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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Revise child abuse and neglect laws involving adjudication"
+description: "Revise child abuse and neglect laws involving adjudication"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
+legislature: "Montana Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 249"
+citation: "Montana SB 249 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Courts", "Evidence", "Family Law", "Minors"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Dennis Lenz"]
+version_count: 16
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-10-04T20:16:49+00:00"
+last_action: "2025-04-17T20:43:45+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a2029f7-2cf5-443d-ba3a-06380d3e9547"
+source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0487?open_tab=sum"
+source_hash: "6dfa32c84ba11c45b27e44de8aad87f1c33bc43f8f1677eec0035e6db6b6f71a"
+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 249 (2025) — Revise child abuse and neglect laws involving adjudication
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **LC0487.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276079)
+2. **SB0249_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277600)
+3. **SB0249_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279288)
+4. **SB0249_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285755)
+5. **SB0249_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295127)
+6. **SB0249_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300624)
+7. **SB0249_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=277599)
+8. **SB0249_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300623)
+9. **SB0249_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316595)
+10. **SB0249_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317464)
+11. **SB0249_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317465)
+12. **SB0249_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317466)
+13. **SB0249_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320867)
+14. **SB0249_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324345)
+15. **SB0249_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325844)
+16. **SB0249_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310642)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do Concur — **61–38** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- be_concurred_in — **12–9** (pass) · lower
+- Do Concur — **62–38** (pass) · lower
+- Do Pass — **50–0** (pass) · upper
+- do_pass — **11–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Dennis Lenz — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-10-04T20:16:49+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
+- **2024-11-06T14:12:06+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
+- **2024-12-30T22:25:22+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
+- **2024-12-30T22:29:57+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
+- **2025-01-06T16:04:24+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
+- **2025-01-06T16:04:27+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
+- **2025-01-27T16:56:33+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
+- **2025-01-28T15:45:23+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
+- **2025-01-28T18:59:30+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
+- **2025-01-28T21:02:37+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
+- **2025-01-29T00:34:18+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
+- **2025-01-29T15:00:44+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
+- **2025-01-29T20:31:26+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
+- **2025-01-30T23:45:37+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
+- **2025-01-31T15:11:38+00:00** (S) Introduced
+- **2025-01-31T20:26:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-05T17:25:37+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-07T00:22:12+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
+- **2025-02-14T23:33:49+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-15T15:21:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-20T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-20T21:46:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-02-21T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-21T21:33:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-21T22:30:01+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
+- **2025-02-22T15:13:33+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-22T16:10:30+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-05T22:22:57+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Human Services
+- **2025-03-18T23:31:40+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Human Services
+- **2025-03-19T19:35:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Human Services
+- **2025-03-27T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-27T20:31:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-28T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-28T19:29:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-03-28T19:30:20+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
+- **2025-03-30T14:22:34+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
+- **2025-04-02T18:00:52+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-04-08T14:36:00+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-08T15:45:31+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-04-16T18:00:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-17T20:43:45+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/3a2029f7-2cf5-443d-ba3a-06380d3e9547`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).
+