---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise education laws related to human sexuality and identity instruction"
description: "Revise education laws related to human sexuality and identity instruction"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 471"
citation: "Montana HB 471 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - K-12", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jedediah Hinkle"]
version_count: 33
action_count: 37
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-11-12T01:56:17+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-05T16:18:03+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/321360e0-7a37-486d-ad72-7f2e25c1d5f9"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC1273?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "4247d89ca406ccc9dc03f75fbdbbdfd4b1257c659e4984f303b8c37c339561bd"
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 471 (2025) — Revise education laws related to human sexuality and identity instruction

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0471.001.002_Amendments-in-Context_final-full.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292051)
2. **HB0471_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=282050)
3. **HB0471_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292540)
4. **HB0471_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292541)
5. **HB0471_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292542)
6. **HB0471_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292543)
7. **HB0471_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=281482)
8. **HB0471_2(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292545)
9. **HB0471_2(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308300)
10. **HB0471_2(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=308304)
11. **HB0471_2(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292546)
12. **HB0471_2(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292562)
13. **HB0471_2(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292563)
14. **HB0471_2(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292566)
15. **HB0471_2(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292567)
16. **HB0471_2(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292576)
17. **HB0471_2(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293328)
18. **HB0471_2(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=304313)
19. **HB0471_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=292544)
20. **HB0471_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316831)
21. **HB0471_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325028)
22. **HB0471_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326127)
23. **HB0471_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327492)
24. **HB0471_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320407)
25. **HB0471_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321526)
26. **HB0471_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321527)
27. **HB0471_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321528)
28. **HB0471_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323139)
29. **HB0471_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323140)
30. **HB0471_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323141)
31. **HB0471_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=323142)
32. **HB0471_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310891)
33. **LC1273.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=279028)

## Votes

- Do Pass As Amended — **56–43** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **12–8** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **56–42** (pass) · lower
- AMD-HB0471.001.002 Nikolakakos M DO PASS — **75–24** (pass) · lower
- Rerefer to Education-Neumann — **27–23** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **31–19** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **8–6** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **28–20** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jedediah Hinkle — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-12T01:56:17+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-01-31T13:07:06+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-02T20:08:33+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-05T14:45:36+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-05T18:42:36+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-05T20:49:40+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-06T14:45:26+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-11T19:06:13+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-12T20:49:51+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-13T18:06:35+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T19:41:47+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-17T16:45:34+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
- **2025-02-24T18:41:34+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-24T22:02:52+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04T22:30:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05T02:05:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Motion to Amend Carried `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05T02:24:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed as Amended `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T15:18:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T19:13:37+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-14T23:21:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-14T23:22:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T21:31:00+00:00** (S) Rereferred to Committee - (S) Education and Cultural Resources `referral-committee, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26T14:54:47+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-04-03T22:21:45+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-04-04T02:44:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-04-09T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09T20:28:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-10T14:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T18:15:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-10T18:15:57+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-11T16:27:54+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-18T21:00:00+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-22T13:30:24+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-22T18:10:24+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-01T21:14:29+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-05T16:18:03+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/321360e0-7a37-486d-ad72-7f2e25c1d5f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).