HB 187 Montana House · 2025 Regular Session

Revise election laws to remove continuous tabulation requirement

HB 187 aimed to revise Montana's election laws regarding how ballots are counted. It removed the prior requirement for continuous tabulation in certain situations. The bill would have allowed counties performing pre-election day ballot counting to stop by 5 p.m., even if all available ballots were not yet processed. On election day, it would have permitted counting to continue without adjournment, but with specific exceptions for ballots like provisional or military ballots that require further review. This aimed to provide more flexibility for election administrators in managing the ballot counting process.

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 13, 2025 Last action May 20, 2025

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LC2114.pdf → HB0187_1.pdf · 2 edits

MINOR

The bill was renumbered from LC2114 to HB 187 and the sponsor was added as B. Carter. The text includes minor formatting adjustments to spacing and line breaks within the statutory language regarding public vote counting. No substantive policy changes, such as new requirements, funding, or eligibility criteria, were identified in the provided text.

TECHNICAL

The bill number was updated from LC2114.1 to HB 187.1, and the sponsor line was completed with the name B. Carter.

Minor spacing and indentation adjustments were made to the text of Section 13-15-101 regarding public vote counting procedures.

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Committee

Amendments

Jan 31, 2025

Amended

(H) Tabled in Committee - (H) State Administration

lower

Jan 14, 2025

Committee

(H) Referred to Committee - (H) State Administration

lower

Jan 13, 2025

Introduced

(H) Introduced

lower

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