---
type: "Bill"
title: "Generally revise peace officer education standards"
description: "Generally revise peace officer education standards"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 589"
citation: "Montana HB 589 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education - K-12", "Law Enforcement", "Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jane Gillette"]
version_count: 23
action_count: 35
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-17T17:36:55+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-13T17:11:46+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13ead85f-b325-4450-b69c-ed90a8033f47"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC4071?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "0dbb4183e728f9a470269f2c0f8ed9249dbc4da10a513091b317235e2b5374d5"
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 589 (2025) — Generally revise peace officer education standards

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0589_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285047)
2. **HB0589_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293844)
3. **HB0589_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294011)
4. **HB0589_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=300195)
5. **HB0589_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310089)
6. **HB0589_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310091)
7. **HB0589_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284449)
8. **HB0589_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310094)
9. **HB0589_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322436)
10. **HB0589_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322437)
11. **HB0589_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322438)
12. **HB0589_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324874)
13. **HB0589_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327844)
14. **HB0589_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310095)
15. **HB0589_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310238)
16. **HB0589_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310239)
17. **HB0589_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310312)
18. **HB0589_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310313)
19. **HB0589_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311078)
20. **HB0589_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316971)
21. **HB0589_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320543)
22. **HB0589_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310092)
23. **LC4071.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283391)

## Votes

- be_concurred_in — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **98–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jane Gillette — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-17T17:36:55+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-13T21:21:05+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-13T22:40:14+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-17T19:29:08+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-18T00:37:28+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-18T00:48:29+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-18T17:12:30+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-19T15:09:22+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-19T21:51:55+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-20T18:54:40+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T19:51:28+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-24T21:12:16+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Judiciary
- **2025-02-27T19:25:06+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27T20:13:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T20:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T01:16:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T16:57:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T18:00:00+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Senate
- **2025-03-14T23:06:17+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-14T23:33:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24T09:28:05+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-03-28T13:42:09+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-03-28T21:41:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Judiciary
- **2025-04-12T15:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-12T19:39:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-14T16:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T18:03:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14T18:03:55+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-15T12:08:38+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-29T15:15:58+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-05-01T21:20:56+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-05-01T21:47:39+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-08T17:11:09+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-13T17:11:46+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/13ead85f-b325-4450-b69c-ed90a8033f47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).