---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise the Montana interstate compact on educational opportunities for military children"
description: "Revise the Montana interstate compact on educational opportunities for military children"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 118"
citation: "Montana HB 118 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - K-12", "Military Affairs", "Minors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ed Buttrey"]
version_count: 50
action_count: 40
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-14T14:31:40+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-04T01:39:08+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55e8a7ec-e648-4547-ac13-6404b4bf9ad3"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1352?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "b6d6f547c62f2783cee6fe1e600142a25303b772a88b9045fcc1be500fbd5b3e"
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 HB 118 (2025) — Revise the Montana interstate compact on educational opportunities for military children

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0118.001.001_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272346)
2. **HB0118_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269941)
3. **HB0118_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269942)
4. **HB0118_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272764)
5. **HB0118_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272765)
6. **HB0118_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272766)
7. **HB0118_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272767)
8. **HB0118_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275377)
9. **HB0118_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276426)
10. **HB0118_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269827)
11. **HB0118_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272769)
12. **HB0118_2(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=278993)
13. **HB0118_2(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294768)
14. **HB0118_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272773)
15. **HB0118_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272774)
16. **HB0118_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272781)
17. **HB0118_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272782)
18. **HB0118_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272783)
19. **HB0118_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=274602)
20. **HB0118_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275583)
21. **HB0118_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276622)
22. **HB0118_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272768)
23. **HB0118_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294775)
24. **HB0118_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294878)
25. **HB0118_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294880)
26. **HB0118_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295273)
27. **HB0118_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=295377)
28. **HB0118_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296076)
29. **HB0118_X(15).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296077)
30. **HB0118_X(16).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296130)
31. **HB0118_X(17).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296131)
32. **HB0118_X(18).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305221)
33. **HB0118_X(19).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305222)
34. **HB0118_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294776)
35. **HB0118_X(20).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305223)
36. **HB0118_X(21).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310743)
37. **HB0118_X(22).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316681)
38. **HB0118_X(23).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320266)
39. **HB0118_X(24).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324132)
40. **HB0118_X(25).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325365)
41. **HB0118_X(26).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326152)
42. **HB0118_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294867)
43. **HB0118_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294869)
44. **HB0118_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294870)
45. **HB0118_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294873)
46. **HB0118_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294874)
47. **HB0118_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294875)
48. **HB0118_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294876)
49. **HB0118_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294771)
50. **LC1352.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269340)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **48–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **49–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- do_pass_as_amended — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- be_concurred_in — **12–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ed Buttrey — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-14T14:31:40+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-12T19:03:56+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-12-12T20:12:43+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-19T18:21:55+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-12-19T23:54:32+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-12-20T13:54:34+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-12-20T20:01:17+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-06T17:04:40+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-06T19:51:03+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-06T19:56:30+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-01-07T18:51:00+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-07T20:17:19+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-12T03:11:51+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Education
- **2025-01-13T14:20:29+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-01-13T16:32:05+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-01-13T16:52:48+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-01-17T22:50:47+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-20T19:11:20+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-20T20:44:54+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed as Amended - (H) Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-23T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-23T20:11:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-01-24T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-01-24T22:10:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-27T16:27:09+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-01-27T19:41:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-27T19:48:38+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Education and Cultural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28T01:26:05+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-02-05T20:36:00+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-02-06T20:14:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-03-15T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-15T16:08:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-17T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T20:14:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-17T20:15:01+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-18T17:14:02+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-21T23:00:36+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-24T23:00:15+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-25T15:11:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-03T20:42:28+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-04T01:39:08+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/55e8a7ec-e648-4547-ac13-6404b4bf9ad3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).