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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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114 lines
6.6 KiB
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---
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Revise election laws related to voter cancellation"
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description: "Revise election laws related to voter cancellation"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
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legislature: "Montana Legislature"
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session: "2025"
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identifier: "HB 248"
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citation: "Montana HB 248 (2025)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Elections"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Braxton Mitchell"]
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version_count: 18
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action_count: 37
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2024-12-10T20:23:50+00:00"
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last_action: "2025-04-18T19:08:03+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28170308-bab1-4442-9896-dcca91998761"
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source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2653?open_tab=sum"
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source_hash: "f40b6b5f944e25af9cb6f29e056e18b3341174ba8c7404a077ee60fe580a01de"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-mt"]
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---
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# Montana HB 248 (2025) — Revise election laws related to voter cancellation
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HB0248_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272753)
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2. **HB0248_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275372)
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3. **HB0248_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276421)
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4. **HB0248_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280242)
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5. **HB0248_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296924)
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6. **HB0248_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=299700)
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7. **HB0248_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302801)
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8. **HB0248_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302803)
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9. **HB0248_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272351)
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10. **HB0248_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316623)
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11. **HB0248_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320215)
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12. **HB0248_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321213)
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13. **HB0248_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321214)
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14. **HB0248_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321215)
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15. **HB0248_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324543)
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16. **HB0248_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326658)
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17. **HB0248_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310680)
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18. **LC2653.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=271652)
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## Votes
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- do_pass — **19–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do Pass — **97–2** (pass) · lower
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- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do Pass — **100–0** (pass) · lower
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- be_concurred_in — **9–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Braxton Mitchell — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2024-12-10T20:23:50+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
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- **2025-01-02T23:11:21+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
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- **2025-01-13T22:36:25+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
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- **2025-01-13T22:56:57+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
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- **2025-01-14T22:32:38+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
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- **2025-01-15T14:57:34+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
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- **2025-01-15T15:29:12+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
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- **2025-01-16T13:36:50+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
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- **2025-01-16T15:53:48+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
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- **2025-01-17T18:40:15+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
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- **2025-01-17T18:58:33+00:00** (H) Introduced
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- **2025-01-20T17:21:14+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration `referral-committee`
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- **2025-01-20T20:18:34+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
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- **2025-01-23T22:36:28+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) State Administration
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- **2025-01-31T18:24:46+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
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- **2025-01-31T20:27:07+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) State Administration `committee-passage`
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- **2025-02-06T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
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- **2025-02-06T21:16:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
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- **2025-02-07T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
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- **2025-02-07T21:39:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-02-07T22:01:23+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
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- **2025-02-10T20:10:14+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-20T16:41:51+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) State Administration `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-17T18:07:01+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) State Administration
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- **2025-03-21T09:08:24+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
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- **2025-03-26T20:55:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) State Administration
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- **2025-03-31T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
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- **2025-03-31T20:43:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
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- **2025-04-01T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
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- **2025-04-01T21:31:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
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- **2025-04-01T21:31:38+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
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- **2025-04-03T05:21:28+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
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- **2025-04-07T18:00:24+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
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- **2025-04-09T17:30:28+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
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- **2025-04-09T19:50:28+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
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- **2025-04-17T19:58:14+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
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- **2025-04-18T19:08:03+00:00** Chapter Number Assigned `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/28170308-bab1-4442-9896-dcca91998761`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
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