading reading-3
• 2025-04-23T21:34:00+00:00 (H) 3rd Reading Concurred passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-23T21:34:05+00:00 (S) Sent to Enrolling
• 2025-04-28T18:33:24+00:00 (S) Returned from Enrolling
• 2025-04-29T20:00:12+00:00 (S) Signed by President passage
• 2025-05-05T19:45:24+00:00 (H) Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-05-05T19:55:00+00:00 (S) Transmitted to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-13T18:37:00+00:00 (S) Signed by Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-16T16:29:35+00:00 Chapter Number Assigned became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cba5e5b6-9e78-41c0-a000-6545cbdab95f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).