---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise teacher stipends for national board certification"
description: "Revise teacher stipends for national board certification"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 260"
citation: "Montana HB 260 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - K-12", "Education - School Finance", "Education - Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Luke Muszkiewicz"]
version_count: 17
action_count: 44
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-11T15:31:20+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-17T17:02:55+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0fe4ad6-1475-4a57-b2d4-f4e1bf97b031"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC2814?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "91a3258ee9492d3eb9b2e7cd68a7af67e8b914599fa46e2e51e20fe14f7ca54c"
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 260 (2025) — Revise teacher stipends for national board certification

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0260_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272734)
2. **HB0260_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275362)
3. **HB0260_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276411)
4. **HB0260_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=280628)
5. **HB0260_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296160)
6. **HB0260_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302795)
7. **HB0260_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302797)
8. **HB0260_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=272494)
9. **HB0260_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316399)
10. **HB0260_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316400)
11. **HB0260_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316401)
12. **HB0260_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317370)
13. **HB0260_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320833)
14. **HB0260_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324322)
15. **HB0260_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327086)
16. **HB0260_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310682)
17. **LC2814.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269609)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **48–2** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **13–1** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **99–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **48–2** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **99–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Luke Muszkiewicz — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-11T15:31:20+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-27T18:52:23+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-12-27T20:20:56+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-27T20:24:38+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-12-27T20:32:34+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-27T22:22:06+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-27T23:28:51+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-12-28T17:28:22+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-01-03T19:29:21+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-01-04T21:50:51+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-01-07T00:32:41+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-01-16T19:48:12+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-01-17T22:34:57+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-01-17T22:37:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-01-20T17:19:57+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-20T20:18:39+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-22T21:57:49+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Education
- **2025-01-27T18:10:53+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-01-27T22:02:52+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-01-28T14:06:09+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-02-03T23:51:52+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-04T00:16:05+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-04T20:14:26+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-07T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-07T20:20:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-10T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-10T22:13:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-10T23:04:57+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-02-11T20:32:15+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-19T17:33:57+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Education and Cultural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T15:38:24+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-03-20T21:33:00+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-03-24T20:32:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-03-31T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-31T20:47:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-01T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T21:28:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01T21:28:27+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-03T14:07:26+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-07T18:00:24+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-09T17:30:28+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-09T19:50:28+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-16T13:17:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-17T17:02:55+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/c0fe4ad6-1475-4a57-b2d4-f4e1bf97b031`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).