---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revise equal opportunity education savings account funding"
description: "Revise equal opportunity education savings account funding"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 486"
citation: "Montana SB 486 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Developmental Disabilities", "Education - K-12", "Education - School Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sue Vinton"]
version_count: 27
action_count: 43
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-12-14T17:43:27+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-08T21:40:47+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70e43f77-62b7-4d95-bcfd-f2db2cbb0145"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC3476?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "905e00a1dacbc523d52792dcd243c31b58167375d0a72e79c520e1335bd390e4"
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 SB 486 (2025) — Revise equal opportunity education savings account funding

## Version chain

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

1. **LC3476.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=286136)
2. **SB0486_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288559)
3. **SB0486_1(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309248)
4. **SB0486_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288900)
5. **SB0486_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288917)
6. **SB0486_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288918)
7. **SB0486_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=288919)
8. **SB0486_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293537)
9. **SB0486_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=293685)
10. **SB0486_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=307662)
11. **SB0486_1(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309247)
12. **SB0486_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=287323)
13. **SB0486_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309250)
14. **SB0486_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321929)
15. **SB0486_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321930)
16. **SB0486_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=321931)
17. **SB0486_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324774)
18. **SB0486_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=326891)
19. **SB0486_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309251)
20. **SB0486_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309431)
21. **SB0486_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309432)
22. **SB0486_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309630)
23. **SB0486_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309631)
24. **SB0486_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310991)
25. **SB0486_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316927)
26. **SB0486_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320502)
27. **SB0486_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=309249)

## Votes

- be_concurred_in — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **94–6** (pass) · lower
- Do Pass — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- do_pass — **13–1** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sue Vinton — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-12-14T17:43:27+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-12-14T17:43:28+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2025-02-18T23:55:41+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-19T00:14:31+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2025-02-19T00:14:31+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2025-02-19T13:54:36+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2025-02-22T19:20:53+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2025-02-23T19:09:15+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2025-02-23T21:05:24+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2025-02-24T19:36:49+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2025-02-25T18:26:14+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2025-02-25T18:34:06+00:00** (S) Introduced
- **2025-02-25T20:52:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26T01:29:25+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-02-26T14:28:50+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Education and Cultural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T01:49:39+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Education and Cultural Resources
- **2025-02-28T02:15:38+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Education and Cultural Resources `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04T20:10:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Education and Cultural Resources `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04T23:19:19+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-03-04T23:19:24+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Unsigned
- **2025-03-05T22:45:47+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-03-06T15:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-06T17:54:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T00:30:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T02:00:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-07T16:18:57+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
- **2025-03-17T15:24:46+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17T19:15:00+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-06T18:57:16+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Education
- **2025-04-08T00:07:18+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Education
- **2025-04-10T00:02:37+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Education
- **2025-04-10T15:19:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Education
- **2025-04-11T14:30:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T17:28:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-04-11T21:01:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T23:59:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-11T23:59:29+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-04-13T16:56:10+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-04-21T22:00:17+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-04-25T20:40:10+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-04-25T21:18:10+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-05T19:12:00+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-08T21:40:47+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/70e43f77-62b7-4d95-bcfd-f2db2cbb0145`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).