---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establish adjustment to blindness program"
description: "Establish adjustment to blindness program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/mt"
legislature: "Montana Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 82"
citation: "Montana SB 82 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Rule Making", "Social Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Yakawich"]
version_count: 30
action_count: 41
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-10-02T12:50:37+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-04T00:50:43+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3779af9-b808-4a8d-ba6a-de5a2d71cb4b"
source_url: "https://bills.legmt.gov/#/laws/bill/2/LC0443?open_tab=sum"
source_hash: "8c478ab3905585d5620d3c1f696e5f1a60752f5a462d121a7c1f6349685ac2cc"
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 82 (2025) — Establish adjustment to blindness program

## Version chain

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

1. **LC0443.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=265643)
2. **SB0082_1(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269536)
3. **SB0082_1(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296560)
4. **SB0082_1(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=275150)
5. **SB0082_1(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=276219)
6. **SB0082_1(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=278905)
7. **SB0082_1(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=283963)
8. **SB0082_1(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296477)
9. **SB0082_1(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296541)
10. **SB0082_1(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296543)
11. **SB0082_1(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296548)
12. **SB0082_1.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=269535)
13. **SB0082_2.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296476)
14. **SB0082_X(1).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296479)
15. **SB0082_X(10).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305197)
16. **SB0082_X(11).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305198)
17. **SB0082_X(12).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=310736)
18. **SB0082_X(13).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=316674)
19. **SB0082_X(14).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=320259)
20. **SB0082_X(15).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=324125)
21. **SB0082_X(16).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=325759)
22. **SB0082_X(2).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296582)
23. **SB0082_X(3).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296610)
24. **SB0082_X(4).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296959)
25. **SB0082_X(5).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296960)
26. **SB0082_X(6).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296961)
27. **SB0082_X(7).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297250)
28. **SB0082_X(8).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=297251)
29. **SB0082_X(9).pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=305196)
30. **SB0082_X.pdf** (committee substitute) — [source](https://api.legmt.gov/docs/v1/documents/getContent?documentId=296478)

## Votes

- Do Pass — **44–6** (pass) · upper
- Do Pass — **43–7** (pass) · upper
- Do Concur — **79–21** (pass) · lower
- Do Concur — **84–14** (pass) · lower
- do_pass — **9–2** (pass) · upper
- be_concurred_in — **21–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mike Yakawich — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-10-02T12:50:37+00:00** (LC) Drafter Assigned
- **2024-10-08T16:29:33+00:00** (LC) Draft On Hold
- **2024-10-25T15:40:05+00:00** (LC) Draft Taken Off Hold
- **2024-10-29T01:03:36+00:00** (LC) Draft in Legal Review
- **2024-10-29T18:09:26+00:00** (LC) Draft in Edit
- **2024-10-30T23:22:16+00:00** (LC) Draft in Input/Proofing
- **2024-11-12T15:39:40+00:00** (LC) Draft in Final Drafter Review
- **2024-11-17T16:52:48+00:00** (LC) Draft in Assembly
- **2024-11-18T21:06:42+00:00** (LC) Draft Ready for Delivery
- **2024-12-27T19:36:41+00:00** (LC) Draft Delivered to Requester
- **2024-12-27T20:23:00+00:00** (S) Introduced
- **2024-12-30T18:11:03+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Requested
- **2025-01-06T21:55:00+00:00** (S) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-08T00:40:00+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Received `receipt`
- **2025-01-08T23:13:00+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Signed
- **2025-01-09T17:06:00+00:00** (S) Fiscal Note Printed
- **2025-01-14T19:25:00+00:00** (S) Referred to Committee - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-15T20:23:35+00:00** (S) Hearing - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety
- **2025-01-29T23:35:05+00:00** (S) Committee Executive Action--Bill Passed - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-30T21:59:00+00:00** (S) Committee Report--Bill Passed - (S) Public Health, Welfare and Safety `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03T21:52:00+00:00** (S) 2nd Reading Passed `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-02-04T20:00:00+00:00** (S) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-02-04T20:46:00+00:00** (S) 3rd Reading Passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04T21:32:30+00:00** (S) Transmitted to House
- **2025-02-05T18:11:02+00:00** (H) Referred to Committee - (H) Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-05T20:08:01+00:00** (H) First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-07T16:14:42+00:00** (H) Hearing - (H) Human Services
- **2025-02-18T23:30:10+00:00** (H) Committee Executive Action--Bill Concurred - (H) Human Services
- **2025-02-19T20:17:00+00:00** (H) Committee Report--Bill Concurred - (H) Human Services
- **2025-03-19T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-19T20:05:00+00:00** (H) 2nd Reading Concurred `reading-2, reading-2`
- **2025-03-20T19:00:00+00:00** (H) Scheduled for 3rd Reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T21:59:00+00:00** (H) 3rd Reading Concurred `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20T21:59:06+00:00** (S) Sent to Enrolling
- **2025-03-22T12:52:34+00:00** (S) Returned from Enrolling
- **2025-03-26T15:15:42+00:00** (S) Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-27T18:20:37+00:00** (H) Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-03-27T21:34:54+00:00** (S) Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-03T18:00:42+00:00** (S) Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-04T00:50:43+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/e3779af9-b808-4a8d-ba6a-de5a2d71cb4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Montana legislature records).