Revise laws on state appointments and vacancies of executive boards and commissions

Removed the mandate for appointing authorities to take positive action to achieve gender balance and proportional representation of minorities in state appointments.

Removed the requirement for the secretary of state to publish monthly reports on executive branch appointments and vacancies in the Montana Administrative Register.

Removed the requirement for the governor to report to the legislature on progress toward achieving gender and racial balance goals in appointments.

Changed the bill title and introductory text from 'Introduced By' format to 'An Act' format, and removed the enrolled bill certification section.

Bill was renumbered from HB 215 to HB 215.1 and restructured from an enrolled print version to a house bill format with sponsor names added

Page headers and footers were updated to reflect different bill versions (enrolled vs house bill)

The bill was restructured from a single document format to a multi-page enrolled bill format with signature lines for House and Senate officials.

Page headers and footers were reorganized, with the bill title and sponsor information moved to different positions in the document.

Minor text corrections were made, including removing duplicate words like 'The' before 'secretary of state' in subsection (2).

Bill number updated from LC 1642 to HB 215 in the header

Full list of sponsors added to the bill header

Original LC 1642 bill number removed from header

Blank sponsor line removed from header