---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise school district reorganization laws"
description: "Revise school district reorganization laws"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 606"
citation: "Montana HB 606 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Education - K-12", "Education - School Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brad Barker"]
version_count: 23
action_count: 39
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-14T20:45:05+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-08T19:32:40+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3800417d-fe29-4289-b706-4d2f6c8a3e43"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3683?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "efa4783f1c7dc1234ac9dbb68d910fa5c528d9c7ae53a31093a904f21ebc798e"
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 606 (2025) — Revise school district reorganization laws

## Version chain

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

1. **HB0606_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=285040)
2. **HB0606_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293852)
3. **HB0606_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=294030)
4. **HB0606_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=302550)
5. **HB0606_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311830)
6. **HB0606_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311831)
7. **HB0606_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=284761)
8. **HB0606_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311860)
9. **HB0606_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322180)
10. **HB0606_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322181)
11. **HB0606_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324832)
12. **HB0606_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326948)
13. **HB0606_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=327833)
14. **HB0606_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312013)
15. **HB0606_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312707)
16. **HB0606_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312708)
17. **HB0606_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312774)
18. **HB0606_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=312775)
19. **HB0606_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=317103)
20. **HB0606_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320668)
21. **HB0606_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=322179)
22. **HB0606_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=311832)
23. **LC3683.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283397)

## Votes

- Do Concur — **44–6** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **10–4** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **14–1** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **45–5** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brad Barker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-14T20:45:05+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2025-02-14T17:09:39+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-14T17:28:32+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-17T19:15:13+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-18T17:30:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-18T19:07:22+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-18T23:50:15+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-19T21:55:15+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-20T15:07:52+00:00** (H) Introduced
- **2025-02-20T15:18:19+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-02-20T18:51:22+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T19:51:28+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-21T17:25:55+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Education
- **2025-02-28T21:08:35+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-03-01T02:00:32+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (H) Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-01T20:34:42+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-03-01T20:39:00+00:00** (H) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-03-01T21:04:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (H) Education `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-05T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05T18:20:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T15:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T16:35:00+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`
- **2025-03-14T23:46:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Education and Cultural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25T00:24:30+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-04-01T22:30:58+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-04-02T19:43:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-04-14T19:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-14T19:57:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-15T19:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T21:15:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15T21:15:27+00:00** (H) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-17T19:07:41+00:00** (H) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-24T22:30:17+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-25T18:15:35+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-25T21:33:14+00:00** (H) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-05T18:37:31+00:00** (H) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-08T19:32:40+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/3800417d-fe29-4289-b706-4d2f6c8a3e43`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).